Document:

exv10w2

Exhibit 10.2

EXECUTION COPY

GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

Dated as of February 18, 2011

among

ASSISTED LIVING CONCEPTS, INC.

and

ALC REAL ESTATE, LLC, ALC PROPERTIES II, INC.,
and TEXAS ALC II, INC. AND 

EACH OTHER GRANTOR FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO

and

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Page	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Article 1 DEFINED TERMS
	 	 	1	 
	Section 1.1 Definitions
	 	 	1	 
	Section 1.2 Certain Other Terms
	 	 	4	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Article 2 GUARANTY
	 	 	4	 
	Section 2.1 Guaranty
	 	 	4	 
	Section 2.2 Limitation of Guaranty
	 	 	4	 
	Section 2.3 Contribution
	 	 	5	 
	Section 2.4 Authorization; Other Agreements
	 	 	5	 
	Section 2.5 Guaranty Absolute and Unconditional
	 	 	6	 
	Section 2.6 Waivers
	 	 	6	 
	Section 2.7 Reliance
	 	 	7	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Article 3 GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST
	 	 	7	 
	Section 3.1 Collateral
	 	 	7	 
	Section 3.2 Grant of Security Interest in Collateral
	 	 	8	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Article 4 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
	 	 	8	 
	Section 4.1 Title; No Other Liens
	 	 	8	 
	Section 4.2 Perfection and Priority
	 	 	8	 
	Section 4.3 Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office
	 	 	9	 
	Section 4.4 Locations of Inventory, Equipment and Books and Records
	 	 	9	 
	Section 4.5 Pledged Collateral
	 	 	9	 
	Section 4.6 Instruments and Tangible Chattel Paper Formerly Accounts
	 	 	10	 
	Section 4.7 Intellectual Property
	 	 	10	 
	Section 4.8 Commercial Tort Claims
	 	 	11	 
	Section 4.9 Specific Collateral
	 	 	11	 
	Section 4.10 Enforcement
	 	 	11	 
	Section 4.11 Representations and Warranties of the Credit Agreement
	 	 	11	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Article 5 COVENANTS
	 	 	11	 
	Section 5.1 Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest; Further Documentation and
Consents
	 	 	11	 
	Section 5.2 Changes in Locations, Name, Etc.
	 	 	12	 
	Section 5.3 Pledged Collateral
	 	 	13	 
	Section 5.4 Accounts
	 	 	13	 
	Section 5.5 Commodity Contracts
	 	 	14	 
	Section 5.6 Delivery of Instruments and Tangible Chattel Paper and Control of
Investment Property, Letter-of-Credit Rights and Electronic Chattel Paper
	 	 	14	 
	Section 5.7 Intellectual Property
	 	 	14	 
	Section 5.8 Notices
	 	 	16	 
	Section 5.9 Notice of Commercial Tort Claims
	 	 	16	 
	Section 5.10 Compliance with Credit Agreement
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	Article 6 REMEDIAL PROVISIONS
	 	 	16	 
	Section 6.1 Code and Other Remedies
	 	 	16	 
	Section 6.2 Accounts and Payments in Respect of General Intangibles
	 	 	19	 
	Section 6.3 Pledged Collateral
	 	 	20	 
	Section 6.4 Proceeds to be Turned over to and Held by Administrative Agent
	 	 	21	 
	Section 6.5 Registration Rights
	 	 	21	 
	Section 6.6 Deficiency
	 	 	22	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Article 7 THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
	 	 	23	 
	Section 7.1 Administrative Agent’s Appointment as Attorney-in-Fact
	 	 	23	 
	Section 7.2 Authorization to File Financing Statements
	 	 	24	 
	Section 7.3 Authority of Administrative Agent
	 	 	24	 
	Section 7.4 Duty; Obligations and Liabilities
	 	 	25	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Article 8 MISCELLANEOUS
	 	 	25	 
	Section 8.1 Reinstatement
	 	 	25	 
	Section 8.2 Release of Collateral
	 	 	26	 
	Section 8.3 Independent Obligations
	 	 	26	 
	Section 8.4 No Waiver by Course of Conduct
	 	 	26	 
	Section 8.5 Amendments in Writing
	 	 	27	 
	Section 8.6 Additional Grantors; Additional Pledged Collateral
	 	 	27	 
	Section 8.7 Notices
	 	 	27	 
	Section 8.8 Successors and Assigns
	 	 	27	 
	Section 8.9 Counterparts
	 	 	27	 
	Section 8.10 Severability
	 	 	27	 
	Section 8.11 Governing Law
	 	 	28	 
	Section 8.12 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
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ANNEXES AND SCHEDULES

	 	 	 
	Annex 8.6(b)

	 	Form of Pledge Amendment
	Annex 8.6(a)

	 	Form of Joinder Agreement
	Annex 5.7

	 	Form of Intellectual Property Security Agreement
	 
	Schedule 3.1

	 	Commercial Tort Claims
	Schedule 4.2

	 	Filings
	Schedule 4.3

	 	Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office
	Schedule 4.4

	 	Location of Inventory and Equipment
	Schedule 4.5

	 	Pledged Collateral
	Schedule 4.7

	 	Intellectual Property

 

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THIS GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT, dated as of February 18, 2011, by ASSISTED LIVING CONCEPTS, INC., a Nevada corporation (the
“Borrower”), ALC REAL ESTATE, LLC, a Wisconsin
limited liability company, TEXAS ALC II, INC., a Nevada corporation, ALC PROPERTIES II, INC., a
Nevada corporation, and each of the other entities listed on the signature pages hereof or that
becomes a party hereto pursuant to Section 8.6 (together with the Borrower, the
“Grantors”), in favor of U.S. Bank National Association (“U.S. Bank”), as
administrative agent and collateral agent (in such capacity, together with its successors and
permitted assigns, the “Administrative Agent”) for the Lenders and the L/C Issuers and each
other Secured Party (each as defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below).

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as the same may be
amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit
Agreement”) among the Borrower, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers from time to time party thereto
and U.S. Bank, as administrative agent and collateral agent for the Lenders and the L/C Issuers,
the Lenders and the L/C Issuers have severally agreed to make extensions of credit to the Borrower
upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein;

WHEREAS, each Grantor (other than the Borrower) has agreed to guaranty the Obligations (as
defined in the Credit Agreement) of the Borrower;

WHEREAS, each Grantor will derive substantial direct and indirect benefits from the making of
the extensions of credit under the Credit Agreement; and

WHEREAS, it is a condition precedent to the obligation of the Lenders and the L/C Issuers to
make their respective extensions of credit to the Borrower under the Credit Agreement that the
Grantors shall have executed and delivered this Agreement to the Administrative Agent;

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

ARTICLE 1 DEFINED TERMS

Section 1.1 Definitions. (a) Capital terms used herein without definition are used as defined in the Credit
Agreement.

(b) The following terms have the meanings given to them in the UCC and terms used herein
without definition that are defined in the UCC have the meanings given to them in the UCC (such
meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined):
“account”, “account debtor”, “as-extracted collateral”, “certificated

security”, “chattel paper”, “commercial tort claim”, “commodity
contract”, “deposit account”, “electronic chattel paper”, “equipment”,
“farm products”, “fixture”, “general intangible”, “goods”,
“health-care-insurance receivable”, “instruments”, “inventory”,
“investment property”, “letter-of-credit right”, “proceeds”,
“record”, “securities account”, “security”, “supporting obligation”
and “tangible chattel paper”.

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

“Agreement” means this Guaranty and Security Agreement.

“Applicable IP Office” means the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United
States Copyright Office or any similar office or agency within or outside the United States.

“Collateral” has the meaning specified in Section 3.1.

“Excluded Equity” means any voting stock in excess of 66% of the outstanding voting
stock of any Excluded Foreign Subsidiary. For the purposes of this definition, “voting
stock” means, with respect to any issuer, the issued and outstanding shares of each class of
Stock of such issuer entitled to vote (within the meaning of Treasury Regulations § 1.956-2(c)(2)).

“Excluded Property” means, collectively, (i) Excluded Equity, (ii) any right, title or
interest in any permit, license or any Contractual Obligation entered into by any Grantor (A) that
prohibits or requires the consent of any Person other than the Borrower and its Affiliates as a
condition to the creation by such Grantor of a Lien on any right, title or interest in such permit,
license or Contractual Obligation or any Stock or Stock Equivalent related thereto or (B) to the
extent that any Requirement of Law applicable thereto prohibits the creation of a Lien thereon, but
only, with respect to the prohibition in Subsections (A) and (B), to the extent, and for as long
as, such prohibition is not terminated or rendered unenforceable or otherwise deemed ineffective by
the UCC or any other Requirement of Law, (iii) fixed or capital assets owned by any Grantor that is
subject to a purchase money Lien or a Capital Lease if the Contractual Obligation pursuant to which
such Lien is granted (or if the document providing for such Capital Lease) prohibits or requires
the consent of any Person other than the Borrower and its Affiliates as a condition to the creation
of any other Lien on such equipment and (iv) any “intent to use” Trademark applications for which a
statement of use has not been filed (but only until such statement is filed); provided,
however, “Excluded Property” shall not include any proceeds, products,
substitutions or replacements of Excluded Property (unless such proceeds, products, substitutions
or replacements would otherwise constitute Excluded Property).

“Grantor” means each of the Borrower and the Guarantors and any Person who joins this
Agreement as a Grantor pursuant to Section 8.6(a).

“Guaranteed Obligations” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1.

“Guarantor” means each Grantor other than the Borrower.

“Guaranty” means the guaranty of the Guaranteed Obligations made by the Guarantors as
set forth in this Agreement.

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

“Pledged Certificated Stock” means all certificated securities and any other Stock or
Stock Equivalent of any Person evidenced by a certificate, instrument or other similar document (as
defined in the UCC), in each case owned by any Grantor, and any distribution of property made on,
in respect of or in exchange for the foregoing from time to time, exceeding $100,000 in the
aggregate including all Stock and Stock Equivalents listed on Schedule 4.5. Pledged
Certificated Stock excludes any Excluded Property and any Cash Equivalents that are not held in
Controlled Securities Accounts to the extent permitted by Section 7.11 of the Credit
Agreement.

“Pledged Collateral” means, collectively, the Pledged Stock and the Pledged Debt
Instruments.

“Pledged Debt Instruments” means all right, title and interest of any Grantor in
instruments evidencing any Indebtedness owed to such Grantor or other obligations, and any
distribution of property made on, in respect of or in exchange for the foregoing from time to time,
exceeding $100,000 in the aggregate including all Indebtedness described on Schedule 4.5,
issued by the obligors named therein. Pledged Debt Instruments excludes any Cash Equivalents that
are not held in Controlled Securities Accounts to the extent permitted by Section 7.11 of
the Credit Agreement.

“Pledged Investment Property” means any investment property of any Grantor, and any
distribution of property made on, in respect of or in exchange for the foregoing from time to time,
exceeding $100,000 in the aggregate other than any Pledged Stock or Pledged Debt Instruments.
Pledged Investment Property excludes any Cash Equivalents that are not held in Controlled
Securities Accounts to the extent permitted by Section 7.11 of the Credit Agreement.

“Pledged Stock” means all Pledged Certificated Stock and all Pledged Uncertificated
Stock.

“Pledged Uncertificated Stock” means any Stock or Stock Equivalent of any Person that
is not Pledged Certificated Stock, including all right, title and interest of any Grantor as a
limited or general partner in any partnership or as a member of any limited liability company, all
right, title and interest of any Grantor in, to and under any Constituent Document of any
partnership or limited liability company to which it is a party, and any distribution of property
made on, in respect of or in exchange for the foregoing from time to time, exceeding $100,000 in
the aggregate including in each case those interests set forth on Schedule 4.5, to the
extent such interests are not certificated. Pledged Uncertificated Stock excludes any Excluded
Property and any Cash Equivalents that are not held in Controlled Securities Accounts to the extent
permitted by Section 7.11 of the Credit Agreement.

“Security Cash Collateral Account” means a Cash Collateral Account that is not a L/C
Cash Collateral Account.

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“Software” means (a) all computer programs, including source code and object code
versions, (b) all data, databases and compilations of data, whether machine readable or otherwise,
and (c) all documentation, training materials and configurations related to any of the foregoing.

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

“Vehicles” means all vehicles covered by a certificate of title under the law of any
state.

Section 1.2 Certain Other Terms. (a) The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the
singular and plural forms of such terms. The terms “herein”, “hereof” and similar
terms refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or clause in
this Agreement. References herein to an Annex, Schedule, Article, Section or clause refer to the
appropriate Annex or Schedule to, or Article, Section or clause in this Agreement. Where the
context requires, provisions relating to any Collateral when used in relation to a Grantor shall
refer to such Grantor’s Collateral or any relevant part thereof.

(b) Section 1.5 (Interpretation) of the Credit Agreement is applicable to this
Agreement as and to the extent set forth therein.

ARTICLE 2 GUARANTY

Section 2.1 Guaranty. To induce the Lenders to make the Loans and the L/C Issuers to Issue Letters of Credit,
each Guarantor hereby, jointly and severally, absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably
guarantees, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, the full and punctual payment when due,
whether at stated maturity or earlier, by reason of acceleration, mandatory prepayment or otherwise
in accordance with any Loan Document, of all the Obligations of the Loan Parties whether existing
on the date hereof or hereinafter incurred or created (the “Guaranteed Obligations”). This
Guaranty by each Guarantor hereunder constitutes a guaranty of payment and not of collection.

Section 2.2 Limitation of Guaranty. Any term or provision of this Guaranty or any other Loan Document to the contrary
notwithstanding, the maximum aggregate amount for which any Guarantor shall be liable hereunder
shall not exceed the maximum amount for which such Guarantor can be liable without rendering this
Guaranty or any other Loan Document, as it relates to such Guarantor, subject to avoidance under
applicable Requirements of Law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer (including
the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act and Section 548 of title
11 of the United States Code or any applicable provisions of comparable Requirements of Law)
(collectively, “Fraudulent Transfer Laws”). Any analysis of the provisions of this
Guaranty for purposes of Fraudulent Transfer Laws shall take into account the right of contribution
established in Section 2.3 and, for purposes of such analysis, give effect to any discharge
of intercompany debt as a result of any payment made under the Guaranty.

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Section 2.3 Contribution. To the extent that any Guarantor shall be required hereunder to pay any portion of any
Guaranteed Obligation exceeding the greater of (a) the amount of the economic benefit actually
received by such Guarantor from the Loans and other Obligations and (b) the amount such Guarantor
would otherwise have paid if such Guarantor had paid the aggregate amount of the Guaranteed
Obligations (excluding the amount thereof repaid by the Borrower) in the same proportion as such
Guarantor’s net worth on the date enforcement is sought hereunder bears to the aggregate net worth
of all the Guarantors on such date, then such Guarantor shall be reimbursed by such other
Guarantors for the amount of such excess, pro rata, based on the respective net worth of such other
Guarantors on such date.

Section 2.4 Authorization; Other Agreements. The Secured Parties are hereby authorized, without notice to, consent of or demand upon any
Guarantor, and without discharging or otherwise affecting the obligations of any Guarantor
hereunder and without incurring any liability hereunder, from time to time, to do each of the
following:

(a) (i) extend additional credit under, (ii) modify, amend, supplement, extend, refinance or
otherwise change, (iii) accelerate or otherwise change the time of payment or (iv) waive or
otherwise consent to noncompliance with, any Guaranteed Obligation or any Loan Document;

(b) apply to the Guaranteed Obligations any sums, by whomever paid or however realized, in
such order as provided in the Loan Documents;

(c) refund at any time any payment received by any Secured Party in respect of any Guaranteed
Obligation;

(d) (i) sell, exchange, enforce, waive, substitute, liquidate, terminate, release, abandon,
fail to perfect, subordinate, accept, substitute, surrender, exchange, affect, impair or otherwise
alter or release any Collateral for any Guaranteed Obligation or any other guaranty therefor in any
manner, (ii) receive, take and hold additional Collateral to secure any Guaranteed
Obligation, (iii) add, release or substitute any one or more other Guarantors, makers or
endorsers of any Guaranteed Obligation or any part thereof and (iv) otherwise deal in any manner
with the Borrower and any other Guarantor, maker or endorser of any Guaranteed Obligation or any
part thereof; and

(e) settle, release, compromise, collect or otherwise liquidate the Guaranteed Obligations.

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Section 2.5 Guaranty Absolute and Unconditional. Each Guarantor hereby waives and agrees not to assert any defense, whether arising in
connection with or in respect of any of the following or otherwise, and hereby agrees that its
obligations under this Agreement are irrevocable, absolute and unconditional and shall not be
discharged as a result of or otherwise affected by any Secured Party taking or not taking any of
the following actions or the occurrence or non-occurrence of any of the following (which may not be
pleaded and evidence of which may not be introduced in any proceeding with respect to this
Guaranty, in each case except as otherwise agreed in writing by the Administrative Agent):

(a) the invalidity or unenforceability of any obligation of the Borrower or any other
Guarantor under any Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto (including
any amendment, consent or waiver thereto), or any security for, or other guaranty of, any
Guaranteed Obligation or any part thereof, or the lack of perfection or continuing perfection or
failure of priority of any security for the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereof;

(b) the absence of (i) any attempt to collect any Guaranteed Obligation or any part thereof
from the Borrower or any other Guarantor or other action to enforce the same or (ii) any action to
enforce any Loan Document or any Lien thereunder;

(c) the failure by any Person to take any steps to perfect and maintain any Lien on, or to
preserve any rights with respect to, any Collateral;

(d) any workout, insolvency, bankruptcy proceeding, reorganization, arrangement, liquidation
or dissolution by or against the Borrower, any other Guarantor or any of the Borrower’s other
Subsidiaries or any procedure, agreement, order, stipulation, election, action or omission
thereunder, including any discharge or disallowance of, or bar or stay against collecting, any
Guaranteed Obligation (or any interest thereon) in or as a result of any such proceeding;

(e) any foreclosure, whether or not through judicial sale, and any other Sale of any
Collateral or any election following the occurrence of an Event of Default by any Secured Party to
proceed separately against any Collateral in accordance with such Secured Party’s rights under any
applicable Requirement of Law; or

(f) any other defense, setoff, counterclaim or any other circumstance that might otherwise
constitute a legal or equitable discharge of the Borrower, any other Guarantor or
any of the Borrower’s other Subsidiaries, in each case other than the payment in full of the
Guaranteed Obligations.

Section 2.6 Waivers. Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives and agrees not to assert any
claim, defense, setoff or counterclaim based on diligence, promptness, presentment, requirements
for any demand or notice hereunder including any of the following: (a) any demand for payment or
performance and protest and notice of protest, (b) any notice of acceptance or notice of creation
of (c) any presentment, demand, protest, notice of nonpayment or nonperformance or further notice
or other requirements of any kind with respect to any Guaranteed Obligation (including any accrued
but unpaid interest thereon) becoming immediately due and payable and (d) any other notice in
respect of any Guaranteed Obligation or any part thereof, and any defense arising by reason of any
disability or other defense of the Borrower or any other Guarantor. Each Guarantor further
unconditionally and irrevocably agrees not to (x) enforce or otherwise exercise any right of
subrogation or any right of reimbursement or contribution or similar right against the Borrower or
any other Guarantor by reason of any Loan Document or any payment made thereunder or (y) assert any
claim, defense, setoff or counterclaim it may have against any other Loan Party or set off any of
its obligations to such other Loan Party against obligations of such Loan Party to such Guarantor.
No obligation of any Guarantor hereunder shall be discharged other than by complete performance.

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Section 2.7 Reliance. Each Guarantor hereby assumes responsibility for keeping itself informed of the financial
condition of the Borrower, each other Guarantor and any other guarantor, maker or endorser of any
Guaranteed Obligation or any part thereof, and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of
nonpayment of any Guaranteed Obligation or any part thereof that diligent inquiry would reveal, and
each Guarantor hereby agrees that no Secured Party shall have any duty to advise any Guarantor of
information known to it regarding such condition or any such circumstances. No Guarantor has
relied upon any such information provided by a Secured Party in entering this Agreement. In the
event any Secured Party, in its sole discretion, undertakes at any time or from time to time to
provide any such information to any Guarantor, such Secured Party shall be under no obligation to
(a) undertake any investigation, (b) disclose any information that such Secured Party wishes to
maintain confidential or (c) make any further or future disclosures of such information or any
other information to any Guarantor.

ARTICLE 3 GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST

Section 3.1 Collateral. For the purposes of this Agreement, all of the following property now owned or at any time
hereafter acquired by a Grantor or in which a Grantor now has or at any time in the future may
acquire any right, title or interest is collectively referred to as the “Collateral”:

(a) all accounts, chattel paper, deposit accounts and cash balances therein, documents (as
defined in the UCC), equipment, general intangibles, instruments, inventory,
investment property, letter of credit rights, insurance claims and proceeds, all other
contract rights or rights to the payment of money, financial assets, securities (whether
certificated or uncertificated, and including investment company securities), security
entitlements, securities accounts, commodity contracts, and commodity accounts, including all
substitutions and additions thereto, and all dividends, distributions and sums distributable or
payable from, upon or in respect of such property, and any supporting obligations related thereto;

(b) the commercial tort claims described on Schedule 3.1 and on any supplement thereto
received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.9;

(c) all books and records pertaining to the other property described in this Section
3.1;

(d) all property of such Grantor held by any Secured Party, including all property of every
description, in the custody of or in transit to such Secured Party for any purpose, including
safekeeping, collection or pledge, for the account of such Grantor or as to which such Grantor may
have any right or power, including but not limited to cash;

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(e) all other goods (including but not limited to fixtures) and personal property of such
Grantor, whether tangible or intangible and wherever located; and

(f) to the extent not otherwise included, all proceeds of the foregoing; provided,
however, that “Collateral” shall not include any Excluded Property; and provided,
further, that if and when any property shall cease to be Excluded Property, such property shall be
deemed at all times from and after the date thereof to constitute Collateral.

Section 3.2 Grant of Security Interest in Collateral. Each Grantor, as collateral security for the prompt and complete payment and performance
when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Obligations (the
“Secured Obligations”), hereby mortgages, pledges and hypothecates to the Administrative
Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and grants to the Administrative Agent for the
benefit of the Secured Parties a Lien on and security interest in, all of its right, title and
interest in, to and under the Collateral of such Grantor.

ARTICLE 4 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

To induce the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and the Administrative Agent to enter into the Loan
Documents, each Grantor hereby represents and warrants each of the following to the Administrative
Agent, the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and the other Secured Parties:

Section 4.1 Title; No Other Liens. Except for the Lien granted to the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Agreement and
other Permitted Liens under any Loan Document (including Section 4.2), such Grantor owns
each item of the Collateral free and clear of any and all Liens or claims of others. Such Grantor
(a) is the record and beneficial owner of the Collateral pledged by it hereunder
constituting instruments or certificates and (b) has rights in or the power to transfer each
other item of Collateral in which a Lien is granted by it hereunder, free and clear of any other
Lien.

Section 4.2 Perfection and Priority. The security interest granted pursuant to this Agreement constitutes a valid and continuing
perfected security interest in favor of the Administrative Agent in all Collateral subject, for the
following Collateral, to the occurrence of the following: (i) in the case of all Collateral in
which a security interest may be perfected by filing a financing statement under the UCC, the
completion of the filings and other actions specified on Schedule 4.2 (which, in the case
of all filings and other documents referred to on such schedule, have been delivered to the
Administrative Agent in completed and duly authorized form), (ii) with respect to any deposit
account, the execution of Control Agreements, (iii) in the case of all Copyrights, Trademarks and
Patents for which UCC filings are insufficient, any appropriate filings having been made with the
United States Copyright Office or the United States Patent and Trademark Office, as applicable,
(iv) in the case of letter-of-credit rights that are not supporting obligations of Collateral, the
execution of a Contractual Obligation granting control to the Administrative Agent over such
letter-of-credit rights, (v) in the case of electronic chattel paper, the completion of all steps
necessary to grant control to the Administrative Agent over such electronic chattel paper and (vi)
in the case of Vehicles, the actions required under Section 5.1(e). Such security interest
shall be prior to all other Liens on the Collateral except for Permitted Liens having priority over
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law or unless otherwise permitted by any Loan
Document upon (i) in the case of all Pledged Certificated Stock, Pledged Debt Instruments and
Pledged Investment Property, the delivery thereof to the Administrative Agent of such Pledged
Certificated Stock, Pledged Debt Instruments and Pledged Investment Property consisting of
instruments and certificates, in each case properly endorsed for transfer to the Administrative
Agent or in blank, (ii) in the case of all Pledged Investment Property not in certificated form,
the execution of Control Agreements or an agreement the Issuer will comply with instructions
originated by Administrative Agent with respect to such investment property, (iii) in the case of
all other instruments and tangible chattel paper that are not Pledged Certificated Stock, Pledged
Debt Instruments or Pledged Investment Property, the delivery thereof to the Administrative Agent
of such instruments and tangible chattel paper and (iv) in the case of other Collateral in which a
security interest may be perfected by filing, upon the filing of a financing statement under the
UCC. Except as set forth in this Section 4.2, all actions by each Grantor necessary or
desirable to protect and perfect the Lien granted hereunder on the Collateral have been duly taken.

Section 4.3 Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office. Such Grantor’s jurisdiction of organization, legal name, federal employer
identification
number and organizational identification number, if any, and the location of such Grantor’s chief
executive office or sole place of business, in each case as of the date hereof, is specified on
Schedule 4.3 and such Schedule 4.3 also lists all jurisdictions of incorporation,
legal names, trade names or trade styles and locations of such Grantor’s chief executive office or
sole place of business for the five years preceding the date hereof.

Section 4.4 Locations of Inventory, Equipment and Books and Records. On the date hereof, such Grantor’s inventory and equipment (other than
inventory or
equipment in transit) and books and records concerning the Collateral are kept at the locations
listed on Schedule 4.4.

Section 4.5 Pledged Collateral.

(a) The Pledged Stock pledged by such Grantor hereunder (a) is listed on Schedule 4.5
and constitutes that percentage of the issued and outstanding equity of all classes of each issuer
thereof as set forth on Schedule 4.5, (b) has been duly authorized, validly issued and is
fully paid and nonassessable (other than Pledged Stock in limited liability companies and
partnerships) and (c) constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the obligor with
respect thereto, enforceable in accordance with its terms.

(b) As of the Closing Date, all Pledged Collateral (other than Pledged Uncertificated Stock)
and all Pledged Investment Property consisting of instruments and certificates has been delivered
to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 5.3(a).

(c) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Administrative
Agent shall be entitled to exercise all of the rights of the Grantor granting the security interest
in any Pledged Stock, and a transferee or assignee of such Pledged Stock shall become a holder of
such Pledged Stock to the same extent as such Grantor and be entitled to participate in the
management of the issuer of such Pledged Stock and, upon the transfer of the entire interest of
such Grantor, such Grantor shall, by operation of law, cease to be a holder of such Pledged Stock.

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Section 4.6 Instruments and Tangible Chattel Paper Formerly Accounts. No amount payable to such Grantor under or in connection with any account is
evidenced by
any instrument or tangible chattel paper that has not been delivered to the Administrative Agent,
properly endorsed for transfer, to the extent delivery is required by Section 5.6(a).

Section 4.7 Intellectual Property.

(a) Schedule 4.7 sets forth a true and complete list of the following Intellectual
Property such Grantor owns, licenses or otherwise has the right to use: (i) Intellectual Property
that is registered or subject to applications for registration, (ii) Internet Domain Names and
(iii) Material Intellectual Property and material Software, separately identifying that owned and
licensed to such Grantor and including for each of the foregoing items (1) the owner, (2) the
title, (3) the jurisdiction in which such item has been registered or
otherwise arises or in which an application for registration has been filed, if applicable,
(4) as applicable, the registration or application number and registration or application date and
(5) any IP Licenses or other rights (including franchises) granted by the Grantor with respect
thereto.

(b) On the Closing Date, all Material Intellectual Property owned by such Grantor is valid, in
full force and effect, subsisting, unexpired and enforceable, and no Material Intellectual Property
has been abandoned. No breach or default of any material IP License shall be caused by any of the
following, and none of the following shall limit or impair the ownership, use, validity or
enforceability of, or any rights of such Grantor in, any Material Intellectual Property: (i) the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by any Loan Document or (ii) any holding, decision,
judgment or order rendered by any Governmental Authority. There are no pending (or, to the
knowledge of such Grantor, threatened) actions, investigations, suits, proceedings, audits, claims,
demands, orders or disputes challenging the ownership, use, validity, enforceability of, or such
Grantor’s rights in, any Material Intellectual Property of such Grantor. To such Grantor’s
knowledge, no Person has been or is infringing, misappropriating, diluting, violating or otherwise
impairing any Intellectual Property of such Grantor. Such Grantor, and to such Grantor’s knowledge
each other party thereto, is not in material breach or default of any material IP License.

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Section 4.8 Commercial Tort Claims. To the knowledge of each Grantor, the only commercial tort claims of any Grantor existing
on the date hereof (regardless of whether the amount, defendant or other material facts can be
determined and regardless of whether such commercial tort claim has been asserted, threatened or
has otherwise been made known to the obligee thereof or whether litigation has been commenced for
such claims) are those listed on Schedule 3.1, which sets forth such information separately
for each Grantor.

Section 4.9 Specific Collateral. None of the Collateral is or is proceeds or products of farm products, as-extracted
collateral, health-care-insurance receivables or timber to be cut.

Section 4.10 Enforcement. No Permit, notice to or filing with any Governmental Authority or any other Person or any
consent from any Person is required for the exercise by the Administrative Agent of its rights
(including voting rights) provided for in this Agreement or the enforcement of remedies in respect
of the Collateral pursuant to this Agreement, including the transfer of any Collateral, except as
may be required in connection with the disposition of any portion of the Pledged Collateral by laws
affecting the offering and sale of securities generally or any approvals that may be required to be
obtained from any bailees or landlords to collect the Collateral.

Section 4.11 Representations and Warranties of the Credit Agreement. The representations and warranties as to such Grantor and its Subsidiaries made by the
Borrower in Article IV (Representations and Warranties) of the Credit Agreement are
true and correct on each date as required by Section 3.2(b) of the Credit Agreement.

ARTICLE 5 COVENANTS

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

Section 5.1 Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest; Further Documentation and
Consents.

(a) Generally. Such Grantor shall (i) not use or permit any Collateral to be used
unlawfully or in violation of any provision of any Loan Document, any Requirement of Law or any
policy of insurance covering the Collateral and (ii) not enter into any Contractual Obligation or
undertaking restricting the right or ability of such Grantor or the Administrative Agent to Sell
any Collateral if such restriction would have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) Other than with respect to filing any continuation statements, such Grantor shall maintain
the security interest created by this Agreement as a perfected security interest having at least
the priority described in Section 4.2 and shall defend such security interest and such
priority against the claims and demands of all Persons.

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(c) Pursuant to Section 6.1(d) of the Credit Agreement, such Grantor shall furnish to
the Administrative Agent from time to time statements and schedules further identifying and
describing the Collateral and such other documents in connection with the Collateral as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request, all in reasonable detail and in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(d) At any time and from time to time, upon the written request of the Administrative Agent,
such Grantor shall, for the purpose of obtaining or preserving the full benefits of this Agreement
and of the rights and powers herein granted, (i) promptly and duly execute and deliver, and have
recorded, such further documents, including an authorization to file (or, as applicable, the
filing) of any financing statement or amendment under the UCC (or other filings under similar
Requirements of Law) in effect in any jurisdiction with respect to the security interest created
hereby and (ii) take such further action as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request,
including (A) using its best efforts to secure all approvals necessary or appropriate for the
assignment to or for the benefit of the Administrative Agent of any Contractual Obligation,
including any IP License, held by such Grantor and to enforce the security interests granted
hereunder and (B) executing and delivering any Control Agreements with respect to deposit accounts
and securities accounts.

(e) If requested by the Administrative Agent, the Grantor shall arrange for the Administrative
Agent’s first priority security interest to be noted on the certificate of title of each
Vehicle and shall file any other necessary documentation in each jurisdiction that the
Administrative Agent shall deem advisable to perfect its security interests in any Vehicle.

(f) To ensure that any of the Excluded Property set forth in clause (ii) of the
definition of “Excluded Property” becomes part of the Collateral, such Grantor shall use its best
efforts to obtain any required consents from any Person other than the Borrower and its Affiliates
with respect to any permit or license or any Contractual Obligation with such Person entered into
by such Grantor that requires such consent as a condition to the creation by such Grantor of a Lien
on any right, title or interest in such permit, license or Contractual Obligation or any Stock or
Stock Equivalent related thereto.

Section 5.2 Changes in Locations, Name, Etc.
Except upon 30 days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and delivery to the
Administrative Agent of (a) all documents reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to
maintain the validity, perfection and priority of the security interests provided for herein and
(b) if applicable, a written supplement to Schedule 4.4 showing any additional locations at
which inventory or equipment shall be kept, such Grantor shall not do any of the following:

(i) permit any inventory or equipment to be kept at a location other than those listed on
Schedule 4.4, except for inventory or equipment in transit;

(ii) change its jurisdiction of organization or its location, in each case from that referred
to in Section 4.3; or

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

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Section 5.3 Pledged Collateral.

(a) Delivery of Pledged Collateral. Such Grantor shall (i) deliver to the
Administrative Agent, in suitable form for transfer and in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, (A) all Pledged Certificated Stock, (B) all Pledged Debt Instruments and (C)
all certificates and instruments evidencing Pledged Investment Property and (ii) maintain all other
Pledged Investment Property in a Controlled Securities Account.

(b) Event of Default. During the continuance of an Event of Default, the
Administrative Agent shall have the right, at any time in its discretion and without notice to the
Grantor, to (i) transfer to or to register in its name or in the name of its nominees any Pledged
Collateral or any Pledged Investment Property and (ii) exchange any certificate or instrument
representing or evidencing any Pledged Collateral or any Pledged Investment Property for
certificates or instruments of smaller or larger denominations.

(c) Cash Distributions with respect to Pledged Collateral. Except as provided in
Article VI, such Grantor shall be entitled to receive all cash distributions paid in
respect of the Pledged Collateral.

(d) Voting Rights. Except as provided in Article VI, such Grantor shall be
entitled to exercise all voting, consent and corporate, partnership, limited liability company and
similar rights with respect to the Pledged Collateral; provided, however, that no
vote shall be cast, consent given or right exercised or other action taken by such Grantor that
would impair the Collateral or any Secured Party’s rights in any Collateral or be inconsistent with
or result in any violation of any provision of any Loan Document.

Section 5.4 Accounts.

(a) Such Grantor shall not, other than in the ordinary course of business, (i) grant any
extension of the time of payment of any account, (ii) compromise or settle any account for less
than the full amount thereof, (iii) release, wholly or partially, any Person liable for the payment
of any account, (iv) allow any credit or discount on any account or (v) amend, supplement or modify
any account in any manner that could adversely affect the value thereof.

(b) The Administrative Agent shall have the right to make test verifications of the Accounts
in any manner and through any medium that it reasonably considers advisable, and such Grantor shall
furnish all such assistance and information as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require in
connection therewith. At any time and from time to time, upon the Administrative Agent’s request,
such Grantor shall cause independent public accountants or others satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent to furnish to the Administrative Agent reports showing reconciliations, aging
and test verifications of, and trial balances for, the accounts; provided, however, that unless a
Default shall be continuing, the Administrative Agent shall request no more than four such reports
during any calendar year.

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Section 5.5 Commodity Contracts. Such Grantor shall not have any commodity contract other than with a Person approved by the
Administrative Agent and subject to a Control Agreement.

Section 5.6 Delivery of Instruments and Tangible Chattel Paper and Control of
Investment Property, Letter-of-Credit Rights and Electronic Chattel Paper.

(a) If any amount in excess of $100,000 payable under or in connection with any Collateral
owned by such Grantor shall be or become evidenced by an instrument or tangible chattel paper other
than such instrument delivered in accordance with Section 5.3(a) and in the possession of
the Administrative Agent, such Grantor shall so inform Administrative Agent and shall mark all such
instruments and tangible chattel paper with the following legend: “This writing and the
obligations evidenced or secured hereby are subject to the security interest of
U.S. Bank National Association, as Administrative Agent” and, at the request of the
Administrative Agent, shall immediately deliver such instrument or tangible chattel paper to the
Administrative Agent, duly indorsed in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(b) Such Grantor shall not grant “control” (within the meaning of such term under Article
9-106 of the UCC) over any investment property to any Person other than the Administrative Agent.

(c) If such Grantor is or becomes the beneficiary of a letter of credit that is (i) not a
supporting obligation of any Collateral and (ii) in excess of $100,000, such Grantor shall
promptly, and in any event within 2 Business Days after becoming a beneficiary, notify the
Administrative Agent thereof and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to enter into a
Contractual Obligation with the Administrative Agent, the issuer of such letter of credit or any
nominated person with respect to the letter-of-credit rights under such letter of credit. Such
Contractual Obligation shall assign such letter-of-credit rights to the Administrative Agent and
such assignment shall be sufficient to grant control for the purposes of Section 409.107 of the UCC
(or any similar section under any equivalent UCC). Such Contractual Obligation shall also direct
all payments thereunder to a Security Cash Collateral Account. The provisions of the Contractual
Obligation shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(d) If any amount in excess of $100,000 payable under or in connection with any Collateral
owned by such Grantor shall be or become evidenced by electronic chattel paper, such Grantor shall
take all steps necessary to grant the Administrative Agent control of all such electronic chattel
paper for the purposes of Section 409.105 of the UCC (or any similar section under any equivalent
UCC) and all “transferable records” as defined in each of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
and the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.

Section 5.7 Intellectual Property.

(a) Within 60 days after any change to Schedule 4.7 for such Grantor, such Grantor
shall provide the Administrative Agent notification thereof and the short-form intellectual
property agreements and assignments as described in this Section 5.7 and other documents
that the Administrative Agent reasonably requests with respect thereto.

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(b) Such Grantor shall (and shall cause all its licensees to) (i) (1) continue to use each
Trademark included in the Material Intellectual Property in order to maintain such Trademark in
full force and effect with respect to each class of goods for which such Trademark is currently
used, free from any claim of abandonment for non-use, (2) maintain at least the same standards of
quality of products and services offered under such Trademark as are currently maintained, (3) use
such Trademark with the appropriate notice of registration and all other notices and legends
required by applicable Requirements of Law, (4) not adopt or use any other Trademark that is
confusingly similar or a colorable imitation of such Trademark unless the Administrative Agent
shall obtain a perfected security interest in such other Trademark pursuant
to this Agreement and (ii) not do any act or omit to do any act whereby (w) such Trademark (or
any goodwill associated therewith) may become destroyed, invalidated, impaired or harmed in any
way, (x) any Patent included in the Material Intellectual Property may become forfeited, misused,
unenforceable, abandoned or dedicated to the public, (y) any portion of the Copyrights included in
the Material Intellectual Property may become invalidated, otherwise impaired or fall into the
public domain or (z) any Trade Secret that is Material Intellectual Property may become publicly
available or otherwise unprotectable.

(c) Such Grantor shall notify the Administrative Agent immediately if it knows, or has reason
to know, that any application or registration relating to any Material Intellectual Property may
become forfeited, misused, unenforceable, abandoned or dedicated to the public, or of any adverse
determination or development regarding the validity or enforceability or such Grantor’s ownership
of, interest in, right to use, register, own or maintain any Material Intellectual Property
(including the institution of, or any such determination or development in, any proceeding relating
to the foregoing in any Applicable IP Office). Such Grantor shall take all actions that are
necessary or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to maintain and pursue each
application (and to obtain the relevant registration or recordation) and to maintain each
registration and recordation included in the Material Intellectual Property.

(d) Such Grantor shall not knowingly do any act or omit to do any act to infringe,
misappropriate, dilute, violate or otherwise impair the Intellectual Property of any other Person.
In the event that any Material Intellectual Property of such Grantor is or has been infringed,
misappropriated, violated, diluted or otherwise impaired by a third party, such Grantor shall take
such action as it reasonably deems appropriate under the circumstances in response thereto,
including promptly bringing suit and recovering all damages therefor.

(e) Such Grantor shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent in form and substance
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and suitable for (i) filing in the Applicable IP
Office the short-form intellectual property security agreements in the form attached hereto as
Annex 5.7 for all Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and IP Licenses of such Grantor and (ii)
recording with the appropriate Internet domain name registrar, a duly executed form of assignment
for all Internet Domain Names of such Grantor (together with appropriate supporting documentation
as may be requested by the Administrative Agent).

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Section 5.8 Notices. Such Grantor shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent in writing of its acquisition
of any interest hereafter in property that is of a type where a security interest or lien must be
or may be registered, recorded or filed under, or notice thereof given under, any federal statute
or regulation.

Section 5.9 Notice of Commercial Tort Claims. Such Grantor agrees that, if it shall acquire any interest in any commercial tort claim
(whether from another Person or because such commercial tort claim shall have come into existence),
(i) such Grantor shall, immediately upon such acquisition, deliver to the
Administrative Agent, in each case in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent, a notice of the existence and nature of such commercial tort claim and a supplement to
Schedule 3.1 containing a specific description of such commercial tort claim, (ii) this
Agreement shall apply to such commercial tort claim and (iii) such Grantor shall execute and
deliver to the Administrative Agent, in each case in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, any document, and take all other action, deemed by the Administrative Agent
to be reasonably necessary or appropriate for the Administrative Agent to obtain, on behalf of the
Lenders, a perfected security interest having at least the priority set forth in Section
4.2 in all such commercial tort claims. Any supplement to Schedule 3.1 delivered
pursuant to this Section 5.9 shall, after the receipt thereof by the Administrative Agent,
become part of Schedule 3.1 for all purposes hereunder other than in respect of
representations and warranties made prior to the date of such receipt.

Section 5.10 Compliance with Credit Agreement. Such Grantor agrees to comply with all covenants and other provisions applicable to it
under the Credit Agreement, including Sections 2.17 (Taxes), 11.3
(Costs and Expenses) and 11.4 (Indemnities) of the Credit Agreement and
agrees to the same submission to jurisdiction as that agreed to by the Borrower in the Credit
Agreement.

ARTICLE 6 REMEDIAL PROVISIONS

Section 6.1 Code and Other Remedies.

(a) UCC Remedies. During the continuance of an Event of Default, the Administrative
Agent may exercise, in addition to all other rights and remedies granted to it in this Agreement
and in any other instrument or agreement securing, evidencing or relating to any Secured
Obligation, all rights and remedies of a secured party under the UCC or any other applicable law.

(b) Disposition of Collateral. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
Administrative Agent may, without demand of performance or other demand, presentment, protest,
advertisement or notice of any kind (except any notice required by law referred to below) to or
upon any Grantor or any other Person (all and each of which demands, defenses, advertisements and
notices are hereby waived), during the continuance of any Event of Default (personally or through
its agents or attorneys), (i) enter upon the premises where any Collateral is located, without any
obligation to pay rent, through self-help, without judicial process, without first obtaining a
final judgment or giving any Grantor or any other Person notice or opportunity for a hearing on the
Administrative Agent’s claim or action, (ii) collect, receive, appropriate and realize upon any
Collateral and (iii) Sell, grant option or options to purchase and deliver any Collateral (enter
into Contractual Obligations to do any of the foregoing), in one or more parcels at public or
private sale or sales, at any exchange, broker’s board or office of any Secured Party or elsewhere
upon such terms and conditions as it may deem advisable and at such prices as it may deem best, for
cash or on credit or for future delivery without assumption of any credit risk. The Administrative
Agent shall have the right, upon any such public sale or sales and, to the
extent permitted by the UCC and other applicable Requirements of Law, upon any such private
sale, to purchase the whole or any part of the Collateral so sold, free of any right or equity of
redemption of any Grantor, which right or equity is hereby waived and released.

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(c) Management of the Collateral. Each Grantor further agrees, that, during the
continuance of any Event of Default, (i) at the Administrative Agent’s request, it shall assemble
the Collateral and make it available to the Administrative Agent at places that the Administrative
Agent shall reasonably select, whether at such Grantor’s premises or elsewhere, (ii) without
limiting the foregoing, the Administrative Agent also has the right to require that each Grantor
store and keep any Collateral pending further action by the Administrative Agent and, while any
such Collateral is so stored or kept, provide such guards and maintenance services as shall be
necessary to protect the same and to preserve and maintain such Collateral in good condition, (iii)
until the Administrative Agent is able to Sell any Collateral, the Administrative Agent shall have
the right to hold or use such Collateral to the extent that it deems appropriate for the purpose of
preserving the Collateral or its value or for any other purpose deemed appropriate by the
Administrative Agent and (iv) the Administrative Agent may, if it so elects, seek the appointment
of a receiver or keeper to take possession of any Collateral and to enforce any of the
Administrative Agent’s remedies (for the benefit of the Secured Parties), with respect to such
appointment without prior notice or hearing as to such appointment. The Administrative Agent shall
not have any obligation to any Grantor to maintain or preserve the rights of any Grantor as against
third parties with respect to any Collateral while such Collateral is in the possession of the
Administrative Agent.

(d) Application of Proceeds. The Administrative Agent shall apply the cash proceeds
of any action taken by it pursuant to this Section 6.1, after deducting all reasonable
costs and expenses of every kind incurred in connection therewith or incidental to the care or
safekeeping of any Collateral or in any way relating to the Collateral or the rights of the
Administrative Agent and any other Secured Party hereunder, including reasonable attorneys’ fees
and disbursements, to the payment in whole or in part of the Secured Obligations, as set forth in
the Credit Agreement, and only after such application and after the payment by the Administrative
Agent of any other amount required by any Requirement of Law, need the Administrative Agent account
for the surplus, if any, to any Grantor.

(e) Direct Obligation. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any other Secured Party
shall be required to make any demand upon, or pursue or exhaust any right or remedy against, any
Grantor, any other Loan Party or any other Person with respect to the payment of the Obligations or
to pursue or exhaust any right or remedy with respect to any Collateral therefor or any direct or
indirect guaranty thereof. All of the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and any
other Secured Party under any Loan Document shall be cumulative, may be exercised individually or
concurrently and not exclusive of any other rights or remedies provided by any Requirement of Law.
To the extent it may lawfully do so, each Grantor absolutely and irrevocably waives and
relinquishes the benefit and advantage of, and covenants not to assert any valuation, stay,
appraisement, extension, redemption or similar laws and any and all rights or defenses it may have
as a surety, now or hereafter existing, arising out of the exercise by them of any rights
hereunder. If any notice of a proposed sale or other
disposition of any Collateral shall be required by law, such notice shall be deemed reasonable
and proper if given at least 10 days before such sale or other disposition.

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(f) Commercially Reasonable. To the extent that applicable Requirements of Law impose
duties on the Administrative Agent to exercise remedies in a commercially reasonable manner, each
Grantor acknowledges and agrees that it is not commercially unreasonable for the Administrative
Agent to do any of the following:

(i) fail to incur significant costs, expenses or other Liabilities reasonably deemed as such
by the Administrative Agent to prepare any Collateral for disposition or otherwise to complete raw
material or work in process into finished goods or other finished products for disposition;

(ii) fail to obtain Permits, or other consents, for access to any Collateral to Sell or for
the collection or Sale of any Collateral, or, if not required by other Requirements of Law, fail to
obtain Permits or other consents for the collection or disposition of any Collateral;

(iii) fail to exercise remedies against account debtors or other Persons obligated on any
Collateral or to remove Liens on any Collateral or to remove any adverse claims against any
Collateral;

(iv) advertise dispositions of any Collateral through publications or media of general
circulation, whether or not such Collateral is of a specialized nature or to contact other Persons,
whether or not in the same business as any Grantor, for expressions of interest in acquiring any
such Collateral;

(v) exercise collection remedies against account debtors and other Persons obligated on any
Collateral, directly or through the use of collection agencies or other collection specialists,
hire one or more professional auctioneers to assist in the disposition of any Collateral, whether
or not such Collateral is of a specialized nature or, to the extent deemed appropriate by the
Administrative Agent, obtain the services of other brokers, investment bankers, consultants and
other professionals to assist the Administrative Agent in the collection or disposition of any
Collateral, or utilize Internet sites that provide for the auction of assets of the types included
in the Collateral or that have the reasonable capacity of doing so, or that match buyers and
sellers of assets to dispose of any Collateral;

(vi) dispose of assets in wholesale rather than retail markets;

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(viii) purchase insurance or credit enhancements to insure the Administrative Agent against
risks of loss, collection or disposition of any Collateral or to provide to the Administrative
Agent a guaranteed return from the collection or disposition of any Collateral.

Each Grantor acknowledges that the purpose of this Section 6.1 is to provide a
non-exhaustive list of actions or omissions that are commercially reasonable when exercising
remedies against
any Collateral and that other actions or omissions by the Secured Parties shall not be deemed
commercially unreasonable solely on account of not being indicated in this Section 6.1.
Without limitation upon the foregoing, nothing contained in this Section 6.1 shall be
construed to grant any rights to any Grantor or to impose any duties on the Administrative Agent
that would not have been granted or imposed by this Agreement or by applicable Requirements of Law
in the absence of this Section 6.1.

(g) IP Licenses. For the sole purpose of enabling the Administrative Agent to
exercise rights and remedies under this Section 6.1 (including in order to take possession
of, collect, receive, assemble, process, appropriate, remove, realize upon, Sell or grant options
to purchase any Collateral) at such time as the Administrative Agent shall be lawfully entitled to
exercise such rights and remedies, each Grantor hereby grants to the Administrative Agent, for the
benefit of the Secured Parties, (i) an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide license (exercisable
without payment of royalty or other compensation to such Grantor), including in such license the
right to sublicense, use and practice any Intellectual Property now owned or hereafter acquired by
such Grantor and access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored
and to all Software and programs used for the compilation or printout thereof and (ii) an
irrevocable license (without payment of rent or other compensation to such Grantor) to use, operate
and occupy all Real Property owned, operated, leased, subleased or otherwise occupied by such
Grantor.

Section 6.2 Accounts and Payments in Respect of General Intangibles.

(a) In addition to, and not in substitution for, any similar requirement in the Credit
Agreement, if required by the Administrative Agent at any time during the continuance of an Event
of Default, any payment of accounts or payment in respect of general intangibles, when collected by
any Grantor, shall be promptly (and, in any event, within 2 Business Days) deposited by such
Grantor in the exact form received, duly indorsed by such Grantor to the Administrative Agent, in a
Security Cash Collateral Account, subject to withdrawal by the Administrative Agent as provided in
Section 6.4. Until so turned over, such payment shall be held by such Grantor in trust for
the Administrative Agent, segregated from other funds of such Grantor. Each such deposit of
proceeds of accounts and payments in respect of general intangibles shall be accompanied by a
report identifying in reasonable detail the nature and source of the payments included in the
deposit.

(b) At any time during the continuance of an Event of Default:

(i) each Grantor shall, upon the Administrative Agent’s request, deliver to the Administrative
Agent all original and other documents evidencing, and relating to, the Contractual Obligations and
transactions that gave rise to any account or any payment in respect of general intangibles,
including all original orders, invoices and shipping receipts and notify account debtors that the
accounts or general intangibles have been collaterally assigned to the Administrative Agent and
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(ii) the Administrative Agent may, without notice, at any time during the continuance of an
Event of Default, limit or terminate the authority of a Grantor to collect its accounts or amounts
due under general intangibles or any thereof and, in its own name or in the name of others,
communicate with account debtors to verify with them to the Administrative Agent’s satisfaction the
existence, amount and terms of any account or amounts due under any general intangible. In
addition, the Administrative Agent may at any time enforce such Grantor’s rights against such
account debtors and obligors of general intangibles; and

(iii) each Grantor shall take all actions, deliver all documents and provide all information
necessary or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to ensure any Internet Domain Name is
registered.

(c) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, each Grantor shall remain liable under
each account and each payment in respect of general intangibles to observe and perform all the
conditions and obligations to be observed and performed by it thereunder, all in accordance with
the terms of any agreement giving rise thereto. No Secured Party shall have any obligation or
liability under any agreement giving rise to an account or a payment in respect of a general
intangible by reason of or arising out of any Loan Document or the receipt by any Secured Party of
any payment relating thereto, nor shall any Secured Party be obligated in any manner to perform any
obligation of any Grantor under or pursuant to any agreement giving rise to an account or a payment
in respect of a general intangible, to make any payment, to make any inquiry as to the nature or
the sufficiency of any payment received by it or as to the sufficiency of any performance by any
party thereunder, to present or file any claim, to take any action to enforce any performance or to
collect the payment of any amounts that may have been assigned to it or to which it may be entitled
at any time or times.

Section 6.3 Pledged Collateral.

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

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

(c) Authorization of Issuers. Each Grantor hereby expressly irrevocably authorizes
and instructs, without any further instructions from such Grantor, each issuer of any Pledged
Collateral pledged hereunder by such Grantor to (i) comply with any instruction received by it from
the Administrative Agent in writing that states that an Event of Default is continuing and is
otherwise in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and each Grantor agrees that such issuer
shall be fully protected from Liabilities to such Grantor in so complying and (ii) unless otherwise
expressly permitted hereby, pay any dividend or make any other payment with respect to the Pledged
Collateral directly to the Administrative Agent.

Section 6.4 Proceeds to be Turned over to and Held by Administrative Agent. Unless otherwise expressly provided in the Credit Agreement or this
Security Agreement, all
proceeds of any Collateral received by any Grantor hereunder in cash or Cash Equivalents shall be
held by such Grantor in trust for the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties,
segregated from other funds of such Grantor, and shall, promptly upon receipt by any Grantor, be
turned over to the Administrative Agent in the exact form received (with any necessary
endorsement). All such proceeds of Collateral and any other proceeds of any Collateral received by
the Administrative Agent in cash or Cash Equivalents shall be held by the Administrative Agent in a
Security Cash Collateral Account. All proceeds being held by the Administrative Agent in a
Security Cash Collateral Account (or by such Grantor in trust for the Administrative Agent) shall
continue to be held as collateral security for the Secured Obligations and shall not constitute
payment thereof until applied as provided in the Credit Agreement.

Section 6.5 Registration Rights.

(a) If, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, it is necessary or advisable to Sell any
portion of the Pledged Collateral by registering such Pledged Collateral under the
provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”), each relevant Grantor
shall use its best efforts to cause the issuer thereof to do or cause to be done all acts as may
be, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, necessary or advisable to register such Pledged
Collateral or that portion thereof to be Sold under the provisions of the Securities Act, all as
directed by the Administrative Agent in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act and
the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission applicable thereto and in
compliance with the securities or “Blue Sky” laws of any jurisdiction that the
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(b) Each Grantor recognizes that the Administrative Agent may be unable to effect a public
sale of any Pledged Collateral by reason of certain prohibitions contained in the Securities Act
and applicable state or foreign securities laws or otherwise or may determine that a public sale is
impracticable, not desirable or not commercially reasonable and, accordingly, may resort to one or
more private sales thereof to a restricted group of purchasers that shall be obliged to agree,
among other things, to acquire such securities for their own account for investment and not with a
view to the distribution or resale thereof. Each Grantor acknowledges and agrees that any such
private sale may result in prices and other terms less favorable than if such sale were a public
sale and, notwithstanding such circumstances, agrees that any such private sale shall be deemed to
have been made in a commercially reasonable manner. The Administrative Agent shall be under no
obligation to delay a sale of any Pledged Collateral for the period of time necessary to permit the
issuer thereof to register such securities for public sale under the Securities Act or under
applicable state securities laws even if such issuer would agree to do so.

(c) Each Grantor agrees to use its best efforts to do or cause to be done all such other acts
as may be necessary to make such sale or sales of any portion of the Pledged Collateral pursuant to
this Section 6.5 valid and binding and in compliance with all applicable Requirements of
Law. Each Grantor further agrees that a breach of any covenant contained in this Section
6.5 will cause irreparable injury to the Administrative Agent and other Secured Parties, that
the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties have no adequate remedy at law in respect of
such breach and, as a consequence, that each and every covenant contained in this Section
6.5 shall be specifically enforceable against such Grantor, and such Grantor hereby waives and
agrees not to assert any defense against an action for specific performance of such covenants
except for a defense that no Event of Default has occurred under the Credit Agreement.

Section 6.6 Deficiency. Each Grantor shall remain liable for any deficiency if the proceeds of any sale or other
disposition of any Collateral are insufficient to pay the Secured Obligations and the fees and
disbursements of any attorney employed by the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party to
collect such deficiency.

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ARTICLE 7 THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

Section 7.1  Administrative Agent’s Appointment as Attorney-in-Fact.

(a) Each Grantor hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the Administrative Agent and any
Related Person thereof, with full power of substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact
with full irrevocable power and authority in the place and stead of such Grantor and in the name of
such Grantor or in its own name, for the purpose of carrying out the terms of the Loan Documents,
to take any appropriate action and to execute any document or instrument that may be necessary or
desirable to accomplish the purposes of the Loan Documents, and, without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, each Grantor hereby gives the Administrative Agent and its Related Persons the power
and right, on behalf of such Grantor, without notice to or assent by such Grantor, to do any of the
following when an Event of Default shall be continuing:

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

(ii) in the case of any Intellectual Property owned by or licensed to the Grantors, execute,
deliver and have recorded any document that the Administrative Agent may request to evidence,
effect, publicize or record the Administrative Agent’s security interest in such Intellectual
Property and the goodwill and general intangibles of such Grantor relating thereto or represented
thereby;

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

(iv) execute, in connection with any sale provided for in Section 6.1 or Section
6.5, any document to effect or otherwise necessary or appropriate in relation to evidence the
Sale of any Collateral; or

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

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

(c) The expenses of the Administrative Agent incurred in connection with actions undertaken as
provided in this Section 7.1, together with interest thereon at a rate set forth in
Section 2.9 (Interest) of the Credit Agreement, from the date of payment by the
Administrative Agent to the date reimbursed by the relevant Grantor, shall be payable by such
Grantor to the Administrative Agent on demand.

(d) Each Grantor hereby ratifies all that said attorneys shall lawfully do or cause to be done
by virtue of this Section 7.1. All powers, authorizations and agencies contained in this
Agreement are coupled with an interest and are irrevocable until this Agreement is terminated and
the security interests created hereby are released.

Section 7.2 Authorization to File Financing Statements. Each Grantor authorizes the Administrative Agent and its Related Persons, at any time and
from time to time, to file or record financing statements, amendments thereto, and other filing or
recording documents or instruments with respect to any Collateral in such form and in such offices
as the Administrative Agent reasonably determines appropriate to perfect the security interests of
the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, and such financing statements and amendments may
describe the Collateral covered thereby as “all assets of the debtor”. A photographic or other
reproduction of this Agreement shall be sufficient as a financing statement or other filing or
recording document or instrument for filing or recording in any jurisdiction. Such Grantor also
hereby ratifies its authorization for the Administrative Agent to have filed any initial financing
statement or amendment thereto under the UCC (or other similar laws) in effect in any jurisdiction
if filed prior to the date hereof.

Section 7.3 Authority of Administrative Agent. Each Grantor acknowledges that the rights and responsibilities of the Administrative Agent
under this Agreement with respect to any action taken by the Administrative Agent or the exercise
or non-exercise by the Administrative Agent of any option,
voting right, request, judgment or other right or remedy provided for herein or resulting or
arising out of this Agreement shall, as between the Administrative Agent and the other Secured
Parties, be governed by the Credit Agreement and by such other agreements with respect thereto as
may exist from time to time among them, but, as between the Administrative Agent and the Grantors,
the Administrative Agent shall be conclusively presumed to be acting as agent for the Secured
Parties with full and valid authority so to act or refrain from acting, and no Grantor shall be
under any obligation or entitlement to make any inquiry respecting such authority.

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Section 7.4 Duty; Obligations and Liabilities.

(a) Duty of Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent’s sole duty with respect
to the custody, safekeeping and physical preservation of the Collateral in its possession shall be
to deal with it in the same manner as the Administrative Agent deals with similar property for its
own account. The powers conferred on the Administrative Agent hereunder are solely to protect the
Administrative Agent’s interest in the Collateral and shall not impose any duty upon the
Administrative Agent to exercise any such powers. The Administrative Agent shall be accountable
only for amounts that it receives as a result of the exercise of such powers, and neither it nor
any of its Related Persons shall be responsible to any Grantor for any act or failure to act
hereunder, except for their own gross negligence or willful misconduct as finally determined by a
court of competent jurisdiction. In addition, the Administrative Agent shall not be liable or
responsible for any loss or damage to any Collateral, or for any diminution in the value thereof,
by reason of the act or omission of any warehousemen, carrier, forwarding agency, consignee or
other bailee if such Person has been selected by the Administrative Agent in good faith.

(b) Obligations and Liabilities with respect to Collateral. No Secured Party and no
Related Person thereof shall be liable for failure to demand, collect or realize upon any
Collateral or for any delay in doing so or shall be under any obligation to sell or otherwise
dispose of any Collateral upon the request of any Grantor or any other Person or to take any other
action whatsoever with regard to any Collateral. The powers conferred on the Administrative Agent
hereunder shall not impose any duty upon any other Secured Party to exercise any such powers. The
other Secured Parties shall be accountable only for amounts that they actually receive as a result
of the exercise of such powers, and neither they nor any of their respective officers, directors,
employees or agents shall be responsible to any Grantor for any act or failure to act hereunder,
except for their own gross negligence or willful misconduct as finally determined by a court of
competent jurisdiction.

ARTICLE 8 MISCELLANEOUS

Section 8.1 Reinstatement. Each Grantor agrees that, if any payment made by any Loan Party or other Person and applied
to the Secured Obligations is at any time annulled, avoided, set aside, rescinded, invalidated,
declared to be fraudulent or preferential or otherwise required to be refunded or repaid, or the
proceeds of any Collateral are required to be returned by any Secured
Party to such Loan Party, its estate, trustee, receiver or any other party, including any
Grantor, under any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause, then, to
the extent of such payment or repayment, any Lien or other Collateral securing such liability shall
be and remain in full force and effect, as fully as if such payment had never been made. If, prior
to any of the foregoing, (a) any Lien or other Collateral securing such Grantor’s liability
hereunder shall have been released or terminated by virtue of the foregoing or (b) any provision of
the Guaranty hereunder shall have been terminated, cancelled or surrendered, such Lien, other
Collateral or provision shall be reinstated in full force and effect and such prior release,
termination, cancellation or surrender shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or otherwise
affect the obligations of any such Grantor in respect of any Lien or other Collateral securing such
obligation or the amount of such payment.

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Section 8.2 Release of Collateral.

(a) At the time provided in clause (b)(iii) of Section 10.10 (Release of
Collateral or Guarantors) of the Credit Agreement, the Collateral shall be released from the
Lien created hereby and this Agreement and all obligations (other than those expressly stated to
survive such termination) of the Administrative Agent and each Grantor hereunder shall terminate,
all without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any party, and all rights to
the Collateral shall revert to the Grantors. Each Grantor is hereby authorized to file UCC
amendments at such time evidencing the termination of the Liens so released. At the request of any
Grantor following any such termination, the Administrative Agent shall deliver to such Grantor any
Collateral of such Grantor held by the Administrative Agent hereunder and execute and deliver to
such Grantor such documents as such Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination.

(b) If the Administrative Agent shall be directed or permitted pursuant to clause (i)
or (ii) of Section 10.10(b) of the Credit Agreement to release any Lien or any
Collateral, the Administrative Agent shall release such Collateral from the Lien created hereby to
the extent provided under, and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in, such clauses
(i) and (ii). In connection therewith, the Administrative Agent, at the request of any
Grantor, shall execute and deliver to such Grantor such documents as such Grantor shall reasonably
request to evidence such release.

(c) At the time provided in Section 10.10(a) of the Credit Agreement and at the
request of the Borrower, a Grantor shall be released from its obligations hereunder in the event
that all the Securities of such Grantor shall be Sold to any Person that is not an Affiliate of
the Borrower and the Subsidiaries of the Borrower in a transaction permitted by the Loan Documents.

Section 8.3 Independent Obligations. The obligations of each Grantor hereunder are independent of and separate from the Secured
Obligations and the Guaranteed Obligations. If any Secured Obligation or Guaranteed Obligation is
not paid when due, or upon any Event of Default, the Administrative
Agent may, at its sole election, proceed directly and at once, without notice, against any
Grantor and any Collateral to collect and recover the full amount of any Secured Obligation or
Guaranteed Obligation then due, without first proceeding against any other Grantor, any other Loan
Party or any other Collateral and without first joining any other Grantor or any other Loan Party
in any proceeding.

Section 8.4 No Waiver by Course of Conduct. No Secured Party shall by any act (except by a written instrument pursuant to Section
8.6), delay, indulgence, omission or otherwise be deemed to have waived any right or remedy
hereunder or to have acquiesced in any Default or Event of Default. No failure to exercise, nor
any delay in exercising, on the part of any Secured Party, any right, power or privilege hereunder
shall operate as a waiver thereof. No single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege
hereunder shall preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right,
power or privilege. A waiver by any Secured Party of any right or remedy hereunder on any one
occasion shall not be construed as a bar to any right or remedy that such Secured Party would
otherwise have on any future occasion.

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Section 8.5 Amendments in Writing. None of the terms or provisions of this Agreement may be waived, amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified except in accordance with Section 11.1 of the Credit Agreement;
provided, however, that annexes to this Agreement may be supplemented (but no
existing provisions may be modified and no Collateral may be released) through Pledge Amendments
and Joinder Agreements, in substantially the form of Annex 8.6(b) and Annex 8.6(a),
respectively, in each case duly executed by the Administrative Agent and each Grantor directly
affected thereby.

Section 8.6 Additional Grantors; Additional Pledged Collateral.

(a) Joinder Agreements. If, at the option of the Borrower or as required pursuant to
Section 7.10 of the Credit Agreement, the Borrower shall cause any Subsidiary that is not a
Grantor to become a Grantor hereunder, such Subsidiary shall execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent a Joinder Agreement substantially in the form of Annex 8.6(a) and
shall thereafter for all purposes be a party hereto and have the same rights, benefits and
obligations as a Grantor party hereto on the Closing Date.

(b) Pledge Amendments. To the extent any Pledged Collateral has not been delivered as
of the Closing Date, such Grantor shall deliver a pledge amendment duly executed by the Grantor in
substantially the form of Annex 8.6(b) (each, a “Pledge Amendment”). Such Grantor
authorizes the Administrative Agent to attach each Pledge Amendment to this Agreement.

Section 8.7 Notices. All notices, requests and demands to or upon the Administrative Agent or any Grantor
hereunder shall be effected in the manner provided for in Section 11.11 of the Credit
Agreement; provided, however, that any such notice, request or demand to or upon
any Grantor shall be addressed to the Borrower’s notice address set forth in such Section
11.11.

Section 8.8 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the successors and assigns of each Grantor and shall
inure to the benefit of each Secured Party and their successors and assigns; provided,
however, that no Grantor may assign, transfer or delegate any of its rights or obligations
under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent.

Section 8.9 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties in
separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of
which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Signature pages may be detached
from multiple separate counterparts and attached to a single counterpart. Delivery of an executed
signature page of this Agreement by facsimile transmission or by Electronic Transmission shall be
as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof.

Section 8.10 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement being held illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction shall not affect any part of such provision not held illegal, invalid or
unenforceable, any other provision of this Agreement or any part of such provision in any other
jurisdiction.

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Section 8.11 Governing Law. This Agreement and the rights and obligations of the parties hereto shall be governed by,
and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the law of the State of Wisconsin

Section 8.12 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY
WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO, OR DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY
ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH, ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED
THEREIN OR RELATED THERETO (WHETHER FOUNDED IN CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY
HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO OTHER PARTY AND NO RELATED PERSON OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED,
EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO
ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN
INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION
8.12.

Section 8.13 Limitation of Liability for Certain Damages. In no event shall
any Indemnitee be liable on any theory of liability for any special, indirect, consequential or
punitive damages (including any loss of profits, business or anticipated savings). Each Grantor
hereby waives, releases and agrees not to sue upon any such claim for any special, indirect,
consequential or punitive damages, whether or not accrued and whether or not known or suspected to
exist in its favor.

Section 8.14 Jurisdiction. 

(a) Submission to Jurisdiction. Any legal action or proceeding with respect to any
Loan Document may be brought in the courts of the State of Wisconsin located in the City of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, or of the United States of America sitting in the City of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin and, by execution and delivery of this Agreement, each Grantor hereby accepts for itself
and in respect of its property, generally and unconditionally, the jurisdiction of the aforesaid
courts. The parties hereto hereby irrevocably waive any objection, including any objection to the
laying of venue or based on the grounds of forum non conveniens, that any of them may now or
hereafter have to the bringing of any such action or proceeding in such jurisdictions.

(b) Service of Process. Each Grantor hereby irrevocably waives personal service of any
and all legal process, summons, notices and other documents and other service of process of any
kind and consents to such service in any suit, action or proceeding brought in the United States of
America with respect to or otherwise arising out of or in connection with any Loan Document by any
means permitted by applicable Requirements of Law, including by the mailing thereof (by registered
or certified mail, postage prepaid) to the address of Borrower specified in Section 11.11
of the Credit Agreement (and shall be effective when such mailing shall be effective, as provided
therein). Each Grantor agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be
conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other
manner provided by law.

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(c) Non-Exclusive Jurisdiction. Nothing contained in this Section shall affect the
right of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to serve process in any other manner permitted by
applicable Requirements of Law or commence legal proceedings or otherwise proceed against any Loan
Party in any other jurisdiction.

Section 11.18 Entire Agreement. The Loan Documents embody the entire agreement of the
parties and supersede all prior agreements and understandings relating to the subject matter
thereof and any prior letter of interest, commitment letter, fee letter, confidentiality and
similar agreements involving any Loan Party and any of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any
L/C Issuer or any of their respective Affiliates relating to a financing of substantially similar
form, purpose or effect. In the event of any conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the
Credit Agreement, the terms of the Credit Agreement shall govern (unless such terms of this
Agreement are necessary to comply with applicable Requirements of Law, in which case such terms
shall govern to the extent necessary to comply therewith).

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

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	GRANTORS:

ASSISTED LIVING CONCEPTS, INC., a 
Nevada
corporation

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	John Buono 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer and Treasurer 	 
	 
	 	ALC REAL ESTATE, LLC, a Wisconsin limited

liability company
 	 
	 	 	 
	 	By:  	    Assisted Living Concepts, Inc., its sole member
 	 
	 	 	 
	 	By:  	
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	John Buono 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer and Treasurer 	 

GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

ASSISTED LIVING CONCEPTS, INC.

 

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	 	ALC PROPERTIES II, INC., a Nevada corporation

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	John Buono 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Treasurer 	 
	 
	 	TEXAS ALC II, INC., a Nevada corporation

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	John Buono 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Treasurer 	 
	 

GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

ASSISTED LIVING CONCEPTS, INC.

 

2

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	ACCEPTED AND AGREED
  
as of the date first above written:
	 
	 	 	 	 
	U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Administrative Agent
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name: Matthew J. Schulz	 	 
	 

	 	Title:   Vice President	 	 

GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

ASSISTED LIVING CONCEPTS, INC.

 

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ANNEX 8.6(A)

TO

GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

FORM OF JOINDER AGREEMENT

This JOINDER AGREEMENT, dated as of
 _____ ___, 20_____, is delivered pursuant to Section
8.6 of the Guaranty and Security Agreement, dated as of February 18, 2011, by ASSISTED LIVING CONCEPTS, INC., a Nevada corporation (the “Borrower”), and the Affiliates of the Borrower
from time to time party thereto as Grantors in favor of the U.S. Bank National Association, as
administrative agent and collateral agent for the Secured Parties referred to therein (the
“Guaranty and Security Agreement”). Capitalized terms used herein without definition are
used as defined in the Guaranty and Security Agreement.

By executing and delivering this Joinder Agreement, the undersigned, as provided in
Section 8.6 of the Guaranty and Security Agreement, hereby becomes a party to the Guaranty
and Security Agreement as a Guarantor and Grantor thereunder with the same force and effect as if
originally named as a Guarantor and Grantor therein and, without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, as collateral security for the prompt and complete payment and performance when due
(whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Secured Obligations of the
undersigned, hereby mortgages, pledges and hypothecates to the Administrative Agent for the benefit
of the Secured Parties, and grants to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured
Parties a lien on and security interest in, all of its right, title and interest in, to and under
the Collateral of the undersigned and expressly assumes all obligations and liabilities of a
Guarantor and Grantor thereunder. The undersigned hereby agrees to be bound as a Guarantor and
Grantor for the purposes of the Guaranty and Security Agreement.

The information set forth in Annex 8.6(b)-A is hereby added to the information set
forth in the Schedules to the Guaranty and Security Agreement. By acknowledging and
agreeing to this Joinder Agreement, the undersigned hereby agree that this Joinder Agreement may be
attached to the Guaranty and Security Agreement and that the Pledged Collateral listed on Annex
8.6(b)-A to this Joinder Amendment shall be and become part of the Collateral referred to in
the Guaranty and Security Agreement and shall secure the Secured Obligations.

The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that each of the representations and warranties
contained in Article IV of the Guaranty and Security Agreement applicable to it is true and
correct on and as the date hereof as if made on and as of such date.

GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

ASSISTED LIVING CONCEPTS, INC.

 

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

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	[ADDITIONAL GRANTOR]

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 
	ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED 

as of the date first above written:

[EACH GRANTOR PLEDGING

ADDITIONAL COLLATERAL]
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Administrative Agent
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

ASSISTED LIVING CONCEPTS, INC.

 

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ANNEX 8.6(B)

TO

GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT1

FORM OF PLEDGE AMENDMENT

This PLEDGE AMENDMENT, dated as of
 _____ ___, 20_____, is delivered pursuant to Section
8.6 of the Guaranty and Security Agreement, dated as of February 18, 2011, by ASSISTED LIVING CONCEPTS, INC., a Nevada corporation (the “Borrower”), the undersigned Grantor and the
other Affiliates of the Borrower from time to time party thereto as Grantors in favor of U.S. Bank
National Association, as administrative agent and collateral agent for the Secured Parties referred
to therein (the “Guaranty and Security Agreement”). Capitalized terms used herein without
definition are used as defined in the Guaranty and Security Agreement.

The undersigned hereby agrees that this Pledge Amendment may be attached to the Guaranty and
Security Agreement and that the Pledged Collateral listed on Annex 8.6(b)-A to this Pledge
Amendment shall be and become part of the Collateral referred to in the Guaranty and Security
Agreement and shall secure the Secured Obligations.

The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that each of the representations and warranties
contained in Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.5 and 4.10 of the Guaranty and
Security Agreement is true and correct and as of the date hereof as if made on and as of such date.

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	[GRANTOR]

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 
	 

 

	 	 	 
	1	 	To be used for pledge of Additional Pledged Collateral
by existing Grantor.

GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

ASSISTED LIVING CONCEPTS, INC.

 

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Annex 8.6(b)-A

PLEDGED STOCK

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	NUMBER OF	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	PAR	 	 	SHARES,

UNITS OR	 
	ISSUER	 	CLASS	 	 	CERTIFICATE NO(S).	 	 	VALUE	 	 	INTERESTS	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

PLEDGED DEBT INSTRUMENTS

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	DESCRIPTION	 	 	 	 	 	 	FINAL	 	 	PRINCIPAL	 
	ISSUER	 	OF DEBT	 	 	CERTIFICATE NO(S).	 	 	MATURITY	 	 	AMOUNT	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED

as of the date first above written:

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Administrative Agent

	 	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

ASSISTED LIVING CONCEPTS, INC.

 

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ANNEX 5.7

TO

GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

FORM OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT

THIS [COPYRIGHT] [PATENT] [TRADEMARK] SECURITY AGREEMENT, dated as of
 _____ ___, 20_____, is
made by each of the entities listed on the signature pages hereof (each a “Grantor” and,
collectively, the “Grantors”), in favor of U.S. Bank National Association (“U.S.
Bank”), as administrative agent and collateral agent (in such capacity, together with its
successors and permitted assigns, the “Administrative Agent”) for the Lenders and the L/C
Issuers (as defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below).

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit Agreement, dated as of February 18, 2011 (as the same may be
amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit
Agreement”), among the Borrower, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers from time to time party
thereto and U.S. Bank, as Administrative Agent for the Lenders and the L/C Issuers, the Lenders and
the L/C Issuers have severally agreed to make extensions of credit to the Borrower upon the terms
and subject to the conditions set forth therein;

WHEREAS, each Grantor (other than the Borrower) has agreed, pursuant to a Guaranty and
Security Agreement of even date herewith in favor of the Administrative Agent (the “Guaranty
and Security Agreement”), to guarantee the Obligations (as defined in the Credit Agreement) of
the Borrower; and

WHEREAS, all of the Grantors are party to the Guaranty and Security Agreement pursuant to
which the Grantors are required to execute and deliver this [Copyright] [Patent] [Trademark]
Security Agreement;

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

Section 1. Defined Terms. Capitalized terms used herein without definition
are used as defined in the Guaranty and Security Agreement.

Section 2. Grant of Security Interest in [Copyright] [Trademark] [Patent]
Collateral. Each Grantor, as collateral security for the prompt and complete payment and
performance when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Secured
Obligations of such Grantor, hereby mortgages, pledges and hypothecates to the Administrative
Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and grants to the Administrative Agent for the
benefit of the Secured Parties a Lien on and security interest in, all of its right, title and
interest
in, to and under the following Collateral of such Grantor (the “[Copyright] [Patent]
[Trademark] Collateral”):

(a) [all of its Copyrights and all IP Licenses providing for the grant by or to such Grantor
of any right under any Copyright, including, without limitation, those referred to on Schedule
I hereto;

 

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(b) all renewals, reversions and extensions of the foregoing; and

(c) all income, royalties, proceeds and Liabilities at any time due or payable or asserted
under and with respect to any of the foregoing, including, without limitation, all rights to sue
and recover at law or in equity for any past, present and future infringement, misappropriation,
dilution, violation or other impairment thereof.]

or

(a) [all of its Patents and all IP Licenses providing for the grant by or to such Grantor of
any right under any Patent, including, without limitation, those referred to on Schedule I
hereto;

(b) all reissues, reexaminations, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisionals, renewals
and extensions of the foregoing; and

(c) all income, royalties, proceeds and Liabilities at any time due or payable or asserted
under and with respect to any of the foregoing, including, without limitation, all rights to sue
and recover at law or in equity for any past, present and future infringement, misappropriation,
dilution, violation or other impairment thereof.]

or

(a) [all of its Trademarks and all IP Licenses providing for the grant by or to such Grantor
of any right under any Trademark, including, without limitation, those referred to on Schedule
I hereto;

(b) all renewals and extensions of the foregoing;

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

(d) all income, royalties, proceeds and Liabilities at any time due or payable or asserted
under and with respect to any of the foregoing, including, without limitation, all rights to sue
and recover at law or in equity for any past, present and future infringement, misappropriation,
dilution, violation or other impairment thereof.]

 

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Section 3. Guaranty and Security Agreement. The security interest granted
pursuant to this [Copyright] [Patent] [Trademark] Security Agreement is granted in conjunction
with the security interest granted to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Guaranty and
Security Agreement and each Grantor hereby acknowledges and agrees that the rights and
remedies of the Administrative Agent with respect to the security interest in the [Copyright]
[Patent] [Trademark] Collateral made and granted hereby are more fully set forth in the Guaranty
and Security Agreement, the terms and provisions of which are incorporated by reference herein as
if fully set forth herein.

Section 4. Grantor Remains Liable. Each Grantor hereby agrees that, anything
herein to the contrary notwithstanding, such Grantor shall assume full and complete responsibility
for the prosecution, defense, enforcement or any other necessary or desirable actions in
connection with their [Copyrights] [Patents] [Trademarks] and IP Licenses subject to a security
interest hereunder.

Section 5. Counterparts. This [Copyright] [Patent] [Trademark] Security
Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties in separate
counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which
taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Signature pages may be detached from
multiple separate counterparts and attached to a single counterpart.

Section 6. Governing Law. This [Copyright] [Patent] [Trademark] Security
Agreement and the rights and obligations of the parties hereto shall be governed by, and construed
and interpreted in accordance with, the law of the State of Wisconsin.

[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]

 

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

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	Very truly yours,

[GRANTOR]

as Grantor

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 
	 

ACCEPTED AND AGREED

as of the date first above written:

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Administrative Agent

	 	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

[SIGNATURE PAGE TO [COPYRIGHT] [PATENT] [TRADEMARK] SECURITY AGREEMENT]

 

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF GRANTOR

	 	 	 	 	 
	STATE OF
                                   

	 	)	 	 
	 

	 	)       ss.	 	 
	COUNTY OF

	 	)	 	 

On this
 _____ 
day of
 _____ ___, 20_____ 
before me personally appeared
 _____,
proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person who executed the foregoing
instrument on behalf of
 _____, who being by me duly sworn did depose and say that he is
an authorized officer of said corporation, that the said instrument was signed on behalf of said
corporation as authorized by its Board of Directors and that he acknowledged said instrument to be
the free act and deed of said corporation.

	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 

Notary Public
	 	 

[ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GRANTOR FOR [COPYRIGHT] [PATENT] [TRADEMARK] SECURITY AGREEMENT]

 

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SCHEDULE I

TO

[COPYRIGHT] [PATENT] [TRADEMARK] SECURITY AGREEMENT

[Copyright] [Patent] [Trademark] Registrations

	A.	 	REGISTERED [COPYRIGHTS] [PATENTS] [TRADEMARKS]

[Include Registration Number and Date]

	 
	B.	 	[COPYRIGHT] [PATENT] [TRADEMARK] APPLICATIONS

[Include Application Number and Date]

	 
	C.	 	IP LICENSES 

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

GUARANTY AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

ASSISTED LIVING CONCEPTS, INC.

 

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Exhibit 10.1

EXECUTION COPY

SENIOR SECURED, SUPER-PRIORITY DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION

CREDIT AGREEMENT

Dated as of February 16, 2011

by and among

BORDERS GROUP, INC. and BORDERS, INC.,

as the Borrowers,

THE OTHER PERSONS PARTY HERETO THAT ARE

DESIGNATED AS CREDIT PARTIES,

GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION,

for itself, as a Revolving Lender, FILO Lender and Swingline Lender

and as Working Capital Agent for all Lenders,

GA CAPITAL, LLC

as Term B Agent for all Term B Lenders

and as Sole Lead Arranger and Bookrunner on the Term B Facility

and

THE OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS PARTY HERETO,

as Lenders

****************************************

GE CAPITAL MARKETS, INC.,

as Sole Lead Arranger and Bookrunner on the Working Capital Facility

and

THE CIT GROUP/BUSINESS CREDIT, INC.

as Syndication Agent

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	 	 	 	 	 

	ARTICLE I. THE CREDITS
	 	 	2	 
	1.1 Amounts and Terms of Commitments
	 	 	2	 
	1.2 Notes
	 	 	10	 
	1.3 Interest
	 	 	11	 
	1.4 Loan Accounts
	 	 	12	 
	1.5 Procedure for Revolving Credit Borrowing
	 	 	13	 
	1.6 Conversion and Continuation Elections
	 	 	14	 
	1.7 Reductions in Revolving Commitments
	 	 	15	 
	1.8 Mandatory Prepayments of Loans and Commitment Reductions
	 	 	16	 
	1.9 Fees
	 	 	18	 
	1.10 Payments by the Borrowers
	 	 	19	 
	1.11 Payments by the Revolving Lenders to Working Capital Agent; Settlement
	 	 	23	 
	1.12 Borrower Representative
	 	 	27	 
	1.13 Super Priority Nature of Obligations and Lenders’ Liens
	 	 	28	 
	1.14 Payment of Obligations
	 	 	29	 
	1.15 No Discharge; Survival of Claims
	 	 	29	 
	1.16 Release
	 	 	29	 
	1.17 Waiver of any Priming Rights
	 	 	30	 
	1.18 Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims
	 	 	30	 
	ARTICLE II. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
	 	 	30	 
	2.1 Conditions of Initial Loans
	 	 	30	 
	2.2 Conditions to All Borrowings
	 	 	32	 
	ARTICLE III. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
	 	 	33	 
	3.1 Corporate Existence and Power
	 	 	33	 
	3.2 Corporate Authorization; No Contravention
	 	 	33	 
	3.3 Governmental Authorization
	 	 	34	 
	3.4 Binding Effect
	 	 	34	 
	3.5 Litigation
	 	 	34	 
	3.6 No Default
	 	 	35	 
	3.7 ERISA Compliance
	 	 	35	 
	3.8 Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations
	 	 	35	 

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	3.9 Ownership of Property; Liens
	 	 	36	 
	3.10 Taxes
	 	 	36	 
	3.11 Financial Condition and Approved Budget
	 	 	37	 
	3.12 Environmental Matters
	 	 	38	 
	3.13 Regulated Entities
	 	 	39	 
	3.14 Intentionally Omitted
	 	 	39	 
	3.15 Labor Relations
	 	 	39	 
	3.16 Intellectual Property
	 	 	40	 
	3.17 Brokers’ Fees; Transaction Fees
	 	 	40	 
	3.18 Insurance
	 	 	40	 
	3.19 Ventures, Subsidiaries and Affiliates; Outstanding Stock
	 	 	40	 
	3.20 Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office
	 	 	41	 
	3.21 Locations of Inventory, Equipment and Books and Records
	 	 	41	 
	3.22 Deposit Accounts and Other Accounts
	 	 	41	 
	3.23 Government Contracts
	 	 	41	 
	3.24 Intentionally Omitted
	 	 	41	 
	3.25 Intentionally Omitted
	 	 	41	 
	3.26 Subordinated Debt
	 	 	41	 
	3.27 Full Disclosure
	 	 	41	 
	3.28 Foreign Assets Control Regulations and Anti-Money Laundering
	 	 	42	 
	3.29 Patriot Act
	 	 	42	 
	3.30 Reorganization Matters
	 	 	42	 
	3.31 Excluded Subsidiaries
	 	 	43	 
	ARTICLE IV. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
	 	 	43	 
	4.1 Financial Statements
	 	 	44	 
	4.2 Appraisals; Certificates; Other Information
	 	 	44	 
	4.3 Notices
	 	 	47	 
	4.4 Preservation of Corporate Existence, Etc
	 	 	49	 
	4.5 Maintenance of Property
	 	 	50	 
	4.6 Insurance
	 	 	50	 
	4.7 Payment of Obligations
	 	 	51	 
	4.8 Compliance with Laws
	 	 	52	 
	4.9 Inspection of Property and Books and Records
	 	 	52	 

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	4.10 Use of Proceeds
	 	 	53	 
	4.11 Cash Management Systems
	 	 	53	 
	4.12 Lien Waivers
	 	 	54	 
	4.13 Further Assurances
	 	 	55	 
	4.14 Environmental Matters
	 	 	56	 
	4.15 Restructuring Advisers
	 	 	57	 
	4.16 Approved Budget
	 	 	57	 
	4.17 Status of Permitted Store Closings
	 	 	58	 
	4.18 Leases
	 	 	59	 
	ARTICLE V. NEGATIVE COVENANTS
	 	 	59	 
	5.1 Limitation on Liens
	 	 	59	 
	5.2 Disposition of Assets
	 	 	61	 
	5.3 Consolidations and Mergers
	 	 	62	 
	5.4 Acquisitions; Loans and Investments
	 	 	62	 
	5.5 Limitation on Indebtedness
	 	 	64	 
	5.6 Employee Loans and Transactions with Affiliates
	 	 	65	 
	5.7 Compensation
	 	 	65	 
	5.8 Margin Stock; Use of Proceeds
	 	 	65	 
	5.9 Contingent Obligations
	 	 	65	 
	5.10 Compliance with ERISA
	 	 	66	 
	5.11 Restricted Payments
	 	 	67	 
	5.12 Change in Business
	 	 	67	 
	5.13 Change in Structure
	 	 	67	 
	5.14 Changes in Accounting, Name or Jurisdiction of Organization
	 	 	67	 
	5.15 Amendments to Subordinated Indebtedness
	 	 	68	 
	5.16 No Negative Pledges
	 	 	68	 
	5.17 OFAC; Patriot Act
	 	 	68	 
	5.18 Sale-Leasebacks
	 	 	68	 
	5.19 Hazardous Materials
	 	 	68	 
	5.20 Prepayments of Other Indebtedness
	 	 	68	 
	5.21 Budget and Availability Compliance Covenants
	 	 	68	 
	5.22 Repayment of Indebtedness
	 	 	69	 
	5.23 Reclamation Claims
	 	 	69	 

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	5.24 Chapter 11 Claims
	 	 	69	 
	5.25 Bankruptcy Actions
	 	 	69	 
	ARTICLE VI. [INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]
	 	 	69	 
	ARTICLE VII. EVENTS OF DEFAULT
	 	 	69	 
	7.1 Events of Default
	 	 	69	 
	7.2 Working Capital Termination Declaration
	 	 	75	 
	7.3 Term B Termination Declaration
	 	 	75	 
	7.4 Use Rights
	 	 	76	 
	7.5 Restrictions on Remedies
	 	 	77	 
	7.6 Borrowers’ Assistance, Intellectual Property Access
	 	 	77	 
	7.7 Rights Not Exclusive
	 	 	77	 
	7.8 Cash Collateral for Letters of Credit
	 	 	77	 
	7.9 Sale Process Default
	 	 	78	 
	ARTICLE
VIII. THE AGENT
	 	 	78	 
	8.1 Appointment and Duties
	 	 	78	 
	8.2 Binding Effect
	 	 	80	 
	8.3 Use of Discretion
	 	 	80	 
	8.4 Delegation of Rights and Duties
	 	 	81	 
	8.5 Reliance and Liability
	 	 	82	 
	8.6 Agents Individually
	 	 	84	 
	8.7 Lender Credit Decision
	 	 	84	 
	8.8 Expenses; Indemnities; Withholding
	 	 	85	 
	8.9 Resignation of Agent or L/C Issuer
	 	 	86	 
	8.10 Release of Collateral or Guarantors
	 	 	87	 
	8.11 Additional Secured Parties
	 	 	88	 
	8.12 Documentation Agent and Syndication Agent
	 	 	88	 
	ARTICLE IX. MISCELLANEOUS
	 	 	89	 
	9.1 Amendments and Waivers
	 	 	89	 
	9.2 Notices
	 	 	91	 
	9.3 Electronic Transmissions
	 	 	92	 
	9.4 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies
	 	 	93	 
	9.5 Costs and Expenses
	 	 	94	 
	9.6 Indemnity
	 	 	95	 

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	9.7 Marshaling; Payments Set Aside
	 	 	97	 
	9.8 Intentionally Omitted
	 	 	97	 
	9.9 Assignments and Participations; Binding Effect
	 	 	97	 
	9.10 Non-Public Information; Confidentiality
	 	 	100	 
	9.11 Set-off; Sharing of Payments
	 	 	102	 
	9.12 Counterparts; Facsimile Signature
	 	 	103	 
	9.13 Severability
	 	 	103	 
	9.14 Captions
	 	 	104	 
	9.15 Independence of Provisions
	 	 	104	 
	9.16 Interpretation
	 	 	104	 
	9.17 No Third Parties Benefited
	 	 	104	 
	9.18 GOVERNING LAW
	 	 	104	 
	9.19 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
	 	 	105	 
	9.20 Entire Agreement; Release; Survival
	 	 	105	 
	9.21 Patriot Act
	 	 	106	 
	9.22 Replacement of Lender
	 	 	106	 
	9.23 Joint and Several
	 	 	107	 
	9.24 Creditor-Debtor Relationship
	 	 	108	 
	9.25 Actions in Concert
	 	 	109	 
	ARTICLE X. TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
	 	 	109	 
	10.1 Taxes
	 	 	109	 
	10.2 Illegality
	 	 	112	 
	10.3 Increased Costs and Reduction of Return
	 	 	113	 
	10.4 Funding Losses
	 	 	114	 
	10.5 Inability to Determine Rates
	 	 	115	 
	10.6 Reserves on LIBOR Rate Loans
	 	 	115	 
	10.7 Certificates of Lenders
	 	 	115	 
	10.8 Parties Including Trustees; Bankruptcy Court Proceedings
	 	 	115	 
	10.9 Intercreditor Agreement Superseded
	 	 	116	 
	ARTICLE XI. DEFINITIONS
	 	 	116	 
	11.1 Defined Terms
	 	 	116	 
	11.2 Other Interpretive Provisions
	 	 	156	 
	11.3 Accounting Terms and Principles
	 	 	157	 
	11.4 Payments
	 	 	157	 

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SCHEDULES

	 	 	 

	Schedule 1.1(a)(i)

	 	FILO Commitments
	Schedule 1.1(a)(ii)

	 	Term B Commitments
	Schedule 1.1(b)

	 	Revolving Commitments
	Schedule 2.1(l)

	 	First Day Orders
	Schedule 3.5

	 	Litigation
	Schedule 3.7

	 	ERISA
	Schedule 3.9

	 	Ownership of Property; Liens
	Schedule 3.10

	 	Tax Matters
	Schedule 3.11(a)

	 	Historical Financial Statements
	Schedule 3.12

	 	Environmental
	Schedule 3.15

	 	Labor Relations
	Schedule 3.16

	 	Intellectual Property
	Schedule 3.18

	 	Insurance
	Schedule 3.19

	 	Ventures, Subsidiaries and Affiliates; Outstanding Stock
	Schedule 3.20

	 	Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office
	Schedule 3.21

	 	Locations of Inventory, Equipment and Books and Records
	Schedule 3.22

	 	Deposit Accounts and Other Accounts
	Schedule 3.23

	 	Government Contracts
	Schedule 4.18

	 	Store Leases
	Schedule 5.1

	 	Liens
	Schedule 5.4

	 	Investments
	Schedule 5.5

	 	Indebtedness
	Schedule 5.6

	 	Transactions with Affiliates
	Schedule 5.9

	 	Contingent Obligations
	Schedule 11.1

	 	Permitted Store Closings

EXHIBITS

	 	 	 

	Exhibit 1.1(c)

	 	Form of L/C Request
	Exhibit 1.1(d)

	 	Form of Swingline Request
	Exhibit 1.6

	 	Form of Notice of Conversion/Continuation
	Exhibit 2.1

	 	Closing Checklist
	Exhibit 4.2(m)

	 	Form of Compliance Certificate
	Exhibit 11.1(a)

	 	Form of Assignment
	Exhibit 11.1(b)

	 	Form of Borrowing Base Certificate
	Exhibit 11.1(c)

	 	Form of FILO Note
	Exhibit 11.1(d)

	 	Form of Notice of Borrowing
	Exhibit 11.1(e)

	 	Form of Revolving Note
	Exhibit 11.1(f)

	 	Form of Swingline Note
	Exhibit 11.1(g)

	 	Form of Term B Note
	Exhibit A

	 	Form of Interim Order

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CREDIT AGREEMENT

     This SENIOR SECURED, SUPER-PRIORITY DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION CREDIT AGREEMENT (including all
exhibits and schedules hereto, as the same may be amended, modified and/or restated from time to
time, this “Agreement”) is entered into as of February 16, 2011, by and among (i) BORDERS
GROUP, INC. a Michigan corporation, as a debtor-in-possession (“BGI”), (ii) BORDERS, INC.,
a Colorado corporation, as a debtor-in-possession (“Borders” and collectively with BGI,
the “Borrowers” and each individually a “Borrower”), each other Persons from time
to time party hereto as a “Credit Party” (each as a debtor-in-possession), (iii) GENERAL ELECTRIC
CAPITAL CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (in its individual capacity, “GE Capital”), as
Working Capital Agent for the Lenders (as defined herein) and for itself as a Revolving Lender
(including as Swingline Lender) and as L/C Issuer with respect to the Cash Management Letter of
Credit (as defined below), (iv) GA CAPITAL, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as Term B
Agent for the Term B Lenders and (v) the Lenders party hereto.

W I T N E S S E T H:

     WHEREAS, on February 16, 2011 (the “Petition Date”), each of the Credit Parties
commenced a case under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code Chapter 11, 11 U.S.C. 101 et seq.
(the “Bankruptcy Code”), Case No. 11-10614 (MG) (the “Chapter 11 Cases”) by filing
a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11, with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
Southern District of New York (the “Bankruptcy Court”). The Credit Parties continue to
operate their businesses and manage their properties as debtors and debtors-in-possession pursuant
to Sections 1107(a) and 1108 of the Bankruptcy Code;

     WHEREAS, the Borrowers have requested, and upon terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement, (i) the Revolving Lenders have agreed to make available to the Borrowers, a senior
secured, super-priority revolving credit facility (including a Seventy-Five Million Dollar
($75,000,000) letter of credit subfacility) in an amount up to Four Hundred and Ten Million
Dollars ($410,000,000) (the “Revolving Facility”), (ii) the FILO Lenders have agreed to
make available to the Borrowers, a senior secured, super-priority “first in last out” term loan in
an amount up to Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000) (the “FILO Facility”), (iii) the Term
B Lenders have agreed to make available to the Borrowers, a senior secured, super-priority term
loan in an amount up to Fifty-Five Million Dollars ($55,000,000) (the “Term B Facility”),
in each instance of clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) in order to (a) repay the Pre-Petition Facilities
on the Closing Date, (b) fund the Chapter 11 Cases in accordance with the Approved Budget, (c) make
certain other payments on the Closing Date as more fully provided in this Agreement and (d) provide
for working capital and other general corporate purposes of the Credit Parties during the pendency
of the Chapter 11 Cases, and (iv) Working Capital Agent as an L/C Issuer has agreed to make
available to the Borrowers an additional letter of credit facility in an amount up to Twenty
Million Dollars ($20,000,000) in support of the Actual Cash

 

 

Management Exposure (the “Cash Management L/C Facility”, and collectively with the
Revolving Facility and the FILO Facility, the “Working Capital Facility”);

     WHEREAS, the Agents, Lenders and Credit Parties desire to secure the Obligations under the
Loan Documents by granting to Working Capital Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a
security interest in and lien upon substantially all of their Property, as more fully set forth in
the Loan Documents and in the Interim Order (or Final Order when applicable);

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements, provisions and covenants contained
herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE I.

THE CREDITS

     1.1 Amounts and Terms of Commitments.

               (a) The FILO Loan and the Term B Loan.

               (i) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and in reliance upon the
representations and warranties of the Credit Parties contained herein, each FILO Lender severally
and not jointly agrees to lend, on the Closing Date, to the Borrowers the amount set forth opposite
such FILO Lender’s name in Schedule 1.1(a)(i) under the heading “FILO Commitments” (such
amount being referred to herein as such FILO Lender’s “FILO Commitment”). Amounts borrowed
under this Section 1.1(a)(i) are referred to as the “FILO Loan.”).

               (ii) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and in reliance upon the
representations and warranties of the Credit Parties contained herein, each Term B Lender severally
and not jointly agrees to lend, on the Closing Date, to the Borrowers the amount set forth opposite
such Term B Lender’s name in Schedule 1.1(a)(ii) under the heading “Term B Loans
Commitments” (such amount being referred to herein as such Term B Lender’s “Term B
Commitment”); provided that each of 1903 Offshore Loans SPV Limited and Stone Tower Credit
Funding I Ltd. will fund their Term B Commitment hereunder by tendering all or a portion of its
current holding under the Pre-Petition Term Facility for an equal amount of principal under the
Term B Facility. For the avoidance of doubt, the Term B Commitment shall terminate on the Closing
Date. Amounts borrowed under this Section 1.1(a)(ii) are referred to as the “Term B
Loans.”)

               (iii) Amounts borrowed as a FILO Loan or a Term B Loans which are repaid or prepaid may not be
reborrowed.

               (b) The Revolving Credit.

               (i) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and in reliance upon the
representations and warranties of the Credit Parties contained herein, each Revolving Lender
severally and not jointly agrees to make Loans to the Borrowers

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(each such Loan, a “Revolving Loan”) from time to time on any Business Day during the
period from the Closing Date through the Final Availability Date, in an aggregate amount not to
exceed at any time outstanding the amount set forth opposite such Revolving Lender’s name in
Schedule 1.1(b) under the heading “Revolving Commitment” (such amount as the same may be
reduced or increased from time to time in accordance with this Agreement, being referred to herein
as such Revolving Lender’s “Revolving Commitment”); provided, however, that, after giving
effect to any Borrowing of Revolving Loans, (x) the Aggregate Exposure shall not exceed the Maximum
Borrowing Availability and (y) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure shall not exceed the Maximum
Revolving Borrowing Availability and (z) the Revolving Exposure of any Revolving Lender shall not
exceed such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment. Subject to the other terms and conditions
hereof, amounts borrowed under this Section 1.1(b) may be repaid and reborrowed from time
to time.

               (ii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, after the
occurrence of an Event of Default, Working Capital Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to
make, or permit to remain outstanding Revolving Loans that, when aggregated with the outstanding
Swing Loans, FILO Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations (other than with respect to the Cash
Management Letter of Credit), would cause the Aggregate Exposure to exceed the Borrowing Base, less
the Mandatory Reserves (any such excess Revolving Loan is herein referred to as an
“Overadvance”); provided, however, that (A) Working Capital Agent may not cause Revolving
Lenders to make, or permit to remain outstanding, (1) aggregate Revolving Loans in excess of the
Aggregate Revolving Commitment less the Aggregate Exposure or (2) any Overadvance that does not
constitute a Permitted Overadvance. The Working Capital Agent’s ability to elect to make, or
permit to remain outstanding any Overadvance pursuant to the previous sentence is in addition to
any Inadvertent Overadvance that may exist at such time. If an Overadvance is made, or permitted
to remain outstanding, then all Revolving Lenders shall be bound to make, or permit to remain
outstanding, such Overadvance based upon their Revolving Commitment Percentage of the Aggregate
Revolving Commitment in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, regardless of whether the
conditions to lending set forth in Section 2.2 have been met. All Overadvances shall
constitute Base Rate Loans, shall bear interest at the Base Rate plus the Revolving Applicable
Margin and the default rate for Revolving Loans under Section 1.3(c), and shall be due and
payable upon demand of Working Capital Agent.

               (c) Letters of Credit and the Cash Management Letter of Credit.

               (i) Conditions for Letters of Credit. On the terms and subject to the conditions
contained herein, Borrower Representative may request that one or more L/C Issuers Issue, in
accordance with such L/C Issuers’ usual and customary business practices and for the account of the
Credit Parties, Letters of Credit (denominated in Dollars) from time to time on any Business Day
during the period from the Closing Date through the earlier of (x) the Final Availability Date and
(y) seven (7) days prior to the date specified in clause (a) of the definition of
Termination Date;

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provided, however, that no L/C Issuer shall Issue any Letter of Credit upon the occurrence of
any of the following or, if after giving effect to such Issuance:

     (A) (i) the Aggregate Exposure shall exceed the Maximum Borrowing Availability or (y)
the Aggregate Revolving Exposure shall exceed the Maximum Revolving Borrowing Availability,
or (ii) the Letter of Credit Obligations for all Letters of Credit (other than the Cash
Management Letter of Credit) would exceed $75,000,000;

     (B) the expiration date of such Letter of Credit (i) is not a Business Day, (ii) is
more than one year after the date of issuance thereof or (iii) is later than seven (7) days
prior to the date specified in clause (a) of the definition of Termination Date;
provided, however, that any Letter of Credit with a term not exceeding one year may provide
for its renewal for additional periods not exceeding one year as long as (x) each Borrower
and such L/C Issuer have the option to prevent such renewal before the expiration of such
term or any such period and (y) neither such L/C Issuer nor any Borrower shall permit any
such renewal to extend such expiration date beyond the date set forth in clause
(iii) above; or

     (C) (i) any fee due in connection with, and on or prior to, such Issuance has not been
paid, (ii) such Letter of Credit is requested to be issued in a form that is not reasonably
acceptable to such L/C Issuer or (iii) such L/C Issuer shall not have received, each in
form and substance reasonably acceptable to it and duly executed by the Borrowers (or a
Credit Party, as applicable) or the Borrower Representative on their behalf, the documents
that such L/C Issuer generally uses in the Ordinary Course of Business for the Issuance of
letters of credit of the type of such Letter of Credit (collectively, the “L/C
Reimbursement Agreement”).

               (ii) Conditions for Cash Management Letter of Credit. On the terms and subject to the
conditions contained herein, Borrower Representative may request that one or more L/C Issuers
Issue, on a one time basis in accordance with such L/C Issuers’ usual and customary business
practices and for the account of the Credit Parties, the Cash Management Letter of Credit
(denominated in Dollars) on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date through the
earlier of (y) the Final Availability Date and (z) seven (7) days prior to the date specified in
clause (a) of the definition of Termination Date; provided, however, that no L/C Issuer
shall Issue the Cash Management Letter of Credit upon the occurrence of any of the following or, if
after giving effect to such Issuance:

     (A) the Letter of Credit Obligations for the Cash Management Letter of Credit would
exceed $20,000,000;

     (B) the expiration date of the Cash Management Letter of Credit (i) is not a Business
Day, (ii) is more than one year after the date of issuance thereof or (iii) is later than
seven (7) days prior to the date specified in clause (a) of the

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definition of Termination Date; provided, however, that any Cash Management Letter of
Credit with a term not exceeding one year may provide for its renewal for additional
periods not exceeding one year as long as (x) each Borrower and such L/C Issuer have the
option to prevent such renewal before the expiration of such term or any such period and
(y) neither such L/C Issuer nor any Borrower shall permit any such renewal to extend such
expiration date beyond the date set forth in clause (iii) above; or

     (C) (i) any fee due in connection with, and on or prior to, such Issuance has not been
paid, (ii) the Cash Management Letter of Credit is requested to be issued in a form that is
not acceptable to such L/C Issuer or (iii) such L/C Issuer shall not have received an L/C
Reimbursement Agreement with respect to such Cash Management Letter of Credit.

In addition, the Cash Management Letter of Credit shall provide that the maximum face amount
thereof shall automatically be reduced by any draws under such Cash Management Letter of Credit on
a dollar for dollar basis.

Furthermore, GE Capital as an L/C Issuer may elect only to issue Letters of Credit in its own name
and may only issue Letters of Credit to the extent permitted by Requirements of Law, and such
Letters of Credit may not be accepted by certain beneficiaries such as insurance companies. For
each Issuance, the applicable L/C Issuer may, but shall not be required to, determine that, or take
notice whether, the conditions precedent set forth in Section 2.2 have been satisfied or
waived in connection with the Issuance of any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that no Letter
of Credit shall be Issued during the period starting on the first Business Day after the receipt by
such L/C Issuer of notice from Working Capital Agent or the Required Lenders that any condition
precedent contained in Section 2.2 is not satisfied and ending on the date all such
conditions are satisfied or duly waived.

Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, if any Revolving Lender is a Non-Funding
Lender or Impacted Lender, no L/C Issuer shall be obligated to Issue any Letter of Credit unless
(w) the Non-Funding Lender or Impacted Lender has been replaced in accordance with Section
9.9 or 9.22, (x) the Letter of Credit Obligations of such Non-Funding Lender or
Impacted Lender have been cash collateralized, or (y) the Revolving Commitments of the other
Revolving Lenders have been increased by an amount sufficient to satisfy Working Capital Agent that
all future Letter of Credit Obligations will be covered by all Revolving Lenders that are not
Non-Funding Lenders or Impacted Lenders, or (z) the Letter of Credit Obligations of such
Non-Funding Lender or Impacted Lender have been reallocated to other Revolving Lenders in a manner
consistent with Section 1.11(e)(ii).

               (iii) Notice of Issuance. The Borrower Representative shall give the relevant L/C
Issuer and Working Capital Agent a notice of any requested Issuance of any Letter of Credit, which
shall be effective only if received by such L/C Issuer and Working Capital Agent not later than
2:00 p.m. (New York time) on the third Business Day prior to the date of such requested Issuance.
Such notice shall be made in a

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writing or Electronic Transmission substantially in the form of Exhibit 1.1(c) duly
completed or in a writing in any other form acceptable to such L/C Issuer (an “L/C
Request”).

               (iv) Reporting Obligations of L/C Issuers. Each L/C Issuer agrees to provide Working
Capital Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to Working Capital Agent, each of the following
on the following dates: (A) (i) on or prior to any Issuance of any Letter of Credit by such L/C
Issuer, (ii) immediately after any drawing under any such Letter of Credit or (iii) immediately
after any payment (or failure to pay when due) by the Borrowers of any related L/C Reimbursement
Obligation, notice thereof, which shall contain a reasonably detailed description of such Issuance,
drawing or payment, and Working Capital Agent shall provide copies of such notices to each
Revolving Lender reasonably promptly after receipt thereof; (B) upon the request of Working Capital
Agent (or any Revolving Lender through Working Capital Agent), copies of any Letter of Credit
Issued by such L/C Issuer and any related L/C Reimbursement Agreement and such other documents and
information as may reasonably be requested by Working Capital Agent; and (C) on the first Business
Day of each calendar week, a schedule of the Letters of Credit Issued by such L/C Issuer, in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to Working Capital Agent, setting forth the Letter of Credit
Obligations for such Letters of Credit outstanding on the last Business Day of the previous
calendar week.

               (v) Acquisition of Participations. Subject to Section 1.1(c)(viii) hereof
with respect to the Cash Management Letter of Credit, upon any Issuance of a Letter of Credit in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement resulting in any increase in the Letter of Credit
Obligations, each Revolving Lender shall be deemed to have acquired, without recourse or warranty,
an undivided interest and participation in such Letter of Credit and the related Letter of Credit
Obligations in an amount equal to its Commitment Percentage of such Letter of Credit Obligations.

               (vi) Reimbursement Obligations of the Borrowers. The Borrowers agree to pay to the
L/C Issuer of any Letter of Credit, or to Working Capital Agent for the benefit of such L/C Issuer,
each L/C Reimbursement Obligation owing with respect to such Letter of Credit no later than the
first Business Day after the Borrowers or the Borrower Representative receive notice from such L/C
Issuer or from Working Capital Agent that payment has been made under such Letter of Credit or that
such L/C Reimbursement Obligation is otherwise due (the “L/C Reimbursement Date”) with
interest thereon computed as set forth in clause (A) below. In the event that any L/C
Reimbursement Obligation is not repaid by the Borrowers as provided in this clause (vi) (or
any such payment by the Borrowers is rescinded or set aside for any reason), such L/C Issuer shall
promptly notify Working Capital Agent of such failure (and, upon receipt of such notice, Working
Capital Agent shall notify each Revolving Lender) and, irrespective of whether such notice is
given, such L/C Reimbursement Obligation shall be payable on demand by the Borrowers with interest
thereon computed (A) from the date on which such L/C Reimbursement Obligation arose to the L/C
Reimbursement Date, at the interest rate applicable during such period to Revolving Loans that are
Base Rate

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Loans and (B) thereafter until payment in full, at the interest rate applicable during such
period to past due Revolving Loans that are Base Rate Loans.

               (vii) Reimbursement Obligations of the Revolving Lenders.

                    (1) Subject to Section 1.1(c)(viii) hereof with respect to the Cash Management Letter
of Credit, upon receipt of the notice described in clause (vi) above from Working Capital Agent,
each Revolving Lender shall pay to Working Capital Agent for the account of such L/C Issuer its
Commitment Percentage of such Letter of Credit Obligations (as such amount may be increased
pursuant to Section 1.11(e)(ii)).

                    (2) Subject to Section 1.1(c)(viii) hereof with respect to the Cash Management Letter
of Credit, by making any payments described in clause (1) above, such Revolving Lender
shall be deemed to have made a Revolving Loan to the Borrowers, which, upon receipt thereof by
Working Capital Agent for the benefit of such L/C Issuer, the Borrowers shall be deemed to have
used in whole to repay such L/C Reimbursement Obligation. Subject to Section 1.1(c)(viii)
hereof with respect to the Cash Management Letter of Credit, any such payment that is not deemed a
Revolving Loan shall be deemed a funding by such Revolving Lender of its participation in the
applicable Letter of Credit and the Letter of Credit Obligation in respect of the related L/C
Reimbursement Obligations. Such participation shall not otherwise be required to be funded.
Following receipt by any L/C Issuer of any payment from any Revolving Lender pursuant to this
clause (vii) with respect to any portion of any L/C Reimbursement Obligation, such L/C
Issuer shall promptly pay to Working Capital Agent, for the benefit of such Revolving Lender, all
amounts received by such L/C Issuer (or to the extent such amounts shall have been received by
Working Capital Agent for the benefit of such L/C Issuer, Working Capital Agent shall promptly pay
to such Revolving Lender all amounts received by Working Capital Agent for the benefit of such L/C
Issuer) with respect to such portion.

               (viii) Cash Management Letter of Credit During Event of Default. If the Cash
Management Letter of Credit is drawn at any time upon or during the continuance of an Event of
Default, (i) the Working Capital Agent (as Issuer of such Cash Management Letter of Credit) shall
be deemed to have acquired, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation
in such Cash Management Letter of Credit and the related Letter of Credit Obligations in an amount
equal to the face amount of such Cash Management Letter of Credit and (ii) no Working Capital
Lender shall be required to reimburse Working Capital Agent (as Issuer of such Cash Management
Letter of Credit) on account of the Letter of Credit Obligations relating to such Cash Management
Letter of Credit nor shall any Working Capital Lender be deemed to have incurred an obligation to
participate in the Cash Management Letter of Credit or the Letter of Credit Obligations relating
thereto nor shall any Revolving Loans be made or deemed made to repay the Letter of Credit
Obligations with respect to the Cash Management Letter of Credit. Following the occurrence and the
continuance of an Event of Default, all Letter of Credit fees payable on account of the Cash
Management Letter of Credit shall be for the account of the Working Capital Facility Agent in its
individual

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capacity and any L/C Reimbursement Obligations relating thereto including interest or default
interest thereon shall be for the account of the Working Capital Agent in its individual capacity.

               (ix) Obligations Absolute. The obligations of the Borrowers and the Revolving Lenders
pursuant to clauses (iv) through (viii) above shall be absolute, unconditional and
irrevocable and performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement irrespective of
(A) (i) the invalidity or unenforceability of any term or provision in any Letter of Credit, any
document transferring or purporting to transfer a Letter of Credit, any Loan Document (including
the sufficiency of any such instrument), or any modification to any provision of any of the
foregoing, (ii) any document presented under a Letter of Credit being forged, fraudulent, invalid,
insufficient or inaccurate in any respect or failing to comply with the terms of such Letter of
Credit or (iii) any loss or delay, including in the transmission of any document, (B) the existence
of any setoff, claim, abatement, recoupment, defense or other right that any Person (including any
Credit Party) may have against the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit or any other Person, whether
in connection with any Loan Document or any other Contractual Obligation or transaction, or the
existence of any other withholding, abatement or reduction, (C) in the case of the obligations of
any Revolving Lender, (i) the failure of any condition precedent set forth in Section 2.2
to be satisfied (each of which conditions precedent the Revolving Lenders hereby irrevocably waive)
or (ii) any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of any Credit Party and (D)
any other act or omission to act or delay of any kind of Working Capital Agent, any Revolving
Lender or any other Person or any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to
any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this clause (ix), constitute a
legal or equitable discharge of any obligation of the Borrowers or any Revolving Lender hereunder.
No provision hereof shall be deemed to waive or limit the Borrowers’ right to seek repayment of any
payment of any L/C Reimbursement Obligations from the L/C Issuer under the terms of the applicable
L/C Reimbursement Agreement or applicable law.

               (d) Swing Loans.

               (i) Availability. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and in
reliance upon the representations and warranties of the Credit Parties contained herein, the
Swingline Lender may, in its sole discretion, make Loans (each a “Swing Loan”) available to
the Borrowers under the Revolving Commitments from time to time on any Business Day during the
period from the Closing Date through the Final Availability Date in an aggregate principal amount
at any time outstanding not to exceed its Swingline Commitment; provided, however, that the
Swingline Lender may not make any Swing Loan (x) to the extent that after giving effect to such
Swing Loan, the Aggregate Exposure would exceed the Maximum Borrowing Availability, (y) the
Aggregate Revolving Exposure would exceed the Maximum Revolving Borrowing Availability and (z) the
Revolving Exposure of any Revolving Lender would exceed such Revolving Lender’s Revolving
Commitment and (z) during the period commencing on the first Business Day after it receives notice
from Working Capital Agent or the Required Working Capital Lenders that one or more of the
conditions precedent

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contained in Section 2.2 are not satisfied and ending when such conditions are
satisfied or duly waived. In connection with the making of any Swing Loan, the Swingline Lender
may but shall not be required to determine that, or take notice whether, the conditions precedent
set forth in Section 2.2 have been satisfied or waived. Each Swing Loan shall be a Base
Rate Loan and must be repaid as provided herein, but in any event must be repaid in full on the
Termination Date. Within the limits set forth in the first sentence of this clause (i),
amounts of Swing Loans repaid may be reborrowed under this clause (i).

               (ii) Borrowing Procedures. In order to request a Swing Loan, the Borrower
Representative shall give to Working Capital Agent a notice to be received not later than 2:00 p.m.
(New York time) on the day of the proposed Borrowing, which shall be made in a writing or in an
Electronic Transmission substantially in the form of Exhibit 1.1(d) or in a writing in any
other form acceptable to Working Capital Agent duly completed (a “Swingline Request”). In
addition, if any Notice of Borrowing of Revolving Loans requests a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans,
the Swingline Lender may, notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, make a Swing Loan
to the Borrowers in an aggregate amount not to exceed such proposed Borrowing, and the aggregate
amount of the corresponding proposed Borrowing shall be reduced accordingly by the principal amount
of such Swing Loan. Working Capital Agent shall promptly notify the Swingline Lender of the
details of the requested Swing Loan. Upon receipt of such notice and subject to the terms of this
Agreement, the Swingline Lender may make a Swing Loan available to the Borrowers by making the
proceeds thereof available to Working Capital Agent and, in turn, Working Capital Agent shall make
such proceeds available to the Borrowers on the date set forth in the relevant Swingline Request or
Notice of Borrowing.

               (iii) Refinancing Swing Loans. If no Revolving Lender is a Non-Funding Lender, the
Swingline Lender may at any time (and shall, no less frequently than once each week) forward a
demand to Working Capital Agent (which Working Capital Agent shall, upon receipt, forward to each
Revolving Lender) that each Revolving Lender pay to Working Capital Agent, for the account of the
Swingline Lender, such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of the outstanding Swing
Loans. If any Revolving Lender is a Non-Funding Lender, that Non-Funding Lender’s reimbursement
obligations with respect to the Swing Loans shall be reallocated to and assumed by the other
Revolving Lenders pro rata in accordance with their Revolving Commitment Percentages of the
Revolving Loans (calculated as if the Non-Funding Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage was
reduced to zero and each other Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage had been
increased proportionately). If any Revolving Lender is a Non-Funding Lender, upon receipt of the
demand described above, each Revolving Lender that is not a Non-Funding Lender will be obligated to
pay to Working Capital Agent for the account of the Swingline Lender its pro rata share of the
outstanding Swing Loans (increased as described above); provided that no Revolving Lender shall be
required to fund any amount which would result in its Revolving Exposure to exceed its Revolving
Commitment. Each Revolving Lender shall pay the amount owing by it to Working Capital Agent for
the account of the Swingline Lender on the Business Day following receipt of the notice or demand
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Working Capital Agent’s discretion, be deemed to be received on the next Business Day. Upon
receipt by Working Capital Agent of such payment, such Revolving Lender shall be deemed to have
made a Revolving Loan to the Borrowers, which, upon receipt of such payment by the Swingline Lender
from Working Capital Agent, the Borrowers shall be deemed to have used in whole to refinance such
Swing Loan. If any payment made by any Revolving Lender as a result of any such demand is not
deemed a Revolving Loan, each Revolving Lender shall be deemed to have acquired, without recourse
or warranty, an undivided interest and participation in each Swing Loan in an amount equal to such
Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of such Swing Loan and such payment shall be
deemed a funding by such Revolving Lender of such participation. Such participation shall not be
otherwise required to be funded. Upon receipt by the Swingline Lender of any payment from any
Revolving Lender pursuant to this clause (iii) with respect to any portion of any Swing
Loan, the Swingline Lender shall promptly pay over to such Revolving Lender all payments of
principal (to the extent received after such payment by such Revolving Lender) and interest (to the
extent accrued with respect to periods after such payment) on account of such Swing Loan received
by the Swingline Lender with respect to such portion.

               (iv) Obligation to Fund Absolute. Each Revolving Lender’s obligations pursuant to
clause (iii) above shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable and shall be performed
strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances whatsoever,
including (A) the existence of any setoff, claim, abatement, recoupment, defense or other right
that such Revolving Lender, any Affiliate thereof or any other Person may have against the
Swingline Lender, Working Capital Agent, any other Revolving Lender, L/C Issuer or any other
Person, (B) the failure of any condition precedent set forth in Section 2.2 to be satisfied
or the failure of the Borrower Representative to deliver a Notice of Borrowing (each of which
requirements the Revolving Lenders hereby irrevocably waive) and (C) any adverse change in the
condition (financial or otherwise) of any Credit Party.

     1.2 Notes.

          (a) The FILO Loan made by each FILO Lender shall be evidenced by this Agreement and,
if requested by such FILO Lender, a FILO Note payable to such FILO Lender in an amount
equal to the unpaid principal balance of the FILO Loan held by such FILO Lender.

          (b) The Term B Loans made by each Term B Lender shall be evidenced by this Agreement
and, if requested by such Term B Lender, a Term B Note payable to such Term B Lender in an
amount equal to the unpaid principal balance of the Term B Loans held by such Term B
Lender.

          (c) The Revolving Loans made by each Revolving Lender shall be evidenced by this
Agreement and, if requested by such Revolving Lender, a Revolving Note payable to the order
of such Revolving Lender in an amount equal to such Revolving Lender’s Revolving
Commitment.

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          (d) Swing Loans made by the Swingline Lender shall be evidenced by this Agreement and,
if requested by such Swingline Lender, a Swingline Note in an amount equal to the Swingline
Commitment.

     1.3 Interest.

          (a) Subject to Sections 1.3(c) and 1.3(d), (i) each Revolving Loan and
Swing Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the date
when made at a rate per annum equal to the LIBOR or the Base Rate, as the case may be,
plus the Revolving Applicable Margin; provided Swing Loans may not be LIBOR Rate
Loans, (ii) the FILO Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof
from the Closing Date at a rate per annum equal to the LIBOR or the Base Rate, as the case
may be, plus the FILO Applicable Margin and (iii) the Term B Loans shall bear
interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the Closing Date at a rate per
annum equal to LIBOR or the Base Rate, as the case may be, plus the Term B
Applicable Margin. Each determination of an interest rate by Agents shall be conclusive
and binding on each Borrower and the Lenders in the absence of manifest error. All
computations of fees and interest payable under this Agreement for LIBOR Rate Loans and
Term B Loans shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed. All
computations of interest payable under this Agreement for Base Rate Loans (other than Term
B Loans) shall be made on the basis of a 365/366 day year and actual days elapsed.
Interest and fees shall accrue during each period during which interest or such fees are
computed from the first day thereof to the last day thereof.

          (b) Interest on each Loan shall be paid in arrears on each Interest Payment Date.
Interest shall also be paid on the date of any payment or prepayment of the Loans.

          (c) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, without
further notice, motion or application to, hearing before, or order from the Bankruptcy
Court, the Borrowers shall pay interest (after as well as before entry of judgment thereon
to the extent permitted by law) on all Obligations hereunder and under the Loan Documents
from and after the date of occurrence of such Event of Default, at a rate per annum which
is determined by adding two percent (2.00%) per annum to the rate of interest or fees
applicable thereto (or, if no rate of interest or fees is then applicable thereto, the rate
applicable to Revolving Loans at the Base Rate). All such interest shall be payable on
demand of the applicable Agent or the Required Working Capital Lenders or the Required Term
B Lenders (as applicable).

          (d) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the obligations of the Borrowers
hereunder shall be subject to the limitation that payments of interest shall not be
required, for any period for which interest is computed hereunder, to the extent (but only
to the extent) that contracting for or receiving such payment by the respective Lender
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provisions of any law applicable to such Lender limiting the highest rate of interest
which may be lawfully contracted for, charged or received by such Lender, and in such event
the Borrowers shall pay such Lender interest at the highest rate permitted by applicable
law (“Maximum Lawful Rate”); provided, however, that if at any time thereafter the
rate of interest payable hereunder is less than the Maximum Lawful Rate, the Borrowers
shall continue to pay interest hereunder at the Maximum Lawful Rate until such time as the
total interest received by the Agents, on behalf of Lenders, is equal to the total interest
that would have been received had the interest payable hereunder been (but for the
operation of this paragraph) the interest rate payable since the Closing Date as otherwise
provided in this Agreement.

     1.4 Loan Accounts.

          (a) Agents, on behalf of the Lenders, shall record on their respective books and
records the amount of each Loan made, the interest rate applicable, all payments of
principal and interest thereon and the principal balance thereof from time to time
outstanding. Agents shall deliver to the Borrower Representative on a monthly basis a loan
statement setting forth such record for the immediately preceding calendar month. Such
record shall, absent manifest error, be conclusive evidence of the amount of the Loans made
by the applicable Lenders to the Borrowers and the interest and payments thereon. Any
failure to so record or any error in doing so, or any failure to deliver such loan
statement shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrowers
hereunder (and under any Note) to pay any amount owing with respect to the Loans or provide
the basis for any claim against Agents.

          (b) Agents, acting as non-fiduciary agents of the Borrowers solely for tax purposes
and solely with respect to the actions described in this Section 1.4(b), shall
establish and maintain at their respective address referred to in Section 9.2 (or
at such other address as the applicable Agent may notify the Borrower Representative) (A) a
record of ownership (each a “Register”) in which Agents agree to register by book
entry the interests (including any rights to receive payment hereunder) of Agents, each
Lender and each L/C Issuer in the FILO Loan, Term B Loans, Revolving Loans, Swing Loans,
L/C Reimbursement Obligations, Letter of Credit Obligations, each of their obligations
under this Agreement to participate in each Loan, Letter of Credit, Letter of Credit
Obligations, L/C Reimbursement Obligations and any assignment of any such interest,
obligation or right and (B) accounts in the Registers in accordance with its usual practice
in which they shall record (as applicable) (1) the names and addresses of the Lenders and
the L/C Issuers (and each change thereto pursuant to Sections 9.9 and
9.22), (2) the Revolving Commitments of each Revolving Lender, (3) the FILO
Commitments of each FILO Lender, (4) the Term B Commitments of each Term B Lender, (5) the
amount of each Loan and each funding of any participation described in clause (A)
above, and for LIBOR Rate Loans, the Interest Period applicable thereto, (6) the amount of
any principal or interest due and payable or paid, (7) the amount of the L/C Reimbursement

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Obligations due and payable or paid in respect of Letters of Credit and (8) any other
payment received by Agents from a Borrower and its application to the Obligations.

          (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Loans
(including any Notes evidencing such Loans and, in the case of Revolving Loans, the
corresponding obligations to participate in Letter of Credit Obligations and Swing Loans)
and the L/C Reimbursement Obligations are registered obligations, the right, title and
interest of the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and their assignees in and to such Loans or L/C
Reimbursement Obligations, as the case may be, shall be transferable only upon notation of
such transfer in the Registers and no assignment thereof shall be effective until recorded
therein. This Section 1.4 and Section 9.9 shall be construed so that the
Loans and L/C Reimbursement Obligations are at all times maintained in “registered form”
within the meaning of Sections 163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Code.

          (d) The Credit Parties, Agents, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers shall treat each
Person whose name is recorded in the Registers as a Lender or L/C Issuer, as applicable,
for all purposes of this Agreement. Information contained in the Registers with respect to
any Lender or any L/C Issuer shall be available for access by the Borrowers, the Borrower
Representative, Agents, such Lender or such L/C Issuer during normal business hours and
from time to time upon at least one Business Day’s prior notice. No Lender or L/C Issuer
shall, in such capacity, have access to or be otherwise permitted to review any information
in the Registers other than information with respect to such Lender or L/C Issuer unless
otherwise agreed by the applicable Agent.

     1.5 Procedure for Revolving Credit Borrowing.

          (a) Each Borrowing of a Revolving Loan shall be made upon the Borrower
Representative’s irrevocable (subject to Section 10.5) written notice delivered to
Working Capital Agent substantially in the form of a Notice of Borrowing or in a writing in
any other form acceptable to Working Capital Agent, which notice must be received by
Working Capital Agent prior to 2:00 p.m. (New York time) (i) on the date which is one (1)
Business Day prior to the requested Borrowing date of each Base Rate Loan equal to or less
than $50,000,000, (ii) on the date which is three (3) Business Days prior to the requested
Borrowing date of each Base Rate Loan in excess of $50,000,000 and (iii) on the day which
is three (3) Business Days prior to the requested Borrowing date in the case of each LIBOR
Rate Loan. Such Notice of Borrowing shall specify:

               (i) the amount of the Borrowing (which shall be in an aggregate minimum principal amount of
$100,000);

               (ii) the requested Borrowing date, which shall be a Business Day;

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               (iii) whether the Borrowing is to be comprised of LIBOR Rate Loans or Base Rate Loans; and

               (iv) if the Borrowing is to be LIBOR Rate Loans, the Interest Period applicable to such Loans.

          (b) Upon receipt of a Notice of Borrowing, Working Capital Agent will promptly notify
each Revolving Lender of such Notice of Borrowing and of the amount of such Revolving
Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of the Borrowing.

          (c) Unless Working Capital Agent is otherwise directed in writing by the Borrower
Representative, the proceeds of each requested Borrowing after the Closing Date will be
made available to the Borrowers by Working Capital Agent by wire transfer of such amount to
the Borrowers pursuant to the wire transfer instructions specified on the signature page
hereto, or such other instructions specified from time to time in writing by the Borrowers.

     1.6 Conversion and Continuation Elections.

          (a) The Borrowers shall have the option to (i) request that any Revolving Loan be made
as a LIBOR Rate Loan, (ii) convert at any time all or any part of outstanding Revolving
Loans (other than Swing Loans) from Base Rate Loans to LIBOR Rate Loans, (iii) convert any
LIBOR Rate Loan to a Base Rate Loan, subject to Section 10.4 if such conversion is
made prior to the expiration of the Interest Period applicable thereto, or (iv) continue
all or any portion of any Loan as a LIBOR Rate Loan upon the expiration of the applicable
Interest Period. Any Loan or group of Loans having the same proposed Interest Period to be
made or continued as, or converted into, a LIBOR Rate Loan must be in a minimum amount of
$5,000,000. Any such election must be made by Borrower Representative to the applicable
Agent by 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on the 3rd Business Day prior to (1) the date of any
proposed Revolving Loan which is to bear interest at LIBOR, (2) the end of each Interest
Period with respect to any LIBOR Rate Loans to be continued as such, or (3) the date on
which the Borrowers wish to convert any Base Rate Loan to a LIBOR Rate Loan for an Interest
Period designated by Borrower Representative in such election. If no election is received
with respect to a LIBOR Rate Loan by 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on the 3rd Business Day
prior to the end of the Interest Period with respect thereto, that LIBOR Rate Loan shall be
converted to a Base Rate Loan at the end of its Interest Period. Borrower Representative
must make such election by notice to the applicable Agent in writing, including by
Electronic Transmission. In the case of any conversion or continuation, such election must
be made pursuant to a written notice (a “Notice of Conversion/Continuation”)
substantially in the form of Exhibit 1.6 or in a writing in any other form
acceptable to the applicable Agent. No Loan shall be made, converted into or continued as
a LIBOR Rate Loan, if the conditions to Loans and Letters of Credit in Section 2.2
are not met at the time of such proposed conversion or continuation and the applicable
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Lenders have determined not to make or continue any Loan as a LIBOR Rate Loan as a
result thereof. No Revolving Loan or FILO Loan may be made as or converted into a LIBOR
Rate Loan until fifteen (15) days after the Closing Date.

          (b) Upon receipt of a Notice of Conversion/Continuation, the applicable Agent will
promptly notify each applicable Lender thereof. In addition, the applicable Agent will,
with reasonable promptness, notify the Borrower Representative and the applicable Lenders
of each determination of LIBOR; provided that any failure to do so shall not relieve any
Borrower of any liability hereunder or provide the basis for any claim against Agents. All
conversions and continuations shall be made pro rata according to the respective
outstanding principal amounts of the Loans held by each Revolving Lender, FILO Lender or
Term B Lender, as applicable, with respect to which the notice was given.

          (c) Notwithstanding any other provision contained in this Agreement, after giving
effect to any Borrowing, or to any continuation or conversion of any Loans, there shall not
be more than eight (8) different Interest Periods in effect and no more than three (3) of
such Interest Periods shall relate to 7 day Interest Periods. No more than one (1) LIBOR
Interest Period shall be in effect with respect to the FILO Loans.

     1.7 Reductions in Revolving Commitments.

          (a) Reductions in Revolving Commitments. Borrowers may, at any time upon at
least five (5) Business Days’ (or such shorter period as is acceptable to Working Capital
Agent) prior notice by Borrower Representative to Working Capital Agent, permanently reduce
(but not terminate) the Aggregate Revolving Commitment; provided that (A) such
reductions shall be in a minimum amount equal to $5,000,000 and in increments of $500,000
in excess thereof, (B) the Aggregate Revolving Commitment shall not be reduced to an amount
less than the aggregate outstanding principal balance of Loans. In addition, Borrowers
may, at any time on at least ten (10) days’ prior written notice by Borrower Representative
to Working Capital Agent, terminate the Aggregate Revolving Commitment; provided
that upon such termination, all Obligations shall be immediately due and payable in full.
Optional reductions or terminations of the Revolving Commitment shall be without premium or
penalty except as provided in Section 10.4. All reductions of the Aggregate
Revolving Commitment shall be allocated pro rata in accordance with their Revolving
Commitment Percentages among all Revolving Lenders.

          (b) The notice of any reduction shall not thereafter be revocable by the Borrowers or
Borrower Representative and Working Capital Agent will promptly notify each Revolving
Lender, as applicable, of such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of such
prepayment. The payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the
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specified therein. Together with each prepayment under this Section 1.7, the
Borrowers shall pay any amounts required pursuant to Sections 1.9 and 10.4.

     1.8 Mandatory Prepayments of Loans and Commitment Reductions.

          (a) Advances in Excess of Maximum Borrowing Availability. If at any time the
then Aggregate Exposure exceeds the Maximum Borrowing Availability or the Aggregate
Revolving Exposure exceeds the Maximum Revolving Borrowing Availability (in each case,
other than as a result of an Overadvance permitted pursuant to Section 1.1(b)(ii)),
then the Borrowers shall immediately prepay outstanding Revolving Loans or cash
collateralize (in accordance herewith and in a manner satisfactory to the L/C Issuers)
outstanding Letters of Credit in an amount sufficient to eliminate such excess.

          (b) FILO Loans. Subject to Section 1.10(c), the Borrowers shall repay
to the FILO Lenders in full on the date specified in clause (a) of the definition
of “Termination Date”, all Obligations with respect to the FILO Loan outstanding on the
Termination Date. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, except as expressly
provided in Section 1.10(c), the Borrowers may not make any principal payments on
account of the FILO Loans until Borrowers’ Obligations to the Revolving Lenders have been
paid in full (which may include the provision of cash collateral for unmatured L/C
Reimbursement Obligations) and the Revolving Commitments have been terminated.

          (c) Term B Loans. Subject to Sections 1.8(e), 1.8(f) and
1.10(c), the Borrowers shall repay to the Term B Lenders in full on the date
specified in clause (a) of the definition of “Termination Date”, all Obligations
with respect to the Term B Loans outstanding on the Termination Date. Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, except as expressly provided in Sections 1.8(e),
1.8(f) and 1.10(c), the Borrowers may not make any principal payments on
account of the Term B Loans until (i) Borrowers’ Obligations to the Revolving Lenders have
been paid in full (which may include the provision of cash collateral for unmatured L/C
Reimbursement Obligations) and the Revolving Commitments have been terminated and (ii)
Borrower’s Obligations to the FILO Lenders have been paid in full.

          (d) Revolving Loans. The Borrowers shall repay to the Revolving Lenders in
full on the date specified in clause (a) of the definition of “Termination Date”,
all Obligations with respect to the Revolving Loans and Swing Loans outstanding on the
Termination Date.

          (e) Revolving Priority Collateral Asset Dispositions. If a Credit Party or
any Subsidiaries of a Credit Party shall at any time or from time to time:

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               (i) make or agree to make a Disposition of Revolving Priority Collateral (other than
Dispositions permitted pursuant to Sections 5.2(a), (c) and (d)) in excess
of $100,000 in the aggregate; or

               (ii) suffer an Event of Loss in excess of $100,000 in the aggregate for all such losses with
respect to Revolving Priority Collateral;

then (A) the Borrower Representative shall promptly notify Agents of such proposed Disposition or
Event of Loss (including the amount of the estimated Net Proceeds to be received by a Credit Party
and/or such Subsidiary in respect thereof), (B) promptly upon receipt by a Credit Party and/or such
Subsidiary of the Net Proceeds of such Disposition (including, without limitation, proceeds from
sales of Revolver Priority Collateral made in connection with any Permitted Store Closings) or
Event of Loss, the Credit Parties shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, such Net Proceeds of
Revolver Priority Collateral to Working Capital Agent for distribution to the Lenders as a
prepayment of the Loans, which prepayment shall be applied in accordance with Section
1.10(c)(i) or Section 1.10(c)(ii), as the case may be; provided, however, that in
connection with the Permitted Store Closings, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing or would result therefrom and so long as aggregate proceeds therefrom exceed $5,000,000,
a one time payment of $5,000,000 of Net Proceeds constituting Revolving Priority Collateral from
the Permitted Store Closings shall be paid to the Term B Agent for distribution to the Term B
Lenders as a prepayment and permanent reduction of the Term B Loans.

          (f) Term Priority Collateral Dispositions. If a Credit Party or any
Subsidiaries of a Credit Party shall at any time or from time to time:

               (i) make or agree to make a Disposition of Term Priority Collateral (other than Dispositions
permitted pursuant to Sections 5.2(a), (c) and (d)); or

               (ii) suffer an Event of Loss in excess of $100,000 in the aggregate for all such losses with
respect to Term Priority Collateral;

then (A) the Borrower Representative shall promptly notify Agents of such proposed Disposition or
Event of Loss (including the amount of the estimated Net Term B Proceeds to be received by a Credit
Party and/or such Subsidiary in respect thereof), (B) promptly upon receipt by a Credit Party
and/or such Subsidiary of the Net Term B Proceeds of such Disposition (including, without
limitation, proceeds from sales of Term Priority Collateral made in connection with any Permitted
Store Closings) or Event of Loss, the Credit Parties shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, such
Net Term B Proceeds of Term Priority Collateral to Term B Agent for distribution to the Term B
Lenders as a prepayment of the Term B Loans, which prepayment shall be applied in accordance with
Section 1.10(c)(iii).

          (g) No Implied Consent. Provisions contained in this Section 1.8 for
the application of proceeds of certain transactions shall not be deemed to constitute
consent of the Lenders to transactions that are not otherwise permitted by the terms hereof
or the other Loan Documents.

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     1.9 Fees.

          (a) Fees. The Borrowers shall pay to Agents, for Agents’ own account, fees in
the amounts and at the times set forth in certain fee letter(s) among Borrowers and/or one
or more Agents and or one or more Lenders, in each case dated on or about the date hereof
(as such letter(s) may be amended from time to time, collectively, as applicable the
“Fee Letter”).

          (b) Unused Commitment Fee. The Borrowers shall pay to Working Capital Agent a
fee (the “Unused Commitment Fee”) in an amount equal to:

               (i) the average daily balance of the Aggregate Revolving Commitment during the preceding
calendar month, less

               (ii) the sum of (x) the average daily balance of all Revolving Loans outstanding plus (y) the
average daily amount of Letter of Credit Obligations (other than with respect to the Cash
Management Letter of Credit) plus (z) in the case of the Swing Line Lender, the average daily
balance of all outstanding Swing Loans held by such Swing Line Lender, in each case, during the
preceding calendar month,

multiplied by the Unused Commitment Fee Rate per annum. Such fee shall be payable monthly in
arrears on the first day of the calendar month following the date hereof and the first day of each
calendar month thereafter. All computations of such fee shall be made on the basis of a 360-day
year and actual days elapsed. The Unused Commitment Fee provided in this Section 1.9(b)
shall accrue at all times from and after the Closing Date. Following receipt of the Unused
Commitment Fee, Working Capital Agent shall pay to each Revolving Lender from, and to the extent
of, the Unused Commitment Fee an amount equal to its pro rata share thereof.

          (c) Letter of Credit Fee. The Borrowers agree to pay to Working Capital Agent
for the ratable benefit of the Revolving Lenders (subject to Section 1.1(c)(viii)
hereof with respect to the Cash Management Letter of Credit), as compensation to such
Revolving Lenders for Letter of Credit Obligations incurred hereunder, (i) without
duplication of costs and expenses otherwise payable to Working Capital Agent or Revolving
Lenders hereunder or fees otherwise paid by the Borrowers, all reasonable costs and
expenses incurred by Working Capital Agent or any Revolving Lender on account of such
Letter of Credit Obligations, and (ii) for each calendar month during which any Letter of
Credit Obligation shall remain outstanding, a fee (the “Letter of Credit Fee”) in
an amount equal to the product of the average daily undrawn face amount of all Letters of
Credit issued, guaranteed or supported by risk participation agreements multiplied by a per
annum rate equal to the Revolving Applicable Margin with respect to Revolving Loans which
are LIBOR Rate Loans; provided, however, upon the occurrence and during the
continuance of an Event of Default, such rate shall be subject to increase in accordance
with Section 1.3(c) hereof. Such fee shall be paid to Working Capital Agent for
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(subject to Section 1.1(c)(viii) hereof with respect to the Cash Management
Letter of Credit) in arrears, on the first day of each calendar month and on the date on
which all Letter of Credit Obligations have been discharged. In addition, the Borrowers
shall pay to any L/C Issuer, on demand, its customary fees at then prevailing rates,
without duplication of fees otherwise payable hereunder (including all per annum fees
(including any fronting fees agreed to by the Borrowers and the applicable L/C Issuer)),
charges and expenses of such L/C Issuer in respect of the issuance, negotiation,
acceptance, amendment, transfer and payment of such Letter of Credit or otherwise payable
pursuant to the application and related documentation under which such Letter of Credit is
issued.

     1.10 Payments by the Borrowers.

          (a) All payments (including prepayments) to be made by each Credit Party on account of
principal, interest, fees and other amounts required hereunder shall be made without
set-off, recoupment, counterclaim or deduction of any kind, shall, except as otherwise
expressly provided herein, be made to Working Capital Agent (for the ratable account of the
Persons entitled thereto) at the address for payment specified in the signature page hereof
in relation to Working Capital Agent (or such other address as Working Capital Agent may
from time to time specify in accordance with Section 9.2), including payments
utilizing the ACH system, and shall be made in Dollars and by wire transfer or ACH transfer
in immediately available funds (which shall be the exclusive means of payment hereunder),
no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on the date due; provided, however that all
payments to be made by each Credit Party with respect to the Term B Loans shall be made to
the Term B Agent (for the ratable account of the Persons entitled thereto). Any payment
which is received by Agents later than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) may in the applicable
Agent’s discretion be deemed to have been received on the immediately succeeding Business
Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue. Each Borrower and each
other Credit Party hereby irrevocably waives the right to direct the application during the
continuance of an Event of Default of any and all payments in respect of any Obligation and
any proceeds of Collateral. Each Borrower hereby authorizes Working Capital Agent and each
Revolving Lender to make a Revolving Loan (which shall be a Base Rate Loan and which may be
a Swing Loan) to pay interest, principal (including Swing Loans) with respect to the
Revolving Loans and the FILO Loans, L/C Reimbursement Obligations, agent fees, Unused
Commitment Fees, Letter of Credit fees, and other fees, costs and expenses payable by a
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries hereunder or under the other Loan Documents to the
Working Capital Lenders, in each instance, on the date due. Agents are hereby authorized
by the Borrowers to, and in their sole election may, charge to the applicable Loan balance
on behalf of each Borrower and cause to be paid all fees, expenses, charges, costs and
interest and principal, other than principal of the Loans, owing by the Borrowers and the
Credit Parties under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents if and to the extent
the Credit Parties fail to pay promptly any such amounts as and when due, even if the
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Availability at such time. At the applicable Agent’s option and to the extent
permitted by law, any charges so made shall constitute part of the Loans hereunder.

          (b) Subject to the provisions set forth in the definition of “Interest Period” herein,
if any payment hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day other than a Business Day, such
payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall
in such case be included in the computation of interest or fees, as the case may be and to
the extent applicable.

          (c) (i) So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (a) all
payments received by Working Capital Agent in respect of any Obligation and all funds
transferred and credited to the Working Capital Collection Account (other than from
proceeds of Term Priority Collateral) and (b) all Net Proceeds from any Disposition of
Revolving Priority Collateral (subject to the provisions at the end of Section
1.8(e)), each shall be applied to the Obligations as follows:

     first, to payment of fees, costs and expenses (including Attorney Costs) then
due and payable by the Credit Parties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents;

     second, to payment of interest with respect to the Revolving Loans and the
Swing Loans;

     third, to payment of all Swing Loans;

     fourth, to payment of all Revolving Loans that are Base Rate Loans;

     fifth, to payment of all Revolving Loans that are LIBOR Rate Loans;

     sixth, to the payment of interest with respect to the FILO Loans; and

     seventh, to the Borrower Representative’s operating account.

               In carrying out the foregoing, (A) amounts received shall be applied in the numerical order
provided until exhausted prior to the application to the next succeeding category and (B) each of
the Lenders or other Persons entitled to payment shall receive an amount equal to its pro rata
share of amounts available to be applied pursuant to clauses second, fourth, fifth and sixth.

               (ii) During the continuance of an Event of Default, Working Capital Agent shall apply any and
all payments proceeds of Revolving Priority Collateral as follows:

     first, to funding the Carve-Out up to the Carve-Out Amount;

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     second, to the payment of any Permitted Overadvance funded by Working Capital
Agent and fees, costs and expenses, including Attorney Costs, of Working Capital Agent
payable or reimbursable by the Credit Parties under the Loan Documents;

     third, to payment of Attorney Costs of Agents and Lenders payable or
reimbursable by the Borrowers under this Agreement;

     fourth, with respect to the Swing Loans and the Revolving Loans owed to
Working Capital Agent, the Revolving Lenders and L/C Issuers, to payment of all accrued
unpaid interest on the Obligations and fees;

     fifth, to payment of principal of the Obligations relating to the Revolving
Loans then due and payable including, without limitation, L/C Reimbursement Obligations
(other than with respect to the Cash Management Letter of Credit) then due and payable and
cash collateralization in an amount equal to 104% of unmatured L/C Reimbursement
Obligations (other than with respect to the Cash Management Letter of Credit) to the extent
not then due and payable;

     sixth, with respect to the FILO Loans owed to the FILO Lenders, to payment of
all principal and accrued but unpaid interest on the Obligations and fees;

     seventh, to payment of L/C Reimbursement Obligations with respect to the Cash
Management Letter of Credit and cash collateralization in an amount equal to 104% of
unmatured L/C Reimbursement Obligations with respect to the Cash Management Letter of
Credit to the extent not then due and payable;

     eighth, to fund the DIP Indemnity Account;

     ninth, to payment of all other Obligations (excluding Bank Products not
subject to a Reserve, Obligations with respect to Secured Rate Contracts and Overadvances
that are not Permitted Overadvances) with respect to all Loans other than the Term B Loans;

     tenth, to payment of all Obligations in respect of the Term B Loans;

     eleventh, to payment of all other Obligations relating to Bank Products
subject to a Reserve;

     twelfth, to payment of all other Obligations, including Overadvances other
than Permitted Overadvances; and

     thirteenth, any remainder shall be for the account of and paid to whoever may
be lawfully entitled thereto.

               In carrying out the foregoing, (A) amounts received shall be applied in the numerical order
provided until exhausted prior to the application to the

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next succeeding category and (B) each of the Lenders or other Persons entitled to payment
shall receive an amount equal to its pro rata share of amounts available to be applied pursuant to
clauses fourth (other than with respect to Swing Loans which shall be for the account of the
Swingline Lender), fifth, sixth, ninth, and tenth above.

               (iii) Whether or not an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, all Net Term B
Proceeds from any Disposition of Term Priority Collateral shall be applied to the Obligations as
follows:

     first, to payment of fees, costs and expenses, including Attorney Costs, of
Term B Agent and Term B Lenders payable or reimbursable by the Credit Parties under the
Loan Documents;

     second, to the Working Capital Agent for repayment of the Swing Loans (if any)
and then Revolving Loans, to the extent the Term B Lenders shall have received proceeds
from Revolving Priority Collateral pursuant to Section 1.8(e), in the event the
guaranteed amount (after all adjustments, set-offs and claw-backs) paid by the Approved
Liquidator in connection with the initial Permitted Store Closings is less than
$100,000,000, an amount equal to the amount by which such payment is less than
$100,000,000, but no greater than $5,000,000 in the aggregate;

     third, to payment of all accrued unpaid interest and fees and payment of
principal of the Obligations relating to the Term B Loans;

     fourth, to fund the DIP Term Indemnity Account;

     fifth, to the payment of any Overadvance funded by Working Capital Agent and
fees, costs and expenses, including Attorney Costs, of Working Capital Agent payable or
reimbursable by the Credit Parties under the Loan Documents;

     sixth, to payment of Attorney Costs of Working Capital Facility Lenders
payable or reimbursable by the Borrowers under this Agreement;

     seventh, with respect to the Swing Loans and the Revolving Loans owed to
Working Capital Agent, the Revolving Lenders and L/C Issuers, to payment of all accrued
unpaid interest on the Obligations and fees;

     eighth, to payment of principal of the Obligations relating to the Revolving
Loans then due and payable including, without limitation, L/C Reimbursement Obligations
(other than with respect to the Cash Management Letter of Credit) then due and payable and
cash collateralization in an amount equal to 104% of unmatured L/C Reimbursement
Obligations (other than with respect to the Cash Management Letter of Credit) to the extent
not then due and payable;

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     ninth, with respect to the FILO Loans owed to the FILO Lenders, to payment of
all principal and accrued but unpaid interest on the Obligations and fees;

     tenth, to payment of L/C Reimbursement Obligations with respect to the Cash
Management Letter of Credit and cash collateralization in an amount equal to 104% of
unmatured L/C Reimbursement Obligations with respect to the Cash Management Letter of
Credit to the extent not then due and payable;

     eleventh, to fund the DIP Indemnity Account;

     twelfth, to the payment of any other Obligations; and

     thirteenth, any remainder shall be for the account of and paid to whoever may
be lawfully entitled thereto.

               In carrying out the foregoing, (A) amounts received shall be applied in the numerical order
provided until exhausted prior to the application to the next succeeding category and (B) each of
the Lenders or other Persons entitled to payment shall receive an amount equal to its pro rata
share of amounts available to be applied pursuant to clauses second, third, seventh (other than in
respect of Swing Loans which shall be for the account of the Swingline Lender), eighth, ninth and
twelfth above.

     1.11 Payments by the Revolving Lenders to Working Capital Agent; Settlement.

          (a) Working Capital Agent may, on behalf of Lenders, disburse funds to the Borrowers
for Loans requested. Each Lender in accordance with its Commitment Percentage shall
reimburse Working Capital Agent on demand for all funds disbursed on its behalf by Working
Capital Agent, or if Working Capital Agent so requests, each Lender will remit to Working
Capital Agent its Commitment Percentage of any Loan before Working Capital Agent disburses
same to the Borrowers. If Working Capital Agent elects to require that each Lender make
funds available to Working Capital Agent prior to disbursement by Working Capital Agent to
the Borrowers, Working Capital Agent shall advise each Lender by telephone or fax of the
amount of such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of any Loan requested by the Borrower
Representative no later than the Business Day prior to the scheduled Borrowing date
applicable thereto, and each such Lender shall pay Working Capital Agent such Lender’s
Commitment Percentage of such Loan in same day funds, by wire transfer to Working Capital
Agent’s account, as set forth on Working Capital Agent’s signature page hereto, no later
than 1:00 p.m. (New York time) on such scheduled Borrowing date. Nothing in this
Section 1.11(a) or elsewhere in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents,
including the remaining provisions of this Section 1.11, shall be deemed to require
Working Capital Agent to advance funds on behalf of any Lender or to relieve any Lender
from its obligation to fulfill its Commitments hereunder or to prejudice any rights that
Working Capital Agent, any Lender or

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the Borrowers may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender
hereunder.

          (b) At least once each calendar week or more frequently at the applicable Agent’s
election (each, a “Settlement Date”), such Agent shall advise each applicable
Lender by telephone or fax of the amount of such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of
principal, interest and Fees paid for the benefit of such Lenders with respect to each
applicable Loan. Provided that each such Lender has funded all payments required to be
made by it and funded all purchases of participations required to be funded by it under
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as of such Settlement Date, the applicable
Agent shall pay to each such Lender such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of principal,
interest and fees paid by the Borrowers since the previous Settlement Date for the benefit
of such Lender on the Loans held by it. Such payments shall be made by wire transfer to
such Lender not later than 2:00 p.m. on the next Business Day following each Settlement
Date. Working Capital Agent shall be entitled to set off the funding shortfall against any
Non-Funding Lender’s Commitment Percentage of all payments received from the Borrowers and
hold, in a non-interest bearing account, all payments received by Working Capital Agent for
the benefit of any Non-Funding Lender pursuant to this Agreement as cash collateral for any
unfunded reimbursement obligations of such Non-Funding Lender until the Obligations are
paid in full in cash, all Letter of Credit Obligations have been discharged or cash
collateralized in a manner acceptable to the relevant L/C Issuer and all Commitments have
been terminated, and upon such unfunded obligations owing by a Non-Funding Lender becoming
due and payable, Working Capital Agent shall be authorized to use such cash collateral to
make such payment on behalf of such Non-Funding Lender. Any amounts owing by a Non-Funding
Lender to Working Capital Agent which are not paid when due shall accrue interest at the
interest rate applicable during such period to Loans that are Base Rate Loans.

          (c) Availability of Lender’s Commitment Percentage. Working Capital Agent may
assume that each Revolving Lender will make its Commitment Percentage of each Loan
available to Working Capital Agent on each Borrowing date. If such Commitment Percentage
is not, in fact, paid to Working Capital Agent by such Revolving Lender when due, Working
Capital Agent will be entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Revolving Lender
without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind. If any Revolving Lender fails to
pay the amount of its Commitment Percentage forthwith upon Working Capital Agent’s demand,
Working Capital Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower Representative and the Borrowers
shall immediately repay such amount to Working Capital Agent. Nothing in this Section
1.11(c) or elsewhere in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents shall be deemed to
require Working Capital Agent to advance funds on behalf of any Lender or to prejudice any
rights that the Borrowers may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such
Lender hereunder. Nothing in this Section 1.11(c) shall be deemed to relieve any
Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitments

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hereunder. Without limiting the provisions of Section 1.11(b), to the extent
that Working Capital Agent advances funds to the Borrowers on behalf of any Lender and is
not reimbursed therefor on the same Business Day as such advance is made, Working Capital
Agent shall be entitled to retain for its account all interest accrued on such advance from
the date such advance was made until reimbursed by the applicable Lender.

          (d) Return of Payments.

               (i) If either Agent pays an amount to a Lender under this Agreement in the belief or
expectation that a related payment has been or will be received by such Agent from the Borrowers
and such related payment is not received by such Agent, then such Agent will be entitled to recover
such amount from such Lender on demand without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind.

               (ii) If either Agent determines at any time that any amount received by such Agent under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document must be returned to any Credit Party or paid to any other
Person pursuant to any insolvency law or otherwise, then, notwithstanding any other term or
condition of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, such Agent will not be required to
distribute any portion thereof to any Lender. In addition, each Lender will repay to such Agent on
demand any portion of such amount that such Agent has distributed to such Lender, together with
interest at such rate, if any, as such Agent is required to pay to any Credit Party or such other
Person, without setoff, counterclaim or deduction of any kind, and such Agent will be entitled to
set-off against future distributions to such Lender any such amounts (with interest) that are not
repaid on demand.

               (e) Non-Funding Lenders; Procedures.

               (i) Responsibility. The failure of any Non-Funding Lender to make any Loan, Letter of
Credit Obligation or any payment required by it hereunder, or to fund any purchase of any
participation required to be made or funded by it on the date specified therefor shall not relieve
any other Lender (each such other Lender, an “Other Lender”) of its obligations to make
such loan or fund the purchase of any such participation on such date, but neither Working Capital
Agent, Term B Agent or, other than as expressly set forth herein, any Other Lender shall be
responsible for the failure of any Non-Funding Lender to make a loan, fund the purchase of a
participation or make any other payment required hereunder.

               (ii) Reallocation. If any Revolving Lender is a Non-Funding Lender, all or a portion
of such Non-Funding Lender’s Letter of Credit Obligations (unless such Revolving Lender is the L/C
Issuer that issued such Letter of Credit) shall, at Working Capital Agent’s election at any time or
upon any L/C Issuer’s written request delivered to Working Capital Agent (whether before or after
the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default), be reallocated to and assumed by the Revolving
Lenders that are not Non-Funding Lenders or Impacted Lenders pro rata in accordance with their
Revolving Commitment Percentages of the Aggregate Revolving Commitment

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(calculated as if the Non-Funding Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage was reduced to zero
and each other Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage had been increased
proportionately), provided that no Revolving Lender shall be reallocated any such amounts or be
required to fund any amounts that would cause the sum of its outstanding Revolving Loans,
outstanding Letter of Credit Obligations, amounts of its participations in Swing Loans and its pro
rata share of unparticipated amounts in Swing Loans to exceed its Revolving Loan Commitment.

               (iii) Voting Rights. Notwithstanding anything set forth herein to the contrary and
without any further action by, or consent of, any Credit Party, a Non-Funding Lender shall not have
any voting or consent rights under or with respect to any Loan Document or constitute a “Lender”
(or be, or have its Loans and Commitments, included in the determination of “Required Lenders”,
“Required Working Capital Lenders” or “Lenders directly affected” pursuant to Section 9.1)
for any voting or consent rights under or with respect to any Loan Document. Moreover, for the
purposes of determining Required Lenders or all affected Lenders (other than for the purposes of
Section 9.1(a)(i) — (iii)), the Loans and Commitments held by Non-Funding Lenders shall be
excluded from the total Loans and Commitments outstanding.

               (iv) Borrower Payments to a Non-Funding Lender. Working Capital Agent shall be
authorized to use all payments received by Working Capital Agent for the benefit of any Non-Funding
Lender pursuant to this Agreement to pay in full the Aggregate Excess Funding Amount to the
appropriate Secured Parties. Following such payment in full of the Aggregate Excess Funding
Amount, Working Capital Agent shall be entitled to hold such funds as cash collateral in a
non-interest bearing account up to an amount equal to such Non-Funding Lender’s unfunded Revolving
Commitment and to use such amount to pay such Non-Funding Lender’s funding obligations hereunder
until the Obligations are paid in full in cash, all Letter of Credit Obligations have been
discharged or cash collateralized and all Commitments have been terminated. Upon any such unfunded
obligations owing by a Non-Funding Lender becoming due and payable, Working Capital Agent shall be
authorized to use such cash collateral to make such payment on behalf of such Non-Funding Lender.
With respect to such Non-Funding Lender’s failure to fund Revolving Loans or purchase
participations in Letters of Credit or Letter of Credit Obligations, any amounts applied by Working
Capital Agent to satisfy such funding shortfalls shall be deemed to constitute a Revolving Loan or
amount of the participation required to be funded and, if necessary to effectuate the foregoing,
the other Revolving Lenders shall be deemed to have sold, and such Non-Funding Lender shall be
deemed to have purchased, Revolving Loans or Letter of Credit participation interests from the
other Revolving Lenders until such time as the aggregate amount of the Revolving Loans and
participations in Letters of Credit and Letter of Credit Obligations are held by the Revolving
Lenders in accordance with their Revolving Commitment Percentages of the Aggregate Revolving
Commitment. Any amounts owing by a Non-Funding Lender to Working Capital Agent which are not paid
when due shall accrue interest at the interest rate applicable during such period to Revolving
Loans that are Base Rate Loans. In the event that Working Capital Agent is holding cash collateral
of a Non-Funding Lender that cures pursuant to clause (v) below or ceases to be a
Non-Funding Lender pursuant to the definition of Non-Funding Lender, Working Capital Agent shall

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return the unused portion of such cash collateral to such Lender. The “Aggregate Excess
Funding Amount” of a Non-Funding Lender shall be the aggregate amount of (A) all unpaid
obligations owing by such Lender to Working Capital Agent, L/C Issuers, Swing Line Lender, and
other Lenders under the Loan Documents, including such Lender’s pro rata share of all Revolving
Loans, FILO Loans, Term B Loans, Letter of Credit Obligations, Swing Line Loans, plus, without
duplication, (B) all amounts of such Non-Funding Lender’s Commitment reallocated to other Lenders
pursuant to subsection 1.11(e)(ii).

               (v) Cure. A Lender may cure its status as a Non-Funding Lender under clause (a) of
the definition of Non-Funding Lender if such Lender (A) fully pays to Working Capital Agent, on
behalf of the applicable Secured Parties, the Aggregate Excess Funding Amount, plus all interest
due thereon and (B) timely funds the next Revolving Loan required to be funded by such Lender (if
such Lender is a Revolving Lender) or makes the next reimbursement required to be made by such
Lender. Any such cure shall not relieve any Lender from liability for breaching its contractual
obligations hereunder.

               (vi) Fees. A Lender that is a Non-Funding Lender pursuant to clause (a) of the
definition of Non-Funding Lender shall not earn and shall not be entitled to receive, and the
Borrowers shall not be required to pay, such Lender’s portion of the Unused Commitment Fee during
the time such Lender is a Non-Funding Lender pursuant to clause (a) thereof. In the event that any
reallocation of Letter of Credit Obligations occurs pursuant to subsection 1.11(e)(ii),
during the period of time that such reallocation remains in effect, the Letter of Credit Fee
payable with respect to such reallocated portion shall be payable to (A) all Revolving Lenders
based on their pro rata share of such reallocation or (B) to the L/C Issuer for any remaining
portion not reallocated to any other Revolving Lenders.

          (f) Procedures. Agents are hereby authorized by each Credit Party and each
other Secured Party to establish procedures (and to amend such procedures from time to
time) to facilitate administration and servicing of the Loans and other matters incidental
thereto. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Agents are hereby authorized,
subject to the terms set forth in Section 9.2, to establish procedures to make
available or deliver, or to accept, notices, documents and similar items on, by posting to
or submitting and/or completion on, E-Systems.

     1.12 Borrower Representative. Each Credit Party hereby designates and appoints
Borders, Inc. as its representative and agent on its behalf (the “Borrower Representative”)
for the purposes of issuing Notices of Borrowings, Notices of Conversion/Continuation, L/C Requests
and Swingline Requests, delivering certificates including Borrowing Base Certificates, giving
instructions with respect to the disbursement of the proceeds of the Loans, selecting interest rate
options, executing Loan Documents on behalf of such Credit Party, giving and receiving all other
notices and consents hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents and taking all other
actions (including in respect of compliance with covenants) on behalf of any Credit Party

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or the Credit Parties under the Loan Documents. Borrower Representative hereby accepts such
appointment. Agents and each Lender may regard any notice or other communication pursuant to any
Loan Document from Borrower Representative as a notice or communication from all Credit Parties.
Each warranty, covenant, agreement and undertaking made on behalf of a Credit Party by Borrower
Representative shall be deemed for all purposes to have been made by such Credit Party and shall be
binding upon and enforceable against such Credit Party to the same extent as if the same had been
made directly by such Credit Party.

     1.13 Super Priority Nature of Obligations and Lenders’ Liens.

          (a) The priority of Lenders’ and Agents’ Liens on the Collateral owned by the Credit
Parties shall be set forth in the Interim Order and the Final Order.

          (b) All Obligations shall constitute administrative expenses of the Credit Parties in
the Chapter 11 Cases, with administrative priority and senior secured status under Sections
364(c) and 364(d) of the Bankruptcy Code. Subject only to the Carve-Out up to the
Carve-Out Amount, the Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims and Indebtedness secured by
Pre-Petition Perfected Liens, such administrative claim shall have priority over any and
all administrative expense claims, unsecured claims and costs and expenses against the
Credit Parties or their respective estates in the Chapter 11 Cases (or any subsequent
proceedings or cases under the Bankruptcy Code), at any time existing or arising, of any
kind or nature whatsoever, including, without limitation, administrative expenses of the
kinds specified in or ordered pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Sections 105, 326, 328, 330, 331,
365, 503(a), 503(b), 506(c), 507(a), 507(b), 546(c), 546(d), 726 (to the extent permitted
by law), 1113, 1114 or any other provision of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise and shall at
all times be senior to the rights of the Credit Parties, the Credit Parties’ respective
estates and any successor trustee or estate representative in the Chapter 11 Cases or any
subsequent proceedings or cases under the Bankruptcy Code subject to the priorities set
forth in the Interim Order or Final Order (as applicable). The Liens granted to Agents and
Lenders on the Collateral owned by the Credit Parties, and the priorities accorded to the
Obligations shall have the priority and senior secured status afforded by Sections 364(c)
and 364(d) of the Bankruptcy Code (all as more fully set forth in the Interim Order and
Final Order) senior to all claims and interests other than the Carve-Out up to the
Carve-Out Amount, the Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims and the Pre-Petition
Perfected Liens.

          (c) The Working Capital Agent’s Liens on the Collateral and Working Capital Agent’s
and other Secured Parties’ respective administrative claims under Sections 364(c)(l) of the
Bankruptcy Code afforded the Obligations shall also have priority over any claims arising
under Section 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code subject and subordinate only to the Carve-Out
up to the Carve-Out Amount and as otherwise set forth in the Interim Order (or the Final
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that granted to Working Capital Agent and Lenders shall be granted or approved while
any Obligations under this Agreement remain outstanding.

          (d) Except for the Carve-Out up to the Carve-Out Amount and the Adequate Protection
Superpriority Claims, as set forth in the Interim Order and the Final Order, no costs or
expenses of administration shall be imposed against Agents, the Lenders or any of the
Collateral under Sections 105, 506(c) or 552 of the Bankruptcy Code, or otherwise, and the
Borrower hereby waives for itself and on behalf of its estate in bankruptcy, any and all
rights under Sections 105, 506(c) or 552 of the Bankruptcy Code, or otherwise, to assert or
impose or seek to assert or impose, any such costs or expenses of administration against
Agents or the Lenders.

     1.14 Payment of Obligations. Upon the maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise)
of any of the Obligations under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, Agents and
Lenders shall be entitled to immediate payment of such Obligations without further application to
or order of the Bankruptcy Court.

     1.15 No Discharge; Survival of Claims. Credit Parties agree that (i) the Obligations
hereunder shall not be discharged by the entry of an order confirming a plan of reorganization in
the Chapter 11 Cases (and Credit Parties pursuant to Section 1141(d)(4) of the Bankruptcy
Code, hereby waive any such discharge) and (ii) the superpriority administrative claim granted to
Working Capital Agent, Term B Agent and Lenders pursuant to the Interim Order and Final Order and
described in Section 1.13 and the Liens granted to Working Capital Agent pursuant to the Interim
Order and Final Order and described in Section 1.13 shall not be affected in any manner by the
entry of an order confirming a plan of reorganization in the Chapter 11 Cases.

     1.16 Release. Credit Parties hereby acknowledge effective upon entry of the Final
Order, that no Credit Party has any defense, counterclaim, offset, recoupment, cross-complaint,
claim or demand of any kind or nature whatsoever that can be asserted to reduce or eliminate all of
any part of the Credit Parties’ liability to repay Agents or any Lender as provided in this
Agreement or to seek affirmative relief or damages of any kind or nature from Agents or any Lender.
Each Credit Party, on behalf of itself and its bankruptcy estate, and on behalf of all its
successors, assigns, Subsidiaries and any Affiliates and any Person acting for and on behalf of, or
claiming through them, (collectively, the “Releasing Parties”), hereby fully, finally and
forever release and discharge Agents and Lenders and all of Agents’ and Lenders’ past and present
officers, directors, servants, agents, attorneys, assigns, heirs, parents, subsidiaries, and each
Person acting for or on behalf of any of them (collectively, the “Released Parties”) of and
from any and all past, present and future actions, causes of action, demands, suits, claims,
liabilities, Liens, lawsuits, adverse consequences, amounts paid in settlement, costs, damages,
debts, deficiencies, diminution in value, disbursements, expenses, losses and other obligations of
any kind or nature whatsoever, whether in law, equity or otherwise (including, without limitation,
those arising under Sections 541 through 550 of the Bankruptcy Code and interest or other carrying
costs, penalties, legal, accounting and other professional fees and expenses, and incidental,
consequential and punitive damages

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payable to third parties), whether known or unknown, fixed or contingent, direct, indirect, or
derivative, asserted or unasserted, foreseen or unforeseen, suspected or unsuspected, now existing,
heretofore existing or which may heretofore accrue against any of the Released Parties, whether
held in a personal or representative capacity, and which are based on any act, fact, event or
omission or other matter, cause or thing occurring at or from any time prior to and including the
date hereof in any way, directly or indirectly arising out of, connected with or relating to this
Agreement, the Interim Order, the Final Order and the transactions contemplated hereby, and all
other agreements, certificates, instruments and other documents and statements (whether written or
oral) related to any of the foregoing.

     1.17 Waiver of any Priming Rights. Upon the Closing Date, and on behalf of itself and
its estate, and for so long as any Obligations shall be outstanding, each Credit Party hereby
irrevocably waives any right, pursuant to Sections 364(c) or 364(d) of the Bankruptcy Code or
otherwise, to grant any Lien of equal or greater priority than the Liens securing the Obligations,
or to approve a claim of equal or greater priority than the Obligations (other than the Carve-Out
up to the Carve-Out Amount and the Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims).

     1.18 Adequate Protection Superpriorty Claims. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, the Liens and claims of the Secured Parties under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents shall be subject to the Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims but only to the extent
set forth in the Interim Order (or Final Order, as applicable).

ARTICLE II.

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

     2.1 Conditions of Initial Loans. The obligation of each Lender to make its initial
Loans and of each L/C Issuer to Issue, or cause to be Issued, the initial Letters of Credit
hereunder is subject to satisfaction of the following conditions in a manner satisfactory to
Agents:

          (a) Loan Documents, Etc. Agents shall have received on or before the Closing
Date all of the agreements, documents, instruments, legal opinions and other items set
forth on the closing checklist attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1, each in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to Agents;

          (b) Minimum Availability. The Borrowers shall have Availability in the
aggregate on the Closing Date of $85,000,000, after taking into account all accounts
payable due and owing as of such date;

          (c) Repayment of Prior Indebtedness. Agents shall have received evidence
satisfactory to Agents that the obligations under the Pre-Petition Facilities shall have
been repaid in full (or, in the case of letters of credit issued or guaranteed thereunder,
if any, cash collateralized in a manner acceptable to Agents), all commitments thereunder
shall be terminated and such repayment shall otherwise be in accordance with the Interim
Order;

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          (d) Approvals. Agents shall have received (i) satisfactory evidence that the
Credit Parties have obtained all required consents and approvals of all Persons including
all requisite Governmental Authorities, in connection with (A) the filing of the Chapter 11
Cases and (B) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents and the consummation of the other transactions contemplated hereby or (ii) an
officer’s certificate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agents affirming
that no such consents or approvals are required;

          (e) Payment of Fees. The Borrowers shall have paid the fees required to be
paid on the Closing Date in the respective amounts specified in Section 1.9
(including the fees specified in the Fee Letter), and shall have reimbursed Agents for all
fees, costs and expenses of closing presented as of the Closing Date;

          (f) Intentionally Omitted.

          (g) Funds Flow Memorandum. Agents shall have received a funds-flow memorandum
from the Borrowers setting forth the sources and uses of the proceeds of any Loans to be
borrowed or any Letters of Credit to be Issued on the Closing Date, which funds-flow
memorandum shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agents (the “Funds
Flow Memorandum”) and shall contain a description of the Credit Parties’ sources and
uses of funds on the Closing Date, the details of how funds from each source are to be
transferred to particular uses (including the application of proceeds as set forth in
Section 3.8(b) above) and the wire transfer instructions for the particular uses of
such funds;

          (h) Intentionally Omitted;

          (i) Cash Management System. Credit Parties shall have established the cash
management system described in Section 4.11 (the “Cash Management System”)
and shall have obtained appropriate court orders approving such system;

          (j) Insurance. The Credit Parties shall have furnished Agents with (i)
binders evidencing of all existing insurance coverage, (ii) evidence acceptable to Agents
that the insurance policies required by Section 4.6 have been obtained and are in
full force and effect, and (iii) certificates of insurance with respect to all existing
insurance coverage which certificates shall name Working Capital Agent as loss payee
(property long form endorsement/casualty policies) and as additional insured (liability
policies);

          (k) Entry of Interim Order. Entry by the Bankruptcy Court of the Interim
Order, by no later than 5 days after the Petition Date in form and substance satisfactory
to Agents and Lenders, among other things, (i) approving the transactions contemplated
hereby, (ii) granting a first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral
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to the Carve-Out Amount, the Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims and the
Pre-Petition Perfected Liens), and (iii) modifying the automatic stay to permit the
creation and perfection of Working Capital Agent’s, Term B Agent’s and Lenders’ Liens and
automatically vacating the automatic stay to permit enforcement of Working Capital Agent’s,
Term B Agent’s and Lenders’ default-related rights and remedies under this Agreement, the
other Loan Documents and applicable law;

          (l) First Day Orders. The “first day” orders described on Schedule
2.1(l) in form and substance satisfactory to Agents shall have been entered in the
Chapter 11 Cases; and

          (m) Approved Budget. Agents and Term B Lenders shall have received the
initial Approved Budget.

     2.2 Conditions to All Borrowings. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, no
Lender or L/C Issuer shall be obligated to fund any Loan or incur any Letter of Credit Obligation,
if, as of the date thereof:

          (a) the Advance requested would cause the aggregate outstanding amount of the Loans
and/or Letter of Credit Obligations to exceed the amount then authorized by the Interim
Order or the Final Order, as the case may be, or any order modifying, reversing, staying or
vacating such order shall have been entered, or any appeal of such order shall have been
timely filed;

          (b) any representation or warranty by any Credit Party contained herein or in any
other Loan Document is untrue or incorrect in any respect as of such date, except to the
extent that such representation or warranty expressly relates to an earlier date (in which
event such representations and warranties were untrue or incorrect in any respect as of
such earlier date), and Working Capital Agent shall have determined not to make any
Protective Overadvance as a result of the fact that such warranty or representation is
untrue or incorrect;

          (c) any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result
after giving effect to any Loan (or the incurrence of any Letter of Credit Obligations),
and Working Capital Agent shall have determined not to make any Protective Overadvance as a
result of that Default or Event of Default;

          (d) after giving effect to any Loan (or the incurrence of any Letter of Credit
Obligations), the Aggregate Exposure would exceed the Maximum Borrowing Availability or the
Aggregate Revolving Exposure would exceed the Maximum Revolving Borrowing Availability
(except as provided in Section 1.1(b)(ii)).

The request by Borrower Representative and acceptance by the Borrowers of the proceeds of any Loan
or the incurrence of any Letter of Credit Obligations shall be

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deemed to constitute, as of the date thereof, (i) a representation and warranty by the Borrowers
that the conditions in this Section 2.2 have been satisfied and (ii) a reaffirmation by
each Credit Party of the granting and continuance of Working Capital Agent’s Liens, on behalf of
itself and the Secured Parties, pursuant to the Collateral Documents.

ARTICLE III.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

     The Credit Parties, jointly and severally, represent and warrant to Agents and each Lender
that the following are true, correct and complete:

     3.1 Corporate Existence and Power. Each Credit Party and each of their respective
Subsidiaries:

          (a) is a corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership or general
partnership, as applicable, duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, organization or formation, as applicable;

          (b) subject to the entry of the Interim Order (or the Final Order, when applicable) by
the Bankruptcy Court, has the power and authority and all governmental licenses,
authorizations, Permits, consents and approvals to execute, deliver, and perform its
obligations under, the Loan Documents to which it is a party;

          (c) is duly qualified as a foreign corporation, limited liability company or limited
partnership, as applicable, and licensed and in good standing, under the laws of each
jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of Property or the conduct of its
business requires such qualification or license; and

          (d) is in compliance with all Requirements of Law;

except, in each case referred to in clause (c) or clause (d), to the extent that
the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the
aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

     3.2 Corporate Authorization; No Contravention. Upon the entry by the Bankruptcy Court
of the Interim Order (or the Final Order, when applicable), the execution, delivery and performance
by each of the Credit Parties of this Agreement, and by each Credit Party and each of their
respective Subsidiaries of any other Loan Document to which such Person is party, have been duly
authorized by all necessary action, and do not and will not:

               (i) contravene the terms of any of that Person’s Organization Documents;

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               (ii) conflict with or result in any breach or contravention of, or result in the creation of
any Lien under, any document evidencing any material Contractual Obligation to which such Person is
a party or any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority to which such Person
or its Property is subject except for violations, defaults or the creation of such rights that
could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; or

               (iii) violate any Requirement of Law, except for violations, defaults or the creation of such
rights that could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

     3.3 Governmental Authorization. No approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or
other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority is necessary or required
in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement against, any Credit
Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party of this Agreement or any other Loan Document except for
(a) those obtained or made on or prior to the Closing Date, including by the Bankruptcy Court in
connection with the Chapter 11 Cases or (b) recordings and filings in connection with the Liens
granted to Working Capital Agent under the Collateral Documents.

     3.4 Binding Effect. Upon the entry by the Bankruptcy Court of the Interim Order (or
the Final Order, when applicable), this Agreement and each other Loan Document to which any Credit
Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party is a party constitute the legal, valid and binding
obligations of each such Person which is a party thereto, enforceable against such Person in
accordance with their respective terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or
by equitable principles relating to enforceability.

     3.5 Litigation. Except as specifically disclosed in Schedule 3.5 and the
filing of the Chapter 11 Cases, there are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes
pending, or to the best knowledge of each Credit Party, threatened or contemplated, at law, in
equity, in arbitration or before any Governmental Authority, against any Credit Party, any
Subsidiary of any Credit Party or any of their respective Properties which:

          (a) purport to affect or pertain to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or any
of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby; or

          (b) would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

Other than with respect to the Chapter 11 Cases but subject to the Interim Order (or Final Order,
as applicable), no injunction, writ, temporary restraining order or any order of any nature has
been issued by any court or other Governmental Authority purporting to enjoin or restrain the
execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or directing that
the transactions provided for herein or therein not be consummated as herein or therein provided.
As of the Closing Date, other than tax audits

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by the IRS or other taxing authorities, to each Credit Party’s knowledge, no Credit Party or any
Subsidiary of any Credit Party is the subject of an audit, any review or investigation by any
Governmental Authority concerning the violation or possible violation of any Requirement of Law.

     3.6 No Default. Post-Petition, no Default or Event of Default exists or would result
from the incurring of any Obligations by any Credit Party or the grant or perfection of Working
Capital Agent’s Liens on the Collateral. No Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party is
in default under or with respect to any Contractual Obligation in any respect which, individually
or together with all such defaults, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect
(other than with respect to the commencement of the Chapter 11 Cases).

     3.7 ERISA Compliance. Credit Parties have no Multiemployer Plan or Title IV Plans.

     3.8 Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations.

          (a) No Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit Party is engaged in the business
of purchasing or selling Margin Stock or extending credit for and no Loan will be used for
the purpose of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock.

          (b) Borrowers shall utilize the proceeds of the Loans and the proceeds of Collateral
(i) on the Closing Date, subject to the limitations set forth herein, to repay the
Pre-Petition Facilities and pay the Transaction Expenses and (ii) to fund the Chapter 11
Cases in accordance with the Approved Budget and for the financing of Borrowers’ ordinary
working capital, letter of credit and other general corporate needs including certain fees
and expenses of professionals retained by the Credit Parties, subject to the Carve-Out
Amount, the Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims and for certain other pre-petition
expenses that are approved by the Bankruptcy Court and consented to by Agents, all in
accordance with the Approved Budget. Credit Parties shall not be permitted to use the
proceeds of the Loans: (I) for the payment of interest and principal with respect to
Subordinated Indebtedness or any other Pre-Petition Indebtedness of Borrower or any other
Credit Party (except for: (1) Pre-Petition employee wages, benefits and related employee
taxes as of the Petition Date; (2) Pre-Petition sales, use and real property taxes; and (3)
amounts approved in accordance with other “first day” orders reasonably satisfactory to
Agents, (II) subject to the Interim Order (or the Final Order, when applicable), to finance
in any way any action, suit, arbitration, proceeding, application, motion or other
litigation of any type adverse to the interests of Agents and Lenders or their rights and
remedies under this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the Interim Order or the Final
Order, including, without limitation, for the payment of any services rendered by the
professionals retained by the Borrower or the Committee in connection with the assertion of
or joinder in any claim, counterclaim, action, proceeding, application, motion, objection,
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seek, or the result of which would be to obtain, any order, judgment determination,
declaration or similar relief (x) invalidating, setting aside, avoiding or subordinating,
in whole or in part, the Obligations or the Liens securing same, (y) for monetary,
injunctive or other affirmative relief against any Lender or Agents or their respective
collateral, or (z) preventing, hindering or otherwise delaying the exercise by any Lender
or Agents of any rights and remedies under the Interim Order or Final Order, the Loan
Documents or applicable law, or the enforcement or realization (whether by foreclosure,
credit bid, further order of the court or otherwise) by any or all of the Lenders, Working
Capital Agent and Term B Agent upon any of their Collateral; (III) to make any distribution
under a plan of reorganization in the Chapter 11 Cases; (IV) to make any payment in
settlement of any claim, action or proceeding, before any court, arbitrator or other
governmental body without the prior written consent of Agents; or (V) to pay any fees or
similar amounts to any Person who has proposed or may propose to purchase interests in
Borrowers or any other Credit Party (including so-called “Topping Fees,” “Exit Fees,” and
similar amounts) without the prior written consent of Agents and the Required Lenders,
which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

          (c) The Funds Flow Memorandum contains a description of the Credit Parties’ sources
and uses of funds on the Closing Date, including, without limitation, how funds from each
source are to be transferred to particular uses (all in accordance with the terms of the
Loan Documents).

     3.9 Ownership of Property; Liens. As of the Closing Date, the Real Estate listed in
Schedule 3.9 constitutes all of the Real Estate of each Credit Party and each of their
respective Subsidiaries. Each of the Credit Parties and each of their respective Subsidiaries has
good record and marketable title in fee simple to, or valid leasehold interests in, all Real
Estate, and good and valid title to all owned personal property and valid leasehold interests in
all leased personal property, in each instance, necessary or used in the ordinary conduct of their
respective businesses. As of the Closing Date, none of the Real Estate owned by any Credit Party
or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party is subject to any Liens other than Permitted Liens. As of
the Closing Date, Schedule 3.9 also describes any purchase options, rights of first refusal
or other similar contractual rights created by, through or under any Credit Party and pertaining to
any Real Estate. As of the Closing Date, all material permits required to be obtained by any
Credit Party have been issued or appropriate to enable the Real Estate to be lawfully occupied and
used for all of the purposes for which it is currently occupied and used have been lawfully issued
and are in full force and effect, except where the failure to obtain such permits would cause a
Material Adverse Effect.

     3.10 Taxes. All federal, state and material local and foreign income and franchise
and other material tax returns, reports and statements (collectively, the “Tax Returns”)
required to be filed by any Tax Affiliate have been filed with the appropriate Governmental
Authorities, all such Tax Returns are true and correct in all material respects, and all taxes,
assessments and other governmental charges and impositions reflected therein or otherwise due and
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any Liability may be added thereto for non-payment thereof except for those contested in good
faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which adequate reserves are
maintained on the books of the appropriate Tax Affiliate in accordance with GAAP. As of the
Closing Date, no Tax Return is under audit or examination by any Governmental Authority, and no
notice of any audit or examination or any assertion of any claim for Taxes has been given or made
by any Governmental Authority. Proper and accurate amounts have been withheld by each Tax
Affiliate from their respective employees for all periods in full and complete compliance with the
tax, social security and unemployment withholding provisions of applicable Requirements of Law and
such withholdings have been timely paid to the respective Governmental Authorities. No Tax
Affiliate has participated in a “listed transaction” or a “reportable transaction” within the
meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.6011-4(b) or has been a member of an affiliated, combined
or unitary group other than the group of which a Tax Affiliate is the common parent.
Post-Petition, there are no Liens for taxes, fees, assessments or other governmental charges, other
than for taxes, fees, assessments or other governmental charges not yet due. Ad valorem Taxes and
charges that were payable and unpaid as of the Petition Date and the jurisdictions to which such ad
valorem Taxes and charges are due are set forth on Schedule 3.10.

     3.11 Financial Condition and Approved Budget.

          (a) Each of (i) the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries dated January 30, 2010, and the related audited consolidated statements of
income or operations and cash flows for the Fiscal Year ended on that date and (ii) the
unaudited interim consolidated balance sheet of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries dated
October 30, 2010 and the related unaudited consolidated statements of income and cash flows
for the twelve Fiscal Months then ended, in each case, as attached hereto as Schedule
3.11(a):

               (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the respective
periods covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein, subject to, in the case of
the unaudited interim financial statements, normal year-end adjustments and the lack of footnote
disclosures; and

               (ii) present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial condition of the
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries as of the dates thereof and results of operations for the periods
covered thereby.

          (b) Intentionally Omitted.

          (c) The Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries have no Indebtedness other than
Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 5.5 and have no Contingent Obligations
other than Contingent Obligations permitted pursuant to Section 5.9.

          (d) Approved Budget. The Borrowers have heretofore furnished to Agents the
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prepared in good faith based upon assumptions which Borrowers believe to be reasonable
assumptions at the time made. Borrowers shall thereafter deliver to Agents updates to the
Approved Budget in the manner set forth in Section 4.16.

     3.12 Environmental Matters. The Borrowers have taken all appropriate inquiry into the
previous ownership of the Real Estate consistent with good commercial or customary practice and,
based upon such diligent investigation, has determined that, to the best of the Borrowers’
knowledge:

          (a) none of the Credit Parties nor any of their Subsidiaries or any operator of the
Real Estate or any operations thereon is in violation, or alleged violation, of any
judgment, decree, order, law, license, rule or regulation pertaining to environmental
matters, including, without limitation, those arising under the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (“RCRA”), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Act of 1980 as amended (“CERCLA”), the Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act of 1986 (“SARA”), the Federal Clean Water Act, the Federal
Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, or any state, local or foreign law,
statute, regulation, ordinance, order or decree relating to health, safety or the
environment (hereinafter “Environmental Laws”), which violation would have a
material adverse effect on the environment or a Material Adverse Effect;

          (b) none of the Credit Parties nor any of their Subsidiaries has received notice from
any third party including, without limitation, any Governmental Authority, (i) that any one
of them has been identified by the United States Environmental Protection Agency
(“EPA”) as a potentially responsible party under CERCLA with respect to a site
listed on the National Priorities List, 40 C.F.R. Part 300 Appendix B; (ii) that any
Hazardous Materials which any one of them has generated, transported or disposed of has
been found at any site at which a Governmental Authority has conducted or has ordered that
any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries conduct a remedial investigation, removal or
other response action pursuant to any Environmental Law; or (iii) that it is or shall be a
named party to any claim, action, cause of action, complaint, or legal or administrative
proceeding (in each case, contingent or otherwise) arising out of any third party’s
incurrence of costs, expenses, losses or damages of any kind whatsoever in connection with
the release of Hazardous Materials;

          (c) except as set forth on Schedule 3.12 attached hereto: (i) no portion of
the Real Estate has been used for the handling, processing, storage or disposal of
Hazardous Materials except in accordance with applicable Environmental Laws; and no
underground tank or other underground storage receptacle for Hazardous Materials is located
on any portion of the Real Estate except in accordance with applicable Environmental Laws;
(ii) in the course of any activities conducted by the Credit Parties, their Subsidiaries or
operators of its properties, no Hazardous Materials have been generated or are being used
on the Real Estate except in accordance with applicable Environmental Laws; (iii) there
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pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, disposing or
dumping) or threatened releases of Hazardous Materials on, upon, into or from the
properties of the Credit Parties or their Subsidiaries, which releases would have a
material adverse effect on the value of any of the Real Estate or adjacent properties or
the environment; (iv) to the best of the Credit Parties’ knowledge, there have been no
releases on, upon, from or into any real property in the vicinity of any of the Real Estate
which, through soil or groundwater contamination, may have come to be located on, and which
would have a material adverse effect on the value of, the Real Estate; and (v) in addition,
any Hazardous Materials that have been generated on any of the Real Estate have been
transported offsite only by carriers having an identification number issued by the EPA (or
the equivalent thereof in any foreign jurisdiction), treated or disposed of only by
treatment or disposal facilities maintaining valid permits as required under applicable
Environmental Laws, which transporters and facilities have been and are, to the best of the
Borrowers’ knowledge, operating in compliance with such permits and applicable
Environmental Laws; and

          (d) none of the Credit Parties nor any of their Subsidiaries, or any of the Real
Estate is subject to any applicable Environmental Law requiring the performance of
Hazardous Materials site assessments, or the removal or remediation of Hazardous Materials,
or the giving of notice to any Governmental Authority or the recording or delivery to other
Persons of an environmental disclosure document or statement by virtue of the transactions
set forth herein and contemplated hereby, or to the effectiveness of any other transactions
contemplated hereby.

     3.13 Regulated Entities. None of any Credit Party, any Person controlling any Credit
Party, or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, is (a) an “investment company” within the meaning of
the Investment Company Act of 1940 or (b) subject to regulation under the Federal Power Act, the
Interstate Commerce Act, any state public utilities code, or any other Federal or state statute,
rule or regulation limiting its ability to incur Indebtedness, pledge its assets or perform its
Obligations under the Loan Documents.

     3.14 Intentionally Omitted.

     3.15 Labor Relations. There are no strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns or lockouts
existing, pending (or, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, threatened) against or involving any
Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, except for those that would not, in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as set forth in
Schedule 3.15, as of the Closing Date, (a) there is no collective bargaining or similar
agreement with any union, labor organization, works council or similar representative covering any
employee of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, (b) no petition for
certification or election of any such representative is existing or pending with respect to any
employee of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party and (c) no such representative
has sought certification or recognition with respect to any employee of any Credit Party or any
Subsidiary of any Credit Party.

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     3.16 Intellectual Property. Schedule 3.16 sets forth a true and complete list
of the following Intellectual Property each Credit Party owns, licenses or otherwise has the right
to use: (i) Intellectual Property that is registered or subject to applications for registration,
(ii) Internet Domain Names and (iii) material Intellectual Property, separately identifying that
owned and licensed to such Credit Party and including for each of the foregoing items (1) the
owner, (2) the title, (3) the jurisdiction in which such item has been registered or otherwise
arises or in which an application for registration has been filed, (4) as applicable, the
registration or application number and registration or application date and (5) any IP Licenses or
other rights (including franchises) granted by such Credit Party with respect thereto. Each Credit
Party and each Subsidiary of each Credit Party owns, or is licensed to use, all Intellectual
Property necessary to conduct its business as currently conducted except for such Intellectual
Property the failure of which to own or license would not reasonably be expected to have, either
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. To the best knowledge of each Credit
Party, (a) the conduct and operations of the businesses of each Credit Party and each Subsidiary of
each Credit Party does not infringe, misappropriate, dilute, violate or otherwise impair any
Intellectual Property owned by any other Person and (b) no other Person has contested any right,
title or interest of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party in, or relating to, any
Intellectual Property, other than, in each case, as cannot reasonably be expected to affect the
Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated therein and would not, in the aggregate,
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

     3.17 Brokers’ Fees; Transaction Fees. Except for fees payable to Agents and Lenders,
none of the Credit Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries has any obligation to any Person
in respect of any finder’s, broker’s or investment banker’s fee in connection with the transactions
contemplated hereby.

     3.18 Insurance. Schedule 3.18 lists all insurance policies of any nature
maintained, as of the Closing Date, for current occurrences by each Credit Party, including
issuers, coverages and deductibles. Each of the Credit Parties and each of their respective
Subsidiaries and their respective Properties are insured with financially sound and reputable
insurance companies which are not Affiliates of the Credit Parties, in such amounts, with such
deductibles and covering such risks as are customarily carried by companies engaged in similar
businesses and owning similar Properties in localities where such Person operates.

     3.19 Ventures, Subsidiaries and Affiliates; Outstanding Stock. Except as set forth in
Schedule 3.19, as of the Closing Date, no Credit Party and no Subsidiary of any Credit
Party has any Subsidiaries, is engaged in any joint venture or partnership with any other Person,
or is an Affiliate of any other Person. All issued and outstanding Stock and Stock Equivalents of
each of the Credit Parties and each of their respective Subsidiaries are duly authorized and
validly issued, fully paid, non-assessable. All issued and outstanding Stock and Stock Equivalents
of each Credit Party are free and clear of all Liens (other than as permitted by Section
5.1(r)) other than those in favor of Working Capital Agent, for the benefit of the Secured
Parties. All such securities were issued in compliance with all applicable state and federal laws
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securities. All of the issued and outstanding Stock of each Credit Party and each Subsidiary
of each Credit Party is owned by each of the Persons and in the amounts set forth in Schedule
3.19 (which Schedule 3.19 shall be updated concurrently by the Credit Parties with the
delivery of each Borrowing Base Certificate pursuant to Section 4.2(c) to reflect any
transactions expressly permitted pursuant to this Agreement). Except as set forth in Schedule
3.19, there are no pre-emptive or other outstanding rights to purchase, options, warrants or
similar rights or agreements pursuant to which any Credit Party may be required to issue, sell,
repurchase or redeem any of its Stock or Stock Equivalents or any Stock or Stock Equivalents of its
Subsidiaries. Set forth in Schedule 3.19 is a true and complete organizational chart of
the Borrowers and all of their Subsidiaries on the Closing Date.

     3.20 Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office. Schedule 3.20
lists each Credit Party’s jurisdiction of organization, legal name, federal employee identification
numbers and organizational identification number, if any, and the location of such Credit Party’s
chief executive office or sole place of business, in each case as of the date hereof, and such
Schedule 3.20 also lists all jurisdictions of organization and legal names of such Credit
Party for the five years preceding the Closing Date.

     3.21 Locations of Inventory, Equipment and Books and Records. Each Credit Party’s
Inventory and equipment (other than Inventory or equipment in transit) and books and records
concerning the Collateral are kept at the locations listed in Schedule 3.21 (which
Schedule 3.21 shall be promptly updated quarterly by the Credit Parties).

     3.22 Deposit Accounts and Other Accounts. Schedule 3.22 lists all banks and
other financial institutions at which any Credit Party maintains deposit or other accounts
(including, without limitation, all Control Accounts) and credit card processors as of the Closing
Date, and such Schedule correctly identifies the name of each depository, securities intermediary
or commodities intermediary, as applicable, the name in which the account is held, a description of
the purpose of the account, and the complete account number therefor. The Credit Parties may, from
time to time, amend Schedule 3.22 to add or replace any account in accordance with the
requirements of Section 4.11(d).

     3.23 Intentionally Omitted.

     3.24 Intentionally Omitted.

     3.25 Intentionally Omitted.

     3.26 Subordinated Debt. As of the Closing Date, the Borrowers have delivered to
Agents a complete and correct copy of all documents governing Subordinated Indebtedness (including
all schedules, exhibits, amendments, supplements, modifications, assignments and all other
documents delivered pursuant thereto or in connection therewith).

     3.27 Full Disclosure. No information contained in this Agreement, any of the other
Loan Documents or Collateral Documents or other written reports from time to time prepared by any
Credit Party and delivered hereunder or any written statement

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prepared by any Credit Party and furnished by or on behalf of any Credit Party to Agents or
any Lender pursuant to the terms of this Agreement contains or will contain any untrue statement of
a material fact or omits or will omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements
contained herein or therein not misleading in light of the circumstances under which they were
made. The Liens granted to Working Capital Agent, on behalf of itself and the Secured Parties,
pursuant to the Collateral Documents will at all times be fully perfected first priority Liens in
and to the Collateral described therein, subject to the Carve-Out Amount, the Adequate Protection
Superpriority Claims and the Pre-Petition Perfected Liens, in each case to the extent relating to
the Collateral.

     3.28 Foreign Assets Control Regulations and Anti-Money Laundering. Each Credit Party
and each Subsidiary of Credit Party is and will remain in compliance in all material respects with
all U.S. economic sanctions laws, Executive Orders and implementing regulations as promulgated by
the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), and all
applicable anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act
and all regulations issued pursuant to it. No Credit Party and no Subsidiary or Affiliate of a
Credit Party (i) is a Person designated by the U.S. government on the list of the Specially
Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (the “SDN List”) with which a U.S. Person cannot
deal with or otherwise engage in business transactions, (ii) is a Person who is otherwise the
target of U.S. economic sanctions laws such that a U.S. Person cannot deal or otherwise engage in
business transactions with such Person or (iii) is controlled by (including without limitation by
virtue of such Person being a director or owning voting shares or interests), or acts, directly or
indirectly, for or on behalf of, any Person or entity on the SDN List or a foreign government that
is the target of U.S. economic sanctions prohibitions such that the entry into, or performance
under, this Agreement or any other Loan Document would be prohibited under U.S. law.

     3.29 Patriot Act. The Credit Parties, each of their Subsidiaries and each of their
Affiliates are in compliance with (a) the Trading with the Enemy Act, and each of the foreign
assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B Chapter V,
as amended) and any other enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto, (b) the Patriot
Act and (c) other federal or state laws relating to “know your customer” and anti-money laundering
rules and regulations. No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used directly or indirectly for
any payments to any government official or employee, political party, official of a political
party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to
obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the United
States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

     3.30 Reorganization Matters.

          (a) The Chapter 11 Cases were commenced on the Petition Date in accordance with
applicable law and proper notice thereof and the proper notice for (i) the motion seeking
approval of the Loan Documents and the Interim Order and Final Order, (ii) the hearing for
the entry of the Interim Order, and (iii) the hearing for the entry of the Final Order has
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Parties shall give, on a timely basis as specified in the Interim Order or the Final
Order, as applicable, all notices required to be given to all parties specified in the
Interim Order or Final Order, as applicable.

          (b) After the entry of the Interim Order, and pursuant to and to the extent permitted
in the Interim Order and the Final Order, the Obligations will constitute allowed
administrative expense claims in the Chapter 11 Cases having priority over all
administrative expense claims and unsecured claims against the Credit Parties now existing
or hereafter arising, of any kind whatsoever, including, without limitation, all
administrative expense claims of the kind specified in Sections 105, 326, 330, 331, 503(b),
506(c), 507(a), 507(b), 546(c), 726, 1114 or any other provision of the Bankruptcy Code or
otherwise, as provided under Section 364(c)(l) of the Bankruptcy Code, subject to the
priorities set forth in the Interim Order or Final Order (as applicable).

          (c) After the entry of the Interim Order and pursuant to and to the extent provided in
the Interim Order and the Final Order, the Obligations will be secured by a valid and
perfected first priority Lien on all of the Collateral subject, as to priority only to the
Carve-Out up to the Carve-Out Amount, the Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims and the
Pre-Petition Perfected Liens.

          (d) The Interim Order (with respect to the period on and after entry of the Interim
Order and prior to entry of the Final Order) or the Final Order (with respect to the period
on and after entry of the Final Order), as the case may be, is in full force and effect and
has not been reversed, stayed (whether by statutory stay or otherwise), modified or
amended.

          (e) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code, and subject
to the applicable provisions of the Interim Order or Final Order, as the case may be, upon
the maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) of any of the Obligations, Agents and
Lenders shall be entitled to immediate payment of such Obligations and to enforce the
remedies provided for hereunder or under applicable law, without further application to or
order by the Bankruptcy Court.

     3.31 Excluded Subsidiaries. The Excluded Subsidiaries do no engage in any business
activities or own any Property other than activities and contractual rights incidental to
maintenance of their respective corporate existence.

ARTICLE IV.

AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

     Each Credit Party covenants and agrees that, so long as any Lender shall have any Revolving
Commitment hereunder, or any Loan or other Obligation (other than contingent indemnification
Obligations to the extent no claim giving rise thereto has been asserted) shall remain unpaid or
unsatisfied:

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     4.1 Financial Statements. Each Credit Party shall maintain, and shall cause each of
its Subsidiaries to maintain, a system of accounting established and administered in accordance
with sound business practices to permit the preparation of financial statements in conformity with
GAAP (provided that monthly financial statements shall not be required to have footnote disclosures
and are subject to normal year-end adjustments). The Borrowers shall deliver to Agents and each
Lender by Electronic Transmission and in detail reasonably satisfactory to Agents and the Required
Lenders:

          (a) as soon as available, but not later than ninety (90) days after the end of each
Fiscal Year, a copy of the audited consolidated balance sheets of the Borrowers and each of
their Subsidiaries as at the end of such year and the related consolidated statements of
income or operations and cash flows for such Fiscal Year, setting forth in each case in
comparative form the figures for the previous Fiscal Year, and accompanied by the report of
any “Big Four” or other nationally-recognized independent public accounting firm reasonably
acceptable to Agents which report shall contain an unqualified opinion, stating that such
consolidated financial statements present fairly in all material respects the financial
position for the periods indicated in conformity with GAAP applied on a basis consistent
with prior years;

          (b) as soon as available, but not later than forty-five (45) days after the end of
each of the first three Fiscal Quarters of each Fiscal Year, a copy of the unaudited
consolidated balance sheets of the Borrowers and each of their Subsidiaries, and the
related consolidated statements of income and cash flows as of the end of such Fiscal
Quarter and for the portion of the Fiscal Year then ended, all certified on behalf of the
Borrowers by an appropriate Responsible Officer of the Borrower Representative as being
complete and correct and fairly presenting, in all material respects, in accordance with
GAAP, the financial position and the results of operations of the Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries, subject to normal year-end adjustments and absence of footnote disclosures;
and

          (c) as soon as available, but not later than thirty (30) days after the end of each
Fiscal Month of each Fiscal Year, a copy of the unaudited consolidated balance sheets of
the Borrowers and each of their Subsidiaries, and the related consolidated of income and
cash flows as of the end of such Fiscal Month and for the portion of the Fiscal Year then
ended, all certified on behalf of the Borrowers by an appropriate Responsible Officer of
the Borrower Representative as being complete and correct and fairly presenting, in all
material respects, in accordance with GAAP, the financial position and the results of
operations of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries, subject to normal year-end adjustments
and absence of footnote disclosures.

     4.2 Appraisals; Certificates; Other Information. The Borrowers shall furnish to
Agents and each Lender by Electronic Transmission:

          (a) upon the request of either Agent, and in any event no more frequently than once
per each Fiscal Month of the Borrowers, (i) a management

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discussion and analysis report, in reasonable detail, signed by the chief financial
officer of the Borrower Representative, describing the operations and financial condition
of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Month and the portion of the
Fiscal Year then ended (or for the Fiscal Year then ended in the case of annual financial
statements), and (ii) a report setting forth in comparative form the corresponding figures
for the corresponding periods of the previous Fiscal Year and the corresponding figures
from the most recent projections for the current Fiscal Year delivered pursuant to
Section 4.2(i) and discussing the reasons for any significant variations;

          (b) promptly after the same are sent, copies of all financial statements and reports
which any Credit Party sends to its shareholders or other equity holders, as applicable,
generally and promptly after the same are filed, copies of all financial statements and
regular, periodic or special reports which such Person may make to, or file with, the
Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor or similar Governmental Authority;

          (c) as soon as available and in any event by 12:00 noon on Wednesday of each calendar
week, and at such other times as either Agent may reasonably require, a Borrowing Base
Certificate, certified on behalf of the Borrowers by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower
Representative, setting forth the Borrowing Base of each Borrower as at the last day of the
immediately preceding week, provided, however, that, if an Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, a Borrowing Base Certificate shall be delivered to Agents
at any time and for any period as may be requested by either Agent;

          (d) as soon as available and in any event no later than ten (10) Business Days after
the last day of each Fiscal Month of the Borrowers, a summary of Inventory as of the prior
month by location and type, accompanied by such supporting detail and documentation as
shall be requested by either Agent in its reasonable discretion;

          (e) as soon as available and in any event no later than five (5) Business Days after
the last day of each Fiscal Month of the Borrowers, a monthly receivables trial balance
showing Accounts outstanding aged from invoice date as follows: 1 to 30 days, 31 to 60
days, 61 to 90 days and 91 days or more, accompanied by such supporting detail and
documentation as shall be requested by either Agent in its reasonable discretion;

          (f) as soon as available and in any event no later than ten (10) Business Days after
the last day of each Fiscal Month of the Borrowers or at such more frequent intervals as
either Agent may request from time to time (together with a copy of all or any part of such
delivery requested by any Lender in writing after the Closing Date), collateral reports for
the prior month, including all additions and reductions (cash and non-cash) with respect to
Credit Card Receivables of the Credit Parties in each case accompanied by such supporting
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discretion each of which shall be prepared by the Borrower Representative as of the
last day of the immediately preceding week or the date 2 days prior to the date of any
request;

          (g) as soon as available and in any event no later than concurrently with the delivery
of the financial statement required pursuant to Section 4.1(c);

     (i) a reconciliation of the most recent Borrowing Base, general ledger of each
Borrower to such Borrower’s general ledger and monthly financial statements
delivered pursuant to Section 4.1(c), in each case accompanied by such
supporting detail and documentation as shall be requested by either Agent in its
reasonable discretion;

     (ii) a reconciliation of (A) the inventory and accounts receivable aging to
each Borrower’s most recent Borrowing Base Certificate, general ledger and most
recent Financial Statements delivered pursuant to Section 4.1(c) and (B)
the accounts payable aging to each Borrower’s general ledger and most recent
Financial Statements delivered pursuant to Section 4.1(c), in each case
accompanied by such supporting detail and documentation as shall be requested by
either Agent in its reasonable discretion; and

     (iii) a reconciliation of the outstanding Loans as set forth in the monthly
loan account statement provided by Agents to each Borrower’s general ledger and
monthly Financial Statements delivered pursuant to Section 4.1(c), in each
case accompanied by such supporting detail and documentation as shall be requested
by either Agent in its reasonable discretion;

          (h) at the time of delivery of each of the quarterly financial statements delivered
pursuant to Section 4.1(b), a list of any applications for the registration of any
Patent, Trademark or Copyright filed by any Credit Party with the United States Patent and
Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any similar office or agency in
each case entered into or filed in the prior Fiscal Quarter;

          (i) Intentionally Omitted;

          (j) promptly upon receipt thereof, copies of any reports submitted by the certified
public accountants in connection with each annual, interim or special audit or review of
any type of the financial statements or internal control systems of any Credit Party made
by such accountants, including any comment letters submitted by such accountants to
management of any Credit Party in connection with their services;

          (k) upon either Agent’s request from time to time, the Credit Parties shall permit and
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Working Capital Agent to obtain appraisals (with copies to be sent to the Term B
Agent) in form and substance and from appraisers reasonably satisfactory to Agents stating
the then Net Orderly Liquidation Value, or such other value as determined by Agents, of all
or any portion of the Inventory of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party;
provided, that notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, the Credit Parties
shall only be obligated to reimburse Working Capital Agent for the expenses of such
appraisals occurring (A) four (4) times in any twelve consecutive month period; provided
that if Availability in the aggregate is less than $40,000,000, Working Capital Agent may
in its Permitted Discretion, at Borrower’s cost and expense, require “desk top” appraisals
to be conducted in any month in which a quarterly appraisal pursuant to clause (A) is being
conducted and (B) any time an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;

          (l) as soon as available and in any event no later than five (5) Business Days after
the last day of each Fiscal Quarter of the Borrowers, a report, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to Agents setting forth a summary of all litigation,
investigations, proceedings or suspensions arising after the Closing Date which may exist
at any time between any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party and any
Governmental Authority that is reasonably likely to result in payments by any Credit Party
in excess of $1,000,000;

          (m) together with each delivery of financial statements pursuant to Section
4.1(a), 4.1(b) and 4.1(c), a compliance certificate in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit (4.2)(m).

          (n) promptly, such additional business, financial, corporate affairs, perfection
certificates and other information as either Agent may from time to time reasonably
request.

     4.3 Notices. The Borrowers shall notify promptly Agents and each Lender of each of
the following (and in no event later than three (3) Business Days after a Responsible Officer
becoming aware thereof):

          (a) the occurrence or existence of any Default or Event of Default;

          (b) except as is permitted pursuant to Section 4.18 or otherwise approved by
the Bankruptcy Court, any breach or non-performance of, or any default under, any
Contractual Obligation of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, or any
violation of, or non-compliance with, any Requirement of Law, which would reasonably be
expected to result, either individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect,
including a description of such breach, non-performance, default, violation or
non-compliance and the steps, if any, such Person has taken, is taking or proposes to take
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          (c) any dispute, litigation, investigation, proceeding or suspension which may exist
at any time between any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party and any
Governmental Authority which would reasonably be expected to result, either individually or
in the aggregate, in Liabilities in excess of $1,000,000;

          (d) after the Petition Date, the commencement of, or any material development in, any
litigation or proceeding affecting any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party
(i) in which the amount of damages claimed is $1,000,000 (or its equivalent in another
currency or currencies) or more, (ii) in which injunctive or similar relief is sought and
which, if adversely determined, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect, or (iii) in which the relief sought is an injunction or other stay of the
performance of this Agreement or any other Loan Document;

          (e) (i) the receipt by any Credit Party of any notice of violation of or potential
liability or similar notice under Environmental Law, (ii) upon becoming aware of (A)
unlawful Releases, (B) the existence of any condition that could reasonably be expected to
result in violations of or Liabilities under, any Environmental Law or (C) the commencement
of, or any material change to, any action, investigation, suit, proceeding, audit, claim,
demand, dispute alleging a violation of or Liability under any Environmental Law which in
the case of clauses (A), (B) or (C) would reasonably be expected to
result in Material Environmental Liabilities, (iii) the receipt by any Credit Party of
notification that any property of any Credit Party is subject to any Lien in favor of any
Governmental Authority securing, in whole or in part, Environmental Liabilities and (iv)
any proposed acquisition or lease of Real Estate, if such acquisition or lease would have a
reasonable likelihood of resulting in Material Environmental Liabilities;

          (f) (i) on or prior to any filing by any ERISA Affiliate of any notice of any
reportable event under Section 4043 of ERISA, or intent to terminate any Title IV Plan, a
copy of such notice (ii) promptly, and in any event within ten (10) days, after any officer
of any ERISA Affiliate knows or has reason to know that a request for a minimum funding
waiver under Section 412 of the Code has been filed with respect to any Title IV Plan or
Multiemployer Plan, a notice describing such waiver request and any action that any ERISA
Affiliate proposes to take with respect thereto, together with a copy of any notice filed
with the PBGC or the IRS pertaining thereto, and (iii) promptly, and in any event within
ten (10) days after any officer of any ERISA Affiliate knows or has reason to know that an
ERISA Event will or has occurred, a notice describing such ERISA Event, and any action that
any ERISA Affiliate proposes to take with respect thereto, together with a copy of any
notices received from or filed with the PBGC, IRS, Multiemployer Plan or other Benefit Plan
pertaining thereto;

          (g) any Material Adverse Effect subsequent to the date of the Petition Date;

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          (h) any material change in accounting policies or financial reporting practices by any
Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party;

          (i) any labor controversy resulting in or threatening to result in any strike, work
stoppage, boycott, shutdown or other labor disruption against or involving any Credit Party
or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party if the same would reasonably be expected to have,
either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect;

          (j) the creation, establishment or acquisition of any Subsidiary or the issuance by or
to any Credit Party of any Stock or Stock Equivalent;

          (k) (i) the creation, or filing with the IRS or any other Governmental Authority, of
any Contractual Obligation or other document extending, or having the effect of extending,
the period for assessment or collection of any income or franchise or other material taxes
with respect to any Tax Affiliate and (ii) the creation of any Contractual Obligation of
any Tax Affiliate, or the receipt of any request directed to any Tax Affiliate, to make any
material adjustment under Section 481(a) of the Code, by reason of a change in accounting
method or otherwise; and

          (l) any notice of default (in respect of a default which has not been cured prior to
the receipt of such notice) under any Real Estate lease or any lease guaranteed by any
Credit Party, including the Real Estate affected thereby, other than any notice of default
with respect to a Real Estate lease that will be the subject of a Permitted Store Closing.

Each notice pursuant to this Section 4.3 shall be in electronic form accompanied by a
statement by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower Representative, on behalf of the Borrowers,
setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein, and stating what action the Borrowers
or other Person proposes to take with respect thereto and at what time.

     4.4 Preservation of Corporate Existence, Etc. Except as occasioned by the Chapter 11
Cases, each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to:

          (a) preserve and maintain in full force and effect its organizational existence and
good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or
formation, as applicable, except, with respect to the Borrowers’ Subsidiaries, in
connection with transactions permitted by Section 5.3;

          (b) preserve and maintain in full force and effect all rights, privileges,
qualifications, permits, licenses and franchises necessary in the normal conduct of its
business except in connection with transactions permitted by Section 5.3 and sales
of assets permitted by Section 5.2 and except as would not reasonably be expected
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          (c) preserve or renew all of its registered trademarks, trade names and service marks,
the non-preservation of which would reasonably be expected to have, either individually or
in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; and

          (d) conduct its business and affairs without infringement of or interference with any
Intellectual Property of any other Person in any material respect and shall comply in all
material respects with the terms of its IP Licenses.

          Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Subsidiary of BGI may be liquidated, wound up, struck
off or dissolved, or all or any part of its business, property, or assets may be conveyed,
sold, leased, transferred, contributed or otherwise disposed of, in one transaction or a
series of transactions, to a Borrower or other Credit Party and any Excluded Subsidiary may
be merged with or amalgamated into any other Foreign Subsidiary or be liquidated.

     4.5 Maintenance of Property. Except as occasioned by the Chapter 11 Cases, each
Credit Party shall maintain, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain, and preserve all
its Property which is used or useful in its business in good working order and condition, ordinary
wear and tear excepted and shall make all necessary repairs thereto and renewals and replacements
thereof except where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have, either
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

     4.6 Insurance.

          (a) Each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (i) maintain
or cause to be maintained in full force and effect all policies of insurance of any kind
with respect to the property and businesses of the Credit Parties and such Subsidiaries
(including policies of life, fire, theft, product liability, public liability, Flood
Insurance, property damage, other casualty, employee fidelity, workers’ compensation,
business interruption and employee health and welfare insurance) with financially sound and
reputable insurance companies or associations (in each case that are not Affiliates of the
Borrowers) of a nature and providing such coverage as is sufficient and as is customarily
carried by businesses of the size and character of the business of the Credit Parties and
(ii) cause all such insurance relating to any property or business of any Credit Party to
name Working Capital Agent as additional insured or loss payee, as appropriate. All
policies of insurance on real and personal property of the Credit Parties will contain an
endorsement, in form and substance acceptable to Agents, showing loss payable to Working
Capital Agent (Form CP 1218 or equivalent) and extra expense and business interruption
endorsements. Such endorsement shall provide that no act or default of the Credit Parties
or any other Person shall affect the right of Working Capital Agent to recover under such
policy or policies of insurance in case of loss or damage. The Credit Parties will give
Agents at least 45 days’ prior written notice before any such policy or policies of
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all present and future insurers under its “All Risk” policies of property insurance to
pay all proceeds payable thereunder directly to Working Capital Agent (such proceeds to be
subject to the provisions in Section 1.8(e) and (f)). If any insurance
proceeds are paid by check, draft or other instrument payable to any Credit Party and
Working Capital Agent jointly, Working Capital Agent may endorse such Credit Party’s name
thereon and do such other things as Working Capital Agent may deem advisable to reduce the
same to cash. Agents reserve the right at any time, upon review of each Credit Party’s
risk profile, to require additional forms and limits of insurance. Notwithstanding the
requirement in clause (i) above, Federal Flood Insurance shall not be required for (x) Real
Estate not located in a Special Flood Hazard Area, or (y) Real Estate located in a Special
Flood Hazard Area in a community that does not participate in the National Flood Insurance
Program.

          (b) Unless the Credit Parties provide Agents with evidence of the insurance coverage
required by this Agreement, Working Capital Agent may purchase insurance at the Credit
Parties’ expense to protect Agents’ and Lenders’ interests in the Credit Parties’ and their
Subsidiaries’ properties. This insurance may, but need not, protect the Credit Parties’
and their Subsidiaries’ interests. The coverage that Working Capital Agent purchases may
not pay any claim that any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party makes or any
claim that is made against such Credit Party or any Subsidiary in connection with said
Property. The Credit Parties may later cancel any insurance purchased by Working Capital
Agent, but only after providing Agents with evidence that there has been obtained insurance
as required by this Agreement. If Working Capital Agent purchases insurance, the Credit
Parties will be responsible for the costs of that insurance, including any charges, fees
and expenses incurred by Working Capital Agent in connection with the placement of
insurance, until the effective date of the cancellation or expiration of the insurance.
The costs of the insurance shall be added to the Obligations and shall bear interest at the
Base Rate plus the Revolving Applicable Margin and the default rate for Revolving Loans
under Section 1.3(c), and shall be due and payable upon demand of Working Capital
Agent. The costs of the insurance may be more than the cost of insurance the Credit
Parties may be able to obtain on their own.

     4.7 Payment of Obligations. Except as occasioned by the Chapter 11 Cases, each
Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, pay, discharge and perform as the
same shall become due and payable or required to be performed, all their respective obligations and
liabilities, including:

          (a) all tax liabilities, assessments and governmental charges or levies upon it or its
Property, unless (i) the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings
diligently prosecuted which stay the filing or enforcement of any Lien and for which
adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained by such Person; and (ii) the
aggregate Liabilities secured by such Lien do not exceed $2,500,000.

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          (b) all lawful claims which, if unpaid, would by law become a Lien upon its Property
unless the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently
prosecuted which stay the imposition or enforcement of any Lien and for which adequate
reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained by such Person;

          (c) except as permitted pursuant to Section 4.18 or otherwise approved by the
Bankruptcy Court, the performance of all obligations under any Contractual Obligation to
such Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries is bound, or to which it or any of its
Property is subject, except where the failure to perform would not reasonably be expected
to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; and

          (d) payments to the extent necessary to avoid the imposition of a Lien with respect
to, or the involuntary termination of any underfunded Benefit Plan.

     4.8 Compliance with Laws. Each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its
Subsidiaries to, comply with all Requirements of Law of any Governmental Authority having
jurisdiction over it or its business, except where the failure to comply would not reasonably be
expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

     4.9 Inspection of Property and Books and Records. (a) Each Credit Party shall
maintain and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain proper books of record and account,
in which full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP consistently applied shall be made
of all financial transactions and matters involving the assets and business of such Person. Each
Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, with respect to each owned,
leased, or controlled property, during normal business hours and upon reasonable advance notice
(unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, in which event no notice shall
be required and Agents shall have access at any and all times during the continuance thereof): (a)
provide access to such property to Agents and any of its Related Persons, as frequently as either
Agent determines to be appropriate; and (b) permit Working Capital Agent and any of its Related
Persons to conduct field examinations, audit, inspect and make extracts and copies (or take
originals if reasonably necessary) from all of such Credit Party’s books and records (and Term B
Agent shall be entitled to a copy, at Borrowers’ expense, of all such books and records), and
evaluate and make physical verifications of the Inventory and other Collateral in any manner and
through any medium that Working Capital Agent considers advisable, in each instance, at the Credit
Parties’ expense; provided the Credit Parties shall only be obligated to reimburse Working Capital
Agent for the expenses for (A) four (4) such field examinations, audits and inspections in any
twelve consecutive month period, in the event that no Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing and (B) all field examinations, audits and inspections conducted during the occurrence
and continuance of an Event of Default. Any Lender or Term B Agent may cause Working Capital Agent
to (and Working Capital Agent shall) exercise its rights under this Section

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4.9. Any Lender and Term B Agent may accompany Working Capital Agent or its Related
Persons in connection with any inspection at Borrowers’ expense.

(b) Each Credit Party shall permit any Agent and any of its Related Persons from time to
time, subject (except when a Default or Event of Default exists) to reasonable notice, to
discuss with officers, senior management, its independent accountants, financial advisors,
restructuring advisors, sales consultants, investment bankers and other consultants such
Person’s business, financial condition, assets (including Inventory and Credit Card
Receivables programs), prospects and results of operations, and each such Person is hereby
authorized and instructed to discuss and cooperate with such Agent or such Related Person
regarding the same.

     4.10 Use of Proceeds. The Borrowers shall use the proceeds of the Loans solely as
follows: (a) on the Closing Date, to repay the Pre-Petition Facilities and to pay all Transaction
Expenses in the manner specified in Section 2.1(c) and (ii) after the Closing Date, as
contemplated by Section 3.8(b)(ii).

     4.11 Cash Management Systems.

          (a) The Interim Order (or the Final Order, when applicable) shall grant Working
Capital Agent (on behalf of Secured Parties) a validly perfected first priority Lien on
each deposit account and each Control Account. Each Credit Party shall enter into, and
cause each depository, securities intermediary or commodities intermediary to enter into,
Control Agreements providing for “full” cash dominion with respect to each Control Account,
securities, commodity or similar account (including, without limitation, any lockbox or
similar arrangements) maintained by such Person as of or after the Closing Date. The Cash
Management Order shall direct each Credit Party to and each Credit Party shall (a) cause
all payments (including, without limitation, all cash, checks, drafts or other similar
items of payment) received by such Credit Party each day to be deposited into a Control
Account or Local Deposit Account (as defined below) within three (3) Business Day following
receipt, (b) cause all funds in local store deposit accounts which do not constitute
Control Accounts (“Local Deposit Accounts”) to be transferred within 48 hours to a
Control Account (other than the Concentration Account) that is subject to a Control
Agreement or to the Concentration Account, (c) cause all funds in the Control Accounts
(other than the Concentration Account) to be transferred on a daily basis to the
Concentration Account; and (d) from and after the Closing Date, all amounts received in the
Concentration Account shall be swept daily into the Working Capital Collection Account.
The Credit Parties shall not maintain cash on deposit in disbursement accounts in excess of
outstanding checks and wire transfers payable from such accounts and amounts necessary to
meet minimum balance requirements.

          (b) Each Control Agreement shall provide, among other things, that the depository,
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executing such agreement has no rights of setoff or recoupment or any other claim
against such account, other than for payment of its service fees and other charges directly
related to the administration of such account and for returned checks or other items of
payment (except as Agents may otherwise agree in writing).

          (c) All amounts deposited in the Working Capital Collection Account shall be deemed
received by the Working Capital Agent in accordance with Section 1.10(a) and shall
be applied (and allocated) by such Agent in accordance with Section 1.10(c)(i), or
Section 1.10(c)(ii), as the case may be. In no event shall any amount be so
applied unless and until such amount shall have been credited in immediately available
funds to the Working Capital Collection Account. The Credit Parties shall deposit Net Term
B Proceeds into the Term B Collection Account.

          (d) Credit Parties may amend Schedule 3.22 to add or replace any deposit
account or other account; provided, that (i) Agents shall have consented in writing in
advance to the opening of such account with the relevant depository, securities
intermediary or commodities intermediary and (ii) with respect to any additional or
replacement Control Account, securities account, or commodities account, except as Agents
may otherwise agree in writing, prior to the time of the opening of such account, the
applicable Credit Party and the applicable depository, securities intermediary or
commodities intermediary shall have executed and delivered to Working Capital Agent a
Control Agreement.

          (e) Credit Parties shall close any of their respective accounts (and establish
replacement accounts in accordance with clause (d) hereof) promptly and in any
event within thirty (30) days following notice from Agents that the creditworthiness of any
bank holding an account is no longer acceptable in Agents’ reasonable judgment, or as
promptly as practicable and in any event within sixty (60) days following notice from
Agents that the operating performance, funds transfer or availability procedures or
performance with respect to accounts of the depository, securities intermediary or
commodities intermediary holding such accounts or Working Capital Agent’s liability under
any Control Agreement with such depository, securities intermediary or commodities
intermediary is no longer acceptable in Agents; reasonable judgment.

     4.12 Lien Waivers. As reasonably requested by either Agent and to the extent not
otherwise addressed to such Agent’s reasonable satisfaction in the Final Order, each Credit Party
shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain a Lien Waiver from (i) the lessor of each
leased property located in a Landlord Lien State or constituting a Large Inventory Location, (ii)
bailee in possession of any Collateral or (iii) mortgagee of any Real Estate owned by a Borrower
with respect to each location where any Collateral is stored or located. Each Credit Party shall
timely and fully pay and perform its obligations in all material respects under all leases and
other agreements with respect to each leased location or public warehouse where any Collateral is
or may be located.

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     4.13 Further Assurances.

          (a) Each Credit Party shall ensure that all written information, exhibits and reports
furnished to Agents or the Lenders do not and will not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact and do not and will not omit to state any material fact or any fact necessary
to make the statements contained therein not misleading in light of the circumstances in
which made, and will promptly disclose to Agents and the Lenders and correct any defect or
error that may be discovered therein or in any Loan Document or in the execution,
acknowledgement or recordation thereof.

          (b) Promptly upon request by either Agent (and subject to the approval of the
Bankruptcy Court, if required), the Credit Parties shall (and, subject to the limitations
hereinafter set forth, shall cause each of their Subsidiaries to) take such additional
actions and execute such documents as such Agent may reasonably require from time to time
in order (i) to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document, (ii) to subject to the Liens created by any of the Collateral Documents any of
the Properties, rights or interests covered by any of the Collateral Documents, (iii) to
perfect and maintain the validity, effectiveness and priority of any of the Collateral
Documents and the Liens intended to be created thereby, and (iv) to better assure, convey,
grant, assign, transfer, preserve, protect and confirm to the Secured Parties the rights
granted or now or hereafter intended to be granted to the Secured Parties under any Loan
Document (including, without limitation, by conducting such searches under the Uniform
Commercial Code in any jurisdiction, at such times (including periodic intervals), as
either Agent may reasonably require or request). Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing and except as otherwise approved in writing by Required Lenders, the Credit
Parties shall cause each of their Domestic Subsidiaries (other than Domestic Subsidiaries
owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary) and, to the extent no 956 Impact exists,
Foreign Subsidiaries, and Domestic Subsidiaries owned indirectly through a Foreign
Subsidiary, to guaranty the Obligations and to cause each such Subsidiary to grant to
Working Capital Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in,
subject to the limitations hereinafter set forth, all of such Subsidiary’s Property to
secure such guaranty and to join this Agreement and the Guaranty and Security Agreement
pursuant to the form of joinder agreement attached to the Guaranty and Security Agreement.
Furthermore and except as otherwise approved in writing by Required Lenders, each Credit
Party shall, and shall cause each of its Domestic Subsidiaries (other than Domestic
Subsidiaries owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary) to, pledge all of the Stock and
Stock Equivalents of each of its Domestic Subsidiaries (other than Domestic Subsidiaries
owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary) and First Tier Foreign Subsidiaries
(provided that with respect to any First Tier Foreign Subsidiary, if a 956 Impact exists
such pledge shall be limited to sixty-five percent (65%) of such Foreign Subsidiary’s
outstanding voting Stock and Stock Equivalents and one hundred percent (100%) of such
Foreign Subsidiary’s outstanding non-voting Stock and Stock Equivalents) and to the extent
no 956

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Impact exists, each of its Foreign Subsidiaries to pledge all of the Stock and Stock
Equivalent of each of its Subsidiaries, in each instance, to Working Capital Agent, for the
benefit of the Secured Parties, to secure the Obligations. In connection with each pledge
of Stock and Stock Equivalents, the Credit Parties shall deliver, or cause to be delivered,
to Working Capital Agent, irrevocable proxies and stock powers and/or assignments, as
applicable, duly executed in blank. In the event any Credit Party or any Domestic
Subsidiary (other than Domestic Subsidiaries owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary)
and, to the extent no 956 Impact exists, any Foreign Subsidiary, and any Domestic
Subsidiaries owned indirectly through a Foreign Subsidiary, of any Credit Party acquires
any Real Estate, simultaneously with such acquisition, such Person shall execute and/or
deliver, or cause to be executed and/or delivered, to Agents, (v) an appraisal complying
with FIRREA, (w) within forty-five days of receipt of notice from any Agent that Real
Estate is located in a Special Flood Hazard Area, Federal Flood Insurance as required by
Section 4.6(a), (x) a fully executed Mortgage, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to Agents together with an A.L.T.A. lender’s title insurance policy issued by
a title insurer reasonably satisfactory to Agents, in form and substance and in an amount
reasonably satisfactory to Agents insuring that the Mortgage is a valid and enforceable
first priority Lien on the respective property, free and clear of all defects, encumbrances
and Liens, (y) then current A.L.T.A. surveys, certified to Working Capital Agent by a
licensed surveyor sufficient to allow the issuer of the lender’s title insurance policy to
issue such policy without a survey exception and (z) an environmental site assessment
prepared by a qualified firm reasonably acceptable to Working Capital Agent and Term B
Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to Working Capital Agent and Term B Agent. A
“956 Impact” will be deemed to exist to the extent the issuance of a guaranty by,
grant of a Lien by, or pledge of greater than two-thirds of the voting Stock and Stock
Equivalents of, a Foreign Subsidiary, would result in material incremental income tax
liability as a result of the application of Section 956 of the Code, taking into account
actual anticipated repatriation of funds, foreign tax credits and other relevant factors.
In addition to the obligations set forth in Sections 4.6(a) and 4.13(b)(w),
within forty-five days after written notice from Working Capital Agent to Credit Parties
that any Real Estate is located in a Special Flood Hazard Area, Credit Parties shall
satisfy the Federal Flood Insurance requirements of Section 4.6(a).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the Credit Parties be obligated to execute
or deliver any Mortgage in respect of Real Estate that is leased but not owned by a Credit
Party.

     4.14 Environmental Matters. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each
Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with, and maintain its Real
Estate, whether owned, leased, subleased or otherwise operated or occupied, in compliance with, all
applicable Environmental Laws (including by implementing any Remedial Action necessary to achieve
such compliance or that is required by orders and directives of any Governmental Authority except
where the failure to comply would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate,
result in a Material Environmental Liability. Without limiting the foregoing, if an Event of
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there exist violations of Environmental Laws by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any
Credit Party or that there exist any Environmental Liabilities, then each Credit Party shall,
promptly upon receipt of request from either Agent, cause the performance of, and allow either
Agent and its Related Persons access to such Real Estate for the purpose of conducting, such
environmental audits and assessments, including subsurface sampling of soil and groundwater, and
cause the preparation of such reports, in each case as either Agent may from time to time
reasonably request, and in each case, if permitted by the Credit Parties’ leases and other
Contractual Obligations. Such audits, assessments and reports, to the extent not conducted by
either Agent or any of their Related Persons, shall be conducted and prepared by reputable
environmental consulting firms reasonably acceptable to such Agent and shall be in form and
substance reasonably acceptable to such Agent.

     4.15 Restructuring Advisers. Credit Parties shall continue to retain AlixPartners as
restructuring advisers or retain such other advisor acceptable to Agents and on terms and
conditions satisfactory to Agents until Credit Parties have substantially consummated a plan of
reorganization. Each Agent shall retain the right to engage its own restructuring advisers or
consultants at Borrowers’ cost and expense pursuant to Section 9.5 hereof. Subject to
Section 4.9, the Credit Parties and their representatives will fully cooperate with any
such advisers and consultants and grant them full and complete access to the books and records of
the Credit Parties.

     4.16 Approved Budget.

          (a) The use of Loans by the Credit Parties under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents shall be limited in accordance with the Approved Budget. The initial Approved
Budget shall depict, on a weekly basis, cash revenues, receipts, expenses and disbursements
and other information for the first 16 week period from the Closing Date and such initial
Approved Budget shall be approved by, and in form and substance satisfactory to, Agents and
Term B Lenders in their discretion. The Approved Budget shall be updated, modified or
supplemented (with the consent and/or at the request of either Agent) from time to time,
but in any event not less than on a monthly basis (with the delivery to Agents on or before
the 10th day of each calendar month), and each such updated, modified or supplemented
budget shall be approved by, and in form and substance satisfactory to, Agents and Term B
Lenders in their discretion and no such updated, modified or supplemented budget shall be
effective until so approved and once so approved shall be deemed an Approved Budget;
provided, however that in the event that Agents and Term B Lenders, on the one
hand, and the Credit Parties, on the other hand, cannot agree as to an updated, modified or
supplemented budget, such disagreement shall give rise to an Event of Default hereunder
once the period covered by the most recent Approved Budget has terminated. Each Approved
Budget delivered to Agents shall be accompanied by such supporting documentation as
reasonably requested by Agents. Each Approved Budget shall be prepared in good faith based
upon assumptions which the Credit Parties believe to be reasonable and satisfactory to
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          (b) The Borrower Representative shall deliver to Agents on or before 12:00 p.m. (New
York time) on Wednesday of each week (unless such day is not a Business Day, in which event
the next succeeding Business Day) a compliance certificate, in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit 4.2(m), and such compliance certificate shall be in substance satisfactory to
Agents, signed by a financial officer of the Borrower Representative certifying that (i)
the Credit Parties are in compliance with the covenants contained in Section 5.21
and (ii) no Default or Event of Default has occurred or, if such a Default or Event of
Default has occurred, specifying the nature and extent thereof and any corrective action
taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, together with (A) comparison for the
Prior Week of the Actual Sales Receipts and Actual Disbursement Amounts for such Prior Week
to the Budgeted Sales Receipts and Budgeted Disbursement Amounts for such Prior Week, (B) a
cumulative comparison for the Cumulative Four Week Period of the Actual Sales Receipts and
Actual Disbursement Amounts for such Cumulative Four Week Period to the Budgeted Sales
Receipts and Budgeted Disbursement Amounts for such Cumulative Four Week Period, (C) a
cumulative comparison for the Cumulative Period of the Actual Sales Receipts and Actual
Disbursement Amounts for such Cumulative Period to the Budgeted Sales Receipts and Budgeted
Disbursement Amounts for such Cumulative Period, and (D) an Approved Budget Variance
Report, each of which shall be prepared by the Borrower Representative as of the last day
of the Prior Week, the Cumulative Four Week Period or the Cumulative Period, as applicable,
and shall be in form and substance satisfactory to Agents.

          (c) Agents and Lenders (i) may assume that the Credit Parties will comply with the
Approved Budget, (ii) shall have no duty to monitor such compliance and (iii) shall not be
obligated to pay (directly or indirectly from the Collateral) any unpaid expenses incurred
or authorized to be incurred pursuant to any Approved Budget. The line items in the
Approved Budget for payment of interest, expenses and other amounts to Agents and the
Lenders are estimates only, and the Credit Parties remain obligated to pay any and all
Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and the Interim Order and
Final Order. Nothing in any Approved Budget (including any estimates of a loan balance in
excess of borrowing base restrictions) shall constitute an amendment or other modification
of any Loan Document or any of the borrowing base restrictions or other lending limits set
forth therein.

     4.17 Status of Permitted Store Closings. Promptly upon any such information
becoming available to Credit Parties, each Credit Party shall provide Agents copies of any
informational packages provided to potential bidders, draft agency agreements, the deadlines
established as to receipt of bids and, upon request of Agents, a status report and updated
information relating to the Permitted Store Closings and copies of any such bids and any updates,
modifications or supplements to such information and materials.

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     4.18 Leases.

          (a) The Credit Parties shall pay all Post-Petition obligations under the Store Leases
listed on Schedule 4.18 and Licenses of Intellectual Property, if any, as required
by the Bankruptcy Code or the Bankruptcy Court, except to the extent (i) the Credit Parties
are contesting any such obligations in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (ii) the
Credit Parties have established proper reserves as required under GAAP, and (iii) the
nonpayment of which does not result in the imposition of a Lien (other than a Permitted
Encumbrance).

          (b) Other than with respect to leases relating to a Permitted Store Closing, the
Credit Parties may assume or reject any of their Real Estate leases, only upon written
consent of Agents (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), and in a
manner consistent with a maximization of the value of the assets of the Credit Parties.

ARTICLE V.

NEGATIVE COVENANTS

     Each Credit Party covenants and agrees that, so long as any Revolving Lender shall have any
Revolving Commitment hereunder, or any Loan or other Obligation (other than contingent
indemnification Obligations to the extent no claim giving rise thereto has been asserted) shall
remain unpaid or unsatisfied:

     5.1 Limitation on Liens. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or
permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make, create, incur, assume or suffer to
exist any Lien upon or with respect to any part of its Property, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired, other than the following (“Permitted Liens”):

          (a) any Lien existing on the Property of a Credit Party or a Subsidiary of a Credit
Party on the Closing Date and set forth in Schedule 5.1 securing Indebtedness
outstanding on such date and permitted by Section 5.5(c), including replacement
Liens on the Property currently subject to such Liens securing Indebtedness permitted by
Section 5.5(c);

          (b) any Lien created under any Loan Document;

          (c) Liens for taxes, fees, assessments or other governmental charges (i) which are not
past due or remain payable without penalty, or (ii) the non-payment of which is permitted
by Section 4.7;

          (d) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, landlords’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s or
other similar Liens arising in the Ordinary Course of Business under operation of law which
are not past due or remain payable without penalty or which are being contested in good
faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently prosecuted, which proceedings have the
effect of preventing the forfeiture or sale of the Property subject thereto and for which
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          (e) Liens (other than any Lien imposed by ERISA or otherwise in respect of a Benefit
Plan) consisting of pledges or deposits required in the Ordinary Course of Business in
connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security
legislation or to secure the performance of tenders, statutory obligations, surety, stay,
customs and appeals bonds, bids, leases, governmental contract, trade contracts,
performance and return of money bonds and other similar obligations (exclusive of
obligations for the payment of borrowed money) or to secure liability to insurance
carriers;

          (f) Liens consisting of judgment or judicial attachment liens that have been in force
for less than the applicable period for taking an appeal so long as execution is not levied
thereunder or in respect of which such Credit Party shall at the time in good faith be
prosecuting an appeal or proceedings for review and in respect or which a stay of execution
shall have been obtained pending such appeal or review;

          (g) easements, rights-of-way, zoning and other restrictions, minor defects or other
irregularities in title, and other similar encumbrances incurred in the Ordinary Course of
Business which, either individually or in the aggregate, are not substantial in amount, and
which do not in any case materially detract from the value of the Property subject thereto
or interfere in any material respect with the ordinary conduct of the businesses of any
Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party;

          (h) Liens on any Property acquired or held by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of
any Credit Party securing Indebtedness incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing (or
refinancing) all or any part of the cost of acquiring such Property and permitted under
Section 5.5(f); provided that (i) any such Lien attaches to such Property
concurrently with or within thirty (30) days after the acquisition thereof, (ii) such Lien
attaches solely to the Property so acquired in such transaction and the proceeds thereof,
and (iii) the principal amount of the debt secured thereby does not exceed 100% of the cost
of such Property;

          (i) Liens securing Capital Lease Obligations permitted under Section 5.5(d);

          (j) any interest or title of a lessor or sublessor under any lease permitted by this
Agreement;

          (k) (i) exclusive licenses and sublicenses listed on Schedule 5.1(k) and (ii)
non-exclusive licenses and sublicenses and granted by a Credit Party and leases or
subleases (by a Credit Party as lessor or sublessor) to third parties in the Ordinary
Course of Business not interfering with the business of the Credit Parties or any of their
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          (l) Liens in favor of collecting banks arising by operation of law under Section 4-210
of the Uniform Commercial Code or, with respect to collecting banks located in the State of
New York, under 4-208 of the Uniform Commercial Code;

          (m) Liens (including the right of set-off) in favor of a bank or other depository
institution arising as a matter of law encumbering deposits;

          (n) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law which
secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods in the
Ordinary Course of Business;

          (o) purported Liens evidenced by the filing of precautionary UCC financing statements
(x) relating solely to operating leases entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business of
a Credit Party, provided that such Liens do not extend to any assets other than those that
are the subject of such operating lease or (y) arising out of consignment for sale by the
Credit parties of personal property through third parties in the Ordinary Course of
Business;

          (p) Liens (x) in favor of credit card issuers and/or processors securing standard fees
due by a Credit Party in the Ordinary Course of Business, which fees are within the general
parameters customary in the credit card processing industry and (y) in favor of bank or
other depository institutions arising as a matter of law encumbering deposits and that
constitute contractual rights of setoff entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business;

          (q) Liens in favor of the Approved Liquidator pursuant to the Approved Liquidation
Agreement;

          (r) until the entry of the Interim Order and the funding of the Loans hereunder, the
Liens securing the Pre-Petition Facilities; and

          (s) Other Liens securing obligations in an aggregate amount not exceeding at any time
$250,000.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Permitted Liens under Section 5.1 shall at all times be
junior and subordinate to the Liens under the Loan Documents and the Interim Order and Final Order,
other than the Carve-Out up to the Carve-Out Amount, the Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims
and the Pre-Petition Perfected Liens. The prohibition provided for in this Section 5.1
specifically includes, without limitation, any effort by Borrower, any Committee, or any other
party-in-interest in the Chapter 11 Cases to prime or create pari passu to any claims, Liens or
interests of Working Capital Agent, Term B Agent and Lenders any Lien (other than the Carve-Out up
to the Carve-Out Amount, the Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims and the Pre-Petition
Perfected Liens) irrespective of whether such claims, Liens or interests may be “adequately
protected”.

     5.2 Disposition of Assets. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or
permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, sell, assign, lease,

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convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of (whether in one or a series of transactions) any
Property (including the Stock of any Subsidiary of any Credit Party, whether in a public or a
private offering or otherwise, and accounts and notes receivable, with or without recourse) or
enter into any agreement to do any of the foregoing, except:

          (a) dispositions to any Person other than an Affiliate of a Credit Party pursuant to
the terms set forth in Section 5.6, of (x) Inventory in the Ordinary Course of
Business or (y) worn out or excess equipment having a book value not exceeding $250,000 in
the aggregate in any Fiscal Year, in the Ordinary Course of Business;

          (b) dispositions in connection with any Permitted Store Closings and so long as the
Net Proceeds (or Net Term B Proceeds, as applicable) thereof are paid in accordance with
Section 1.8(e) and (f) hereof (as applicable);

          (c) transactions permitted under Section 5.1(k); and

          (d) any disposition or lease of Property by any Credit Party to any other Credit
Party.

     5.3 Consolidations and Mergers. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall
suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, and no Credit Party shall agree to do any of the
foregoing: to merge, consolidate with or into, or convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of
(whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its assets
(whether now owned or hereafter acquired) to or in favor of any Person, except upon not less than
five (5) Business Days prior written notice to Agents, (a) any Subsidiary of a Borrower may merge
with, or dissolve or liquidate into, a Borrower or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of a Borrower which is
a Domestic Subsidiary, provided that such Borrower or such Wholly-Owned Subsidiary which is a
Domestic Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving entity and all actions required to
maintain perfected Liens on the Stock of the surviving entity and other Collateral in favor of
Working Capital Agent shall have been completed, (b) any Foreign Subsidiary may merge with or
dissolve or liquidate into another Foreign Subsidiary provided if a First Tier Foreign Subsidiary
is a constituent entity in such merger, dissolution or liquidation, such First Tier Foreign
Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving entity, and (c) any Credit Party (other than BGI)
may merge or consolidate into another Credit Party.

     5.4 Acquisitions; Loans and Investments. No Credit Party shall and no Credit Party
shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to (i) purchase or acquire, or make any commitment
to purchase or acquire any Stock or Stock Equivalents, or any obligations or other securities of,
or any interest in, any Person, including the establishment or creation of a Subsidiary, or (ii)
make or commit to make any Acquisitions, or any other acquisition of all or substantially all of
the assets of another Person, or of any business or division of any Person, including without
limitation, by way of merger, consolidation or other combination or (iii) make or purchase, or
commit to make or purchase, any advance, loan, extension of credit or capital contribution to or
any other investment in, any Person including a Borrower, any Affiliate of a Borrower or any
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Borrower (the items described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) are referred to as
“Investments”), except for:

          (a) Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents subject to compliance with Section
4.11;

          (b) extensions of credit by any Borrower to any other Credit Party; provided, that:
(i) if any Credit Party executes and delivers to any Borrower a note (collectively, the
“Intercompany Notes”) to evidence any such intercompany Indebtedness owing by such
Credit Party to that Borrower, that Intercompany Note shall be pledged and delivered to
Working Capital Agent pursuant to the Guaranty and Security Agreement as additional
collateral security for the Obligations; (ii) each Borrower shall accurately record all
intercompany transactions on its books and records; and (iii) at the time any such
intercompany loan or advance is made by any Borrower to any other Credit Party and after
giving effect thereto, each such Borrower shall be Solvent;

          (c) Investments acquired in connection with the settlement of delinquent Accounts in
the Ordinary Course of Business or in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of
suppliers or customers; and

          (d) loans and advances to employees (i) for moving, entertainment, travel and other
similar expenses in the Ordinary Course of Business, (ii) for any other purpose, in each
instance for clause (i) and (ii) with such loans and advances not to exceed $1,000,000 in
the aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding;

          (e) amounts held in accounts under deferred compensation plans of the Borrowers where
investments are directed by employees;

          (f) trade credit extended on usual and customary terms in the Ordinary Course of
Business;

          (g) Investments by any Credit Party in any Subsidiary of BGI which is not a Credit
Party or by any Subsidiary of BGI which is not a Credit Party in another Subsidiary of BGI
which is not a Credit Party; provided that (i) no Default or Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing or would result therefrom, and (ii) such Investments or series of related
Investments shall not exceed $100,000 in the aggregate;

          (h) [Intentionally Omitted];

          (i) Investments deposits, prepayments and other credits to suppliers or vendors in the
Ordinary Course of Business consistent with the past practices of the Borrowers;

          (j) Subject to compliance with Section 4.11, Investments in deposit accounts
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provided such deposit accounts (or the concentration account into which the deposits
are swept) or securities accounts are subject to a Control Agreement in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agents;

          (k) To the extent not permitted above, Investments existing on the Closing Date and
set forth in Schedule 5.4; and

          (l) Other Investments in an amount not to exceed $100,000 in the aggregate any time
outstanding; provided that not Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
or would result therefrom.

     5.5 Limitation on Indebtedness. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall
suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume, permit to exist, or otherwise
become or remain directly or indirectly liable with respect to, any Indebtedness, except:

          (a) the Obligations;

          (b) Indebtedness consisting of Contingent Obligations described in clause (a)
of the definition thereof and permitted pursuant to Section 5.9;

          (c) Indebtedness existing on the Closing Date and set forth in Schedule 5.5;

          (d) Indebtedness not to exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding,
consisting of Capital Lease Obligations;

          (e) unsecured intercompany Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 5.4(b)
and approved by the Bankruptcy Court;

          (f) Indebtedness incurred in connection with the acquisition after the Closing Date of
any Property, other than Intellectual Property (and in any event not more than thirty (30)
days from the date of such acquisition), by such Credit Party or such Subsidiary as
contemplated by Section 5.1(h);

          (g) Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $5,000,000 at any time
extended by insurance or financing companies (or their agents or brokers) solely for the
purpose of financing insurance premiums owing to such parties;

          (h) Indebtedness which may be deemed to exist pursuant to any performance, surety,
statutory, appeal or similar obligations incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business and
consistent with past practice;

          (i) other unsecured Indebtedness not exceeding $3,000,000 in the aggregate at any time
outstanding owing to Persons that are not Affiliates of the Credit Parties.

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, and except for the Carve-Out up to the Carve-Out Amount, the
Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims and Indebtedness secured by Pre-Petition Perfected Liens,
no indebtedness under Sections 5.5(a) through (i) shall be permitted to have an
administrative expense claim status under the Bankruptcy Code senior to or pari passu with the
superpriority administrative expense claims of Agents and the Lenders as set forth herein and in
the Interim Order and Final Order.

     5.6 Employee Loans and Transactions with Affiliates. No Credit Party shall, and no
Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into any transaction with any
Affiliate of a Borrower or of any such Subsidiary, except:

          (a) as expressly permitted by this Agreement; or

          (b) in the Ordinary Course of Business and pursuant to the reasonable requirements of
the business of such Credit Party or such Subsidiary upon fair and reasonable terms no less
favorable to such Credit Party or such Subsidiary than would be obtained in a comparable
arm’s length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate of a Borrower or such Subsidiary
and which are disclosed in writing to Agents.

All such transactions existing as of the Closing Date are described in Schedule 5.6.

     5.7 Compensation. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, pay any management, consulting or similar fees to any Affiliate of any Credit
Party.

     5.8 Margin Stock; Use of Proceeds. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall
suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, use any portion of the Loan proceeds, directly or
indirectly, to purchase or carry Margin Stock or repay or otherwise refinance Indebtedness of any
Credit Party or others incurred to purchase or carry Margin Stock, or otherwise in any manner which
is in contravention of any Requirement of Law or in violation of this Agreement.

     5.9 Contingent Obligations. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer
or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Contingent
Obligations except in respect of the Obligations and except:

          (a) endorsements for collection, deposit or negotiation and warranties of products or
services in the Ordinary Course of Business;

          (b) Rate Contracts entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business for bona fide
hedging purposes and not for speculation with Agents’ prior written consent;

          (c) Contingent Obligations of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries existing as of
the Closing Date and listed in Schedule 5.9, including extension and renewals
thereof which do not increase the amount of such Contingent Obligations or impose
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the Credit Parties or their Subsidiaries as compared to the terms of the Contingent
Obligation being renewed or extended;

          (d) Contingent Obligations arising under indemnity agreements to title insurers to
cause such title insurers to issue to Working Capital Agent title insurance policies;

          (e) guarantees of any obligations of landlords of a Credit Party to the extent that
the obligations relate to funds arranged by a Credit Party and used to finance or refinance
any stores of a Credit Party and such funds are intended to be repaid through lease
payments of a Credit Party;

          (f) Contingent Obligations arising with respect to customary indemnification
obligations in favor of purchasers in connection with dispositions entered into prior to
the date hereof;

          (g) Contingent Obligations arising under guarantees made in the Ordinary Course of
Business of obligations of any Credit Party, which obligations are otherwise permitted
hereunder; provided that if such obligation is subordinated to the Obligations, such
guarantee shall be subordinated to the same extent;

          (h) other Contingent Obligations not exceeding $3,000,000 in the aggregate at any time
outstanding;

          (i) Contingent Obligations arising with respect to customary indemnification
obligations in respect of chargebacks in favor of any credit card issuer or processor under
any Credit Card Agreements; and

          (j) Contingent Obligations arising under Letters of Credit.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, and except for the Carve-Out up to the Carve-Out Amount, the
Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims and Contingent Obligations secured by Pre-Petition
Perfected Liens, no Contingent Obligations under Section 5.9 shall be permitted to have an
administrative expense claim status under the Bankruptcy Code senior to or pari passu with the
superpriority administrative expense claims of Agents and the Lenders as set forth herein and in
the Interim Order and Final Order.

     5.10 Compliance with ERISA. No ERISA Affiliate shall cause or suffer to exist (a) any
event that could result in the imposition of a Lien on any asset of a Credit Party or a Subsidiary
of a Credit Party with respect to any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan or (b) any other ERISA
Event, that would, in the aggregate, result in Liabilities in excess of $500,000. No Credit Party
shall cause or suffer to exist any event that could result in the imposition of a Lien with respect
to any ERISA Plan.

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     5.11 Restricted Payments.

          (a) Other than as contemplated in the Interim Order (or the Final Order, applicable),
no Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, (i) declare or make any dividend payment or other distribution of assets, properties,
cash, rights, obligations or securities on account of any Stock or Stock Equivalent, (ii)
purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire for value any Stock or Stock Equivalent now or
hereafter outstanding or (iii) make any payment or prepayment of principal of, premium, if
any, interest, fees, redemption, exchange, purchase, retirement, defeasance, sinking fund
or similar payment with respect to, Subordinated Indebtedness (the items described in
clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above are referred to as “Restricted Payments”); except
dividends to (a) BGI from any wholly owned Subsidiary of BGI or (b) a Borrower or another
Credit Party.

          (b) In addition, Credit Parties shall not make any payment on account of, purchase,
defease, redeem, prepay, decrease or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Pre-Petition
Indebtedness, other than prior to the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default and solely in accordance with the Approved Budget, payment of (A) Pre-Petition
employee wages, benefits and related employee taxes as of the Petition Date, (B)
Pre-Petition sales, use and real property taxes, (C) amounts approved in accordance with
other “First Day” orders satisfactory to Agents and (D) the Pre-Petition Facilities.

     5.12 Change in Business. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any
of its Subsidiaries to, engage in any line of business different from those lines of business
carried on by it on the date hereof. The Excluded Subsidiaries shall not engage in any business
activities or own any Property other than activities and contractual rights incidental to
maintenance of their respective corporate existence.

     5.13 Change in Structure. Except as expressly permitted under Section 5.3, no
Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make any material
changes in its equity capital structure, issue any Stock or Stock Equivalents or amend any of its
Organization Documents in any material respect and, in each case, in any respect adverse to Agents
or Lenders.

     5.14 Changes in Accounting, Name or Jurisdiction of Organization. No Credit Party
shall, and no Credit Party shall suffer or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (i) make any
significant change in accounting treatment or reporting practices, except as required by GAAP, (ii)
change the Fiscal Year or method for determining Fiscal Quarters or Fiscal Months of any Credit
Party or of any consolidated Subsidiary of any Credit Party, (iii) change its name as it appears in
official filings in its jurisdiction of organization or (iv) change its jurisdiction of
organization, in the case of clauses (iii) and (iv), without at least twenty (20)
days’ prior written notice to Working Capital Agent (with a copy to Term B Agent) and the
acknowledgement of Working Capital Agent that all actions required by Working Capital Agent,
including those to continue the perfection of its Liens, have been completed.

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     5.15 Amendments to Subordinated Indebtedness. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit
Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries directly or indirectly to, change or amend the terms of
any Subordinated Indebtedness.

     5.16 No Negative Pledges.

          (a) No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become
effective any consensual restriction or encumbrance of any kind on the ability of any
Credit Party or Subsidiary to pay dividends or make any other distribution on any of such
Credit Party’s or Subsidiary’s Stock or Stock Equivalents or to pay fees, including
management fees, or make other payments and distributions to a Borrower or any Credit
Party. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to,
directly or indirectly, enter into, assume or become subject to any Contractual Obligation
prohibiting or otherwise restricting the existence of any Lien upon any of its assets in
favor of Working Capital Agent, whether now owned or hereafter acquired except in
connection with any document or instrument governing Liens permitted pursuant to
Sections 5.1(h) or (i), provided that any such restriction
contained therein relates only to the asset or assets subject to such Permitted Liens.

          (b) No Credit Party shall issue any Stock or Stock Equivalents unless such Stock and
Stock Equivalents are pledged to Working Capital Agent, for the benefit of the Secured
Parties, as security for the Obligations pursuant to and in accordance with the Guaranty
and Security Agreement.

     5.17 OFAC; Patriot Act. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any
of its Subsidiaries to fail to comply with any of the requirements set forth in Section
3.28.

     5.18 Sale-Leasebacks. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any of
its Subsidiaries to, engage in a sale leaseback, synthetic lease or similar transaction involving
any of its assets.

     5.19 Hazardous Materials. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit Party shall permit any
of its Subsidiaries to, cause or suffer to exist any Release of any Hazardous Material at, to or
from any Real Estate that would violate any Environmental Law and cause a Material Environmental
Liability.

     5.20 Prepayments of Other Indebtedness. No Credit Party shall, directly or
indirectly, voluntarily purchase, redeem, defease or prepay any principal of, premium, if any,
interest or other amount payable in respect of any Indebtedness prior to its scheduled maturity,
other than the Obligations.

     5.21 Budget and Availability Compliance Covenants. No Credit Party shall allow (i)
Actual Sales Receipts for any Cumulative Four Week Period to be less than 90% of the Budgeted Sales
Receipts for any such Cumulative Four Week Period; (ii) Actual Disbursement Amounts for any
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the Budgeted Disbursement Amounts for any such Cumulative Four Week Period; or (iii)
Availability to be less than $25,000,000.

     5.22 Repayment of Indebtedness. Without limiting any other provision hereof, except
pursuant to the Approved Budget, Borrower shall not, without the express prior written consent of
Agents and Required Lenders and pursuant to an order of the Bankruptcy Court after notice and
hearing, make any payment or transfer with respect to any Lien or Indebtedness incurred or arising
prior to the Petition Date that is subject to the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code
whether by way of “adequate protection” under the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise.

     5.23 Reclamation Claims. No Credit Party shall enter into any agreement to return any
of its Inventory to any of its creditors for application against any Pre-Petition Indebtedness,
Pre-Petition trade payables or other Pre-Petition claims under Section 546(g) of the Bankruptcy
Code or allow any creditor to take any setoff or recoupment against any of its Pre-Petition
Indebtedness, Pre-Petition trade payables or other Pre-Petition claims based upon any such return
pursuant to Section 553(b)(l) of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise if, after giving effect to any
such agreement, setoff or recoupment, the aggregate amount applied to Pre-Petition Indebtedness,
Pre-Petition trade payables and other Pre-Petition claims subject to all such agreements, setoffs
and recoupments since the Petition Date would exceed $250,000.

     5.24 Chapter 11 Claims. No Credit Party shall incur, create, assume, suffer to exist
or permit any other superpriority administrative claim which is pari passu with or senior to the
claims of Agents and Lenders against the Credit Parties, except as set forth in Section
1.13(b).

     5.25 Bankruptcy Actions. The Borrowers will not seek, consent to, or permit to exist,
without the prior written consent of Agents, any order granting authority to take any action that
is prohibited by the terms of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or refrain from taking any
action that is required to be taken by the terms of this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents.

ARTICLE VI.

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ARTICLE VII.

EVENTS OF DEFAULT

     7.1 Events of Default. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 362 of the
Bankruptcy Code and without notice, application or motion to, hearing before, or order of the
Bankruptcy Court or any notice to any Credit Party, and subject to Section 7.2, any of the
following shall constitute an “Event of Default”:

          (a) Non-Payment. Any Credit Party fails (i) to pay when and as required to be
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maturity of the Loans, or to pay any L/C Reimbursement Obligations, (ii) to pay within
one (1) Business Days after the same shall become due, any amount of interest on any Loan,
or (iii) to pay within three (3) Business Days after the same shall become due, any fee or
any other amount payable hereunder or pursuant to any other Loan Document;

          (b) Representation or Warranty. (i) Any representation, warranty or
certification by or on behalf of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries made or deemed
made herein, in any other Loan Document, or which is contained in any certificate, document
or financial or other written statement by any such Person, or their respective Responsible
Officers, furnished at any time under this Agreement, or in or under any other Loan
Document, shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect (without duplication
of other materiality qualifiers contained therein) on or as of the date made or deemed made
or (ii) any information contained in any Borrowing Base Certificate is untrue or incorrect
in any respect (other than (1) inadvertent, immaterial errors not exceeding $300,000 in the
aggregate in any Borrowing Base Certificate and (2) errors understating the Borrowing
Base);

          (c) Specific Defaults. Any Credit Party fails to perform or observe any term,
covenant or agreement contained in any of Sections 4.1, 4.2(c) through
(g) and (k), 4.3(a), 4.4(a), 4.6, 4.7,
4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 4.13, 4.15, 4.16,
4.17, 4.18, 9.10(d) or Article V or the Fee Letter;

          (d) Other Defaults. Any Credit Party or Subsidiary of any Credit Party fails
to perform or observe any other term, covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement or
any other Loan Document, and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of fifteen
(15) days after the earlier to occur of (i) the date upon which a Responsible Officer of
any Credit Party becomes aware of such default and (ii) the date upon which written notice
thereof is given to the Borrower Representative by Agents or Required Lenders;

          (e) Cross-Default. Except for defaults occasioned by the filing of the
Chapter 11 Cases and defaults resulting from obligations with respect to which the
Bankruptcy Code prohibits any Credit Party from complying or permits any Credit Party not
to comply, a default or breach occurs under any other agreement, document or instrument
entered into either (x) Pre-Petition and which is affirmed after the Petition Date or is
not subject to the automatic stay provisions of Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code, or (y)
Post-Petition, to which any Credit Party is a party that is not cured within any applicable
grace period therefor, and such default or breach (i) involves the failure to make any
payment when due in respect of any Indebtedness or Guaranteed Indebtedness (other than the
Obligations) of any Credit Party in excess of $3,000,000 in the aggregate (including (x)
undrawn committed or available amounts and (y) amounts owing to all creditors under any
combined or syndicated credit arrangements), or (ii) causes, or permits any holder of such
Indebtedness or Guaranteed Indebtedness or a trustee to cause, Indebtedness or Guaranteed
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portion thereof
in excess of $3,000,000 in the aggregate to become due prior to its stated maturity or
prior to its regularly scheduled dates of payment, or cash collateral in respect thereof to
be demanded, in each case, regardless of whether such rights are exercised by such holder
or trustee;

          (f) Intentionally Omitted;

          (g) Intentionally Omitted;

          (h) Monetary Judgments. Other than proofs of claim filed in connection with
the Chapter 11 Cases, and orders pertaining thereto, one or more judgments,
non-interlocutory orders, decrees or arbitration awards shall be entered against any one or
more of the Credit Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries involving in the
aggregate a liability of $1,000,000 or more (excluding amounts covered by insurance to the
extent the relevant independent third party insurer has not denied coverage therefor), and
the same shall remain unsatisfied, unvacated and unstayed pending appeal for a period of
thirty (30) days after the entry thereof;

          (i) Non-Monetary Judgments. One or more non-monetary judgments, orders or
decrees shall be rendered against any one or more of the Credit Parties or any of their
respective Subsidiaries which has or would reasonably be expected to have, either
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, and there shall be any period
of ten (10) consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment or order,
by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, shall not be in effect;

          (j) Collateral. Any material provision of any Loan Document shall for any
reason cease to be valid and binding on or enforceable against any Credit Party or any
Subsidiary of any Credit Party thereto or any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit
Party shall so state in writing or bring an action to limit its obligations or liabilities
thereunder; or any Collateral Document shall for any reason (other than pursuant to the
terms thereof) cease to create a valid security interest in the Collateral purported to be
covered thereby or such security interest shall for any reason cease to be a perfected and
first priority security interest subject only to Permitted Liens;

          (k) Ownership. A Change in Control shall occur;

          (l) Invalidity of Subordination Provisions. The subordination provisions of
any agreement or instrument governing any Subordinated Indebtedness shall for any reason be
revoked or invalidated, or otherwise cease to be in full force and effect, or any Person
shall contest in any manner the validity or enforceability thereof or deny that it has any
further liability or obligation thereunder, or the Obligations, for any reason shall not
have the priority contemplated by this Agreement or such subordination provisions; or

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          (m) The occurrence of any of the following in the Chapter 11 Cases:

          (i) on or before the date that is sixty (60) days after the Petition Date, the
Credit Parties have not obtained an order of the Bankruptcy Court extending the
time period of the Credit Parties to assume or reject leases to not less than two
hundred and ten (210) days from the Petition Date;

          (ii) on or before fifteen (15) weeks prior to the Lease Rejection Date, the
Credit Parties have not distributed bid packages to solicit bids (with separate
bids as to furniture, fixtures and equipment, which bids may be included as part of
any bid submitted for the Inventory and which may be on a commission basis) from
Approved Liquidators with respect to assets located on the properties that are
subject to leases to be rejected on the Lease Rejection Date;

          (iii) on or before fourteen (14) weeks prior to the Lease Rejection Date, the
Credit Parties have not filed a motion or series of motions seeking authority to
establish bidding procedures and to engage an Approved Liquidator to conduct the
Affected Asset Sale as the so-called “stalking horse”, which bidding procedures
shall be reasonably acceptable to the Agents;

          (iv) on or before thirteen (13) weeks prior to the Lease Rejection Date, the
Credit Parties have not entered into a stalking horse bid with an Approved
Liquidator pursuant to an Approved Liquidation Agreement with respect to the
Affected Asset Sale;

          (v) on or before twelve (12) weeks prior to the Lease Rejection Date, the
Credit Parties have not (i) received Bankruptcy Court approval of the Affected
Asset Sale or (ii) commenced the Affected Asset Sale;

          (vi) the Credit Parties shall (i) fail to comply with the terms of the
stalking horse bid for the Permitted Store Closings and any of the documents or
agreements executed in connection therewith, including, without limitation the
Approved Liquidation Agreement in any manner which results in a decrease in
proceeds from the Permitted Store Closings of more than $500,000, (ii) fail to
consummate the Permitted Store Closings strictly in accordance with the terms of
such Approved Liquidation Agreement (in each case (i) and (ii) without any waiver
or amendment to the Approved Liquidation Agreement unless consented to by Agents)
or (iii) take any action to or an event has occurred which could reasonably be
expected to adversely affect the value of the stalking horse bid or any Credit
Party’s ability to comply with the terms of the Approved Liquidation Agreement;

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          (vii) the bringing of a motion, taking of any action or the filing of any plan
of reorganization or disclosure statement attendant thereto by any of the Credit
Parties in the Chapter 11 Cases: (A) to obtain additional financing under Section
364(c) or (d) of the Bankruptcy Code not otherwise permitted pursuant to this
Agreement; (B) to grant any Lien other than Permitted Encumbrances upon or
affecting any Collateral; (C) subject to this Section 7, except as provided
in the Interim Order or Final Order, as the case may be, to use cash collateral of
Working Capital Agent and the other Secured Parties under Section 363(c) of the
Bankruptcy Code without the prior written consent of Agents and the Required
Lenders; or (D) any other action or actions adverse to Agents and the Lenders or
their rights and remedies hereunder or their interest in the Collateral;

          (viii) (A) the filing of any plan of reorganization or disclosure statement
attendant thereto, or any direct or indirect amendment to such plan or disclosure
statement, by a Credit Party or any other Person to which Agents and the Required
Lenders do not consent or otherwise agree to the treatment of their claims, (B) the
entry of any order terminating any Credit Party’s exclusive right to file a plan of
reorganization, or (C) the expiration of any Credit Party’s exclusive right to file
a plan of reorganization;

          (ix) the entry of an order in any of the Chapter 11 Cases confirming a plan of
reorganization that (A) is not acceptable to Agents in their sole discretion or (B)
does not contain a provision for termination of the Commitments and repayment in
full in cash of all of the Obligations under this Agreement and the Prior Lender
Obligations on or before the effective date of such plan or plans;

          (x) the entry of an order amending, supplementing, staying, vacating or
otherwise modifying the Loan Documents or the Interim Order, the Final Order or the
Cash Management Order without the written consent of all of the Lenders or the
filing of a motion for reconsideration with respect to the Interim Order of the
Final Order or the Interim Order, the Final Order or the Cash Management Order
shall otherwise not be in full force and effect;

          (xi) the Final Order is not entered immediately following the expiration of
the Interim Order, and in any event within 45 days of the Petition Date;

          (xii) the payment of, or application for authority to pay, any Pre-Petition
claim without Agents’ and Required Lenders’ prior written consent unless otherwise
permitted under this Agreement;

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          (xiii) the allowance of any claim or claims under Section 506(c) of the
Bankruptcy Code or otherwise against Agents, any Lender or any of the Collateral;

          (xiv) the appointment of an interim or permanent trustee in the Chapter 11
Cases or the appointment of a receiver or an examiner in the Chapter 11 Cases with
expanded powers to operate or manage the financial affairs, the business, or
reorganization of the Credit Parties; or the sale without Agents’ and Lenders’
consent, of all or substantially all of the Borrower’s assets either through a sale
under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, through a confirmed plan of
reorganization in the Chapter 11 Cases, or otherwise that does not provide for
payment in full in cash of the Obligations and termination of Lenders’ commitment
to make Loans;

          (xv) the dismissal of the Chapter 11 Cases, or the conversion of the Chapter
11 Cases from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code or any Credit Party
shall file a motion or other pleading seeking the dismissal of the Chapter 11 Cases
under Section 1112 of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise;

          (xvi) the entry of an order by the Court granting relief from or modifying the
automatic stay of Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code (x) to allow any creditor to
execute upon or enforce a Lien on any Collateral, or (y) with respect to any Lien
of or the granting of any Lien on any Collateral to any state or local
environmental or regulatory agency or authority, which in either case involves a
claim of $500,000 or more;

          (xvii) the commencement of a suit or action against either Agent or any Lender
and, as to any suit or action brought by the Creditors’ Committee, the continuation
thereof without dismissal for thirty (30) days after service thereof on such Agent
or such Lender, whether or not on behalf of a Credit Party;

          (xviii) the entry of an order in the Chapter 11 Cases avoiding or permitting
recovery of any portion of the payments made on account of the Obligations owing
under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents;

          (xix) the failure of Borrower to perform any of its obligations under the
Interim Order, the Final Order, the Cash Management Order or any other order of the
Bankruptcy Court; or

          (xx) the entry of an order in the Chapter 11 Cases granting any other super
priority administrative claim or Lien equal or superior to that granted to Working
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the Secured Parties, other than as expressly set forth in the Interim Order
(or the Final Order, when applicable).

     7.2 Working Capital Termination Declaration. Subject to Section 7.5, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code, without any application,
motion or notice to, hearing before, or order from, the Bankruptcy Court, upon the occurrence and
during the continuance of any Event of Default, Working Capital Agent may, and shall at the request
of the Required Working Capital Lenders (the declaration of any of the foregoing a “Working
Capital Termination Declaration Date”):

          (a) declare all or any portion of the Revolving Commitment of each Revolving Lender to
make Loans or each L/C Issuer to issue Letters of Credit to be suspended or terminated,
whereupon such Revolving Commitments shall forthwith be suspended or terminated;

          (b) declare all or any portion of the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans
under the Working Capital Facility, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other
amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to be immediately due
and payable; without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which
are hereby expressly waived by each Credit Party; or

          (c) terminate, reduce or restrict any right or ability of the Borrowers to use any
cash collateral derived from the proceeds of Collateral (other than as expressly set forth
in the Interim Order or the Final Order, as applicable, during the Remedies Notice Period).

With respect to the Revolving Priority Collateral, following the Termination Declaration Date,
subject to the Remedies Notice Period, the Working Capital Agent may exercise on behalf of itself
and the Working Capital Lenders all rights and remedies available to it and the Lenders under the
Loan Documents or applicable law against the Revolving Priority Collateral. Subject to Section
7.9, without limiting the foregoing, the Working Capital Agent may subject to the Remedies
Notice Period (i) with respect to a Sales Process Default only, direct any or all of the Credit
Parties to comply with the sales procedures set forth in Section 7.9, (ii) enter onto the
premises of any Credit Party in connection with an orderly liquidation of the Revolving Priority
Collateral; and/or (iii) exercise any rights and remedies provided to Working Capital Agent under
the Loan Documents or at law or equity, including all remedies provided under the Code; and
pursuant to the Interim Order and the Final Order. Following the termination of the Remedy
Standstill Period, subject at all times to Section 1.10 (c)(ii), the Term B Agent may
require the Credit Parties to conduct the sale process described in Section 7.9.

     7.3 Term B Termination Declaration. Subject to Section 7.5, notwithstanding
the provisions of Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code, without any application, motion or notice to,
hearing before, or order from, the Bankruptcy Court, upon the occurrence and during the continuance
of any Event of Default, Term B Agent may, and shall at the

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request of the Required Term B Lenders (the declaration of any of the foregoing a “Term B
Termination Declaration Date”):

          (a) declare all or any portion of the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans
under Term B Facility, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing
or payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to be immediately due and payable;
without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby
expressly waived by each Credit Party; or

          (b) terminate, reduce or restrict any right or ability of the Borrowers to use any
cash collateral derived from the proceeds of Collateral (other than the use of proceeds of
Loans made in the form of Protective Overadvances) (other than as expressly set forth in
the Interim Order or the Final Order, as applicable, during the Remedies Notice Period).

With respect to the Term B Priority Collateral, following the Termination Declaration Date, subject
to the Remedies Notice Period, the Term B Agent may (and at the request of the Required Term B
Lenders shall), on behalf of itself and the Term B Lenders, direct the Working Capital Agent to
take all rights and remedies available to it and the Term B Lenders under the Loan Documents or
applicable law against the Term B Priority Collateral. Subject to Section 7.5, without
limiting the foregoing, upon such direction of the Term B Agent, the Working Capital Agent shall
subject to the Remedies Notice Period and the Use Rights (i) with respect to a Sales Process
Default only, direct any or all of the Credit Parties to comply with the sales procedures set forth
in Section 7.9, (ii) enter onto the premises of any Credit Party in connection with an
orderly liquidation of the Term B Priority Collateral; and/or (iii) exercise any rights and
remedies provided to Working Capital Agent under the Loan Documents or at law or equity, including
all remedies provided under the Code; and pursuant to the Interim Order and the Final Order.
Following the termination of the Remedy Standstill Period, subject at all time to Section
1.10(c)(iii), the Working Capital Agent, whether or not it shall have received such direction
from Term B Agent may require the Credit Parties to conduct the sale process described in
Section 7.9.

     7.4 Use Rights. Without limiting any rights the Working Capital Agent may otherwise
have under applicable law or by agreement, and whether or not the Term Agent or any Term B Lender
has directed the Working Capital Agent to commence exercising remedies against Term B Priority
Collateral, Working Capital Agent or any other Person acting with the consent and on behalf of
Working Capital Agent, shall have Use Rights. In the event that any Working Capital Agent has
commenced and is continuing the exercise of rights and remedies with respect to any Revolving
Priority Collateral or any other sale or liquidation of the Revolving Priority Collateral has been
commenced by or with the consent of the Working Capital Agent, the Term B Agent may not and may not
direct the Working Capital Agent to, sell, assign or otherwise transfer the related Term B Priority
Collateral prior to the expiration of the Use Period, unless the purchaser, assignee or transferee
thereof agrees to be bound by the provisions hereof.

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     7.5 Restrictions on Remedies. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
herein, (a) until repayment in full in cash of the Working Capital Facility and a termination of
the Revolving Commitments, (i) without the consent of the Working Capital Agent and the Working
Capital Lenders (A) the Agents shall not seek relief from the automatic stay under Section 362 of
the Bankruptcy Code or any other stay in the Chapter 11 Cases in respect of the Revolver Priority
Collateral and (B) the Agents shall not consent to any release of the liens granted to the Working
Capital Agent on the Revolving Priority Collateral; provided, however that, if the Working Capital
Agent and the Working Capital Lenders consent to any sale or other disposition of the Revolving
Priority Collateral, such sale or other disposition shall be made free and clear of any liens of
the Agents on such Revolving Priority Collateral, and (b) until payment in full of the Term B
Facility (i) without the consent of the Term B Agent and the Term B Lenders (A) the Agents shall
not seek relief from the automatic stay under Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code or any other stay
in the bankruptcy in respect of the Term Loan Priority Collateral and (B) the Agents shall not
consent to any release of the liens granted to the Working Capital Agent on the Term Loan Priority
Collateral; provided, however that, if the Term B Agent and the Term B Lenders consent to any sale
or other disposition of the Term Loan Priority Collateral, such sale or other disposition shall be
made free and clear of any liens of the Agents on such Term Loan Priority Collateral. In addition,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein (i) the Working Capital Agent and the
Working Capital Lenders shall have the right to object to any sale or disposition of Revolver
Priority Collateral and (ii) the Term B Agent and Term B Lenders shall have the right to object to
any sale or other disposition of Term B Priority Collateral.

     7.6 Borrowers’ Assistance, Intellectual Property Access. Upon the occurrence and the
continuance of an Event of Default and the exercise by Working Capital Agent or Lenders of their
rights and remedies under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, Borrowers shall assist
Working Capital Agent and Lenders in effecting a sale or other disposition of the Collateral upon
such terms as are reasonably acceptable to Working Capital Agent, Term Agent and Required Lenders
and shall assist Working Capital Agent in obtaining, and shall provide Working Capital Agent with,
access and the rights to use, at no cost or expense, the Intellectual Property of the Credit
Parties and all real property owned or leased by the Credit Parties to the extent necessary,
appropriate or reasonably requested in order to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any of the
Collateral.

     7.7 Rights Not Exclusive. The rights provided for in this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any other rights, powers, privileges or
remedies provided by law or in equity, or under any other instrument, document or agreement now
existing or hereafter arising.

     7.8 Cash Collateral for Letters of Credit. If an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, this Agreement (or the Aggregate Revolving Commitment) shall be terminated for any
reason, or if any Letters of Credit remain outstanding for any reason whatsoever after the
Termination Date or if otherwise required by the terms hereof, Working Capital Agent may, and upon
request of Required Working Capital Lenders, shall, demand (which demand shall be deemed to have
been delivered automatically upon any acceleration of the Loans and other obligations hereunder
pursuant to Section 7.2),

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and the Borrowers shall thereupon deliver to Working Capital Agent, to be held for the benefit
of the L/C Issuers, Working Capital Agent and the Revolving Lenders entitled thereto, an amount of
cash equal to 104% of the amount of L/C Reimbursement Obligations as additional collateral security
for such Obligations. Working Capital Agent may at any time apply any or all of such cash and cash
collateral to the payment of any or all of the Credit Parties’ Obligations. The remaining balance
of the cash collateral will be returned to the Borrowers when all Letters of Credit have been
terminated or discharged, the Aggregate Revolving Commitments have been terminated and all
Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash.

     7.9 Sale Process Default. In addition to the rights and remedies set forth above but
expressly subject to Sections 7.5, upon the occurrence of a Sale Process Default, Working
Capital Agent may (or shall if requested to do so by the Required Working Capital Lenders) or the
Term B Agent may (or shall if requested to do so by the Required Term B Lenders), by written notice
to the Borrowers, require the Credit Parties to file a motion or motions seeking to sell, assume,
assign, or otherwise dispose of any or all of the applicable Collateral (including without
limitation, inventory, leases, and furnishings, fixtures, and equipment) pursuant to Sections 363
and 365 of the Bankruptcy Code, on terms reasonably acceptable to the Agents. The Credit Parties
shall file such motion within ten (10) days of the Agent’s notice and shall diligently prosecute
such motion. The Credit Parties shall consult with the applicable Agents with respect to such
process (which process and any such disposition shall be on terms reasonably acceptable to
applicable Agent) and shall provide such information as may be requested by Agents in connection
therewith. Without limiting the foregoing, the sale process shall include a motion or series of
motions seeking authority to establish bidding procedures and to engage an Approved Liquidator to
conduct a chain-wide going out of business sale as the so-called “stalking horse” and going concern
bids, which bidding procedures shall be reasonably acceptable to the applicable Agent. Any such
store closing sales and any other store liquidations approved by the applicable Agents shall be
conducted only on a so-called “equity” basis and not a commission or other basis. Any going
concern sale shall be in cash and in an amount to be paid at closing of such sale (subject to the
application of proceeds provisions of the Loan Documents) in excess of all Obligations with respect
to the Term B Facility, the obligations under the Pre-Petition Facilities (if not repaid), the
Working Capital Facility and shall contain no financing or due diligence contingencies. The
provisions of this Section 7.9 are expressly made subject to Section 7.5 in all
respects.

ARTICLE VIII.

THE AGENT

     8.1 Appointment and Duties.

     (a) Appointment of Agents. Each Lender and each L/C Issuer hereby appoints GE
Capital (together with any successor Working Capital Agent pursuant to Section 8.9)
as Working Capital Agent and GA Capital, LLC as Term B Agent (together with any successor
Term B Agent pursuant to Section 8.9) and authorizes such Agents to (i) execute and
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delivery thereof on its behalf from any Credit Party, (ii) take such action on its
behalf and to exercise all rights, powers and remedies and perform the duties as are
expressly delegated to such Agent under such Loan Documents and (iii) exercise such powers
as are incidental thereto. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Lender
hereby authorizes the Agents to consent, on behalf of each Lender, to an Interim Order
substantially in the form attached as Exhibit A hereto and a Final Order to be
negotiated between the Borrower, Agents and the Committee.

          (b) Duties of Working Capital Agent as Collateral Agent for all Lenders and
Disbursing Agent for Working Capital Lenders. Without limiting the generality of
clause (a) above, Working Capital Agent shall have the sole and exclusive right and
authority (to the exclusion of the Term B Agent, Lenders and L/C Issuers), and is hereby
authorized, to (i) act as the disbursing and collecting agents for the Working Capital
Lenders and the L/C Issuers (as applicable) with respect to all payments and collections
arising in connection with the Loan Documents (including in any proceeding in the Chapter
11 Cases or any other bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding), and each Person making
any payment in connection with any Loan Document to any Working Capital Lender is hereby
authorized to make such payment to Working Capital Agent, (ii) file and prove claims and
file other documents necessary or desirable to allow the claims of the Secured Parties with
respect to any Obligation related to the Working Capital Facility in any proceeding in the
Chapter 11 Cases or any other bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding (but not to
vote, consent or otherwise act on behalf of such Person), (iii) act as collateral agent for
each Secured Party for purposes of the perfection of all Liens created by such agreements
and all other purposes stated therein, (iv) manage, supervise and otherwise deal with the
Collateral, (v) take such other action as is necessary or desirable to maintain the
perfection and priority of the Liens created or purported to be created by the Loan
Documents, (vi) except as may be otherwise specified in any Loan Document, exercise all
remedies given to Working Capital Agent and the other Secured Parties with respect to the
Collateral, whether under the Loan Documents, applicable Requirements of Law or otherwise
and (vii) execute any amendment, consent or waiver under the Loan Documents on behalf of
any Lender that has consented in writing to such amendment, consent or waiver; provided,
however, that Working Capital Agent hereby appoints, authorizes and directs each Lender and
L/C Issuer to act as collateral sub-agent for Working Capital Agent, Term B Agent, the
Lenders and the L/C Issuers for purposes of the perfection of Liens with respect to any
deposit account maintained by a Credit Party with, and cash and Cash Equivalents held by,
such Lender or L/C Issuer, and may further authorize and direct the Lenders and the L/C
Issuers to take further actions as collateral sub-agents for purposes of enforcing such
Liens or otherwise to transfer the Collateral subject thereto to Working Capital Agent, and
each Lender and L/C Issuer hereby agrees to take such further actions to the extent, and
only to the extent, so authorized and directed.

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          (c) Duties of Term B Agent as Disbursing Agent for Term B Lenders. Without
limiting the generality of clause (a) above and subject to Sections 7.2,
7.3, 7.5, and 7.9, Term B Agent shall have the sole and exclusive
right and authority (to the exclusion of the Working Capital Agent, Lenders and L/C
Issuers), and is hereby authorized, to (i) act as the disbursing and collecting agent for
the Term B Lenders with respect to all payments and collections arising in connection with
the Loan Documents (including in any proceeding in the Chapter 11 Cases or any other
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding), and each Person making any payment in
connection with any Loan Document to any Term B Lender is hereby authorized to make such
payment to Term B Agent to the Term B Collection Account, (ii) file and prove claims and
file other documents necessary or desirable to allow the claims of the Term B Lenders with
respect to any Obligation related to the Term B Facility in any proceeding in the Chapter
11 Cases or any other bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding (but not to vote,
consent or otherwise act on behalf of such Person), and (iii) execute any amendment,
consent or waiver under the Loan Documents on behalf of any Term B Lender that has
consented in writing to such amendment, consent or waiver.

          (d) Limited Duties. Under the Loan Documents, Agents (i) are acting solely on
behalf of the Secured Parties (except to the limited extent provided in Section
1.4(b) with respect to the Registers), with duties that are entirely administrative in
nature, notwithstanding the use of the defined term “Agents”, the terms “agents”, “Agent”
and “collateral agent” and similar terms in any Loan Document to refer to Agents, which
terms are used for title purposes only, (ii) is not assuming any obligation under any Loan
Document other than as expressly set forth therein or any role as agent, fiduciary or
trustee of or for any Lender, L/C Issuer or any other Person and (iii) shall have no
implied functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or other liabilities under any
Loan Document, and each Secured Party, by accepting the benefits of the Loan Documents,
hereby waives and agrees not to assert any claim against Agents based on the roles, duties
and legal relationships expressly disclaimed in clauses (i) through (iii)
above.

     8.2 Binding Effect. Each Secured Party, by accepting the benefits of the Loan
Documents, agrees that (i) any action taken by Agents or the Required Lenders (or, if expressly
required hereby, a greater proportion of the Lenders) in accordance with the provisions of the Loan
Documents, (ii) any action taken by Agents in reliance upon the instructions of Required Lenders
(or, where so required, such greater proportion) and (iii) the exercise by Agents or the Required
Lenders (or, where so required, such greater proportion) of the powers set forth herein or therein,
together with such other powers as are incidental thereto, shall be authorized and binding upon all
of the Secured Parties.

     8.3 Use of Discretion.

          (a) Agents shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any
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powers expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents that Agents are
required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders or the Required Term B
Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided
for herein or in the other Loan Documents); provided, that no Agent shall be required to
take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose such Agent
to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable Requirement of Law; and

          (b) Agents shall not, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan
Documents, have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose,
any information relating to any Credit Party or its Affiliates that is communicated to or
obtained by Agents or any of their Affiliates in any capacity.

          (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan
Document, the authority to enforce rights and remedies hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents against the Credit Parties or any of them shall be vested exclusively in, and all
actions and proceedings at law in connection with such enforcement shall be instituted and
maintained exclusively by, Working Capital Agent in accordance with the Loan Documents for
the benefit of all the Secured Parties and the L/C Issuer; provided that the
foregoing shall not prohibit (i) Working Capital Agent from exercising on its own behalf
the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as Working
Capital Agent) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (ii) each of the L/C Issuer
and the Swingline Lender from exercising the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit
(solely in its capacity as L/C Issuer or Swingline Lender, as the case may be) hereunder
and under the other Loan Documents, (iii) any Lender from exercising setoff rights in
accordance with Section 9.11 or (iv) Term B Agent or any Lender from filing proofs
of claim or appearing and filing pleadings on its own behalf during the pendency of a
proceeding relative to any Credit Party under any bankruptcy or other debtor relief law;
and provided further that if at any time there is no Person acting as Working Capital Agent
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, then (A) the Required Lenders shall have the
rights otherwise ascribed to Working Capital Agent pursuant to Section 7.2 and (B)
in addition to the matters set forth in clauses (ii), (iii) and
(iv) of the preceding proviso and subject to Section 9.11, any Lender may,
with the consent of the Required Lenders, enforce any rights and remedies available to it
and as authorized by the Required Lenders.

     8.4 Delegation of Rights and Duties. Agents may, upon any term or condition it
specifies, delegate or exercise any of its rights, powers and remedies under, and delegate or
perform any of its duties or any other action with respect to, any Loan Document by or through any
trustee, co-agent, employee, attorney-in-fact and any other Person (including any Secured Party).
Any such Person shall benefit from this Article VIII to the extent provided by Agents.

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     8.5 Reliance and Liability.

          (a) Agents may, without incurring any liability hereunder, (i) treat the payee of any
Note as its holder until such Note has been assigned in accordance with Section
9.9, (ii) rely on the Registers to the extent set forth in Section 1.4, (iii)
consult with any of its Related Persons and, whether or not selected by it, any other
advisors, accountants and other experts (including advisors to, and accountants and experts
engaged by, any Credit Party) and (iv) rely and act upon any document and information
(including those transmitted by Electronic Transmission) and any telephone message or
conversation, in each case believed by it to be genuine and transmitted, signed or
otherwise authenticated by the appropriate parties.

          (b) No Agent nor any of such Agent’s Related Persons shall be liable for any action
taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in connection with any Loan Document,
and each Secured Party, each Borrower and each other Credit Party hereby waive and shall
not assert (and each of the Borrowers shall cause each other Credit Party to waive and
agree not to assert) any right, claim or cause of action based thereon, except to the
extent of liabilities resulting primarily from the gross negligence or willful misconduct
of such Agent or, as the case may be, such Related Person (each as determined in a final,
non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction) in connection with the duties
expressly set forth herein. Without limiting the foregoing, no Agent:

          (i) shall be responsible or otherwise incur liability for any action or
omission taken in reliance upon the instructions of the Required Lenders or for the
actions or omissions of any of its Related Persons selected with reasonable care
(other than employees, officers and directors of such Agent, when acting on behalf
of Agent);

          (ii) shall be responsible to any Lender, L/C Issuer or other Person for the
due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, effectiveness, genuineness,
sufficiency or value of, or the attachment, perfection or priority of any Lien
created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Loan Document;

          (iii) make any warranty or representation, and shall not be responsible, to
any Lender, L/C Issuer or other Person for any statement, document, information,
representation or warranty made or furnished by or on behalf of any Credit Party or
any Related Person of any Credit Party in connection with any Loan Document or any
transaction contemplated therein or any other document or information with respect
to any Credit Party, whether or not transmitted or (except for documents expressly
required under any Loan Document to be transmitted to the Lenders) omitted to be
transmitted by such Agent, including as to completeness, accuracy, scope or
adequacy thereof, or for the scope, nature or results of any due diligence
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          (iv) shall have any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or
observance of any provision of any Loan Document, whether any condition set forth
in any Loan Document is satisfied or waived, as to the financial condition of any
Credit Party or as to the existence or continuation or possible occurrence or
continuation of any Default or Event of Default and shall not be deemed to have
notice or knowledge of such occurrence or continuation unless it has received a
notice from the Borrower Representative, any other Agent, any Lender or L/C Issuer
describing such Default or Event of Default clearly labeled “notice of default” (in
which case Agents shall promptly give notice of such receipt to all Lenders);

and, for each of the items set forth in clauses (i) through (iv)
above, each Lender, L/C Issuer and each Borrower hereby waives and agrees not to
assert (and each Borrower shall cause each other Credit Party to waive and agree
not to assert) any right, claim or cause of action it might have against any Agent
based thereon.

          (c) Each Lender and L/C Issuer (i) acknowledges that it has performed and will
continue to perform its own diligence and has made and will continue to make its own
independent investigation of the operations, financial conditions and affairs of the Credit
Parties and (ii) agrees that it shall not rely on any audit or other report provided by any
Agent or any of such Agent’s Related Persons (an “Agent Report”). Each Lender and
L/C Issuer further acknowledges that any Agent Report (i) is provided to the Lenders and
L/C Issuers solely as a courtesy, without consideration, and based upon the understanding
that such Lender or L/C Issuer will not rely on such Agent Report, (ii) was prepared by an
Agent or its Related Persons based upon information provided by the Credit Parties solely
for such Agent’s own internal use, (iii) may not be complete and may not reflect all
information and findings obtained by such Agent or its Related Persons regarding the
operations and condition of the Credit Parties. Neither Agents nor any of their Related
Persons makes any representations or warranties of any kind with respect to (i) any
existing or proposed financing, (ii) the accuracy or completeness of the information
contained in any Agent Report or in any related documentation, (iii) the scope or adequacy
of either Agent’s and its Related Persons’ due diligence, or the presence or absence of any
errors or omissions contained in any Agent Report or in any related documentation, and (iv)
any work performed by either Agent or their Related Persons in connection with or using any
Agent Report or any related documentation.

          (d) Neither Agent nor any of such Agent’s Related Persons shall have any duties or
obligations in connection with or as a result of any Lender or L/C Issuer receiving a copy
of any Agent Report. Without limiting the generality of the forgoing, neither Agent nor any
of their Related Persons shall have any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of
any Agent Report, or the appropriateness of any Agent Report for any Lender’s or L/C
Issuer’s purposes, and shall have no duty or responsibility to correct or update any Agent

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Report or disclose to any Lender or L/C Issuer any other information not embodied in
any Agent Report, including any supplemental information obtained after the date of any
Agent Report. Each Lender and L/C Issuer releases, and agrees that it will not assert, any
claim against either Agent or their Related Persons that in any way relates to any Agent
Report or arises out of any Lender or L/C Issuer having access to any Agent Report or any
discussion of its contents, and agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Agents and their
Related Persons from all claims, liabilities and expenses relating to a breach by any
Lender or L/C Issuer arising out of such Lender’s or L/C Issuer’s access to any Agent
Report or any discussion of its contents.

     8.6 Agents Individually. Agents and their Affiliates (including any Affiliate that is
an Approved Liquidator) may make loans and other extensions of credit to, acquire Stock and Stock
Equivalents of, engage in any kind of business with, any Credit Party or Affiliate thereof as
though it were not acting as Agent and may receive separate fees and other payments therefor. To
the extent Agents or any of their Affiliates makes any Loan or otherwise becomes a Lender
hereunder, it shall have and may exercise the same rights and powers hereunder and shall be subject
to the same obligations and liabilities as any other Lender and the terms “Lender”, “Lender”,
“Required Lender” and any similar terms shall, except where otherwise expressly provided in any
Loan Document, include, without limitation, such Agent or such Affiliate, as the case may be, in
its individual capacity as Lender, Lender or as one of the Required Lenders, respectively.

     8.7 Lender Credit Decision.

          (a) Each Lender and each L/C Issuer acknowledges that it shall, independently and
without reliance upon Agents, any Lender or L/C Issuer or any of their Related Persons or
upon any document (including any offering and disclosure materials in connection with the
syndication of the Loans) solely or in part because such document was transmitted by an
Agent or any of their Related Persons, conduct its own independent investigation of the
financial condition and affairs of each Credit Party and make and continue to make its own
credit decisions in connection with entering into, and taking or not taking any action
under, any Loan Document or with respect to any transaction contemplated in any Loan
Document, in each case based on such documents and information as it shall deem
appropriate. Except for documents expressly required by any Loan Document to be
transmitted by Agents to the Lenders or L/C Issuers, Agents shall not have any duty or
responsibility to provide any Lender or L/C Issuer with any credit or other information
concerning the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition or
creditworthiness of any Credit Party or any Affiliate of any Credit Party that may come in
to the possession of Agents or any of their Related Persons.

          (b) If any Lender or L/C Issuer has elected to abstain from receiving MNPI concerning
the Credit Parties or their Affiliates, such Lender or L/C Issuer acknowledges that,
notwithstanding such election, Agents and/or the Credit Parties will, from time to time,
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(which may contain MNPI) as required by the terms of, or in the course of
administering the Loans to the credit contact(s) identified for receipt of such information
on the Lender’s administrative questionnaire who are able to receive and use all
syndicate-level information (which may contain MNPI) in accordance with such Lender’s
compliance policies and contractual obligations and applicable law, including federal and
state securities laws; provided, that if such contact is not so identified in such
questionnaire, the relevant Lender or L/C Issuer hereby agrees to promptly (and in any
event within one (1) Business Day) provide such a contact to Agents and the Credit Parties
upon request therefor by Agents or the Credit Parties. Notwithstanding such Lender’s or
L/C Issuer’s election to abstain from receiving MNPI, such Lender or L/C Issuer
acknowledges that if such Lender or L/C Issuer chooses to communicate with Agents, it
assumes the risk of receiving MNPI concerning the Credit Parties or their Affiliates.

     8.8 Expenses; Indemnities; Withholding.

          (a) (i) Each Revolving Lender and FILO Lender agrees to reimburse the Working Capital
Agent and each of Working Capital Agent’s Related Persons and (ii) each Term B Lender
agrees to reimburse the Term B Agent and each of Term B Agent’s Related Persons, in each
case of clause (i) and (ii), to the extent not reimbursed by any Credit Party, promptly
upon demand, severally and ratably, for any costs and expenses (including fees, charges and
disbursements of financial, legal, sales and other advisors and Other Taxes paid in the
name of, or on behalf of, any Credit Party) that may be incurred by such applicable Agents
or any of its Related Persons in connection with the preparation, syndication, execution,
delivery, administration, modification, consent, waiver or enforcement (whether through
negotiations, through any work-out, bankruptcy, restructuring or other legal or other
proceeding or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of its rights or responsibilities
under, any Loan Document.

          (b) (i) Each Revolving Lender and FILO Lender agrees to reimburse the Working Capital
Agent and each of Working Capital Agent’s Related Persons and (ii) each Term B Lender
agrees to reimburse the Term B Agent and each of Term B Agent’s Related Persons, in each
case of clause (i) and (ii), to the extent not reimbursed by any Credit Party, severally
and ratably, from and against Liabilities (including, to the extent not indemnified
pursuant to Section 8.8(c), taxes, interests and penalties imposed for not properly
withholding or backup withholding on payments made to or for the account of any Lender)
that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such applicable Agent or any of its
Related Persons in any matter relating to or arising out of, in connection with or as a
result of any Loan Document, any Related Document or any other act, event or transaction
related, contemplated in or attendant to any such document, or, in each case, any action
taken or omitted to be taken by such applicable Agent or any of its Related Persons under
or with respect to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that no Lender shall be liable
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of its Related Persons to the extent such liability has resulted primarily from the
gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Agent or, as the case may be, such Related
Person, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable
judgment or order.

          (c) To the extent required by any applicable law, each Agent may withhold from any
payment to any Lender under a Loan Document an amount equal to any applicable withholding
tax. If the IRS or any other Governmental Authority asserts a claim that either such Agent
did not properly withhold tax from amounts paid to or for the account of any Lender
(because the appropriate certification form was not delivered, was not properly executed,
or fails to establish an exemption from, or reduction of, withholding tax with respect to a
particular type of payment, or because such Lender failed to notify Agents or any other
Person of a change in circumstances which rendered the exemption from, or reduction of,
withholding tax ineffective, or for any other reason), or such Agent reasonably determines
that it was required to withhold taxes from a prior payment but failed to do so, such
Lender shall promptly indemnify such Agent fully for all amounts paid, directly or
indirectly, by such Agent as tax or otherwise, including penalties and interest, and
together with all expenses incurred by such Agent, including legal expenses, allocated
internal costs and out-of-pocket expenses. Each Agent may offset against any payment to
any Lender under a Loan Document, any applicable withholding tax that was required to be
withheld from any prior payment to such Lender but which was not so withheld, as well as
any other amounts for which such Agent is entitled to indemnification from such Lender
under this Section 8.8(c).

     8.9 Resignation of Agent or L/C Issuer.

          (a) Either Agent may resign at any time by delivering notice of such resignation to
the Lenders and the Borrower Representative, effective on the date (the “Effective
Resignation Date”) which is the later of (i) thirty (30) days after receipt by the
Lenders and the Borrower Representative of such notice and (ii) the date set forth in such
notice. If an Agent delivers any such notice, the Required Working Capital Lenders or
Required Term B Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Working Capital Agent
and Term B Agent, respectively. If, within thirty (30) days after the retiring Agent
having given notice of resignation, no successor Agent has been appointed by the Required
Working Capital Lenders or Required Term B Lenders (as applicable) that has accepted such
appointment, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the applicable Lenders, appoint a
successor Agent from among the Lenders. Each appointment under this clause (a)
shall be subject to the prior consent of the Borrowers, which may not be unreasonably
withheld but shall not be required during the continuance of an Event of Default.

          (b) Effective immediately upon the Effective Resignation Date, (i) the retiring Agent
shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents, (ii) the
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duties of Working Capital Agent until a successor Working Capital Agent shall have
accepted a valid appointment hereunder, (iii) the Term B Lenders shall assume and perform
all of the duties of Term B Agent until a successor Term B Agent shall have accepted a
valid appointment hereunder, (iv) the retiring Agent and its Related Persons shall no
longer have the benefit of any provision of any Loan Document other than with respect to
any actions taken or omitted to be taken while such retiring Agent was, or because such
Agent had been, validly acting as Agent under the Loan Documents and (v) subject to its
rights under Section 8.3, the retiring Agent shall take such action as may be
reasonably necessary to assign to the successor Agent its rights as Agent under the Loan
Documents. Effective immediately upon its acceptance of a valid appointment as Agent, a
successor Agent shall succeed to, and become vested with, all the rights, powers,
privileges and duties of the retiring Agent under the Loan Documents.

     8.10 Release of Collateral or Guarantors. Each Lender and L/C Issuer hereby consents
to the release and hereby directs Working Capital Agent to release (or, in the case of clause
(b)(ii) below, release or subordinate) the following:

          (a) any Subsidiary of a Borrower from its guaranty of any Obligation if all of the
Stock and Stock Equivalents of such Subsidiary owned by any Credit Party are sold or
transferred in a transaction permitted under the Loan Documents (including pursuant to a
waiver or consent); and

          (b) any Lien held by Working Capital Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties
against (i) any Collateral that is sold, transferred, conveyed or otherwise disposed of by
a Credit Party in a transaction permitted by the Loan Documents (including pursuant to a
waiver or consent), (ii) any property subject to a Lien permitted hereunder in reliance
upon Section 5.1(h) or 5.1(i) and (iii) all of the Collateral and all
Credit Parties, upon (A) termination of the Revolving Commitments, (B) payment and
satisfaction in full of all Loans, all L/C Reimbursement Obligations and all other
Obligations under the Loan Documents and all Obligations arising under Secured Rate
Contracts, that Working Capital Agent has theretofore been notified in writing by the
holder of such Obligation are then due and payable, (C) deposit of cash collateral with
respect to all contingent Obligations (or, as an alternative to cash collateral in the case
of any Letter of Credit Obligation, receipt by Working Capital Agent of a back-up letter of
credit), in amounts and on terms and conditions and with parties satisfactory to Agents and
each Indemnitee that is, or may be, owed such Obligations (excluding contingent Obligations
(other than L/C Reimbursement Obligations) as to which no claim has been asserted) and (D)
to the extent requested by either Agent, receipt by Agents and the Secured Parties of
liability releases from the Credit Parties each in form and substance acceptable to Agents.

Each Lender and L/C Issuer hereby directs Working Capital Agent, and Working Capital Agent hereby
agrees, upon receipt of at least five (5) Business Days’ advance notice from the Borrower
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perform other actions reasonably necessary to release the guaranties and Liens when and as directed
in this Section 8.10.

     8.11 Additional Secured Parties. The benefit of the provisions of the Loan Documents
directly relating to the Collateral or any Lien granted thereunder shall extend to and be available
to any Secured Party that is not a Lender or L/C Issuer party hereto as long as, by accepting such
benefits, such Secured Party agrees, as among Working Capital Agent and all other Secured Parties,
that such Secured Party is bound by (and, if requested by any Agent, shall confirm such agreement
in a writing in form and substance acceptable to Agents) this Article VIII and Sections
9.3, 9.9, 9.10, 9.11, 9.17, 9.24 and 10.1 (and,
solely with respect to L/C Issuers, Section 1.1(c)) and the decisions and actions of each
Agent and the Required Lenders (or, where expressly required by the terms of this Agreement, a
greater proportion of the Lenders or other parties hereto as required herein) to the same extent a
Lender is bound; provided, however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) such
Secured Party shall be bound by Section 8.8 only to the extent of Liabilities, costs and
expenses with respect to or otherwise relating to the Collateral held for the benefit of such
Secured Party, in which case the obligations of such Secured Party thereunder shall not be limited
by any concept of pro rata share or similar concept, (b) each of Working Capital Agent, Term Agent,
the Lenders and the L/C Issuers party hereto shall be entitled to act at its sole discretion,
without regard to the interest of such Secured Party, regardless of whether any Obligation to such
Secured Party thereafter remains outstanding, is deprived of the benefit of the Collateral, becomes
unsecured or is otherwise affected or put in jeopardy thereby, and without any duty or liability to
such Secured Party or any such Obligation and (c) except as otherwise set forth herein, such
Secured Party shall not have any right to be notified of, consent to, direct, require or be heard
with respect to, any action taken or omitted in respect of the Collateral or under any Loan
Document.

     8.12 Documentation Agent and Syndication Agent. Notwithstanding any provision to the
contrary contained elsewhere in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document, the Documentation
Agent and Syndication Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, nor shall the
Documentation Agent and Syndication Agent have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with
any Lender, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or
liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against
the Documentation Agent and Syndication Agent. At any time that any Lender serving (or whose
Affiliate is serving) as Documentation Agent and/or Syndication Agent shall have transferred to any
other Person (other than any Affiliates) all of its interests in the Loans and the Revolving
Commitment, such Lender (or an Affiliate of such Lender acting as Documentation Agent or
Syndication Agent) shall be deemed to have concurrently resigned as such Documentation Agent and/or
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ARTICLE IX.

MISCELLANEOUS

     9.1 Amendments and Waivers.

          (a) No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document, and no consent with respect to any departure by any Credit Party therefrom, shall
be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Required Lenders (or by
Working Capital Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders), and the Borrowers, and
then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the
specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that no such waiver, amendment, or
consent shall, unless in writing and signed by all the Lenders directly affected thereby
(or by Working Capital Agent with the consent of all the Lenders directly affected
thereby), in addition to the Required Lenders (or by Working Capital Agent with the consent
of the Required Lenders) and the Borrowers, do any of the following:

         (i) increase or extend the Revolving Commitment of any Revolving Lender (or
reinstate any Revolving Commitment terminated pursuant to
Section 7.2(a));

         (ii) postpone or delay any date fixed for, or reduce or waive, any scheduled
installment of principal or any payment of interest, fees or other amounts (other than
principal) due to the Lenders (or any of them) or L/C Issuer hereunder or under any
other Loan Document (for the avoidance of doubt, mandatory prepayments pursuant to
Section 1.8 (other than under Section 1.8(a)) may be postponed,
delayed, waived or modified with the consent of Required
Lenders);

         (iii) reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest specified herein or the
amount of interest payable in cash specified herein on any Loan, or of any fees or
other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document, including L/C
Reimbursement Obligations;

         (iv) Intentionally Omitted;

         (v) amend this Section 9.1 or the definition of Required Lenders, Required
Working Capital Lenders or Required Term B Lenders or any provision providing for
consent or other action by all Lenders; or

         (vi) discharge any Credit Party from its respective payment Obligations under the
Loan Documents, or subject to Section 7, release all or substantially all of
the Collateral, except as otherwise may be provided in this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents;

it being agreed that all Lenders shall be deemed to be directly affected by an amendment or waiver
of the type described in the preceding clauses (v) and (vi).

          (b) No amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by Working
Capital Agent, the Swingline Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, in addition to
the Required Working Capital Lenders or all Lenders directly affected thereby, as the case
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Agent with the consent of the Required Working Capital Lenders or all the Lenders
directly affected thereby, as the case may be), affect the rights or duties of Working
Capital Agent, the Swingline Lender or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, under this Agreement
or any other Loan Document. No amendment, modification or waiver of this Agreement or any
Loan Document altering the order of treatment of Obligations arising under Secured Rate
Contracts in a manner adverse to any Secured Swap Provider or otherwise resulting in
Obligations owing to any Secured Swap Provider becoming unsecured (other than releases of
Liens permitted in accordance with the terms hereof), shall be effective without the
written consent of such Secured Swap Provider or, in the case of a Secured Rate Contract
provided or arranged by GE Capital or an Affiliate of GE Capital, GE Capital.

          (c) No amendment or waiver shall, unless signed by Working Capital Agent and Required
Lenders (or by Working Capital Agent with the consent of Required Lenders) in addition to
the Required Lenders (or by Working Capital Agent with the consent of the Required
Lenders): (i) amend or waive compliance with the conditions precedent to the obligations of
FILO Lenders to make the FILO Loan, (ii) amend or waive compliance with the conditions
precedent to the obligations of Term B Lenders to make the Term B Loans, (iii) amend or
waive compliance with the conditions precedent to the obligations of Revolving Lenders to
make any Revolving Loan (or of L/C Issuer to issue any Letter of Credit) in Section
2.2; (iv) amend or waive non-compliance with any provision of Section
1.1(b)(ii); (v) waive any Default or Event of Default for the purpose of satisfying the
conditions precedent to the obligations of Revolving Lenders to make any Revolving Loan (or
of L/C Issuer to issue any Letter of Credit) in Section 2.2; or (vi) amend or waive
this Section 9.1(c) or the definitions of the terms used in this Section 9.1(c)
insofar as the definitions affect the substance of this Section 9.1(c).

          (d) No amendment or waiver shall, unless signed by Agents, Required Lenders (or by
Working Capital Agent with the consent of Required Lenders) and Term B Lenders (or by Term
B Agent with the consent of Term B Lenders) (A) amend and or modify any of the following
definitions: Borrowing Base (and any component definitions thereof), Mandatory Reserves,
Availability Reserves, Term B Reserve, Minimum Excess Availability Amount, Excluded Cash
Management Services, Lease Assumption Reserve Commencement Date, Lease Rejection Date,
Carve-Out, Carve-Out Amount, Approved Budget, Variance Report, Interim Order, Final Order
or Sale Process Default, (B) amend or waive any provision in Article IV or
V, (C) waive any Event of Default or (D) amend this Section 9.1(d). As
among the Lenders and the Agents, nothing contained herein shall limit, restrict or impair
the discretionary rights and ability of the Working Capital Agent to impose or establish
any and all Reserves and to thereafter reduce or eliminate such Reserves (other than
Reserves the amount or methodology of calculation of which are expressly set forth pursuant
to the terms of this Agreement), or to determine the eligibility of Collateral for
inclusion in the calculation of the Borrowing Base, consistent with Working Capital Agent’s
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business practices and in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; provided,
that, other than as expressly set forth herein, the Working Capital Agent agrees to impose
a methodology no less restrictive than that used as of the date hereof in determining
reserves or eligibility.

          (e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 9.1,
(w) Borrowers may amend Schedules 3.16, 3.19 and 3.21 upon notice
to Agents, (x) Borrowers may amend Schedules 3.22, provided that the Borrowers
shall have complied with the requirements set forth in Section 4.11, (y) Working
Capital Agent may amend Schedules 1.1(a)(ii) or 1.1(b) to reflect Sales
entered into pursuant to Section 9.9 and Term B Agent may amend Schedule
1.1(a)(ii) to reflect Sales entered into pursuant to Section 9.9, and (z)
Agents and Borrowers may amend or modify this Agreement and any other Loan Document to (1)
cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency therein, or (2) grant a new Lien for
the benefit of the Secured Parties, extend an existing Lien over additional property for
the benefit of the Secured Parties or join additional Persons as Credit Parties; provided
that no Credit Card Receivables or Inventory of such Person shall be included as Eligible
Credit Card Accounts or Eligible Inventory until a field examination (and, if required by
Working Capital Agent, an Inventory appraisal) with respect thereto has been completed to
the satisfaction of Working Capital Agent, including the establishment of Reserves required
in Working Capital Agent’s Permitted Discretion.

     9.2 Notices.

          (a) Addresses. All notices and other communications required or expressly
authorized to be made by this Agreement shall be given in writing, unless otherwise
expressly specified herein, and (i) addressed to the address set forth on the applicable
signature page hereto, (ii) in the case of notices to Persons other than the Credit
Parties, posted to Intralinks® (to the extent such system is available and set up by or at
the direction of Working Capital Agent prior to posting) in an appropriate location by
uploading such notice, demand, request, direction or other communication to
www.intralinks.com, faxing it to 866-545-6600 with an appropriate bar-code fax coversheet
or using such other means of posting to Intralinks® as may be available and reasonably
acceptable to Working Capital Agent prior to such posting, (iii) in the case of notices to
Persons other than the Credit Parties, posted to any other E-System approved by or set up
by or at the direction of Working Capital Agent or (iv) addressed to such other address as
shall be notified in writing (A) in the case of the Agents and the Swingline Lender, to the
other parties hereto, (B) in the case of the Credit Parties, to the Agents and (C) in the
case of all other parties, to the Borrower Representative and Agents. Transmissions made
by electronic mail or E-Fax to Agents shall be effective only (x) for notices where such
transmission is specifically authorized by this Agreement, (y) if such transmission is
delivered in compliance with procedures of Agents applicable at the time and previously
communicated to Borrower Representative, and (z) if receipt of such transmission is
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          (b) Effectiveness. (i) All communications described in clause (a)
above and all other notices, demands, requests and other communications made in connection
with this Agreement shall be effective and be deemed to have been received (i) if delivered
by hand, upon personal delivery, (ii) if delivered by overnight courier service, one (1)
Business Day after delivery to such courier service, (iii) if delivered by mail, three (3)
Business Days after deposit in the mail, (iv) if delivered by facsimile (other than to post
to an E-System pursuant to clause (a)(ii) or (a)(iii) above), upon sender’s
receipt of confirmation of proper transmission, and (v) if delivered by posting to any
E-System, on the later of the Business Day of such posting and the Business Day access to
such posting is given to the recipient thereof in accordance with the standard procedures
applicable to such E-System; provided, however, that no communications to Agents pursuant
to Article I shall be effective until received by Agents.

               (ii) The posting, completion and/or submission by any Credit Party of any communication
pursuant to an E-System shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Credit Parties that
any representation, warranty, certification or other similar statement required by the Loan
Documents to be provided, given or made by a Credit Party in connection with any such communication
is true, correct and complete except as expressly noted in such communication or E-System.

          (c) Each Lender shall notify Agents in writing of any changes in the address to which
notices to such Lender should be directed, of addresses of its Lending Office, of payment
instructions in respect of all payments to be made to it hereunder and of such other
administrative information as either Agent shall reasonably request.

     9.3 Electronic Transmissions.

          (a) Authorization. Subject to the provisions of Section 9.2(a), each
of Working Capital Agent, Term B Agent, Lenders, each Credit Party and each of their
Related Persons, is authorized (but not required) to transmit, post or otherwise make or
communicate, in its sole discretion, Electronic Transmissions in connection with any Loan
Document and the transactions contemplated therein. Each Credit Party and each Secured
Party hereto acknowledges and agrees that the use of Electronic Transmissions is not
necessarily secure and that there are risks associated with such use, including risks of
interception, disclosure and abuse and each indicates it assumes and accepts such risks by
hereby authorizing the transmission of Electronic Transmissions.

          (b) Signatures. Subject to the provisions of Section 9.2(a), (i)(A)
no posting to any E-System shall be denied legal effect merely because it is made
electronically, (B) each E-Signature on any such posting shall be deemed sufficient to
satisfy any requirement for a “signature” and (C) each such posting shall be deemed
sufficient to satisfy any requirement for a “writing”, in each case including pursuant to
any Loan Document, any applicable provision of any UCC, the federal Uniform Electronic
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Global and National Commerce Act and any substantive or procedural Requirement of Law
governing such subject matter, (ii) each such posting that is not readily capable of
bearing either a signature or a reproduction of a signature may be signed, and shall be
deemed signed, by attaching to, or logically associating with such posting, an E-Signature,
upon which Agents, each Secured Party and each Credit Party may rely and assume the
authenticity thereof, (iii) each such posting containing a signature, a reproduction of a
signature or an E-Signature shall, for all intents and purposes, have the same effect and
weight as a signed paper original and (iv) each party hereto or beneficiary hereto agrees
not to contest the validity or enforceability of any posting on any E-System or E-Signature
on any such posting under the provisions of any applicable Requirement of Law requiring
certain documents to be in writing or signed; provided, however, that nothing herein shall
limit such party’s or beneficiary’s right to contest whether any posting to any E-System or
E-Signature has been altered after transmission.

          (c) Separate Agreements. All uses of an E-System shall be governed by and
subject to, in addition to Section 9.2 and this Section 9.3, the separate
terms, conditions and privacy policy posted or referenced in such E-System (or such terms,
conditions and privacy policy as may be updated from time to time, including on such
E-System) and related Contractual Obligations executed by Agents and Credit Parties in
connection with the use of such E-System.

          (d) LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. ALL E-SYSTEMS AND ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSIONS SHALL
BE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. NONE OF AGENTS, LENDERS OR ANY OF THEIR RELATED
PERSONS WARRANTS THE ACCURACY, ADEQUACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY E-SYSTEMS OR ELECTRONIC
TRANSMISSION AND DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS THEREIN. NO WARRANTY OF
ANY KIND IS MADE BY EITHER AGENT, ANY LENDER OR ANY OF THEIR RELATED PERSONS IN CONNECTION
WITH ANY E-SYSTEMS OR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM
VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS. Each of each Borrower, each other Credit Party executing
this Agreement and each Secured Party agrees that Agents have no responsibility for
maintaining or providing any equipment, software, services or any testing required in
connection with any Electronic Transmission or otherwise required for any E-System.

     9.4 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to exercise and no delay in
exercising, on the part of either Agent or any Lender, any right, remedy, power or privilege
hereunder, shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any
right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the
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of dealing between any Credit Party, any Affiliate of any Credit Party, either Agent or any
Lender shall be effective to amend, modify or discharge any obligation or provision of this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents.

     9.5 Costs and Expenses. Borrower shall reimburse (i) each Agent for all fees, costs
and expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of all of such Agent’s counsel, advisors,
consultants and auditors (including without limitation financial advisors and sales consultants)),
(ii) Lenders for all reasonable and actual out of pocket costs and expenses (other than Attorneys
Costs), and (iii) each Agent (and, with respect to clauses (c) and (d) below, all Lenders) for all
fees, costs and expenses, including the reasonable fees, costs and expenses of counsel or other
advisors (including sales consultants and advisors, environmental and management consultants and
appraisers), incurred in connection with the negotiation and preparation of the Loan Documents, the
Interim Order and the Final Order and incurred in connection with:

          (a) the forwarding to any Borrower or any other Person on behalf of any Borrower by
any Agent of the proceeds of any Loan;

          (b) any amendment, modification or waiver of, consent with respect to, or termination
of, any of the Loan Documents or advice in connection with the syndication and
administration of the Loans made pursuant hereto or its rights hereunder or thereunder;

          (c) any litigation, contest, dispute, suit, proceeding or action (whether instituted
by any Agent, any Lender, any Borrower or any other Person and whether as a party, witness
or otherwise) in any way relating to the Collateral, any of the Loan Documents or any other
agreement to be executed or delivered in connection herewith or therewith, including any
litigation, contest, dispute, suit, case, proceeding or action, and any appeal or review
thereof, in connection with a case or proceeding commenced by or against any Borrower or
any other Person that may be obligated to any Agent by virtue of the Loan Documents;
including any such litigation, contest, dispute, suit, proceeding or action arising in
connection with any work-out or restructuring of the Loans during the pendency of one or
more Events of Default; provided that in the case of reimbursement of counsel for
Lenders other than Agents, such reimbursement shall be limited to one counsel for all
Revolving Lenders and one counsel for all Term B Lenders; provided, further, that
no Person shall be entitled to reimbursement under this clause (c) in respect of any
litigation, contest, dispute, suit, proceeding or action to the extent any of the foregoing
results from such Person’s gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a final
non-appealable judgment);

          (d) any attempt to enforce any remedies of any Agent against any or all of the Credit
Parties or any other Person that may be obligated to any Agent or any Lender by virtue of
any of the Loan Documents, including any such attempt to enforce any such remedies in the
course of any work-out or restructuring of the Loans during the pendency of one or more
Events of Default; provided, that in the case of reimbursement of counsel for
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Agents, such reimbursement shall be limited to one counsel for all Revolving Lenders
and one counsel for all Term B Lenders;

          (e) any workout or restructuring of the Loans during the pendency of one or more
Events of Default;

          (f) the obtaining of approval of the Loan Documents by the Bankruptcy Court;

          (g) the preparation and review of pleadings, documents and reports related to the
Chapter 11 Cases and any subsequent case under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, attendance
at meetings, court hearings or conferences related to the Chapter 11 Cases and any
subsequent case under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, and general monitoring of the
Chapter 11 Cases and any subsequent case under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code;

          (h) efforts to (i) monitor the Loans or any of the other Obligations, (ii) evaluate,
observe or assess any of the Credit Parties or their respective affairs, and (iii) verify,
protect, evaluate, assess, appraise, collect, sell, liquidate or otherwise dispose of any
of the Collateral; and

          (i) any lien searches or request for information listing financing statements or liens
filed or searches conducted to confirm receipt and due filing of financing statements and
security interests in all or a portion of the Collateral;

including, as to each of clauses (a) through (i) above, all reasonable attorneys’ and other
professional and service providers’ fees arising from such services and other advice, assistance or
other representation, including those in connection with any appellate proceedings, and all
expenses, costs, charges and other fees incurred by such counsel and others in connection with or
relating to any of the events or actions described in this Section 9.5, all of which shall
be payable, on demand, by Borrowers to applicable Agent. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, such expenses, costs, charges and fees may include: fees, costs and expenses of
accountants, sales consultants, financial advisors, environmental advisors, appraisers, investment
bankers, management and other consultants and paralegals; court costs and expenses; photocopying
and duplication expenses; court reporter fees, costs and expenses; long distance telephone charges;
air express charges; telegram or telecopy charges; secretarial overtime charges; and expenses for
travel, lodging and food paid or incurred in connection with the performance of such legal or other
advisory services.

     9.6 Indemnity.

          (a) Each Credit Party agrees to indemnify, hold harmless and defend each Agent, each
Lender, each L/C Issuer and each of their respective Related Persons (each such Person
being an “Indemnitee”) from and against all Liabilities (including brokerage
commissions, fees and other compensation) that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted
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matter relating to or arising out of, in connection with or as a result of (i) any
Loan Document, any Obligation (or the repayment thereof), any Letter of Credit, the use or
intended use of the proceeds of any Loan or the use of any Letter of Credit or any
securities filing of, or with respect to, any Credit Party, (ii) any commitment letter,
proposal letter or term sheet with any Person or any Contractual Obligation, arrangement or
understanding with any broker, finder or consultant, in each case entered into by or on
behalf of any Credit Party or any Affiliate of any of them in connection with any of the
foregoing and any Contractual Obligation entered into in connection with any E-Systems or
other Electronic Transmissions, (iii) with respect to any act, event or transaction
related, contemplated in or attendant to any of the foregoing, any actual or prospective
investigation, litigation or other proceeding, whether or not brought by any such
Indemnitee or any of its Related Persons, any holders of securities or creditors (and
including attorneys’ fees in any case), whether or not any such Indemnitee, Related Person,
holder or creditor is a party thereto, and whether or not based on any securities or
commercial law or regulation or any other Requirement of Law or theory thereof, including
common law, equity, contract, tort or otherwise or (iv) any other act, event or transaction
related, contemplated in or attendant to any of the foregoing (collectively, subject to the
following proviso, the “Indemnified Matters”); provided, however, that no Credit
Party shall have any liability under this Section 9.6 to any Indemnitee with
respect to any Indemnified Matter, and no Indemnitee shall have any liability with respect
to any Indemnified Matter other than (to the extent otherwise liable), to the extent such
liability has resulted primarily from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such
Indemnitee, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable
judgment or order. Furthermore, each of each Borrower and each other Credit Party
executing this Agreement waives and agrees not to assert against any Indemnitee, and shall
cause each other Credit Party to waive and not assert against any Indemnitee, any right of
contribution with respect to any Liabilities that may be imposed on, incurred by or
asserted against any Related Person.

          (b) Without limiting the foregoing, “Indemnified Matters” includes all Environmental
Liabilities, including those arising from, or otherwise involving, any property of any
Credit Party or any Related Person of any Credit Party or any actual, alleged or
prospective damage to property or natural resources or harm or injury alleged to have
resulted from any Release of Hazardous Materials on, upon or into such property or natural
resource or any property on or contiguous to any Real Estate of any Credit Party or any
Related Person or any Credit Party, whether or not, with respect to any such Environmental
Liabilities, any Indemnitee is a mortgagee pursuant to any leasehold mortgage, a mortgagee
in possession, the successor-in-interest to any Credit Party or any Related Person of any
Credit Party or the owner, lessee or operator of any property of any Related Person through
any foreclosure action, in each case except to the extent such Environmental Liabilities
(i) are incurred solely following foreclosure by Working Capital Agent or following either
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Related Person of any Credit Party and (ii) are attributable solely to acts of such
Indemnitee.

     9.7 Marshaling; Payments Set Aside. No Secured Party shall be under any obligation to
marshal any property in favor of any Credit Party or any other Person or against or in payment of
any Obligation. To the extent that any Secured Party receives a payment from a Borrower, from any
other Credit Party, from the proceeds of the Collateral, from the exercise of its rights of setoff,
any enforcement action or otherwise, and such payment is subsequently, in whole or in part,
invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be repaid to a
trustee, receiver or any other party, then to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part
thereof originally intended to be satisfied, and all Liens, rights and remedies therefor, shall be
revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not occurred.

     9.8 Intentionally Omitted.

     9.9 Assignments and Participations; Binding Effect.

          (a) Binding Effect. This Agreement shall become effective when it shall have
been executed by the Borrowers, the other Credit Parties signatory hereto and Agents and
when Agents shall have been notified by each Lender and the initial L/C Issuer that such
Lender or L/C Issuer has executed it. Thereafter, it shall be binding upon and inure to
the benefit of, but only to the benefit of, the Borrowers, the other Credit Parties hereto
(in each case except for Article VIII), Agents, each Lender and each L/C Issuer
receiving the benefits of the Loan Documents and, to the extent provided in Section
8.11, each other Secured Party and, in each case, their respective successors and
permitted assigns. Except as expressly provided in any Loan Document (including in
Section 8.9), none of any Borrower, any other Credit Party, any L/C Issuer or
Agents shall have the right to assign any rights or obligations hereunder or any interest
herein.

          (b) Right to Assign. Each Lender may sell, transfer, negotiate or assign (a
“Sale”) all or a portion of its rights and obligations hereunder (including all or
a portion of its Revolving Commitments, FILO Commitments, Term B Commitments and its rights
and obligations with respect to Loans and Letters of Credit) to (i) any existing Lender,
(ii) any Affiliate or Approved Fund of any existing Lender or (iii) any other Person
acceptable (which acceptance shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to the
applicable Agent and, with respect to Sales of Revolving Commitments, each L/C Issuer that
is a Lender and, as long as no Event of Default is continuing, the Borrower Representative
(which acceptances of the L/C Issuers and the Borrower Representative shall be deemed to
have been given unless an objection is delivered to Agents within five (5) Business Days
after written notice of a proposed sale is delivered to such L/C Issuers and Borrower
Representative, as applicable); provided, however, that (u) provided, that no assignment
may be made to certain pre-agreed competitors of the Borrowers, (v) such Sales do not have
to be ratable between the Revolving Loan and FILO Loan but must be ratable among the
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owed by such Lender with respect to the Revolving Loans or the FILO Loan, (w) for each
Loan, the aggregate outstanding principal amount (determined as of the effective date of
the applicable Assignment) of the Loans, Revolving Commitments and Letter of Credit
Obligations subject to any such Sale shall be in a minimum amount of $1,000,000, unless
such Sale is made to an existing Lender or an Affiliate or Approved Fund of any existing
Lender, is of the assignor’s (together with its Affiliates and Approved Funds) entire
interest in such facility or is made with the prior consent of the Borrower Representative
(to the extent required) and Agents, (x) such Sales shall be effective only upon the
acknowledgement in writing of such Sale by the applicable Agent, (y) interest accrued prior
to and through the date of any such Sale may not be assigned, and (z) such Sales by
Non-Funding Lenders shall be subject to Working Capital Agent’s prior written consent in
all instances. A Sale to a Credit Party, an Affiliate of a Credit Party, a holder of
Subordinated Debt or an Affiliate of such a holder shall be at the discretion of the Agents
and subject to the imposition of conditions or limitations (including limitations on
voting).

          (c) Procedure. The parties to each Sale made in reliance on clause
(b) above (other than those described in clause (e) or (f) below) shall
execute and deliver to the applicable Agent an Assignment via an electronic settlement
system designated by such Agent (or, if previously agreed with such Agent, via a manual
execution and delivery of the Assignment) evidencing such Sale, together with any existing
Note subject to such Sale (or any affidavit of loss therefor acceptable to such Agent), any
tax forms required to be delivered pursuant to Section 10.1 and payment of an
assignment fee in the amount of $3,500 to such Agent, unless waived or reduced by such
Agent; provided, that (i) if a Sale by a Revolving Lender is made to an Affiliate or an
Approved Fund of such assigning Revolving Lender, then no assignment fee shall be due in
connection with such Sale, and (ii) if a Sale by a Lender is made to an assignee that is
not an Affiliate or Approved Fund of such assignor Lender, and concurrently to one or more
Affiliates or Approved Funds of such Assignee, then only one assignment fee of $3,500 shall
be due in connection with such Sale (unless waived or reduced by such Agent). Upon receipt
of all the foregoing, and conditioned upon such receipt and, if such Assignment is made in
accordance with clause (iii) of Section 9.9(b), upon such Agent (and the
Borrower, if applicable) consenting to such Assignment, from and after the effective date
specified in such Assignment, such Agent shall record or cause to be recorded in the
Registers the information contained in such Assignment.

          (d) Effectiveness. Subject to the recording of an Assignment by the
applicable Agent in the applicable Register pursuant to Section 1.4(b), (i) the
assignee thereunder shall become a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and
obligations under the Loan Documents have been assigned to such assignee pursuant to such
Assignment, shall have the rights and obligations of a Lender, (ii) any applicable Note
shall be transferred to such assignee through such entry and (iii) the assignor thereunder
shall, to the extent that rights and obligations under this Agreement have been assigned by
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Assignment, relinquish its rights (except for those surviving the termination of the Revolving
Commitments and the payment in full of the Obligations) and be released from its
obligations under the Loan Documents, other than those relating to events or circumstances
occurring prior to such assignment (and, in the case of an Assignment covering all or the
remaining portion of an assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under the Loan Documents,
such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto).

          (e) Grant of Security Interests. In addition to the other rights provided in
this Section 9.9, each Lender may grant a security interest in, or otherwise assign
as collateral, any of its rights under this Agreement, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired (including rights to payments of principal or interest on the Loans), to (A) any
federal reserve bank (pursuant to Regulation A of the Federal Reserve Board), without
notice to Agents or (B) any holder of, or trustee for the benefit of the holders of, such
Lender’s Indebtedness or equity securities, by notice to Agents; provided, however, that no
such holder or trustee, whether because of such grant or assignment or any foreclosure
thereon (unless such foreclosure is made through an assignment in accordance with
clause (b) above), shall be entitled to any rights of such Lender hereunder and no
such Lender shall be relieved of any of its obligations hereunder.

          (f) Participants and SPVs. In addition to the other rights provided in this
Section 9.9, each Lender may, (x) with notice to Agents, grant to an SPV the option
to make all or any part of any Loan that such Lender would otherwise be required to make
hereunder (and the exercise of such option by such SPV and the making of Loans pursuant
thereto shall satisfy the obligation of such Lender to make such Loans hereunder) and such
SPV may assign to such Lender the right to receive payment with respect to any Obligation
and (y) without notice to or consent from Agents or the Borrowers, sell participations to
one or more Persons in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under the Loan
Documents (including all its rights and obligations with respect to the FILO Loan, Term B
Loans, Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit); provided, however, that, whether as a result
of any term of any Loan Document or of such grant or participation, (i) no such SPV or
participant shall have a commitment, or be deemed to have made an offer to commit, to make
Loans hereunder, and, except as provided in the applicable option agreement, none shall be
liable for any obligation of such Lender hereunder, (ii) such Lender’s rights and
obligations, and the rights and obligations of the Credit Parties and the Secured Parties
towards such Lender, under any Loan Document shall remain unchanged and each other party
hereto shall continue to deal solely with such Lender, which shall remain the holder of the
Obligations in the Registers, except that (A) each such participant and SPV shall be
entitled to the benefit of Article X, but, with respect to Section 10.1,
only to the extent such participant or SPV delivers the tax forms such Lender is required
to collect pursuant to Section 10.1(f) and then only to the extent of any amount to
which such Lender would be entitled in the absence of any such grant or participation and
(B) each such SPV may receive other payments that would otherwise be made to such Lender
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funded by such SPV to the extent provided in the applicable option agreement and set
forth in a notice provided to Agents by such SPV and such Lender, provided, however, that
in no case (including pursuant to clause (A) or (B) above) shall an SPV or
participant have the right to enforce any of the terms of any Loan Document, and (iii) the
consent of such SPV or participant shall not be required (either directly, as a restraint
on such Lender’s ability to consent hereunder or otherwise) for any amendments, waivers or
consents with respect to any Loan Document or to exercise or refrain from exercising any
powers or rights such Lender may have under or in respect of the Loan Documents (including
the right to enforce or direct enforcement of the Obligations), except for those described
in clauses (ii) and (iii) of Section 9.1(a) with respect to
amounts, or dates fixed for payment of amounts, to which such participant or SPV would
otherwise be entitled and, in the case of participants, except for those described in
clause (vi) of Section 9.1(a). No party hereto shall institute (and each
Borrower shall cause each other Credit Party not to institute) against any SPV grantee of
an option pursuant to this clause (f) any bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency,
liquidation or similar proceeding, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the
payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper of such SPV; provided, however, that
each Lender having designated an SPV as such agrees to indemnify each Indemnitee against
any Liability that may be incurred by, or asserted against, such Indemnitee as a result of
failing to institute such proceeding (including a failure to get reimbursed by such SPV for
any such Liability). The agreement in the preceding sentence shall survive the termination
of the Revolving Commitments and the payment in full of the Obligations.

     9.10 Non-Public Information; Confidentiality.

          (a) Non-Public Information. Agents, each Lender and L/C Issuer acknowledges
and agrees that it may receive material non-public information (“MNPI”) hereunder
concerning the Credit Parties and their Affiliates and agrees to use such information in
compliance with all relevant policies, procedures and applicable Requirements of Laws
(including United States federal and state security laws and regulations).

          (b) Confidential Information. Each Lender, L/C Issuer and Agents agree to use
all reasonable efforts to maintain, in accordance with its customary practices, the
confidentiality of information obtained by it pursuant to any Loan Document and designated
in writing by any Credit Party as confidential, except that such information may be
disclosed (i) with the Borrower Representative’s written consent, (ii) to Related Persons
of such Lender, L/C Issuer or such Agent, as the case may be, or to any Person that any L/C
Issuer causes to issue Letters of Credit hereunder, that are advised of the confidential
nature of such information and are instructed (and such Related Persons agree) to keep such
information confidential in accordance with the terms hereof, (iii) to the extent such
information presently is or hereafter becomes (A) publicly available other than as a result
of a breach of this Section 9.10 or (B) available to such Lender, L/C Issuer or
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may be, from a source (other than any Credit Party) not known by them to be subject to
disclosure restrictions, (iv) to the extent disclosure is required by applicable
Requirements of Law or other legal process or requested or demanded by any Governmental
Authority, (v) to the extent necessary or customary for inclusion in league table
measurements, (vi) (A) to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any
similar organization, any examiner or any nationally recognized rating agency or (B)
otherwise to the extent consisting of general portfolio information that does not identify
Credit Parties, (vii) to current or prospective assignees, SPVs (including the investors or
prospective investors therein) or participants, direct or contractual counterparties to any
Secured Rate Contracts and to their respective Related Persons, in each case to the extent
such assignees, investors, participants, counterparties or Related Persons agree to be
bound by provisions substantially similar to the provisions of this Section 9.10
(and such Person may disclose information to their respective Related Persons in accordance
with clause (ii) above), (viii) to any other party hereto, and (ix) in connection
with the exercise or enforcement of any right or remedy under any Loan Document, in
connection with any litigation or other proceeding to which such Lender, L/C Issuer or such
Agent or any of their Related Persons is a party or bound, or to the extent necessary to
respond to public statements or disclosures by Credit Parties or their Related Persons
referring to a Lender, L/C Issuer or Agent or any of their Related Persons. In the event
of any conflict between the terms of this Section 9.10 and those of any other Contractual
Obligation entered into with any Credit Party (whether or not a Loan Document), the terms
of this Section 9.10 shall govern.

          (c) Tombstones. Each Credit Party consents to the publication by Agents or
any Lender of advertising material relating to the financing transactions contemplated by
this Agreement using any Credit Party’s name, product photographs, logo or trademark.
Agents or such Lender shall provide a draft of any advertising material to Borrower
Representative for review and comment prior to the publication thereof.

          (d) Press Release and Related Matters. No Credit Party shall, and no Credit
Party shall permit any of its Affiliates to, issue any press release or other public
disclosure (other than any document filed with any Governmental Authority relating to a
public offering of securities of any Credit Party) using the name, logo or otherwise
referring to GE Capital or GA Capital or of any of their Affiliates, the Loan Documents or
any transaction contemplated therein to which Agents are party without the prior consent of
GE Capital or GA Capital (as applicable) except to the extent required to do so under
applicable Requirements of Law and then, only after consulting with GE Capital.

          (e) Distribution of Materials to Lenders and L/C Issuers. The Credit Parties
acknowledge and agree that the Loan Documents and all reports, notices, communications and
other information or materials provided or delivered by, or on behalf of, the Credit
Parties hereunder (collectively, the “Borrower Materials”) may be disseminated by,
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to the Lenders and the L/C Issuers by posting such Borrower Materials on an E-System.
The Credit Parties authorize Agents to download copies of their logos from its website and
post copies thereof on an E-System.

          (f) Material Non-Public Information. The Credit Parties hereby agree that if
either they, any parent company or any Subsidiary of the Credit Parties has publicly traded
equity or debt securities in the U.S., they shall (and shall cause such parent company or
Subsidiary, as the case may be, to) (i) identify in writing, and (ii) to the extent
reasonably practicable, clearly and conspicuously mark such Borrower Materials that contain
only information that is publicly available or that is not material for purposes of U.S.
federal and state securities laws as “PUBLIC”. The Credit Parties agree that by identifying
such Borrower Materials as “PUBLIC” or publicly filing such Borrower Materials with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, then Agents, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers shall be
entitled to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any MNPI for purposes of U.S.
federal and state securities laws. The Credit Parties further represent, warrant,
acknowledge and agree that the following documents and materials shall be deemed to be
PUBLIC, whether or not so marked, and do not contain any MNPI: (A) the Loan Documents,
including the schedules and exhibits attached thereto, and (B) administrative materials of
a customary nature prepared by the Credit Parties or Agents (including, Notices of
Borrowing, Notices of Conversion/Continuation, L/C requests, Swingline requests and any
similar requests or notices posted on or through an E-System). Before distribution of any
Borrower Materials, the Credit Parties agree to execute and deliver to Agents a letter
authorizing distribution of the evaluation materials to prospective Lenders and their
employees willing to receive MNPI, and a separate letter authorizing distribution of
evaluation materials that do not contain MNPI and represent that no MNPI is contained
therein.

     9.11 Set-off; Sharing of Payments.

          (a) Right of Setoff. Each of Agents, each Lender, each L/C Issuer and each
Affiliate (including each branch office thereof) of any of them is hereby authorized
(notwithstanding the provisions of 362 of the Bankruptcy Code, without any application,
motion or notice to, hearing before, or order from, the Bankruptcy Court), without notice
or demand (each of which is hereby waived by each Credit Party), at any time and from time
to time during the continuance of any Event of Default and to the fullest extent permitted
by applicable Requirements of Law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (whether
general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other
Indebtedness, claims or other obligations at any time owing by Agents, such Lender, such
L/C Issuer or any of their respective Affiliates to or for the credit or the account of the
Borrowers or any other Credit Party against any Obligation of any Credit Party now or
hereafter existing, whether or not any demand was made under any Loan Document with respect
to such Obligation and even though such Obligation may be unmatured. No Lender or L/C
Issuer shall exercise any such right of setoff without the prior consent of Agents or
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Agents, each Lender and each L/C Issuer agrees promptly to notify the Borrower
Representative and Agents after any such setoff and application made by such Lender or its
Affiliates; provided, however, that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the
validity of such setoff and application. The rights under this Section 9.11 are in
addition to any other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that Agents,
the Lenders, the L/C Issuer, their Affiliates and the other Secured Parties, may have.

          (b) Sharing of Payments, Etc. If any Lender, directly or through an Affiliate
or branch office thereof, obtains any payment of any Obligation of any Credit Party
(whether voluntary, involuntary or through the exercise of any right of setoff or the
receipt of any Collateral or “proceeds” (as defined under the applicable UCC) of
Collateral) other than pursuant to Section 9.9 or Article X and such
payment exceeds the amount such Lender would have been entitled to receive if all payments
had gone to, and been distributed by, the applicable Agent in accordance with the
provisions of the Loan Documents, such Lender shall purchase for cash from other Lenders
such participations in their Obligations as necessary for such Lender to share such excess
payment with such Lenders to ensure such payment is applied as though it had been received
by the applicable Agent and applied in accordance with this Agreement (or, if such
application would then be at the discretion of the Borrowers, applied to repay the
Obligations in accordance herewith); provided, however, that (a) if such payment is
rescinded or otherwise recovered from such Lender or L/C Issuer in whole or in part, such
purchase shall be rescinded and the purchase price therefor shall be returned to such
Lender or L/C Issuer without interest and (b) such Lender shall, to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable Requirements of Law, be able to exercise all its rights of payment
(including the right of setoff) with respect to such participation as fully as if such
Lender were the direct creditor of the applicable Credit Party in the amount of such
participation. If a Non-Funding Lender or Impacted Lender receives any such payment as
described in the previous sentence, such Lender shall turn over such payments to Working
Capital Agent in an amount that would satisfy the cash collateral requirements set forth in
Section 1.11(b).

     9.12 Counterparts; Facsimile Signature. This Agreement may be executed in any number
of counterparts and by different parties in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed
shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same
agreement. Signature pages may be detached from multiple separate counterparts and attached to a
single counterpart. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by facsimile
transmission or Electronic Transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed
counterpart hereof.

     9.13 Severability. The illegality or unenforceability of any provision of this
Agreement or any instrument or agreement required hereunder shall not in any way affect or impair
the legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement or any instrument or
agreement required hereunder.

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     9.14 Captions. The captions and headings of this Agreement are for convenience of
reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement.

     9.15 Independence of Provisions. The parties hereto acknowledge that this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents may use several different limitations, tests or measurements to
regulate the same or similar matters, and that such limitations, tests and measurements are
cumulative and must each be performed, except as expressly stated to the contrary in this
Agreement.

     9.16 Interpretation. This Agreement is the result of negotiations among and has been
reviewed by counsel to Credit Parties, Agents, each Lender and other parties hereto, and is the
product of all parties hereto. Accordingly, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not
be construed against the Lenders or Agents merely because of Agents’ or Lenders’ involvement in the
preparation of such documents and agreements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
each of the parties hereto has had the advice of counsel with respect to Sections 9.18 and
9.19.

     9.17 No Third Parties Benefited. This Agreement is made and entered into for the sole
protection and legal benefit of the Borrowers, the Lenders, the L/C Issuers party hereto, Agents
and, subject to the provisions of Section 8.11, each other Secured Party, and their
permitted successors and assigns, and no other Person shall be a direct or indirect legal
beneficiary of, or have any direct or indirect cause of action or claim in connection with, this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents. Neither Agent nor any Lender shall have any
obligation to any Person not a party to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents.

     9.18 GOVERNING LAW. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN ANY OF THE LOAN
DOCUMENTS, IN ALL RESPECTS, INCLUDING ALL MATTERS OF CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY AND PERFORMANCE, THE
LOAN DOCUMENTS AND THE OBLIGATIONS SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS MADE AND PERFORMED IN THAT
STATE AND ANY APPLICABLE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (INCLUDING THE BANKRUPTCY CODE).
EACH CREDIT PARTY HEREBY CONSENTS AND AGREES THAT THE BANKRUPTCY COURT SHALL HAVE EXCLUSIVE
JURISDICTION TO HEAR AND DETERMINE ANY CLAIMS OR DISPUTES BETWEEN THE CREDIT PARTIES, AGENT AND
LENDERS PERTAINING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR TO ANY MATTER ARISING
OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS; PROVIDED, THAT AGENT,
LENDERS AND THE CREDIT PARTIES ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ANY APPEALS FROM THE BANKRUPTCY COURT MAY HAVE TO
BE HEARD BY A COURT OTHER THAN THE BANKRUPTCY COURT; PROVIDED FURTHER, THAT NOTHING IN THIS
AGREEMENT SHALL BE DEEMED OR OPERATE TO PRECLUDE AGENT FROM BRINGING SUIT OR TAKING OTHER LEGAL
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ANY OTHER JURISDICTION TO REALIZE ON THE COLLATERAL OR ANY OTHER SECURITY FOR THE OBLIGATIONS,
OR TO ENFORCE A JUDGMENT OR OTHER COURT ORDER IN FAVOR OF AGENT. EACH CREDIT PARTY EXPRESSLY
SUBMITS AND CONSENTS IN ADVANCE TO SUCH JURISDICTION IN ANY ACTION OR SUIT COMMENCED IN ANY SUCH
COURT, AND EACH CREDIT PARTY HEREBY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION THAT SUCH CREDIT PARTY MAY HAVE BASED UPON
LACK OF PERSONAL JURISDICTION, IMPROPER VENUE OR FORUM NON CONVENIENS AND HEREBY CONSENTS TO THE
GRANTING OF SUCH LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RELIEF AS IS DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY SUCH COURT. EACH CREDIT
PARTY HEREBY WAIVES PERSONAL SERVICE OF THE SUMMONS, COMPLAINT AND OTHER PROCESS ISSUED IN ANY SUCH
ACTION OR SUIT AND AGREES THAT SERVICE OF SUCH SUMMONS, COMPLAINTS AND OTHER PROCESS MAY BE MADE BY
REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL ADDRESSED TO SUCH CREDIT PARTY AT THE ADDRESS SET FORTH IN SECTION
9.2 OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THAT SERVICE SO MADE SHALL BE DEEMED COMPLETED UPON THE EARLIER OF
SUCH CREDIT PARTY’S ACTUAL RECEIPT THEREOF OR 3 DAYS AFTER DEPOSIT IN THE UNITED STATES MAILS,
PROPER POSTAGE PREPAID.

     9.19 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. THE PARTIES HERETO, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WAIVE
ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF, IN CONNECTION WITH OR
RELATING TO, THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS AND ANY OTHER TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY
AND THEREBY. THIS WAIVER APPLIES TO ANY ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING WHETHER SOUNDING IN TORT,
CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE.

     9.20 Entire Agreement; Release; Survival.

          (a) THE LOAN DOCUMENTS EMBODY THE ENTIRE AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES AND SUPERSEDE ALL
PRIOR AGREEMENTS AND UNDERSTANDINGS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER THEREOF AND ANY PRIOR
LETTER OF INTEREST, COMMITMENT LETTER, CONFIDENTIALITY AND SIMILAR AGREEMENTS INVOLVING ANY
CREDIT PARTY AND ANY LENDER OR ANY L/C ISSUER OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES
RELATING TO A FINANCING OF SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR FORM, PURPOSE OR EFFECT OTHER THAN THE FEE
LETTER. IN THE EVENT OF ANY CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY OTHER
LOAN DOCUMENT, THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT SHALL GOVERN (UNLESS SUCH TERMS OF SUCH OTHER
LOAN DOCUMENTS ARE NECESSARY TO COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE REQUIREMENTS OF LAW, IN WHICH CASE
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ANY PROVISION IN THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT CONFLICTS WITH ANY
PROVISION IN THE INTERIM ORDER OR FINAL ORDER, THE PROVISION IN THE INTERIM ORDER OR FINAL
ORDER SHALL GOVERN AND CONTROL.

          (b) Execution of this Agreement by the Credit Parties constitutes a full, complete and
irrevocable release of any and all claims which each Credit Party may have at law or in
equity in respect of all prior discussions and understandings, oral or written, relating to
the subject matter of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. In no event shall any
Indemnitee be liable on any theory of liability for any special, indirect, consequential or
punitive damages (including any loss of profits, business or anticipated savings). Each of
each Borrower and each other Credit Party signatory hereto hereby waives, releases and
agrees (and shall cause each other Credit Party to waive, release and agree) not to sue
upon any such claim for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages, whether
or not accrued and whether or not known or suspected to exist in its favor.

          (c) (i) Any indemnification or other protection provided to any Indemnitee pursuant to
this Section 9.20, Sections 9.5 (Costs and Expenses) and 9.6
(Indemnity) and Articles VIII (Agents) and X (Taxes, Yield Protection and
Illegality) and (ii) the provisions of Section 8.1 of the Guaranty and Security Agreement,
in each case, shall (x) survive the termination of the Revolving Commitments and the
payment in full of all other Obligations and (y) with respect to clause (i) above,
inure to the benefit of any Person that at any time held a right thereunder (as an
Indemnitee or otherwise) and, thereafter, its successors and permitted assigns.

     9.21 Patriot Act. Each Lender that is subject to the Patriot Act hereby notifies the
Credit Parties that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, it is required to obtain,
verify and record information that identifies each Credit Party, which information includes the
name and address of each Credit Party and other information that will allow such Lender to identify
each Credit Party in accordance with the Patriot Act.

     9.22 Replacement of Lender. Within forty-five days after: (i) receipt by the Borrower
Representative of written notice and demand from any Lender that is not an Agent or an Affiliate of
an Agent (an “Affected Lender”) for payment of additional costs as provided in Sections
10.1, 10.3 and/or 10.6; or (ii) any failure by any Lender (other than either
Agent) to consent to a requested amendment, waiver or modification to any Loan Document in which
Required Lenders have already consented to such amendment, waiver or modification but the consent
of each Lender (or each Lender directly affected thereby, as applicable) is required with respect
thereto, the Borrowers may, at their option, notify Agents and such Affected Lender (or such
defaulting or non-consenting Lender, as the case may be) of the Borrowers’ intention to obtain, at
the Borrowers’ expense, a replacement Lender (“Replacement Lender”) for such Affected
Lender (or such defaulting or non-consenting Lender, as the case may be), which Replacement Lender
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Replacement Lender within forty-five (45) days following notice of its intention to do so, the
Affected Lender (or defaulting or non-consenting Lender, as the case may be) shall sell and assign
its Loans and Revolving Commitments to such Replacement Lender, at par, provided that the Borrowers
have reimbursed such Affected Lender for its increased costs for which it is entitled to
reimbursement under this Agreement through the date of such sale and assignment. In the event that
a replaced Lender does not execute an Assignment pursuant to Section 9.9 within five (5)
Business Days after receipt by such replaced Lender of notice of replacement pursuant to this
Section 9.22 and presentation to such replaced Lender of an Assignment evidencing an
assignment pursuant to this Section 9.22, the Borrowers shall be entitled (but not
obligated) to execute such an Assignment on behalf of such replaced Lender, and any such Assignment
so executed by the Borrowers, the Replacement Lender and Agents, shall be effective for purposes of
this Section 9.22 and Section 9.9. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to
a Lender that is a Non-Funding Lender or an Impacted Lender, the Borrowers or Working Capital Agent
may obtain a Replacement Lender and execute an Assignment on behalf of such Non-Funding Lender or
an Impacted Lender at any time and without prior notice to such Non-Funding Lender or an Impacted
Lender and cause its Loans and Revolving Commitments to be sold and assigned at par. Upon any such
assignment and payment and compliance with the other provisions of Section 9.9, such
replaced Lender shall no longer constitute a “Lender” for purposes hereof; provided, that any
rights of such replaced Lender to indemnification hereunder shall survive.

     9.23 Joint and Several. Each Credit Party is part of a group of affiliated Persons,
and each Credit Party expects to receive substantial direct and indirect benefits from the
extension of the credit facility established pursuant to this Agreement. In consideration of the
foregoing, each Credit Party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that it is jointly and
severally liable for all of the liabilities, obligations, covenants and agreements of the Credit
Party hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, whether now or hereafter existing or due or to
become due. The obligations of the Credit Parties under the Loan Documents may be enforced by
Working Capital Agent, Term Agent and the Lenders pursuant to the terms hereof against any Credit
Party in any manner or order selected by Agents or Required Lenders in their sole discretion. Each
Credit Party hereby irrevocably waives (i) any rights of subrogation and (ii) any rights of
contribution, indemnity or reimbursement, in each case, that it may acquire or that may arise
against any other Credit Party due to any payment or performance made under this Agreement, in each
case until all Obligations shall have been fully satisfied. Without limiting the foregoing
provisions of this Section 9.23, each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that:

          (a) its obligations under this Agreement shall remain enforceable against it even
though such obligations may be unenforceable or not allowable against any other Borrower
due to the existence of an insolvency proceeding involving any other Borrower;

          (b) its obligations under this Agreement are independent of the obligations of any
other Credit Party, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against
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whether any action is brought against any other Credit Party or any other Credit Party
is joined in any such action or actions;

          (c) it hereby irrevocably waives any defenses it may now have or hereafter acquire in
any way relating to, any or all of the following:

               (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any
agreement or instrument relating hereto or thereto in respect of any other Credit Party;

               (ii) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or
any of the obligations of any other Credit Party under or in respect of this Agreement, the other
Loan Documents, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from this Agreement
or any other Loan Document, in respect of any other Credit Party;

               (iii) any change, restructuring or termination of the structure or existence of any other
Borrower;

               (iv) the failure of any other Person to execute or deliver any other agreement or the release
or reduction of liability of any other Person with respect to any obligations of the Borrowers
under this Agreement or any other Loan Document;

               (v) any other circumstance (including any statute of limitations but other than the
Obligations having been fully satisfied) or any existence of or reliance on any representation by
any other Person that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any
other Credit Party; or

               (vi) the application of any Loan proceeds to, or the extension of any other credit for the
benefit of, any other Borrower, any other Credit Party, or any of their Subsidiaries;

          (d) its obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall continue
to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment of any
such obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by any Person upon the
insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of any other Borrower, all as though such payment
had not been made; and

          (e) it hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives any right to revoke its joint and
several liability under the Loan Documents and acknowledges that such liability is
continuing in nature and applies to all obligations of the Credit Parties under the Loan
Documents, whether existing now or in the future.

     9.24 Creditor-Debtor Relationship. The relationship between Agents, each Lender and
the L/C Issuer, on the one hand, and the Credit Parties, on the other hand, is solely that of
creditor and debtor. No Secured Party has any fiduciary relationship or duty to any Credit Party
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tenancy or joint venture relationship between the Secured Parties and the Credit Parties by
virtue of, any Loan Document or any transaction contemplated therein.

     9.25 Actions in Concert. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary,
each Lender hereby agrees with each other Lender that no Lender shall take any action to protect or
enforce its rights against any Credit Party arising out of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document (including exercising any rights of setoff) without first obtaining the prior written
consent of Agents or Required Lenders, it being the intent of Lenders that any such action to
protect or enforce rights under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be taken in
concert and at the direction or with the consent of Agents or Required Lenders, except as set forth
in Sections 7.2, 7.3 and 7.9.

ARTICLE X.

TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY

     10.1 Taxes.

          (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section 10.1, each payment by any
Credit Party under any Loan Document shall be made free and clear of all present or future
taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings imposed by any Governmental
Authority and all liabilities with respect thereto (and without deduction for any of them)
(collectively, but excluding the taxes set forth in clauses (i) and (ii)
below, the “Taxes”) other than for (i) taxes measured by overall net income
(however denominated, including branch profits taxes) and franchise taxes imposed in lieu
of net income taxes, in each case imposed on any Secured Party by the jurisdiction (or any
political subdivision thereof) in which such Secured Party is organized, maintains its
principal office or applicable Lending Office, or is considered to be present or engaged in
business (other than solely from the execution or performance of its obligations or receipt
of a payment under, or enforcement of, the Loan Documents), (ii) taxes that are directly
attributable to the failure (other than as a result of a change in any Requirement of Law)
by Agents or any Lender to deliver the documentation required to be delivered pursuant to
clause (f) below or (iii) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender Party, any United States
withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable or on account of a Credit Party pursuant
to Section 1471 through 1474 of the Code, provided that such Credit Party shall cooperate
to the extent reasonably requested by a Non-U.S. Lender Party in any respect to any
documentation required to avoid or reduce the amount of such withholding tax.

          (b) If any Taxes shall be required by law to be deducted from or in respect of any
amount payable under any Loan Document to any Secured Party (i) such amount shall be
increased as necessary to ensure that, after all required deductions for Taxes are made
(including deductions applicable to any increases to any amount under this Section
10.1), such Secured Party receives the amount it would have received had no such
deductions been made, (ii) the relevant Credit Party shall make such deductions, (iii) the
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shall timely pay the full amount deducted to the relevant taxing authority or other
authority in accordance with applicable Requirements of Law and (iv) within 30 days after
such payment is made, the relevant Credit Party shall deliver to Agents an original or
certified copy of a receipt evidencing such payment or other evidence of payment reasonably
satisfactory to Agents; provided, however, that no such increase shall be made with respect
to, and no Credit Party shall be required to indemnify any Secured Party pursuant to
clause (d) below for, (x) withholding taxes to the extent that the obligation to
withhold amounts existed on the date that such Person became a “Secured Party” under this
Agreement in the capacity under which such Person makes a claim under this clause
(b), designates a new Lending Office or experiences a change in circumstances (other
than a change in a Requirement of Law), except in each case to the extent such Person is a
direct or indirect assignee (other than pursuant to Section 9.22) of any other
Secured Party that was entitled, at the time the assignment to such Person became
effective, or such Secured Party was entitled at the time of designation of a new Lending
Office or change in circumstances, to receive additional amounts under this clause
(b), or (y) any United States backup withholding tax required by the Code to be
withheld from amounts payable to a Secured Party that is subject to backup withholding due
to (A) notified payee underreporting of reportable interest or dividend payments or other
reportable payments or (B) the IRS notifying either Agent or Borrower that the furnished
taxpayer identification number is incorrect.

          (c) In addition, the Credit Parties agree to pay, and authorize Agents to pay in their
name, any stamp, documentary, excise or property tax, charges or similar levies imposed by
any applicable Requirement of Law or Governmental Authority and all Liabilities with
respect thereto (including by reason of any delay in payment thereof), in each case arising
from the execution, delivery or registration of, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan
Document or any transaction contemplated therein (collectively, “Other Taxes”).
The Swingline Lender may, without any need for notice, demand or consent from the Borrowers
or the Borrower Representative, by making funds available to the applicable Agent in the
amount equal to any such payment, make a Swing Loan to the Borrowers in such amount, the
proceeds of which shall be used by the applicable Agent in whole to make such payment.
Within 30 days after the date of any payment of Other Taxes by any Credit Party, the
Borrowers shall furnish to such Agent, at its address referred to in Section 9.2,
the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof or other evidence
of payment reasonably satisfactory to such Agent.

          (d) The Borrowers shall reimburse and indemnify, within 30 days after receipt of
demand therefor (with copy to Agents), each Secured Party for all Taxes and Other Taxes
with respect to any payment under any Loan Document (including any Taxes and Other Taxes
imposed by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this Section 10.1) paid by
such Secured Party and any Liabilities arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether
or not such Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally asserted. A certificate of the
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(or of an Agent on behalf of such Secured Party) claiming any compensation under this
clause (d), setting forth the amounts to be paid thereunder and delivered to the
Borrower Representative with copy to Agents, shall be conclusive, binding and final for all
purposes, absent manifest error. In determining such amount, Agents and such Secured Party
may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods.

          (e) Any Secured Party claiming any additional amounts payable pursuant to this
Section 10.1 shall use its commercially reasonable efforts (consistent with its
internal policies and Requirements of Law) to change the jurisdiction of its Lending Office
if such a change would reduce or eliminate any such additional amounts (or any similar
amount that may thereafter accrue) and would not, in the sole determination of such Secured
Party, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Secured Party.

          (f) (i) Each Non-U.S. Lender Party that, at any of the following times, is entitled to
an exemption from United States withholding tax or is subject to such withholding tax at a
reduced rate under an applicable tax treaty, shall (w) on or prior to the date such
Non-U.S. Lender Party becomes a “Non-U.S. Lender Party” hereunder, (x) on or prior to the
date on which any such form or certification expires or becomes obsolete, (y) after the
occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form or certification
previously delivered by it pursuant to this clause (i) and (z) from time to time if
requested by the Borrower Representative or Agents (or, in the case of a participant or
SPV, the relevant Lender), provide Agents and the Borrower Representative (or, in the case
of a participant or SPV, the relevant Lender) with two completed originals of each of the
following, as applicable: (A) Forms W-8ECI (claiming exemption from U.S. withholding tax
because the income is effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business), W-8BEN
(claiming exemption from, or a reduction of, U.S. withholding tax under an income tax
treaty) and/or W-8IMY (together with appropriate forms, certifications and supporting
statements) or any successor forms, (B) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender Party claiming
exemption under Sections 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code, Form W-8BEN (claiming exemption from
U.S. withholding tax under the portfolio interest exemption) or any successor form and a
certificate in form and substance acceptable to Agents that such Non-U.S. Lender Party is
not (1) a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (2) a “10 percent
shareholder” of the Borrowers within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code or (3)
a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code or (C) any
other applicable document prescribed by the IRS certifying as to the entitlement of such
Non-U.S. Lender Party to such exemption from United States withholding tax or reduced rate
with respect to all payments to be made to such Non-U.S. Lender Party under the Loan
Documents. Unless the Borrower Representative and the applicable Agent have received forms
or other documents satisfactory to them indicating that payments under any Loan Document to
or for a Non-U.S. Lender Party are not subject to United States withholding tax or are
subject to such tax at a rate reduced by an applicable tax treaty, the Credit Parties and
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shall withhold amounts required to be withheld by applicable Requirements of Law from
such payments at the applicable statutory rate.

               (ii) Each U.S. Lender Party shall (A) on or prior to the date such U.S. Lender Party becomes a
“U.S. Lender Party” hereunder, (B) on or prior to the date on which any such form or certification
expires or becomes obsolete, (C) after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most
recent form or certification previously delivered by it pursuant to this clause (f) and (D)
from time to time if requested by the Borrower Representative or an Agent (or, in the case of a
participant or SPV, the relevant Lender), provide such Agent and the Borrower Representative (or,
in the case of a participant or SPV, the relevant Lender) with two completed originals of Form W-9
(certifying that such U.S. Lender Party is entitled to an exemption from U.S. backup withholding
tax) or any successor form.

               (iii) Each Lender having sold a participation in any of its Obligations or identified an SPV as
such to such Agent shall collect from such participant or SPV the documents described in this
clause (f) and provide them to such Agent.

          (g) The agreements in this Section 10.1 shall survive the termination of this
Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder

     10.2 Illegality. If after the date hereof any Lender shall determine that the
introduction of any Requirement of Law, or any change in any Requirement of Law or in the
interpretation or administration thereof, has made it unlawful, or that any central bank or other
Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its Lending Office to
make LIBOR Rate Loans, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrowers through the
applicable Agent, the obligation of that Lender to make LIBOR Rate Loans shall be suspended until
such Lender shall have notified such Agent and the Borrower Representative that the circumstances
giving rise to such determination no longer exists.

          (a) Subject to clause (c) below, if any Lender shall determine that it is
unlawful to maintain any LIBOR Rate Loan, the Borrowers shall prepay in full all LIBOR Rate
Loans of such Lender then outstanding, together with interest accrued thereon, either on
the last day of the Interest Period thereof if such Lender may lawfully continue to
maintain such LIBOR Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully
continue to maintain such LIBOR Rate Loans, together with any amounts required to be paid
in connection therewith pursuant to Section 10.4.

          (b) If the obligation of any Lender to make or maintain LIBOR Rate Loans has been
terminated, the Borrower Representative may elect, by giving notice to such Lender through
the applicable Agent that all Loans which would otherwise be made by any such Lender as
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          (c) Before giving any notice to such Agent pursuant to this Section 10.2, the
affected Lender shall designate a different Lending Office with respect to its LIBOR Rate
Loans if such designation will avoid the need for giving such notice or making such demand
and will not, in the judgment of the Lender, be illegal or otherwise disadvantageous to the
Lender.

     10.3 Increased Costs and Reduction of Return.

          (a) If any Lender or L/C Issuer shall determine that, due to either (i) the
introduction of, or any change in, or in the interpretation of, any law or regulation or
(ii) the compliance with any guideline or request from any central bank or other
Governmental Authority (whether or not having the force of law), in the case of either
clause (i) or (ii) subsequent to the date hereof, there shall be any
increase in the cost to such Lender or L/C Issuer of agreeing to make or making, funding or
maintaining any LIBOR Rate Loans or of issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit, then
the Borrowers shall be liable for, and shall from time to time, within thirty (30) days of
demand therefor by such Lender or L/C Issuer (with a copy of such demand to the applicable
Agent), pay to such Agent for the account of such Lender or L/C Issuer, additional amounts
as are sufficient to compensate such Lender or L/C Issuer for such increased costs;
provided, that the Borrowers shall not be required to compensate any Lender or L/C Issuer
pursuant to this Section 10.3(a) for any increased costs incurred more than 180
days prior to the date that such Lender or L/C Issuer notifies the Borrower Representative,
in writing of the increased costs and of such Lender’s or L/C Issuer’s intention to claim
compensation thereof; provided, further, that if the circumstance giving rise to such
increased costs is retroactive, then the 180-day period referred to above shall be extended
to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

          (b) If any Lender or L/C Issuer shall have determined that:

          (i) the introduction of any Capital Adequacy Regulation;

          (ii) any change in any Capital Adequacy Regulation;

          (iii) any change in the interpretation or administration of any Capital
Adequacy Regulation by any central bank or other Governmental Authority charged
with the interpretation or administration thereof; or

          (iv) compliance by such Lender or L/C Issuer (or its Lending Office) or any
entity controlling the Lender or L/C Issuer, with any Capital Adequacy Regulation;

in the case of any of clauses (i) — (iv) subsequent to the date hereof, affects the amount of
capital required or expected to be maintained by such Lender or L/C Issuer or any entity
controlling such Lender or L/C Issuer and (taking into consideration such Lender’s or such
entities’ policies with respect to capital adequacy and such Lender’s or L/C Issuer’s

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desired return on capital) determines that the amount of such capital is increased as a consequence
of its Revolving Commitment(s), loans, credits or obligations under this Agreement, then, within
thirty (30) days of demand of such Lender or L/C Issuer (with a copy to the applicable Agent), the
Borrowers shall pay to such Lender or L/C Issuer, from time to time as specified by such Lender or
L/C Issuer, additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender or L/C Issuer (or the entity
controlling the Lender or L/C Issuer) for such increase; provided, that the Borrowers shall not be
required to compensate any Lender or L/C Issuer pursuant to this Section 10.3(b) for any
amounts incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender or L/C Issuer notifies the
Borrower Representative, in writing of the amounts and of such Lender’s or L/C Issuer’s intention
to claim compensation thereof; provided, further, that if the event giving rise to such increase is
retroactive, then the 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of
retroactive effect thereof.

     10.4 Funding Losses. The Borrowers agree to reimburse each Lender and to hold each
Lender harmless from any loss or expense which such Lender may sustain or incur as a consequence
of:

          (a) the failure of the Borrowers to make any payment or mandatory prepayment of
principal of any LIBOR Rate Loan (including payments made after any acceleration thereof);

          (b) the failure of the Borrowers to borrow, continue or convert a Loan after the
Borrower Representative has given (or is deemed to have given) a Notice of Borrowing or a
Notice of Conversion/Continuation;

          (c) the failure of the Borrowers to make any prepayment after the Borrowers have given
a notice in accordance with Section 1.7;

          (d) the prepayment (including pursuant to Section 1.8) of a LIBOR Rate Loan on
a day which is not the last day of the Interest Period with respect thereto; or

          (e) the conversion pursuant to Section 1.6 of any LIBOR Rate Loan to a Base
Rate Loan on a day that is not the last day of the applicable Interest Period;

including any such loss or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained
by it to maintain its LIBOR Rate Loans hereunder or from fees payable to terminate the deposits
from which such funds were obtained; provided that, with respect to the expenses described in
clauses (d) and (e) above, such Lender shall have notified the applicable Agent of
any such expense within two (2) Business Days of the date on which such expense was incurred.
Solely for purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Borrowers to the Lenders under this
Section 10.4 and under Section 10.3(a): each LIBOR Rate Loan made by a Lender (and
each related reserve, special deposit or similar requirement) shall be conclusively deemed to have
been funded at the LIBOR used in determining the interest rate for such LIBOR Rate Loan by a
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borrowing in the interbank Eurodollar market for a comparable amount and for a comparable period,
whether or not such LIBOR Rate Loan is in fact so funded.

     10.5 Inability to Determine Rates. If either Agent shall have determined in good
faith that for any reason adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the LIBOR for
any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed LIBOR Rate Loan or that the LIBOR
applicable pursuant to Section 1.3(a) for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed
LIBOR Rate Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to the Lenders of funding or
maintaining such Loan, such Agent will forthwith give notice of such determination to the Borrower
Representative and each Lender. Thereafter, the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain
LIBOR Rate Loans hereunder shall be suspended until such Agent revokes such notice in writing.
Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower Representative may revoke any Notice of Borrowing or
Notice of Conversion/Continuation then submitted by it. If the Borrower Representative does not
revoke such notice, the Lenders shall make, convert or continue the Loans, as proposed by the
Borrower Representative, in the amount specified in the applicable notice submitted by the Borrower
Representative, but such Loans shall be made, converted or continued as Base Rate Loans.

     10.6 Reserves on LIBOR Rate Loans. The Borrowers shall pay to each Lender, as long as
such Lender shall be required under regulations of the Federal Reserve Board to maintain reserves
with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency funds or deposits
(currently known as “Eurocurrency liabilities”), additional costs on the unpaid principal
amount of each LIBOR Rate Loan equal to actual costs of such reserves allocated to such Loan by
such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive
absent manifest error), payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan provided the
Borrower Representative shall have received at least fifteen (15) days’ prior written notice (with
a copy to Agents) of such additional interest from the Lender. If a Lender fails to give notice
fifteen (15) days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest shall be
payable fifteen (15) days from receipt of such notice.

     10.7 Certificates of Lenders. Any Lender claiming reimbursement or compensation
pursuant to this Article X shall deliver to the Borrower Representative (with a copy to Agents) a
certificate setting forth in reasonable detail the amount payable to such Lender hereunder and such
certificate shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrowers in the absence of manifest error.

     10.8 Parties Including Trustees; Bankruptcy Court Proceedings. This Agreement, the
other Loan Documents, and all Liens and other rights and privileges created hereby or pursuant
hereto or to any other Loan Document shall be binding upon each Credit Party, the estates of the
Credit Parties, and any trustee, other estate representative or any successor in interest of the
Credit Parties in the Chapter 11 Cases or any subsequent case commenced under Chapter 7 of the
Bankruptcy Code, and shall not be subject to Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code. This Agreement
and the other Loan Documents shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the successors of
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by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be and remain valid and perfected in the
event of the substantive consolidation or conversion of the Chapter 11 Cases or any other
bankruptcy case of any Credit Party to a case under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code or in the
event of dismissal of the Chapter 11 Cases or the release of any Collateral from the jurisdiction
of the Bankruptcy Court for any reason, without the necessity that Agents file financing statements
or otherwise perfect its Liens under applicable law. No Credit Party may assign, transfer,
hypothecate or otherwise convey its rights, benefits, obligations or duties hereunder or under any
of the other Loan Documents without the prior express written consent of Agents and Lenders. Any
such purported assignment, transfer, hypothecation or other conveyance by any Credit Party without
the prior express written consent of Agents and Lenders shall be void. The terms and provisions of
this Agreement are for the purpose of defining the relative rights and obligations of each Credit
Party, Agents and Lenders with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby and no Person shall
be a third party beneficiary of any of the terms and provisions of this Agreement or any of the
other Loan Documents.

     10.9 Intercreditor Agreement Superseded. Upon the entry of the Final Order, that
certain Intercreditor Agreement dated as of March 31, 2010 relating to the Pre-Petition Facilities
is superseded in all respects by the provisions of this Agreement and the Interim Order (or Final
Order, as applicable) and the rights and remedies of and as among the Secured Parties with respect
to the Collateral, the Term B Priority Collateral and the Revolving Priority Collateral shall be
governed by this Agreement and the Interim Order (or Final Order, as applicable).

ARTICLE XI.

DEFINITIONS

     11.1 Defined Terms. The following terms have the following meanings:

     “Account” means, as at any date of determination, all “accounts” (as such term is
defined in the UCC) of the Credit Parties, including, without limitation, the unpaid portion of the
obligation of a customer of a Credit Party in respect of Inventory purchased by and shipped to such
customer and/or the rendition of services by a Credit Party, as stated on the respective invoice of
a Credit Party, net of any credits, rebates or offsets owed to such customer.

     “Account Debtor” means the customer of a Credit Party who is obligated on or under an
Account.

     “Acquisition” means any transaction or series of related transactions for the purpose
of or resulting, directly or indirectly, in (a) the acquisition of all or substantially all of the
assets of a Person, or of any business or division of a Person, (b) the acquisition of in excess of
fifty percent (50%) of the Stock and Stock Equivalents of any Person or otherwise causing any
Person to become a Subsidiary of a Borrower, or (c) a merger or consolidation or any other
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     “Actual Cash Management Exposure” shall mean the obligations due and owing to Bank of
America, N.A. with respect to the cash management services (other than Excluded Cash Management
Services) from time to time made available to the Credit Parties in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practices through the date that is three (3) Business Days following receipt
by Bank of America, N.A. of a Termination Notice.

     “Actual Disbursement Amount” shall mean the actual amount of all disbursements made by
the Credit Parties during the relevant Period.

     “Actual Sales Receipts” shall mean the actual amount of all sales receipts received by
the Credit Parties during the relevant Period as determined in a manner consistent with the
Approved Budget.

     “Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims” has the meaning assigned to the term
“Adequate Protection Superpriority Claims” in the Interim Order (or the Final Order, when
applicable).

     “Affected Asset Sale” means a liquidation in one or a series of related transactions
of the assets located on the property that are subject to leases rejected on the Lease Rejection
Date.

     “Affected Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 9.22.

     “Affiliate” means, as to any Person, any other Person which, directly or indirectly,
is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person. A Person shall
be deemed to control another Person if the controlling Person possesses, directly or indirectly,
the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of the other Person,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise. Without limitation,
any director, executive officer or beneficial owner of five percent (5%) or more of the Stock
(either directly or through ownership of Stock Equivalents) of a Person shall for the purposes of
this Agreement, be deemed to be an Affiliate of the other Person. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
neither Agent nor any Lender shall be deemed an “Affiliate” of any Credit Party or of any
Subsidiary of any Credit Party solely by reason of the provisions of the Loan Documents.

     “Agents” means the Working Capital Agent and the Term B Agent, and where the context
so requires either of the Working Capital Agent or Term B Agent as to the applicable type of Loan
or extension of credit.

     “Agent Report” has the meaning specified in Section 8.5(c).

     “Aggregate Commitment” means, at any time, the combined Aggregate Revolving
Commitments, as such amount may be reduced from time to time pursuant to this Agreement
plus the Aggregate FILO Commitments.

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     “Aggregate Exposure” means, at any time, the Aggregate Revolving Exposure of all the
Revolving Lenders at such time plus the Aggregate FILO Exposure of all the FILO Lenders at
such time.

     “Aggregate FILO Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate FILO Exposure of all the
FILO Lenders at such time.

     “Aggregate FILO Commitment” means the combined FILO Commitments of all of the FILO
Lenders, which shall initially be in the amount of $20,000,000, as such amount may be reduced from
time to time pursuant to this Agreement.

     “Aggregate Revolving Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate Revolving Exposure of
all the Revolving Lenders at such time.

     “Aggregate Revolving Commitment” means the combined Revolving Commitments of all of
the Revolving Lenders, which shall initially be in the amount of $410,000,000, as such amount may
be reduced from time to time pursuant to this Agreement.

     “Aggregate Term B Commitment” means the combined Term B Commitments of all of the Term
B Lenders, which shall initially be in the amount of $55,000,000, as such amount may be reduced
from time to time pursuant to this Agreement.

     “Aggregate Term Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate Term Exposure of all the
Term B Lenders at such time.

     “Approved Budget” shall mean the budget prepared by the Borrowers and furnished to
Agents and the Lenders on the Closing Date and which is approved by, and in form and substance
satisfactory to, Agents and the Term B Lenders in their reasonable discretion, as the same may be
updated, modified or supplemented from time to time as provided in Section 4.16 which shall
include a weekly cash budget, including information on a line item basis as to (x) projected cash
receipts, (y) projected disbursements (including ordinary course operating expenses,
bankruptcy-related expenses (including professional fees), capital expenditures, asset sales and
fees and expenses of Agents and Lenders (including counsel therefor) and any other fees and
expenses relating to the Loan Documents), and (z) total available liquidity (consisting of Maximum
Borrowing Availability and Maximum Revolving Borrowing Availability).

     “Approved Budget Variance Report” shall mean a weekly report provided by the Borrower
Representative to Agents (i) showing by line item Actual Sales Receipts, Actual Disbursement
Amounts and total available liquidity for the last day of the Prior Week, the Cumulative Four Week
Period and the Cumulative Period, noting therein all variances, on a line-item basis, from amounts
set forth for such period in the Approved Budget, and shall include explanations for all material
variances, and (ii) certified by the chief financial officer of the Borrowers.

     “Approved Fund” means, with respect to any Lender, any Person (other than a natural
Person) that (a) (i) is or will be engaged in making, purchasing, holding or

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otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the Ordinary
Course of Business for such Lender or (ii) temporarily warehouses loans for any Lender or any
Person described in clause (i) above and (b) is advised or managed by (i) such Lender, (ii)
any Affiliate of such Lender or (iii) any Person (other than an individual) or any Affiliate of any
Person (other than an individual) that administers or manages such Lender.

     “Approved Liquidation Agreement” shall mean an agreement between a Credit Party and an
Approved Liquidator for the liquidation on an equity basis of the Inventory of a Store to be
closed, such agreement to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agents.

     “Approved Liquidator” shall mean a nationally recognized liquidator of recognized
standing approved by Agents.

     “Assignment” means an assignment agreement entered into by a Lender, as assignor, and
any Person, as assignee, pursuant to the terms and provisions of Section 9.9 (with the
consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 9.9), accepted by Agent, in
substantially in the form of Exhibit 11.1(a) or any other form approved by Agent.

     “Attorney Costs” means and includes all reasonable fees and disbursements of any law
firm or other external counsel.

     “Availability” means, at any time, the amount by which (a) the Maximum Borrowing
Availability at such time, exceeds (b) the Aggregate Exposure. Availability shall at all time be
calculated based on trade payables being paid currently in accordance with usual and customary
standards for the retail industry and expenses and liabilities being paid in the ordinary course of
business and without acceleration of sales.

     “Availability Reserves” means (a) the Gift Card and Merchandise Credit Reserve, (b)
the Rent Reserve, (c) reserves in respect of Bank Products established by Working Capital Agent in
its Permitted Discretion, and (d) those other miscellaneous reserves identified in the initial
Approved Budget as “Other Reserves.”

     “Bank Product” shall mean any of the following products, services or facilities
extended to any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries by GE Capital or any of its Affiliates: (a)
any services provided from time to time in connection with operating, collections, payroll, trust,
or other depository or disbursement accounts, including automatic clearinghouse, controlled
disbursement, depository, electronic funds transfer, information reporting, lockbox, stop payment,
overdraft and/or wire transfer services; (b) commercial credit card and purchasing cards; (c)
leases and letters of credit and (d) other banking products or services approved by Agent.

     “Bankruptcy Code” has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals to the Agreement.

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     “Bankruptcy Court” has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals to the Agreement.

     “Bankruptcy Rules” means the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, as the same may
from time to time be in effect and applicable to the Chapter 11 Cases.

     “Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the higher of (a) the rate
last quoted by The Wall Street Journal as the “Prime Rate” in the United States or, if
The Wall Street Journal ceases to quote such rate, the highest per annum interest rate
published by the Federal Reserve Board in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) (Selected
Interest Rates) as the “bank prime loan” rate or, if such rate is no longer quoted therein, any
similar rate quoted therein (as reasonably determined by Working Capital Agent) or any similar
release by the Federal Reserve Board (as determined by Working Capital Agent), (b) the sum of 0.50%
per annum and the Federal Funds Rate. Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in any of the
foregoing shall be effective on the effective date of such change in the Federal Funds Rate. With
respect to all Term B Loans, the Base Rate shall not be less than 3.75%.

     “Base Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.

     “Benefit Plan” means any employee benefit plan as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA
(whether governed by the laws of the United States or otherwise) to which any Credit Party incurs
or otherwise has any obligation or liability, contingent or otherwise.

     “Borrower” and “Borrowers” has the meaning specified in the preamble to this
Agreement.

     “Borrower Materials” has the meaning specified in Section 9.10(e).

     “Borrower Representative” has the meaning specified in Section 1.12.

     “Borrowing” means a borrowing hereunder consisting of Loans made to or for the benefit
of the Borrowers on the same day by the Lenders pursuant to Article I.

     “Borrowing Base” means, as of any date of determination by Working Capital Agent, from
time to time, an amount equal to the sum at such time of:

          (a) 90% of the book value of Eligible Credit Card Accounts at such time; and

          (b) 90% of the book value of Eligible Inventory valued at the lower of cost or market
on a first-in, first-out basis, multiplied by the NOLV Percentage for Inventory;

in each case of clauses (a) and (b), less Availability Reserves established by Working Capital
Agent at such time in its Permitted Discretion.

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     “Borrowing Base Certificate” means a certificate of the Borrower Representative, on
behalf of each Credit Party, in substantially the form of Exhibit 11.1(b) hereto, duly
completed as of a date acceptable to Agents in their sole discretion.

     “Budgeted Disbursement Amount” means the line items contained in the Approved Budget
under the headings ‘non-operating disbursement subtotal’ and ‘operating disbursements subtotal’
during the relevant Period of determination as set forth in the Approved Budget.

     “Budgeted Sales Receipts” means the line items contained in the Approved Budget under
the headings ‘receipts subtotal’ during the relevant Period of determination as set forth in the
Approved Budget.

     “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which
federal reserve banks are authorized or required by law to close and, if the applicable
Business Day relates to any LIBOR Rate Loan, a day on which dealings are carried on in the London
interbank market.

     “Capital Adequacy Regulation” means any guideline, request or directive of any central
bank or other Governmental Authority, or any other law, rule or regulation, whether or not having
the force of law, in each case, regarding capital adequacy of any Lender or of any corporation
controlling a Lender.

     “Capital Lease” means any leasing or similar arrangement which, in accordance with
GAAP, is classified as a capital lease.

     “Capital Lease Obligations” means all monetary obligations of any Credit Party or any
Subsidiary of any Credit Party under any Capital Leases.

     “Carve-Out” shall mean, collectively, (i) all fees required to be paid to the Clerk of
the Bankruptcy Court and to the Office of the United States Trustee pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1930(a),
(ii) upon the delivery of a Carve-Out Trigger Notice, an amount equal to the Carve-Out Amount,
which amount may be used subject to the terms of the applicable DIP Order to pay any budgeted fees
or expenses incurred by the Borrowers and any statutory committees appointed in the Chapter 11
Cases (each, a “Committee”) that remain unpaid subsequent to the payment of such fees and
expenses from available funds remaining in the Credit Parties’ estates for such creditors, in
respect of (A) compensation for services rendered or reimbursement of expenses allowed and awarded
by the Bankruptcy Court to the Borrowers’ or any Committee’s professionals and (B) the
reimbursement of expenses allowed by the Bankruptcy Court incurred by the Committee members in the
performance of their duties (but excluding fees and expenses of third party professionals employed
by such members) (“Committee Fees”), in each case, incurred after the delivery of a
Carve-Out Trigger Notice, (iii) any budgeted and accrued and unpaid fees and expenses of Borrowers’
and the Committee’s professionals incurred prior to the receipt of the Carve-Out Trigger Notice,
whether or not such accrued and unpaid fees have yet been invoiced to the Borrowers or submitted
for approval to the Bankruptcy Court to the extent allowed; and (iv) any professional fees and
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out-of-pocket expenses of a chapter 7 trustee under section 726(b) of the Bankruptcy Code up
to a maximum amount of $100,000 in the aggregate. No portion of the Carve-Out, any cash collateral
or proceeds of the Loans may be used for the payment of the fees and expenses of any person
incurred in challenging, or in relation to the challenge of the liens or claims of any or all of
the Agents or the Lenders, or the initiation or prosecution of any claim or action against any or
all of the Agents or the Lenders, including any claim under Chapter 5 of the Bankruptcy Code, in
respect of the Pre-Petition Facilities. So long as the Carve-Out Trigger Notice has not been
delivered, the Borrowers shall be permitted to pay, as the same may become due and payable,
budgeted fees and expenses payable under 11 U.S.C. § 330 and § 331 pursuant to court order, and the
same shall not reduce the Carve-Out Amount.

     “Carve-Out Trigger Notice” shall mean a written notice delivered by either Agent to
the Borrowers’ lead counsel, the U.S. Trustee, and lead counsel to any Committee which notice may
be delivered following the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, expressly
stating that the Carve-Out Amount is invoked.

     “Carve-Out Amount” means $4,000,000.

     “Cash Equivalents” means (a) any readily-marketable securities (i) issued by, or
directly, unconditionally and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States federal government
or (ii) issued by any agency of the United States federal government the obligations of which are
fully backed by the full faith and credit of the United States federal government, (b) any
readily-marketable direct obligations issued by any other agency of the United States federal
government, any state of the United States or any political subdivision of any such state or any
public instrumentality thereof, in each case having a rating of at least “A-1” from S&P or at least
“P-1” from Moody’s, (c) any commercial paper rated at least “A-1” by S&P or “P-1”
by Moody’s and issued by any Person organized under the laws of any state of the United States, (d)
any Dollar-denominated time deposit, insured certificate of deposit, overnight bank deposit or
bankers’ acceptance issued or accepted by (i) any Lender or (ii) any commercial bank that is (A)
organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, (B)
“adequately capitalized” (as defined in the regulations of its primary federal banking regulators)
and (C) has Tier 1 capital (as defined in such regulations) in excess of $250,000,000 and (e)
shares of any United States money market fund that (i) has substantially all of its assets invested
continuously in the types of investments referred to in clause (a), (b),
(c) or (d) above with maturities as set forth in the proviso below, (ii) has net
assets in excess of $500,000,000 and (iii) has obtained from either S&P or Moody’s the highest
rating obtainable for money market funds in the United States; provided, however, that the
maturities of all obligations specified in any of clauses (a), (b), (c) or
(d) above shall not exceed 365 days.

     “Cash Management L/C Facility” has the meaning specified in the preamble to this
Agreement.

     “Cash Management Letter of Credit” means a standby letter of credit issued for the
account of the Credit Parties by the Working Capital Agent (as L/C Issuer of the Cash

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Management Letter of Credit), for which Working Capital Agent and Revolving Lenders (subject
to Section 1.1(c)(viii)) has incurred Letter of Credit Obligations.

     “Cash Management Order” means the Interim Order Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 105(a),
45(b), 63(b), 363(c), AND 364(a) and Fed. R. Bankr. P. 6003 and 6004 Granting (I) Authority To (A)
Continue To Operate The Debtors’ Cash Management System, (B) Honor Certain Prepetition Obligations
On Account Of Service Charges Related Thereto, (C) Maintain Existing Bank Accounts and Business
Forms, (D) Maintain The Ability to Use Debit, Wire and ACH Payments, And (E) Honor The Continued
Use of Certain Corporate Credit Cards; and (II) An Extension of Time To Comply With 11 U.S.C. §
345(b), in form and substance acceptable to Agent.

     “Cash Management Systems” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 2.1(i).

     “CERCLA” has the meaning specified in Section 3.12.

     “Change of Control” shall mean (a) an event or series of events by which any
“person” or “group” of persons (within the meaning of Section 13 or 14 of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934) (other than any other “person” or “group” that the Agent shall have approved in
writing in its sole discretion) shall have acquired “beneficial ownership” (within the meaning of
Rule 13d-3 promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission under said Act, except that a
person or group shall be deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of all securities that such person
or group has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the
passage of time or the satisfaction of other conditions and irrespective of the financial and other
terms upon which such right may be exercised (such right, an “option right”)), directly or
indirectly, of thirty seven and a half percent (37.5%) or more of the voting Stock or Stock
Equivalents of BGI that is entitled (or would be entitled upon exercise) to vote for members of the
board of directors or equivalent governing body of BGI (and taking into account all such securities
that such “person” or “group” and all other “persons” or “groups” have the right to acquire
pursuant to any option right); or (b) during any period of twelve consecutive calendar months,
individuals who were directors of BGI on the first day of such period (together with any new
directors whose election by the Board of Directors of BGI was approved by a vote of sixty-six and
two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the directors then still in office who were either directors at the
beginning of such period or whose election was previously so approved) shall cease to constitute a
majority of the board of directors of BGI; or (c) BGI fails to own 100% of the Stock and Stock
Equivalents of all other Credit Parties, except as a result of a transaction permitted hereunder.

     “Chapter 11 Cases” has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals to the Agreement.

     “Closing Date” means the date on which all of the conditions precedent set forth in
Section 2.1 have been satisfied or waived in writing by the Agents and the initial Loans are made
or initial Letters of Credit Issued.

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     “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and regulations
promulgated thereunder.

     “Collateral” means all Property and interests in Property and proceeds thereof now
owned or hereafter acquired by any Credit Party, that is at any time subject to a security interest
or Lien in favor of Working Capital Agent, on behalf of itself, the Lenders and the other Secured
Parties, pursuant to the Guaranty and Security Agreement or any other Collateral Document, in each
case, to secure the Obligations, including, without limitation, all collateral described in the
Interim Order or the Final Order, as applicable.

     “Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Guaranty and Security Agreement, the
IP Security Agreements, the Interim Order, the Final Order, the Mortgages, each Control Agreement,
and all other security agreements, pledge agreements, patent security agreement, trademark security
agreements, lease assignments, bailee agreements, guarantees and other similar agreements, and all
amendments, restatements, modifications or supplements thereof or thereto, by or between any one or
more of any Credit Party and any Lender, L/C Issuer or Working Capital Agent for the benefit of
Working Capital Agent, the Lenders, L/C Issuers and other Secured Parties now or hereafter
delivered to the Lenders or any Agent pursuant to or in connection with the transactions
contemplated hereby, and all financing statements (or comparable documents now or hereafter filed
in accordance with the UCC or comparable law) against any such Person as debtor in favor of any
Lender or any Agent for the benefit of Agents, the Lenders, L/C Issuer and the other Secured
Parties, as secured party, as any of the foregoing may be amended, restated and/or modified from
time to time.

     “Commitment”, means (a) for each Revolving Lender, the sum of its Revolving
Commitment, (b) for each FILO Lender, the sum of its FILO Commitment, and (c) for each Term B
Lender, the sum of its Term B Commitment.

     “Commitment Percentage”, means (a) for each Revolving Lender, such Revolving Lender’s
Revolving Commitment Percentage, (b) for each FILO Lender, such FILO Lender’s FILO Commitment
Percentage and (c) for each Term B Lender, such Term B Lender’s Term B Commitment Percentage.

     “Committees” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of “Carve-Out”.

     “Concentration Account” means the Control Account, Account No. 4427082445 held at Bank
of America, N.A., or such other Control Account that may be specified by Working Capital Agent in
writing.

     “Contingent Obligation” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect liability,
contingent or otherwise, of that Person: (a) with respect to any Indebtedness, lease, dividend or
other obligation of another Person if the primary purpose or intent of the Person incurring such
liability, or the primary effect thereof, is to provide assurance to the obligee of such liability
that such liability will be paid or discharged, or that any agreements relating thereto will be
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be protected (in whole or in part) against loss with respect thereto; (b) with respect to any
letter of credit issued for the account of that Person or as to which that Person is otherwise
liable for reimbursement of drawings; (c) under any Rate Contracts; (d) to make take-or-pay or
similar payments if required regardless of nonperformance by any other party or parties to an
agreement; or (e) for the obligations of another Person through any agreement to purchase,
repurchase or otherwise acquire such obligation or any Property constituting security therefor, to
provide funds for the payment or discharge of such obligation or to maintain the solvency,
financial condition or any balance sheet item or level of income of another Person. The amount of
any Contingent Obligation shall be equal to the amount of the obligation so guaranteed or otherwise
supported or, if not a fixed and determined amount, the maximum amount so guaranteed or supported.

     “Contractual Obligations” means, as to any Person, any provision of any security
issued by such Person or of any agreement, undertaking, contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of
trust or other instrument, license agreement, document or agreement to which such Person is a party
or by which it or any of its Property is bound.

     “Control Account” means each deposit account now or hereafter owned by the Credit
Parties, other than (i) payroll accounts (so long as each such payroll account is a zero balance
account), withholding tax and other fiduciary accounts, (ii) local store operating accounts with
cash or cash equivalents not exceeding $3,000,000 at any time in the aggregate for all such local
store operating accounts and (iii) deposit accounts not maintained in the United States or Puerto
Rico with cash or cash equivalents not exceeding $300,000 at any time in the aggregate for all such
accounts.

     “Control Agreement” means a tri-party deposit account, securities account, or
commodities account control agreement by and among the applicable Credit Party, Working Capital
Agent and the depository, securities intermediary or commodities intermediary, and each in form and
substance satisfactory to Agents and in any event providing to Working Capital Agent “control” of
such deposit account, securities or commodities account (including, without limitation, any lockbox
or similar arrangements) within the meaning of Articles 8 and 9 of the UCC, as applicable.

     “Conversion Date” means any date on which the Borrowers convert a Base Rate Loan to a
LIBOR Rate Loan or a LIBOR Rate Loan to a Base Rate Loan.

     “Copyrights” means all rights, title and interests (and all related IP Ancillary
Rights) arising under any Requirement of Law in or relating to copyrights and all mask work,
database and design rights, whether or not registered or published, all registrations and
recordations thereof and all applications in connection therewith.

     “Copyright Security Agreement” means the Copyright Security Agreement, dated as of
even date herewith, made in favor of Working Capital Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties,
by each applicable Credit Party, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agents, as the
same may be amended from time to time.

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     “Credit Card Agreements” shall mean all agreements or notices, each in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to Agents, now or hereafter entered into by applicable Credit
Party(ies) with any credit card issuer or any credit card processor, as the same may hereafter be
amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced; provided, that
any such credit card agreement or notice shall provide, among other things, that each such credit
card processor shall transfer all proceeds due with respect to credit card charges for sales (net
of expenses and chargebacks of the credit card issuer or processor) by applicable Credit Party(ies)
received by it (or other amounts payable by such credit card processor) into the Concentration
Account on a daily basis, or on such other basis as Agents may agree in writing in the exercise of
their Permitted Discretion.

     “Credit Card Receivables” shall mean, collectively, all present and future rights of
Borrowers to payment from (a) any major credit card issuer or major credit card processor arising
from sales of goods or rendition of services to customers who have purchased such goods or services
using a credit or debit card and (b) any major credit card issuer or major credit card processor in
connection with the sale or transfer of Accounts arising pursuant to the sale of goods or rendition
of services to customers who have purchased such goods or services using a credit card or a debit
card, including, but not limited to, all amounts at any time due or to become due from any major
credit card issuer or major credit card processor under the Credit Card Agreements or otherwise.

     “Credit Parties” means each Borrower, each Guarantor and each other Person (a) which
executes a guaranty of the Obligations, (b) which grants a Lien on all or substantially all of its
assets to secure payment of the Obligations and (c) all of the Stock of which is pledged to Working
Capital Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties. As of the Closing Date, the Credit Parties
are Borders Group, Inc., Borders, Inc., Borders Properties Inc., Borders International Services
Inc, and Borders Direct LLC.

     “Cumulative Period” means the period from the Petition Date through the most recent
week ended.

     “Cumulative Four Week Period” shall mean the four-week period up to and through the
Saturday of the most recent week then ended, or if a four-week period has not then elapsed from the
Petition Date, such shorter period since the Petition Date through the Saturday of the most recent
week then ended.

     “Default” means any event or circumstance which, with the giving of notice, the lapse
of time, or both, would (if not cured or otherwise remedied during such time) constitute an Event
of Default.

     “DIP Indemnity Account” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Interim Order (or
the Final Order, when applicable).

     “DIP Term Indemnity Account” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Interim
Order (or the Final Order, when applicable).

     “Disposition” means (a) the sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of Property
and (b) the sale or transfer by a Borrower or any Subsidiary of a Borrower of

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any Stock or Stock Equivalent issued by any Subsidiary of a Borrower and held by such
transferor Person.

     “Dollars”, “dollars” and “$” each mean lawful money of the United
States of America.

     “Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary other than a Foreign Subsidiary.

     “Effective Resignation Date” has the meaning specified in Section 8.9.

     “Electronic Transmission” means each document, instruction, authorization, file,
information and any other communication transmitted, posted or otherwise made or communicated by
e-mail or E-Fax, or otherwise to or from an E-System or other equivalent service acceptable to
Working Capital Agent.

     “Eligible Credit Card Accounts” means all of the Credit Card Receivables (net of fees)
of the Credit Parties that arise in the ordinary course of business, which have been earned by
performance, that are not excluded as ineligible by virtue of one or more of the criteria set forth
below and are reflected in the most recent Borrowing Base Certificate delivered by the Borrower
Representative to Agents. None of the following shall be deemed to be Eligible Credit Card
Accounts:

     (a) Credit Card Receivables due from major credit card processors that have been
outstanding for more than five (5) Business Days from the date of sale;

     (b) Credit Card Receivables due from major credit card processors with respect to
which a Borrower or a Guarantor does not have good, valid and marketable title thereto,
free and clear of any Lien (other than the offset or chargeback rights of such credit card
processors (which shall be governed by clause (d) below);

     (c) Credit Card Receivables due from major credit card processors that are not subject
to a first priority perfected security interest in favor of Working Capital Agent, as
applicable, for its own benefit and the benefit of the other Secured Parties;

     (d) Credit Card Receivables due from major credit card processors which are disputed,
or with respect to which a claim, counterclaim, offset or chargeback has been asserted by
the related credit card processor (but only to the extent of such dispute, counterclaim,
offset or chargeback);

     (e) Credit Card Receivables due from major credit card processors as to which the
credit card processor has the right under certain circumstances to require the Borrowers to
repurchase such Accounts from such credit card processor;

     (f) Except as otherwise approved by Working Capital Agent, Credit Card Receivables due
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Capital Agent has not received an acceptable Credit Card Agreement (a copy of which
has been delivered to Term B Agent);

     (g) Accounts due from major credit card processors (other than Visa, MasterCard,
American Express, Diners Club and Discover) which Working Capital Agent determines, in its
Permitted Discretion, to be unlikely to be collected;

     (h) Credit Card Receivables due from major credit card processors which are not
located in the United States of America; or

     (i) Credit Card Receivables that are not denominated in U.S. dollars.

     “Eligible Inventory” means all of the finished goods Inventory owned by a Credit Party
and properly reflected in the most recent Borrowing Base Certificate delivered by Borrower
Representative to Agents, except any Inventory to which any of the exclusionary criteria set forth
below applies. Eligible Inventory shall not include the following Inventory of a Credit Party:

     (a) Inventory that is excess, obsolete, unsaleable, shopworn, or seconds;

     (b) Inventory that is damaged or unfit for sale;

     (c) Intentionally Omitted

     (d) Inventory that is placed on consignment;

     (e) Inventory that (i) is not located on premises owned, leased or rented by a
Borrower or a Guarantor and set forth in Schedule 3.21, (ii) is stored at a leased
location, unless (x) a reasonably satisfactory landlord waiver has been delivered to
Working Capital Agent, or (y) Reserves reasonably satisfactory to Working Capital Agent
have been established with respect thereto or landlord liens and collateral access rights
have been addressed Agents’ reasonable satisfaction pursuant to the Final Order, (iii) is
stored with a bailee or warehouseman unless (x) a reasonably satisfactory, acknowledged
bailee letter has been received by Working Capital Agent with respect thereto or provisions
with respect thereto have been addressed to Agents’ reasonable satisfaction pursuant to the
Final Order and (y) Reserves reasonably satisfactory to Agents have been established with
respect thereto, (iv) is located at an owned location subject to a mortgage in favor of a
lender other than an Agent, unless a reasonably satisfactory mortgagee waiver has been
delivered to Working Capital Agent (with a copy delivered to Term Agent) or provisions with
respect thereto have been addressed to Agents’ reasonable satisfaction pursuant to the
Final Order or (v) is located at a closed Store;

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     (f) Inventory that is in transit, except for Inventory in transit between domestic
locations of the Borrowers and the Guarantors as to which Working Capital Agent’s Liens
have been perfected at origin and destination;

     (g) Inventory subject to any licensing, trademark, trade name or copyright agreements
with any third parties which would require any consent of any third party for the sale or
disposition of that Inventory (which consent has not been obtained) or the payment of any
monies to any third party upon such sale or other disposition (to the extent of such
monies);

     (h) Inventory that consists of samples, labels, bags, packaging, packing or shipping
materials, or manufacturing supplies;

     (i) Inventory that consists of tooling or replacement parts;

     (j) Inventory that consists of display items;

     (k) Inventory that consists of goods which to be returned to the vendor;

     (l) Inventory that consists of any costs associated with “freight in charges”;

     (m) Inventory that consists of Hazardous Materials or goods that can be transported or
sold only with licenses that are not readily available;

     (n) Inventory that is not covered by casualty insurance reasonably acceptable to
Agents;

     (o) Inventory that is not owned by a Borrower or a Guarantor or is subject to Liens
other than Permitted Liens described in Sections 5.1(b), (c), (d) and (f) (provided that,
with respect to Permitted Liens described in Sections 5.1(c), (d) and (f), Reserves
reasonably satisfactory to Agents have been established with respect thereto) or rights of
any other Person (including the rights of a purchaser that has made progress payments and
the rights of a surety that has issued a bond to assure a Credit Party’s performance with
respect to that Inventory);

     (p) Inventory that is not subject to a first priority perfected Lien in favor of
Working Capital Agent on behalf of itself and the Secured Parties, except for Liens
described in Section 5.1(d) (subject to Reserves);

     (q) Inventory that is covered by a negotiable document of title, unless such document
has been delivered to Working Capital Agent with all necessary endorsements, free and clear
of all Liens except Liens in favor of Working Capital Agent, on behalf of itself and the
Secured Parties;

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     (r) Inventory (other than raw materials) that is not of a type held for sale in the
Ordinary Course of Business of such Borrower or such Guarantor;

     (s) Inventory that is located outside of the United States or Puerto Rico;

     (t) Inventory that consists of raw materials, parts, work-in-process, subassemblies or
other unfinished goods;

     (u) Inventory at any Store that is the subject of a Permitted Store Closing; or

     (v) Inventory which has been sold but not yet delivered or as to which any Borrower
has accepted a deposit.

     “Environmental Laws” means all present and future Requirements of Law and Permits
imposing liability or standards of conduct for or relating to the regulation and protection of
human health, safety (including, human, health and safety in the workplace), the environment and
natural resources, and including public notification requirements and environmental transfer of
ownership, notification or approval statutes.

     “Environmental Liabilities” means all Liabilities (including costs of Remedial
Actions, natural resource damages and costs and expenses of investigation and feasibility studies,
including the cost of environmental consultants and the cost of attorney’s fees) that may be
imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party
as a result of, or related to, any claim, suit, action, investigation, proceeding or demand by any
Person, whether based in contract, tort, implied or express warranty, strict liability, criminal or
civil statute or common law or otherwise, arising under any Environmental Law or in connection with
any environmental condition or with any Release and resulting from the ownership, lease, sublease
or other operation or occupation of property by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit
Party, whether on, prior or after the date hereof.

     “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

     “ERISA Affiliate” means, collectively, any Credit Party and any Person under common
control or treated as a single employer with, any Credit Party, within the meaning of Section
414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code.

     “ERISA Event” means any of the following: (a) a reportable event described in Section
4043(b) of ERISA (or, unless the 30-day notice requirement has been duly waived under the
applicable regulations, Section 4043(c) of ERISA) with respect to a Title IV Plan; (b) the
withdrawal of any ERISA Affiliate from a Title IV Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a
plan year in which it was a substantial employer, as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA; (c)
the complete or partial withdrawal of any ERISA Affiliate from any Multiemployer Plan; (d) with
respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the filing of a notice of reorganization, insolvency or
termination (or treatment of a plan amendment as termination) under Section 4041A of ERISA; (e) the
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of intent to terminate a Title IV Plan (or treatment of a plan amendment as termination) under
Section 4041 of ERISA; (f) the institution of proceedings to terminate a Title IV Plan or
Multiemployer Plan by the PBGC; (g) the failure to make any required contribution to any Title IV
Plan or Multiemployer Plan when due; (h) the imposition of a lien under Section 412 or 430(k) of
the Code or Section 303 or 4068 of ERISA on any property (or rights to property, whether real or
personal) of any ERISA Affiliate; (i) the failure of a Benefit Plan or any trust thereunder
intended to qualify for tax exempt status under Section 401 or 501 of the Code or other
Requirements of Law to qualify thereunder; (j) a Title IV plan is in “at risk” status within the
meaning of Code Section 430(i); (k) a Multiemployer Plan is in “endangered status” or “critical
status” within the meaning of Section 432(b) of the Code; and (l) any other event or condition that
might reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination
of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan or for
the imposition of any material liability upon any ERISA Affiliate under Title IV of ERISA other
than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent.

     “Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 7.1.

     “Event of Loss” means, with respect to any Property, any of the following: (a) any
loss, destruction or damage of such Property; (b) any pending or threatened institution of any
proceedings for the condemnation or similar seizure of such Property or for the exercise of any
right of eminent domain; or (c) any actual condemnation, seizure or taking, by exercise of the
power of eminent domain or otherwise, of such Property, or confiscation of such Property or the
requisition of the use of such Property.

     “E-Fax” means any system used to receive or transmit faxes electronically.

     “E-Signature” means the process of attaching to or logically associating with an
Electronic Transmission an electronic symbol, encryption, digital signature or process (including
the name or an abbreviation of the name of the party transmitting the Electronic Transmission) with
the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such Electronic Transmission.

     “E-System” means any electronic system approved by Working Capital Agent, including
Intralinks® and ClearPar® and any other Internet or extranet-based site, whether such electronic
system is owned, operated or hosted by Working Capital Agent, any of its Related Persons or any
other Person, providing for access to data protected by passcodes or other security system.

     “Excluded Cash Management Services” means obligations of the Credit Parties owing to
Bank of America, N.A. relating to purchase card services and credit card processing services.

     “Excluded Inventory” shall mean any Inventory at any locations where the lease has not
been assumed by the Lease Assumption Reserve Commencement Date.

     “Excluded Subsidiaries” means each of (a) Borders/JGE Joint Venture LLC, a Michigan
limited liability company, (b) Borders Online, Inc., a Colorado corporation, (c)

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Walden Online, Inc., a Colorado corporation, (d) Borders Fulfillment, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, (e) Borders Online, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, (f) BGI Franchise PTY
Ltd., a limited company organized under the laws of Australia, (g) Borders Bookstore (M) SDN BHD, a
limited liability company organized under the laws of Malaysia, (h) BGI (UK), Ltd., a company with
limited liability incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, (i) BGP (UK), Ltd., a company
with limited liability incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, (j) Borders Superstores
(UK) Limited, a company with limited liability incorporated under the laws of England and Wales,
and (k) Bookshop Acquisitions Ltd., a company with limited liability incorporated under the laws of
England and Wales.

     “Federal Flood Insurance” means Federally backed Flood Insurance available under the
National Flood Insurance Program to owners of real property improvements located in Special Flood
Hazard Areas in a community participating in the National Flood Insurance Program.

     “Federal Funds Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted
average of the rates on overnight Federal Funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve
System arranged by Federal Funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day, provided that if no such rate is so
published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the
average rate quoted to Working Capital Agent on such day on such transactions as determined by
Working Capital Agent in a commercially reasonable manner.

     “Federal Reserve Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, or
any entity succeeding to any of its principal functions.

     “Fee Letter” has the meaning specified in Section 1.9(a).

     “FEMA” means the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a component of the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security that administers the National Flood Insurance Program.

     “FILO Applicable Margin” means, with respect to the FILO Loans, (a) if a Base Rate
Loan, six and three quarters of one percent (6.75%) per annum and (b) if a LIBOR Rate Loan, nine
and one half of one percent (9.50%) per annum.

     “FILO Commitment” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1(a)(i).

     “FILO Commitment Percentage” means for each FILO Lender, the percentage equivalent of
such FILO Lender’s FILO Commitment divided by the Aggregate FILO Commitment; provided that after
the FILO Loan has been funded, FILO Commitment Percentages shall be determined for the FILO Loan by
reference to the outstanding principal balance thereof as of any date of determination rather than
the Commitments therefor;.

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     “FILO Exposure” means, with respect to any FILO Lender at any time, the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of such FILO Lender’s FILO Loans.

     “FILO Lenders” means each of the financial institutions from time to time party to
this Agreement holding a FILO Loan and individually each a “FILO Lender”.

     “FILO Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1(a)(i).

     “FILO Note” means a promissory note of the Borrowers payable to the order of a FILO
Lender in substantially the form of Exhibit 11.1(c) hereto, evidencing Indebtedness of the
Borrowers under the FILO Commitment of such FILO Lender.

     “Final Availability Date” means the earlier of the Termination Date and one (1)
Business Day prior to the date specified in clause (a) of the definition of Termination
Date.

     “Final Order” means, collectively, the order of the Bankruptcy Court entered in the
Chapter 11 Cases after a final hearing under Bankruptcy Rule 4001(c)(2) or such other procedures as
approved by the Bankruptcy Court which order shall be satisfactory in form and substance to Agents,
and from which no appeal or motion to reconsider has been timely filed, or if timely filed, such
appeal or motion to reconsider has been dismissed or denied unless each Agent waives such
requirement), together with all extensions, modifications and amendments thereto, in form and
substance satisfactory to Agents and Required Term B Lenders, which, among other matters but not by
way of limitation, authorizes the Credit Parties to obtain credit, incur (or guaranty)
Indebtedness, and grant Liens under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, as the case may
be, and provides for the super priority of Agents’ and the Lenders’ claims.

     “FIRREA” means the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of
1989, as amended.

     “First Tier Foreign Subsidiary” means a Foreign Subsidiary held directly by a Credit
Party or indirectly by a Credit Party through one or more Domestic Subsidiaries.

     “Fiscal Month” means each monthly accounting period of Borrowers.

     “Fiscal Quarter” means for the first three Fiscal Quarters of each year, the 13 week
period commencing on the day after the last day of the preceding Fiscal Quarter and for the fourth
Fiscal Quarter of each year, the period commencing on the day after the last day of the third
Fiscal Quarter and ending on the Saturday closest to January 31 of each year.

     “Fiscal Year” means the annual accounting period of Borrowers ending on the Saturday
nearest to January 31st in each calendar year.

     “Flood Insurance” means, for any Real Estate located in a Special Flood Hazard Area,
Federal Flood Insurance or private insurance that meets the requirements set forth by FEMA in its
Mandatory Purchase of Flood Insurance Guidelines. Flood Insurance

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shall be in an amount as reasonably determined by Agents, but in no event in excess of the
liquidation value of such Real Estate.

     “Foreign Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, a Subsidiary of such Person
that is a “controlled foreign corporation” under Section 957 of the Code.

     “Funds Flow Memorandum” has the meaning specified in Section 2.1(g).

     “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth
from time to time in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the
Financial Accounting Standards Board (or agencies with similar functions of comparable stature and
authority within the accounting profession), which are applicable to the circumstances as of the
date of determination, subject to Section 11.3 hereof.

     “Gift Card and Merchandise Credit Reserve” means, at any time of determination, an
amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate value at such time of all outstanding
merchandise credit and gift certificates and gift cards of the Credit Parties or any of their
Subsidiaries issued over the past 24 months entitling the holder thereof to use all or a portion of
the value of any such merchandise credit, gift certificate or gift card to pay all or a portion of
the purchase price for any Inventory of the Credit Parties.

     “Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state or other political
subdivision thereof, any central bank (or similar monetary or regulatory authority) thereof, any
entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or
pertaining to government, and any corporation or other entity owned or controlled, through stock or
capital ownership or otherwise, by any of the foregoing.

     “Guarantors” means, collectively, the Subsidiaries of the Borrowers listed on
Schedule 3.19 on the Closing Date and each other Subsidiary of the Borrowers that shall be
required to execute and deliver a guaranty or guaranty supplement pursuant to Section
4.13(b).

     “Guaranteed Indebtedness” means as to any Person, any obligation of such Person
guaranteeing, providing comfort or otherwise supporting any Indebtedness, lease, dividend, or other
obligation (“primary obligation”) of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in
any manner, including any obligation or arrangement of such Person to (a) purchase or repurchase
any such primary obligation, (b) advance or supply funds (i) for the purchase or payment of any
such primary obligation or (ii) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary
obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency or any balance sheet condition of the
primary obligor, (c) purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of
assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make
payment of such primary obligation, (d) protect the beneficiary of such arrangement from loss
(other than product warranties given in the ordinary course of business) or (e) indemnify the owner
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primary obligation against loss in respect thereof. The amount of any Guaranteed Indebtedness
at any time shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the lesser at such time of (x) the stated or
determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guaranteed Indebtedness is
incurred and (y) the maximum amount for which such Person may be liable pursuant to the terms of
the instrument embodying such Guaranteed Indebtedness, or, if not stated or determinable, the
maximum reasonably anticipated liability (assuming full performance) in respect thereof.

     “Guaranty and Security Agreement” means that certain Guaranty and Security Agreement,
dated as of even date herewith, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Agents, by the
Borrowers and Guarantors in favor of Working Capital Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties,
as the same may be amended, restated and/or modified from time to time, together with each other
guaranty and security agreement executed and delivered by any other Credit Party in favor of
Working Capital Agent and the Secured Parties.

     “Hazardous Materials” means any substance, material or waste that is regulated or
otherwise gives rise to liability under any Environmental Law, including but not limited to any
“Hazardous Waste” as defined by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) (42 U.S.C. § 6901
et seq. (1976)), any “Hazardous Substance” as defined under the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) (42 U.S.C. §9601 et seq. (1980)), any
contaminant, pollutant, petroleum or any fraction thereof, asbestos, asbestos containing material,
polychlorinated biphenyls, mold, and radioactive substances or any other substance that is toxic,
ignitable, reactive, corrosive, caustic, or dangerous.

     “Impacted Lender” means any Lender that fails promptly to provide Working Capital
Agent, upon Working Capital Agent’s request, satisfactory assurance that such Lender will not
become a Non-Funding Lender.

     “Inadvertent Overadvances” shall mean the funding of any loan or advance under the
Working Capital Facility or the issuance, renewal or amendment of a Letter of Credit by an L/C
Issuer which (i) did not result in an Overadvance when made based upon the most recent Borrowing
Base Certificate delivered to the Working Capital Agent prior to such funding or issuance, renewal
or amendment but which has become an Overadvance as the result of (a) a decline in the value of the
Collateral, (b) errors or fraud on a Borrowing Base Certificate, (c) components of the Borrowing
Base on any date thereafter being deemed ineligible, (d) the return of uncollected checks or other
items of payment applied to the reduction of Loans or other similar involuntary or unintentional
actions, (e) any other circumstance beyond the reasonable control of the Working Capital Agent or
the Revolving Lenders that results in the reduction of the realizable value of the Borrowing Base
or (f) the occurrence of a Term B Advance Rate Reduction, or (ii) the funding of any loan or
advance under the Working Capital Facility or the issuance, renewal or amendment of any Letter of
Credit resulting from the Working Capital Lender’s obligation to disgorge, refund or reimburse
proceeds received from an Approved Liquidator in connection with a Permitted Store Closing pursuant
to a clawback or other similar rights under the relevant Approved Liquidation Agreement.

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     “Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication: (a) all indebtedness for
borrowed money; (b) all obligations issued, undertaken or assumed as the deferred purchase price of
Property or services (other than trade payables entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business);
(c) the face amount of all letters of credit issued for the account of such Person and without
duplication, all drafts drawn thereunder and all reimbursement or payment obligations with respect
to letters of credit, surety bonds and other similar instruments issued for the account of such
Person; (d) all obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments, including
obligations so evidenced incurred in connection with the acquisition of Property, assets or
businesses; (e) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement, or incurred as financing, in either case with respect to Property acquired by
the Person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or bank under such agreement in the
event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such Property); (f) all Capital Lease
Obligations; (g) the principal balance outstanding under any synthetic lease, off-balance sheet
loan or similar off balance sheet financing product, or if less, the stipulated loss value,
termination value or other equivalent amount; (h) all obligations, whether or not contingent, to
purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value any of its own Stock or Stock
Equivalents (or any Stock or Stock Equivalent of a direct or indirect parent entity thereof) prior
to the date that is 180 days after the scheduled Termination Date, valued at, in the case of
redeemable preferred Stock, the greater of the voluntary liquidation preference and the involuntary
liquidation preference of such Stock plus accrued and unpaid dividends; (i) all indebtedness
referred to in clauses (a) through (h) above secured by (or for which the holder of
such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien upon
or in Property (including accounts and contracts rights) owned by such Person, even though such
Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such indebtedness; and (j) all
Contingent Obligations described in clause (i) of the definition thereof in respect of
indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds referred to in clauses (a) through
(i) above.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this definition of Indebtedness, the obligations
(whether for cash, common shares of BGI or otherwise) of BGI and its Subsidiaries to settle the
Pershing Square Warrants, any stock appreciation rights issued in lieu thereof or equity
instruments issued as a result of or in connection with the deferral of any payment in respect of
the Pershing Square Warrants or any settlement, exercise, purchase, redemption, defeasance,
retirement, payment, acquisition or otherwise thereof shall not constitute Indebtedness hereunder.

     “Indemnified Matters” has the meaning specified in Section 9.6.

     “Indemnitee” has the meaning specified in Section 9.6.

     “Insolvency Proceeding” means (a) any case, action or proceeding before any court or
other Governmental Authority relating to bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, liquidation,
receivership, dissolution, winding-up or relief of debtors, or (b) any general assignment for the
benefit of creditors, composition, marshaling of assets for creditors, or other, similar
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of its creditors; in each case in (a) and (b) above, undertaken under U.S. Federal, state or
foreign law, including the Bankruptcy Code.

     “Intellectual Property” means, collectively, with respect to any Credit Party, any and
all of the rights, title and interests of such Credit Party in and to any and all United States,
international or foreign: (a) Trademarks; (b) Patents; (c) Copyrights; (d) confidential and
proprietary information, including, without limitation, all Trade Secrets, technology, ideas,
know-how, formulae and customer lists; (e) any and all intellectual property rights in computer
software and computer software products (including, without limitation, source codes, object codes,
data and related documentation); (f) any and all design rights owned or used by such Company; and
(g) all other intellectual property rights of every description.

     “Interest Payment Date” means, (a) with respect to any LIBOR Rate Loan (other than
Term B Loans), the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan, (b) with respect to
Base Rate Loans (including Swing Loans but excluding Term B Loans) the first day of each month and
(c) with respect to Term B Loans the first day of each month.

     “Interest Period” means, with respect to any LIBOR Rate Loan, the period commencing on
the Business Day such Loan is disbursed or continued or on the Conversion Date on which a Base Rate
Loan is converted to the LIBOR Rate Loan and ending on the date seven (7), thirty (30), sixty (60)
or ninety (90) days thereafter, as selected by the Borrower Representative in its Notice of
Borrowing or Notice of Conversion/Continuation; provided that:

     (a) if any Interest Period pertaining to a LIBOR Rate Loan would otherwise end on a
day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period shall be extended to the next
succeeding Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to carry such Interest
Period into another calendar month, in which event such Interest Period shall end on the
immediately preceding Business Day;

     (b) for Interest Periods longer than seven (7) days, any Interest Period pertaining to
a LIBOR Rate Loan that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for
which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such
Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of
such Interest Period; and

     (c) no Interest Period for any FILO Loan or Revolving Loan shall extend beyond the
Termination Date.

     “Interim Order” means, collectively, the order of the Bankruptcy Court entered in the
Chapter 11 Cases after an interim hearing (assuming satisfaction of the standards prescribed in
Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code and Bankruptcy Rule 4001 and other applicable law), together
with all extension, modifications, and amendments thereto, in form and substance satisfactory to
Agents and Required Term B Lenders, which, among other matters but not by way of limitation,
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Parties to execute and perform under the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A.

     “Internet Domain Name” means all right, title and interest (and all related IP
Ancillary Rights) arising under any Requirement of Law in or relating to internet domain names.

     “Inventory” means all of the “inventory” (as such term is defined in the UCC) of the
Credit Parties, including, but not limited to, all merchandise, raw materials, parts, supplies,
work-in-process and finished goods intended for sale, together with all the containers, packing,
packaging, shipping and similar materials related thereto, and including such inventory as is
temporarily out of a Credit Party’s custody or possession, including inventory on the premises of
others and items in transit.

     “Inventory Percentage” means (i) from the Closing Date through and including March 25,
2011, 105%, (ii) from March 26, 2011 through and including April 8, 2011, 103%, and (iii)
thereafter, 100%, provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, “Inventory Percentage” shall mean 100% (a “Term
B Advance Rate Reduction”).

     “Investments” has the meaning specified in Section 5.4.

     “IP Ancillary Rights” means, with respect to any other Intellectual Property, as
applicable, all foreign counterparts to, and all divisionals, reversions, continuations,
continuations-in-part, reissues, reexaminations, renewals and extensions of, such Intellectual
Property and all income, royalties, proceeds and Liabilities at any time due or payable or asserted
under or with respect to any of the foregoing or otherwise with respect to such Intellectual
Property, including all rights to sue or recover at law or in equity for any past, present or
future infringement, misappropriation, dilution, violation or other impairment thereof, and, in
each case, all rights to obtain any other IP Ancillary Right.

     “IP License” means all Contractual Obligations (and all related IP Ancillary Rights),
whether written or oral, granting any right, title and interest in or relating to any Intellectual
Property.

     “IP Security Agreements” means, collectively, the Patent Security Agreement, Copyright
Security Agreement and Trademark Security Agreement, in each case, made in favor of Working Capital
Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, by each applicable Credit Party, as amended from
time to time.

     “IRS” means the Internal Revenue Service of the United States and any successor
thereto.

     “Issue” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, to issue, extend the expiration
date of, renew (including by failure to object to any automatic renewal on the last day such
objection is permitted), increase the face amount of, or reduce or eliminate any

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scheduled decrease in the face amount of, such Letter of Credit, or to cause any Person to do
any of the foregoing. The terms “Issued” and “Issuance” have correlative meanings.

     “Landlord Lien State” means the states of Washington, Virginia, Pennsylvania and such
other state(s) or jurisdictions in which a landlord’s claim for rent or other obligations has
priority over the Lien of Working Capital Agent in any of the Collateral.

     “Large Inventory Location” means any distribution center, warehouse, cross-docking
station or storage facility at which Inventory is located.

     “L/C Issuer” means any Revolving Lender or an Affiliate thereof or a bank or other
legally authorized Person, in each case, reasonably acceptable to Working Capital Agent, in such
Person’s capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder; provided, however that with respect
to the Cash Management Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer shall be the Working Capital Agent or an
affiliate of Working Capital Agent, in such Person’s capacity as an issuer of Cash Management
Letter of Credit hereunder.

     “L/C Reimbursement Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section
1.1(c)(i)(C).

     “L/C Reimbursement Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1(c)(vi).

     “L/C Reimbursement Obligation” means, for any Letter of Credit, the obligation of the
Borrowers to the L/C Issuer thereof, as and when matured, to pay all amounts drawn under such
Letter of Credit.

     “L/C Request” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1(c)(ii).

     “Lease Assumption Reserve Commencement Date” means the date that is twelve (12) weeks
prior to the end of the Lease Rejection Date.

     “Lease Rejection Date” means the last day of the 120 day lease rejection/assumption
period, as such period may be extended or shortened by the Bankruptcy Court.

     “Lease Reserve” means, without duplication of Inventory included in the calculation of
the Excluded Inventory to the extent Excluded Inventory is deducted from the calculation of Maximum
Borrowing Availability and Maximum Revolving Borrowing Availability, a reserve, in an amount
established by Working Capital Agent in its Permitted Discretion, in respect of (i) Inventory held
at any leased or rented location intended to be closed with respect to which the lease therefor is
or is intended to be terminated by the applicable Credit Party (ii) Inventory at leased locations
with respect to which the lease has not been assumed commencing on the Lease Assumption Reserve
Commencement Date, or (iii) Inventory held at any leased location as to which there has been filed
a motion to compel the assumption or rejection of the lease, unless the Working Capital Agent has
adequate assurance that if will continue to have access to such location following any
determination relating to such motion (as a result of provisions in the Interim Order, Final Order
or otherwise).

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     “Lenders” means the Revolving Lenders, the Term B Lenders and the FILO Lenders and
individually each a “Lender”.

     “Lender-Related Distress Event” means, with respect to any Revolving Lenders or any
Person that directly or indirectly controls such Revolving Lender (each a “Distressed
Person”), (a) a voluntary or involuntary case with respect to such Distressed Person under the
Bankruptcy Code or any similar bankruptcy laws of its jurisdiction of formation, (b) a custodian,
conservator, receiver or similar official is appointed for such Distressed Person or any
substantial part of such Distressed Person’s assets, (c) such Distressed Person is subject to a
forced liquidation, merger, sale or other change of majority control supported in whole or in part
by guaranties or other support (including, without limitation, the nationalization or assumption of
majority ownership or operating control by) the U.S. government or other Governmental Authority, or
(d) such Distressed Person makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or is otherwise
adjudicated as, or determined by any Governmental Authority having regulatory authority over such
Distressed Person or its assets to be, insolvent or bankrupt. For purposes of this definition,
control of a Person shall have the same meaning as in the second sentence of the definition of
“Affiliate”.

     “Lending Office” means, with respect to any Revolving Lender or FILO Lender and
Working Capital Agent and with respect to the Term B Lenders the office or offices of such Lender
specified as its “Lending Office” beneath its name on the applicable signature page hereto, or such
other office or offices of such Lender as it may from time to time notify the Borrower
Representative and Term B Agent.

     “Letter of Credit” means documentary or standby letters of credit issued for the
account of a Credit Party by L/C Issuers, and bankers’ acceptances issued by a Credit Party, for
which Working Capital Agent and Revolving Lenders have incurred Letter of Credit Obligations.

     “Letter of Credit Obligations” means all outstanding obligations incurred by Working
Capital Agent and Revolving Lenders at the request of the Borrowers or the Borrower Representative,
whether direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, due or not due, in connection with the
issuance of Letters of Credit by L/C Issuers or the purchase of a participation as set forth in
Section 1.1(c) with respect to any Letter of Credit. The amount of such Letter of Credit
Obligations shall equal the maximum amount that may be payable by Working Capital Agent and/or
Revolving Lenders thereupon or pursuant thereto.

     “Liabilities” means all claims, actions, suits, judgments, damages, losses, liability,
obligations, responsibilities, fines, penalties, sanctions, costs, fees, taxes, commissions,
charges, disbursements and expenses, in each case of any kind or nature (including interest accrued
thereon or as a result thereto and fees, charges and disbursements of financial, legal and other
advisors and consultants), whether joint or several, whether or not indirect, contingent,
consequential, actual, punitive, treble or otherwise.

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     “LIBOR” means, for each Interest Period, the higher of (a) the offered rate per annum
for deposits of Dollars for the applicable Interest Period that appears on Reuters Screen LIBOR 01
Page as of 11:00 A.M. (London, England time) two (2) Business Days prior to the first day in such
Interest Period or (b) the offered rate per annum for deposits of Dollars for an Interest Period of
three (3) months that appears on Reuters Screen LIBOR 01 Page as of 11:00 A.M. (London, England
time) two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of the applicable Interest Period. If no such
offered rate exists, such rate will be the rate of interest per annum, as determined by Working
Capital Agent at which deposits of Dollars in immediately available funds are offered at 11:00 A.M.
(London, England time) two (2) Business Days prior to the first day in such Interest Period by
major financial institutions reasonably satisfactory to Working Capital Agent in the London
interbank market for such Interest Period for the applicable principal amount on such date of
determination. With respect to all FILO Loans, LIBOR shall not be less than 1.50% and with respect
to all Term B Loans, LIBOR shall not be less than 1.00%.

     “LIBOR Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest based on LIBOR.

     “Lien” means any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, charge or
deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or otherwise) or preference, priority or other
security interest or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including those
created by, arising under or evidenced by any conditional sale or other title retention agreement,
the interest of a lessor under a Capital Lease, any financing lease having substantially the same
economic effect as any of the foregoing, or the filing of any financing statement naming the owner
of the asset to which such lien relates as debtor, under the UCC or any comparable law) and any
contingent or other agreement to provide any of the foregoing, but not including the interest of a
lessor under a lease which is not a Capital Lease.

     “Lien Waiver” means an agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to Agents, and
otherwise which (a) for any Collateral located on leased premises, the lessor waives or
subordinates any Lien it may have on the Collateral, and agrees to permit Working Capital Agent to
enter upon the premises and remove the Collateral or to use the premises to store or dispose of the
Collateral; (b) for any Collateral held by a warehouseman, processor, shipper or freight forwarder,
such Person waives or subordinates any Lien it may have on the Collateral, agrees to hold any
documents in its possession relating to the Collateral as agent for Working Capital Agent, and
agrees to deliver the Collateral to Working Capital Agent upon request; and (c) for any Collateral
held by a repairman, mechanic or bailee, such Person acknowledges Working Capital Agent’s Lien,
waives or subordinates any Lien it may have on the Collateral, and agrees to deliver the Collateral
to Working Capital Agent upon request.

     “Loan” means an extension of credit by a Lender to the Borrowers pursuant to
Article I, and may be a Base Rate Loan or a LIBOR Rate Loan. Unless the context otherwise
requires, references to the outstanding principal balance of the Loans shall include the
outstanding balance of Letter of Credit Obligations, Swing Loans, Overadvances, FILO Loans and
Revolving Loans.

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     “Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the Notes, the Fee Letter, the L/C
Reimbursement Agreements, the Approved Budget, the Collateral Documents, the Borrowing Base
Certificates and all documents delivered to any Agent and/or any Lender in connection with any of
the foregoing, including the Interim Order and the Final Order.

     “Local Deposit Accounts” has the meaning specified in Section 4.11(a).

     “Mandatory Reserves” means (a) the Term B Reserve, (b) the Lease Reserve (without
duplication of any amounts deducted in the calculation of the Term B Reserve to the extent Excluded
Inventory is deducted from the calculation of Maximum Borrowing Availability and Maximum Revolving
Borrowing Availability), (c) the Minimum Excess Availability Amount and (d) a reserve or reserves
in the full amount of the Carve-Out Amount as established by Working Capital Agent on the Closing
Date and thereafter modified, as and to the extent, Working Capital Agent determines to do so.

     “Margin Stock” means “margin stock” as such term is defined in Regulation T, U or X of
the Federal Reserve Board.

     “Material Adverse Effect” means, other than the filing of the Chapter 11 Cases: (a) a
material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, the operations, business,
Properties, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of any Borrower or the Credit Parties
taken as a whole; (b) a material impairment of the ability of the Credit Parties to perform in any
material respect their obligations under any Loan Document; (c) a material impairment of the rights
and remedies of any Agent or any Lender under any Loan Document or (d) a material adverse effect
upon (i) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of any Loan Document, (ii) the
perfection or priority of any Lien granted to the Lenders or to Working Capital Agent for the
benefit of the Secured Parties under any of the Collateral Documents or (iii) the realizable value
of the Collateral. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any event or occurrence which
results or would reasonably be expected to result in Liabilities to the Credit Parties in excess of
$1,000,000 individually or in the aggregate shall be deemed to have a Material Adverse Effect.

     “Material Environmental Liabilities” means Environmental Liabilities exceeding
$1,000,000 in the aggregate.

     “Maximum Borrowing Availability” means, at any time, an amount equal to the lesser of
(a) the Aggregate Commitment then in effect or, if less, the maximum amount of Loans and Letter of
Credit Obligations permitted by the Interim Order or the Final Order, as applicable and (b) the
result of (i) the Borrowing Base at such time minus (ii) the Mandatory Reserves at such time or any
other Reserves (but without duplication of any Availability Reserves deducted in calculating
Maximum Borrowing Availability).

     “Maximum Lawful Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 1.3(d).

     “Maximum Revolving Borrowing Availability” means, at any time, an amount equal to the
lesser of (a) the Aggregate Revolving Commitment then in effect or, if less, the maximum amount of
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Credit Obligations (other than with respect to the Cash Management Letter of Credit permitted
by the Interim Order or the Final Order, as applicable and (b) the result of (i) the Borrowing Base
at such time minus (ii) the Mandatory Reserves or any other Reserves, at such time (but without
duplication of any Availability Reserves deducted in calculating Maximum Revolving Borrowing
Availability).

     “Minimum Excess Availability Amount” means, at any time, an amount equal to the
greater of (i) ten percent (10.00%) of the Borrowing Base (based upon the most recent Borrowing
Base Certificate received by Agents prior to the requested funding of Revolving Loans or issuance,
renewal or amendment of any Letter of Credit) and (ii) $30,000,000; provided that, if Availability
should be less than $25,000,000, the amount in clause (ii) herein shall be increased to an
aggregate total of $45,000,000.

     “MNPI” has the meaning specified in Section 9.10(a).

     “Mortgage” means any deed of trust, leasehold deed of trust, mortgage, leasehold
mortgage, deed to secure debt, leasehold deed to secure debt or other document creating a Lien on
Real Estate or any interest in Real Estate.

     “Multiemployer Plan” means any multiemployer plan, as defined in Section 3(37) or
4001(a)(3) of ERISA, as to which any ERISA Affiliate incurs or otherwise has any obligation or
liability, contingent or otherwise.

     “National Flood Insurance Program” means the program created by the U.S. Congress
pursuant to the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973,
as revised by the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994, that mandates the purchase of flood
insurance to cover real property improvements located in Special Flood Hazard Areas in
participating communities and provides protection to property owners through a Federal insurance
program.

     “Net Orderly Liquidation Value” means the cash proceeds of Inventory, as applicable,
which could be obtained in an orderly liquidation (net of all liquidation expenses, costs of sale,
operating expenses and retrieval and related costs), as determined pursuant to the most recent
third-party appraisal of such Inventory delivered to Working Capital Agent by an appraiser
reasonably acceptable to Working Capital Agent.

     “Net Proceeds” means proceeds in cash, checks or other cash equivalent financial
instruments (including Cash Equivalents) as and when received by the Person making a Disposition
and insurance proceeds received on account of an Event of Loss, net of: (a) in the event of a
Disposition (i) the direct costs relating to such Disposition excluding amounts payable to a
Borrower or any Affiliate of a Borrower, (ii) sale, use or other transaction taxes paid or payable
as a result thereof, and (iii) amounts required to be applied to repay principal, interest and
prepayment premiums and penalties on Indebtedness secured by a non-avoidable Lien on the asset
which is the subject of such Disposition (to the extent such Lien constitutes a Permitted
Encumbrance hereunder and is permitted to have priority over Working Capital Agent’s Liens securing
the Obligations) and (b) in the event of an Event of Loss, (i) all money actually applied to

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repair or reconstruct the damaged Property or Property affected by the condemnation or taking,
(ii) all of the costs and expenses reasonably incurred in connection with the collection of such
proceeds, award or other payments, and (iii) any amounts retained by or paid to parties having
superior rights to such proceeds, awards or other payments.

     “Net Term B Proceeds” means proceeds in cash, checks or other cash equivalent
financial instruments (including Cash Equivalents) as and when received by the Person making a
Disposition and insurance proceeds received on account of an Event of Loss, net only of any
commissions related to such Disposition.

     “NOLV Percentage” means at any time, the quotient of the Net Orderly Liquidation Value
of Inventory divided by the book value of Inventory, as reflected on the most recent appraisal
received by Agents; provided that in order to more accurately reflect the dates when a sale
of such Inventory might take place, Working Capital Agent may, in Working Capital Agent’s Permitted
Discretion, (i) calculate the NOLV Percentage based upon the Net Orderly Liquidation Value of
Inventory for the periods occurring after the date on which the Borrowing Base is being calculated
or (ii) impose reserves to reflect the likely future sale date of such Inventory. The NOLV
Percentage will be increased or reduced promptly upon receipt by Agents of each updated appraisal.

     “Non-Funding Lender” means any Lender (a) that has failed to fund any payments
required to be made by it under the Loan Documents within two (2) Business Days after any such
payment is due, (b) that has given verbal or written notice to a Borrower, Working Capital Agent or
any Lender or has otherwise publicly announced that such Lender believes it will fail to fund all
payments required to be made by it or fund all purchases of participations required to be funded by
it under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (c) as to which Working Capital Agent has a
good faith belief that such Lender or an Affiliate of such Lender has defaulted in fulfilling its
obligations (as a lender, agent or letter of credit issuer) under one or more other syndicated
credit facilities or (d) with respect to which one or more Lender-Related Distress Events has
occurred with respect to such Person or any Person that directly or indirectly controls such Lender
and Working Capital Agent has determined that such Lender may become a Non-Funding Lender. For
purposes of this definition, control of a Person shall have the same meaning as in the second
sentence of the definition of Affiliate.

     “Non-U.S. Lender Party” means each of Working Capital Agent, each Lender (or any
transferee or assignee thereof), each L/C Issuer, each SPV and each participant, in each case that
is not a United States person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

     “Note” means any Revolving Note, FILO Note, Term Note or Swingline Note and “Notes”
means all such Notes.

     “Notice of Borrowing” means a notice given by the Borrower Representative to Working
Capital Agent pursuant to Section 1.5, in substantially the form of Exhibit 11.1(d)
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     “Notice of Conversion/Continuation” has the meaning specified in Section
1.6(a).

     “Obligations” means (i) all Loans (including Letters of Credit) and other
Indebtedness, advances, debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties owing by any Credit
Party to any Lender, any Agent, any L/C Issuer, any Secured Swap Provider or any other Person
required to be indemnified, that arises under any Loan Document or any Secured Rate Contract,
whether or not for the payment of money, whether arising by reason of an extension of credit, loan,
guaranty, indemnification or in any other manner, whether direct or indirect (including those
acquired by assignment), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter
arising and however acquired and (ii) all obligations and liabilities in respect of Bank Products
owing by any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries to GE Capital or any of its Affiliates or any
Lender, now existing or hereafter arising and however acquired.

     “Ordinary Course of Business” means, in respect of any transaction involving any
Person, the ordinary course of such Person’s business, as conducted by any such Person in
accordance with past practice and undertaken by such Person in good faith and not for purposes of
evading any covenant or restriction in any Loan Document, but with respect to any Credit Party,
taking into account the filing of the Chapter 11 Cases.

     “Organization Documents” means, (a) for any corporation, the certificate or articles
of incorporation, the bylaws, any certificate of determination or instrument relating to the rights
of preferred shareholders of such corporation and any shareholder rights agreement, (b) for any
partnership, the partnership agreement and, if applicable, certificate of limited partnership, (c)
for any limited liability company, the operating agreement and articles or certificate of formation
or (d) any other document setting forth the manner of election or duties of the officers,
directors, managers or other similar persons, or the designation, amount or relative rights,
limitations and preference of the Stock of a Person.

     “Other Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 10.1(c).

     “Overadvance” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1(b)(ii).

     “Patents” means all rights, title and interests (and all related IP Ancillary Rights)
arising under any Requirement of Law in or relating to letters patent and applications therefor.

     “Patent Security Agreement” means the Patent Security Agreement, dated as of even date
herewith, made in favor of Working Capital Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, by each
applicable Credit Party, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agents as the same may be
amended from time to time.

     “Patriot Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate
Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, P.L. 107-56, as amended.

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     “PBGC” means the United States Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation any
successor thereto.

     “Period” shall mean a Prior Week, a Cumulative Four Week Period or a Cumulative
Period, as applicable.

     “Permits” means, with respect to any Person, any permit, approval, authorization,
license, registration, certificate, concession, grant, franchise, variance or permission from, and
any other Contractual Obligations with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not
having the force of law and applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to
which such Person or any of its property is subject.

     “Permitted Discretion” means a determination made in good faith and in the exercise of
reasonable business judgment (from the perspective of a secured asset-based lender).

     “Permitted Liens” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.

     “Permitted Overadvance” shall mean (i) Protective Overadvances in an aggregate amount
at any one time outstanding not in excess of 5% of the Borrowing Base based upon the most recent
Borrowing Base Certificate received by Working Capital Agent prior to the occurrence of such
Protective Overadvance (even if such Borrowing Base Certificate proves to be inaccurate based upon,
but not limited, to errors, fraud or changes in Collateral value) plus (ii) Inadvertent
Overadvances.

     “Permitted Store Closings” means the closure of (i) between 190 and 205 store
locations listed on Schedule 11.1 and (ii) up to an additional 75 stores upon consent of,
and subject to terms acceptable to, Agents, and in each case, the liquidation of assets related
thereto by an Approved Liquidator pursuant to bidding procedures, Approved Liquidation Agreement
and all other relevant documents executed in connection therewith, each, as applicable, to be in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agents.

     “Pershing Square Warrants” means the warrants to purchase common stock issued by BGI
to Pershing Square on April 9, 2008 under the Pershing Square Warrant Transaction, and including
any stock appreciation rights and/or derivatives issued in lieu of all or a portion thereof under
the Pershing Square Warrant Transaction.

     “Pershing Square Warrant Transaction” means the issuance by BGI to Pershing Square on
April 9, 2008 of warrants to purchase BGI common stock pursuant to the Warrant and Registration
Rights Agreement, dated as of April 9, 2008, between BGI and Computershare Trust Company N.A., as
Warrant Agent.

     “Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company,
business trust, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture or
Governmental Authority.

     “Petition Date” has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals to this Agreement.

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     “Post-Petition” means the time period beginning immediately upon the Petition Date.

     “Post-Petition Indebtedness” means any or all Indebtedness of the Credit Parties
incurred after the Petition Date.

     “Pre-Petition” means the time period ending immediately prior to the Petition Date.

     “Pre-Petition Facilities” shall mean the Pre-Petition Revolving Facility and the
Pre-Petition Term Facility.

     “Pre-Petition Indebtedness” means all Indebtedness of the Credit Parties outstanding
on the Petition Date immediately prior to the Petition Date, including, without limitation the
Pre-Petition Facilities.

     “Pre-Petition Perfected Lien” has the meaning assigned to it in the Interim Order (or
the Final Order, when applicable).

     “Pre-Petition Revolving Facility” shall mean the credit facility evidenced by that
certain Third Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of March 31, 2010.

     “Pre-Petition Term Facility” shall mean that certain Term Loan Agreement dated as of
March 31, 2010 among the Borrowers, the guarantors party thereto, the lenders party thereto and the
Term B Agent, as administrative agent.

     “Prior Week” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the immediately preceding
week ended on a Saturday and commencing on the prior Sunday.

     “Property” means any interest in any kind of property or asset, whether real, personal
or mixed, and whether tangible or intangible.

     “Protective Overadvances” shall mean an Overadvance which the Working Capital Agent in
its Permitted Discretion determines to be necessary or desirable to, directly or indirectly, (i)
maintain, protect or preserve the value of the Collateral and/or the Working Capital Agent’s rights
therein as determined in the discretion of the Working Capital Agent, including to preserve the
Credit Parties’ business assets and infrastructure (such as the payment of insurance premiums,
taxes, necessary suppliers, rent and payroll), (ii) commence the enforcement of the Working Capital
Agent’s rights and remedies pursuant to Section 7.2, (iii) fund an orderly liquidation or
wind-down of the Credit Parties’ assets or business, or (iv) enhance the likelihood, or maximize,
the repayment of the Working Capital Facility.

     “Rate Contracts” means swap agreements (as such term is defined in Section 101 of the
Bankruptcy Code) and any other agreements or arrangements designed to provide protection against
fluctuations in interest or currency exchange rates.

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     “RCRA” has the meaning specified in Section 3.12.

     “Real Estate” means any real estate owned, leased, subleased or otherwise operated or
occupied by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party.

     “Register” has the meaning specified in Section 1.4(b).

     “Related Persons” means, with respect to any Person, each Affiliate of such Person and
each director, officer, employee, agent, trustee, representative, attorney, accountant and each
insurance, environmental, legal, financial and other advisor (including those retained in
connection with the satisfaction or attempted satisfaction of any condition set forth in
Article II) and other consultants and agents of or to such Person or any of its Affiliates.

     “Releases” means any release, threatened release, spill, emission, leaking, pumping,
pouring, emitting, emptying, escape, injection, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal, dumping,
leaching or migration of Hazardous Material into or through the environment.

     “Remedial Action” means all actions required to (a) clean up, remove, treat or in any
other way address any Hazardous Material in the indoor or outdoor environment, (b) prevent or
minimize any Release so that a Hazardous Material does not migrate or endanger or threaten to
endanger public health or welfare or the indoor or outdoor environment or (c) perform pre remedial
studies and investigations and post-remedial monitoring and care with respect to any Hazardous
Material.

     “Remedies Notice Period” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Interim Order (or the
Final Order when applicable).

     “Remedy Standstill Period” shall mean, (a) with respect to Revolving Priority
Collateral, the five (5) Business Day period commenced upon receipt of the Term B Agent’s written
notice to Working Capital Agent of its intention to direct the Working Capital Agent to take
enforcement action against Revolving Priority Collateral and stating that it is a “remedy
standstill notice” and (b) with respect to Term B Priority Collateral, the five (5) Business Day
period commenced upon receipt of the Working Capital Agent’s written notice to Term B Agent of its
intention to take enforcement action against Term B Priority Collateral and stating that it is a
“remedy standstill notice”.

     “Rent Reserve” means an amount equal to $0.

     “Required Lenders” means each of Required Working Capital Lenders and Required Term B
Lenders.

     “Required Term B Lenders” means Term B Lenders having or holding at least 51% of the
aggregate outstanding Term B Loan.

     “Requirement of Law” means, as to any Person, any law (statutory or common),
ordinance, treaty, rule, regulation, order, policy, other legal requirement or determination

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of an arbitrator or of a Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon
such Person or any of its Property or to which such Person or any of its Property is subject.

     “Required Working Capital Lenders” means at any time, Working Capital Agent plus (a)
(i) at least two Revolving Lenders then holding in the aggregate more than fifty percent (50%) of
the sum of the Aggregate Revolving Commitment then in effect plus (ii) at least two FILO Lenders
holding in the aggregate more than fifty percent (50%) of the sum of the Aggregate FILO Commitment
then in effect, or (b) (i) if the Aggregate Revolving Commitments have terminated, at least two
Revolving Lenders then holding in the aggregate more than fifty percent (50%) of the sum of the
aggregate unpaid principal amount of Revolving Loans (other than Swing Loans) then outstanding,
outstanding Letter of Credit Obligations, amounts of participations in Swing Loans and the
principal amount of unparticipated portions of Swing Loans plus (ii) at least two FILO Lenders
holding in the aggregate more than fifty percent (50%) of the sum of the aggregate unpaid principal
amount of the FILO Loans.

     “Replacement Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 9.22.

     “Reserves” means (i) the Availability Reserves, (ii) Mandatory Reserves, and (iii)
such additional reserves as the Working Capital Agent may, in its Permitted Discretion, determine
to implement.

     “Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer or the president of a Borrower
or Borrower Representative, as applicable, or any other officer having substantially the same
authority and responsibility; or, with respect to compliance with financial covenants or delivery
of financial information, the chief financial officer or the treasurer of a Borrower or Borrower
Representative, as applicable, or any other officer having substantially the same authority and
responsibility.

     “Revolving Applicable Margin” means, with respect to the Revolving Loans and Swing
Loans, (a) if a Base Rate Loan, one and one quarter of one percent (1.25%) per annum and (b) if a
LIBOR Rate Loan, four percent (4.00%) per annum. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary,
Swing Loans may not be LIBOR Rate Loans.

     “Restricted Payments” has the meaning specified in Section 5.11.

     “Revolving Commitment” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1(b)(i).

     “Revolving Commitment Percentage” means, as to any Revolving Lender, the percentage
equivalent of such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment, divided by the Aggregate Revolving
Commitment. provided, further, that following acceleration of the Revolving Loans or termination of
the Revolving Commitments, such term means, as to any Revolving Lender, the percentage equivalent
of the principal amount of the Revolving Loans held by such Revolving Lender, divided by the
aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Loans held by all Revolving Lenders.

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     “Revolving Exposure” means, with respect to any Revolving Lender at any time, the sum
of (a) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Loans plus
(b) the aggregate outstanding Letter of Credit Obligations (other than with respect to the Cash
Management Letter of Credit) of such Revolving Lender plus (c) an amount equal to its Revolving
Commitment Percentage of the aggregate principal amount of Overadvances and Swing Loans outstanding
at such time.

     “Revolving Lenders” means each of the financial institutions from time to time party
to this Agreement holding a Revolving Loan and individually each a “Revolving Lender”.

     “Revolving Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1(b)(i).

     “Revolving Note” means a promissory note of the Borrowers payable to the order of a
Revolving Lender in substantially the form of Exhibit 11.1(e) hereto, evidencing
Indebtedness of the Borrowers under the Revolving Commitment of such Revolving Lender.

     “Revolving Priority Collateral” means all Collateral that is not Term B Priority
Collateral.

     “Sale” has the meaning specified in Section 9.9(b).

     “Sale Process Default” means the occurrence of any of the following events: (a) a
failure by the Credit Parties to make any payment as and when due hereunder, (b) any Event of
Default under Sections 7.1(m)(i) through (v), or (iii) a failure by the Credit
Parties to comply with any of the covenants set forth in Section 5.21.

     “SARA” has the meaning specified in Section 3.12.

     “Secured Party” means each Agent, each Lender, each other Indemnitee and each other
holder of any Obligation of a Credit Party including each Secured Swap Provider.

     “Secured Rate Contract” means any Rate Contract between a Borrower and the
counterparty thereto, which (a) has been provided or arranged by GE Capital or an Affiliate of GE
Capital, or (b) Working Capital Agent has acknowledged in writing constitutes a “Secured Rate
Contract” hereunder after the applicable Lender or Affiliate of a Lender and the applicable Credit
Party or Subsidiary have provided written notice to Working Capital Agent of (i) the existence of
such Rate Contract, (ii) the maximum dollar amount of obligations arising thereunder, and (iii) the
methodology to be used by such parties in determining the Indebtedness owing from time to time with
respect thereto.

     “Secured Swap Provider” means (i) a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender (or a Person
who was a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender at the time of execution and delivery of a Rate
Contract) who has entered into a Secured Rate Contract with a Borrower, or (ii) a Person with whom
Borrower has entered into a Secured Rate Contract provided or arranged by GE Capital or an
Affiliate of GE Capital, and any assignee thereof.

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     “Settlement Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1.11(b).

     “Software” means (a) all computer programs, including source code and object code
versions, (b) all data, databases and compilations of data, whether machine readable or otherwise,
and (c) all documentation, training materials and configurations related to any of the foregoing.

     “Solvent” means, with respect to any Person as of any date of determination, that, as
of such date, (a) the value of the assets of such Person (both at fair value and present fair
saleable value) is greater than the total amount of liabilities (including contingent and
unliquidated liabilities) of such Person, (b) such Person is able to pay all liabilities of such
Person as such liabilities mature and (c) such Person does not have unreasonably small capital. In
computing the amount of contingent or unliquidated liabilities at any time, such liabilities shall
be computed at the amount that, in light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time,
represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.

     “Special Flood Hazard Area” means an area that FEMA’s current flood maps indicate has
at least a one percent (1%) chance of a flood equal to or exceeding the base flood elevation (a
100-year flood) in any given year.

     “SPV” means any special purpose funding vehicle identified as such in a writing by any
Lender to applicable Agent.

     “Stock” means all shares of capital stock (whether denominated as common stock or
preferred stock), equity interests, beneficial, partnership or membership interests, joint venture
interests, participations or other ownership or profit interests in or equivalents (regardless of
how designated) of or in a Person (other than an individual), whether voting or non-voting.

     “Stock Equivalents” means all securities convertible into or exchangeable for Stock or
any other Stock Equivalent and all warrants, options or other rights to purchase, subscribe for or
otherwise acquire any Stock or any other Stock Equivalent, whether or not presently convertible,
exchangeable or exercisable.

     “Store” means any retail store operated by the Credit Parties or any of their
Subsidiaries.

     “Store Lease” means each lease identified by its address under the subheading “Store
Leases” on Schedule 4.18 (as any such lease may be hereinafter amended, modified, restated,
extended, supplemented, renewed or consolidated in accordance with the terms hereof), and all other
leases which may now or hereinafter be entered into by a Credit Party as lessee, as any such lease
may be hereinafter amended, modified, restated, extended, supplemented, renewed or consolidated in
accordance with the terms hereof.

     “Subordinated Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness of any Credit Party or any
Subsidiary of any Credit Party which is subordinated to the Obligations as to right and

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time of payment and as to other rights and remedies thereunder and having such other terms as
are, in each case, reasonably satisfactory to Agents.

     “Subsidiary” of a Person means any corporation, association, limited liability
company, partnership, joint venture or other business entity of which more than fifty percent (50%)
of the voting Stock, is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by the Person, or one or more of
the Subsidiaries of the Person, or a combination thereof.

     “Swingline Commitment” means $50,000,000.

     “Swingline Lender” means, each in its capacity as Swingline Lender hereunder, GE
Capital or, upon the resignation of GE Capital as Working Capital Agent hereunder, any Lender (or
Affiliate or Approved Fund of any Lender) that agrees, with the approval of Working Capital Agent
(or, if there is no such successor Working Capital Agent, the Required Lenders) and the Borrowers,
to act as the Swingline Lender hereunder.

     “Swingline Note” means a promissory note of the Borrowers payable to the order of the
Swingline Lender, in substantially the form of Exhibit 11.1(f) hereto, evidencing the
Indebtedness of the Borrowers to the Swingline Lender resulting from the Swing Loans made to the
Borrowers by the Swingline Lender.

     “Swingline Request” has the meaning specified in clause (ii) of Section
1.1(d).

     “Swing Loan” has the meaning specified in clause (i) of Section
1.1(d).

     “Tax Affiliate” means, (a) each Borrower and its Subsidiaries and (b) any Affiliate of
a Borrower with which such Borrower files or is required to file tax returns on a consolidated,
combined, unitary or similar group basis.

     “Tax Returns” has the meaning specified in Section 3.10.

     “Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 10.1(a).

     “Term B Advance Rate Reduction” has the meaning specified in the defined term
“Inventory Percentage”.

     “Term B Applicable Margin” means (a) if a Base Rate Loan, nine and three quarters of
one percent (9.75%) per annum and (b) if a LIBOR Rate Loan, twelve and one half of one percent
(12.5%).

     “Term B Borrowing Base” shall mean the sum of (I) $7.5 million (reduced dollar for
dollar by any prepayments or repayments from the Disposition of fixed assets), (II) the product of
(x) (A) the Inventory Percentage minus (B) 90% multiplied by (y) 100% of Net Orderly Liquidation
Value of Eligible Inventory less the Excluded Inventory, and (III) 10% of the face amount
of Eligible Credit Card Accounts.

     “Term B Collection Account” means that certain account of Term B Agent, ABA#:
121000248, Account#: 4124907445, Reference: Borders, in the name of Term B

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Agent at Wells Fargo Bank, Woodland Hills, CA, or such other account as may be specified in
writing by Term B Agent as the “Term B Collection Account.”

     “Term B Commitment” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1(a)(ii).

     “Term B Commitment Percentage” means for each Term B Lender, the percentage equivalent
of such Term B Lender’s Term B Commitment divided by the Aggregate Term B Commitment; provided that
after the Term Be Loans have been funded, the Term Commitment Percentage shall be determined for
the Term B Loans by reference to the outstanding principal balance thereof as of any date of
determination rather than the Commitments therefor.

     “Term B Exposure” means, with respect to any Term B Lender at any time, the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of such Term B Lender’s Term B Loans.

     “Term B Facility” has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals to the Agreement.

     “Term B Lenders” means each of the financial institutions from time to time party to
this Agreement holding a Term B Loan and individually each a “Term B Lender.”

     “Term B Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1(a)(ii)

     “Term B Note” means a promissory note of the Borrowers payable to the order of a Term
B Lender in substantially the form of Exhibit 11.1(g) hereto, evidencing Indebtedness of
the Borrowers under the Term B Commitment of such Term B Lender.

     “Term B Priority Collateral” means (i) furniture, fixtures and equipment of the Credit
Parties, (ii) all stock in Kobo, Inc., a corporation incorporated under the laws of the province of
Ontario, Canada, owned by the Credit Parties, (iii) all Intellectual Property of the Credit
Parties, (iv) all proceeds of leases of Real Estate, (v) standby letters of credit or
Letter-of-Credit Rights associated with such standby letters of credit, in each case relating to
Term B Priority Collateral, (vi) Documents relating to the foregoing, (vii) subject to the entry of
the Final Order, the proceeds of any avoidance actions brought pursuant to Section 549 of the
Bankruptcy Code to recover any postpetition transfer of Term B Priority Collateral, (viii) any
accessions thereto and proceeds, substitutions and replacements of the foregoing clauses (i)
through (viii). Term B Priority Collateral shall also include: (x) any accounts, or other
property received in consideration of, or exchange for, any of the Term B Priority Collateral, and
(y) any insurance policies or proceeds in respect of the Term B Priority Collateral.

     “Term B Reserve” means, if at any time the Aggregate Term B Exposure exceeds the Term
Borrowing Base, an amount equal to the positive difference between the Aggregate Term B Exposure
and the Term Borrowing Base at such time.

     “Termination Date” means the earliest of (a) the first anniversary of the Closing
Date, (b) the date of termination of Revolving Lenders’ obligations to make Advances and to incur
Letter of Credit Obligations or Lenders’ obligations to permit existing Loans to remain
outstanding, (c) the date of indefeasible prepayment in full by Borrowers of the

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Loans and the cancellation and return (or stand-by guarantee) of all Letters of Credit or the
cash collateralization of all Letter of Credit Obligations, and the permanent reduction of all
Commitments to zero dollars ($0), (d) five (5) days following the Petition Date if the Interim
Order has not been entered by the Bankruptcy Court by such date, (e) forty-five (45) days following
the Petition Date if the Final Order has not been entered by the Bankruptcy Court by such date, (f)
the date upon which the Interim Order expires, unless the Final Order shall have been entered and
become effective by such date, (g) the close of business on the first Business Day after the entry
of the Final Order, if by that time Borrower any has not paid Agents the fees required to be paid
to Agents, unless Agents and the Lenders agree otherwise, (h) the date of entry of an order of the
Bankruptcy Court confirming a plan of reorganization in the Chapter 11 Cases that has not been
consented to by the Required Lenders and fails to provide for the payment in full in cash of all
Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on the effective date of such plan,
(i) the date of the closing of a sale of all or substantially all of the Borrower’s assets pursuant
to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, a confirmed plan of reorganization or a liquidation pursuant
to Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, and (j) if a plan of reorganization that has been consented to
by the Required Lenders or that provides for payment in full in cash of all Obligations under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents has been confirmed by order of the Bankruptcy Court, the
earlier of the effective date of such plan of reorganization or the thirtieth day after the date of
entry of such confirmation order. 

     “Termination Notice” shall mean a notice from Working Capital Agent to Bank of
America, N.A. and Term B Agent asserting that an Event of Default has occurred.

     “Title IV Plan” means a pension plan subject to Title IV of ERISA, other than a
Multiemployer Plan, to which any ERISA Affiliate incurs or otherwise has any obligation or
liability, contingent or otherwise.

     “Trade Secrets” means all right, title and interest (and all related IP Ancillary
Rights) arising under any Requirement of Law in or relating to trade secrets.

     “Trademark” means all rights, title and interests (and all related IP Ancillary
Rights) arising under any Requirement of Law in or relating to trademarks, trade names, corporate
names, company names, business names, fictitious business names, trade styles, service marks, logos
and other source or business identifiers and, in each case, all goodwill associated therewith, all
registrations and recordations thereof and all applications in connection therewith.

     “Trademark Security Agreement” means the Trademark Security Agreement, dated as of
even date herewith, made in favor of Working Capital Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties,
by each applicable Credit Party, in form and substance satisfactory to Agents as the same may be
amended from time to time.

     “Transaction Expenses” means all costs and expenses incurred by the Credit Parties
prior to the Closing Date with respect to the transactions under the Loan Documents.

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     “UCC” shall be as defined in the Guaranty and Security Agreement.

     “United States” and “U.S.” each means the United States of America.

     “Unused Commitment Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 1.9(b).

     “Unused Commitment Fee Rate” means one half of one percent (.50%).

     “U.S. Lender Party” means each of Working Capital Agent, each Lender (or any
transferee or assignee thereof), each L/C Issuer, each SPV and each participant, in each case that
is a United States person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

     “Use Rights” means, the right of the Working Capital Agent (i) during normal business
hours on any Business Day, to access Revolving Priority Collateral that (x) is stored or located in
or on, (y) has become an accession with respect to (within the meaning of Section 9-335 of the
Uniform Commercial Code), or (z) has been commingled with (within the meaning of Section 9-336 of
the Uniform Commercial Code), Term B Priority Collateral, and (ii) during the Use Period and after
reasonable prior notice, shall have the right to use the Term B Priority Collateral (including,
without limitation, Equipment, Fixtures, Intellectual Property and Real Property), each of the
foregoing in order to assemble, inspect, copy or download information stored on, take actions to
perfect its Lien on, complete a production run of Inventory involving, take possession of, move,
prepare and advertise for sale, sell (by public auction, private sale or a “store closing”, “going
out of business” or similar sale, whether in bulk, in lots or to customers in the ordinary course
of business or otherwise and which sale may include augmented Inventory of the same type sold in
Borrowers’ business), store or otherwise deal with the Revolving Priority Collateral, in each case
without the involvement of or interference by any Term B Agent or Term B Lenders or liability to
any such Person.

     “Use Period” means the period of 120 days commencing on the date that the Working
Capital Agent commences the liquidation and sale of the Revolving Priority Collateral, following
prior written notice to the Term B Agent of such exercise of remedies. If any stay or order,
including with respect to the Remedies Notice Period, that prohibits any of the Working Capital
Agent or the other Working Capital Lenders from commencing and continuing the exercise of any right
or remedies or liquidating and selling the Revolving Priority Collateral has been entered by a
court of competent jurisdiction, such 120-day period shall be tolled during the pendency of any
such stay or other order and the Use Period shall be so extended.

     “Wholly-Owned Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary in which (other than directors’
qualifying shares required by law) one hundred percent (100%) of the Stock and Stock Equivalents,
at the time as of which any determination is being made, is owned, beneficially and of record, by
any Credit Party, or by one or more of the other Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries, or both.

     “Working Capital Agent” means GE Capital in its capacity as administrative and
collateral agent for the Secured Parties hereunder, and any successor administrative and collateral
agent.

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     “Working Capital Collection Account” means that certain account of Working Capital
Agent, ABA# 021001033, Account #50285681, Reference: CFK 1550 Borders Group, Inc. in the name of
Working Capital Agent at Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, New York, or such other account as
may be specified in writing by Working Capital Agent as the “Working Capital Collection Account.”

     “Working Capital Facility” has the meaning assigned to it in the recitals to the
Agreement.

     11.2 Other Interpretive Provisions.

          (a) Defined Terms. Unless otherwise specified herein or therein, all terms
defined in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document shall have the defined meanings
when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto. The
meanings of defined terms shall be equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of
the defined terms. Terms (including uncapitalized terms) not otherwise defined herein and
that are defined in the UCC shall have the meanings therein described.

          (b) The Agreement. The words “hereof”, “herein”, “hereunder” and words of
similar import when used in this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall refer to this
Agreement or such other Loan Document as a whole and not to any particular provision of
this Agreement or such other Loan Document; and Section, subsection, clause, schedule and
exhibit references are to this Agreement or such other Loan Documents unless otherwise
specified.

          (c) Certain Common Terms. The term “documents” includes any and all
instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, indentures, notices and other writings,
however evidenced. The term “including” is not limiting and means “including without
limitation.”

          (d) Performance; Time. Whenever any performance obligation hereunder or under
any other Loan Document (other than a payment obligation) shall be stated to be due or
required to be satisfied on a day other than a Business Day, such performance shall be made
or satisfied on the next succeeding Business Day. In the computation of periods of time
from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and
including”; the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding”, and the word “through”
means “to and including.” If any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document
refers to any action taken or to be taken by any Person, or which such Person is prohibited
from taking, such provision shall be interpreted to encompass any and all means, direct or
indirect, of taking, or not taking, such action.

          (e) Contracts. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein or in any other
Loan Document, references to agreements and other contractual instruments, including this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents, shall be deemed to include all subsequent
amendments, thereto, restatements and

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substitutions thereof and other modifications and supplements thereto which are in
effect from time to time, but only to the extent such amendments and other modifications
are not prohibited by the terms of any Loan Document.

          (f) Laws. References to any statute or regulation are to be construed as
including all statutory and regulatory provisions related thereto or consolidating,
amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting the statute or regulation.

          (g) Times of Day. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times
of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).

     11.3 Accounting Terms and Principles. All accounting determinations required to be
made pursuant hereto shall, unless expressly otherwise provided herein, be made in accordance with
GAAP. No change in the accounting principles used in the preparation of any financial statement
hereafter adopted by the Credit Parties shall be given effect for purposes of measuring compliance
with any provision of Article V or VI unless the Borrowers, Agents and the Required Lenders agree
to modify such provisions to reflect such changes in GAAP and, unless such provisions are modified,
all financial statements and similar documents provided hereunder shall be provided together with a
reconciliation between the calculations and amounts set forth therein before and after giving
effect to such change in GAAP. Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, all terms of
an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts
and ratios referred to in Article V and Article VI shall be made, without giving effect to any
election under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159 (or any other Financial Accounting
Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of any
Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party at “fair value.”

     11.4 Payments. Working Capital Agent may set up standards and procedures to determine
or redetermine the equivalent in Dollars of any amount expressed in any currency other than Dollars
and otherwise may, but shall not be obligated to, rely on any determination made by any Credit
Party or any L/C Issuer. Any such determination or redetermination by Working Capital Agent shall
be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error. No determination or
redetermination by any Secured Party or any Credit Party and no other currency conversion shall
change or release any obligation of any Credit Party or of any Secured Party (other than Working
Capital Agent and its Related Persons) under any Loan Document, each of which agrees to pay
separately for any shortfall remaining after any conversion and payment of the amount as converted.
Working Capital Agent may round up or down, and may set up appropriate mechanisms to round up or
down, any amount hereunder to nearest higher or lower amounts and may determine reasonable de
minimis payment thresholds.

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

BORROWERS:

BORDERS GROUP, INC.

By: /s/ Scott Henry

Name: Scott Henry

Title: Executive Vice President and Chief

Financial Officer

FEIN: 38-3294588

Name: Scott Henry

Title: Executive Vice President and Chief

Financial Officer

BORDERS, INC

By: /s/ Scott Henry

Name: Scott Henry

Title: Executive Vice President and Chief

Financial Officer and Treasurer

FEIN: 38-2104285

BORROWER REPRESENTATIVE:

BORDERS, INC

By: /s/ Scott Henry

Name: Scott Henry

Title: Executive Vice President and Chief

Financial Officer

FEIN: 38-2104285

Address for notices:

100 Phoenix Drive

Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Attn: Scott Henry

Facsimile:                                                             

Address for wire transfers:

100 Phoenix Drive

Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Attn: Scott Henry

Facsimile:                                                             

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

BORDERS PROPERTIES, INC.

By: /s/ Scott Henry

Name: Scott Henry

Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial

Officer and Treasurer

FEIN: 38-3237978

Address for notices:

100 Phoenix Drive

Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Attn: Scott Henry

Facsimile:                                                             

BORDERS INTERNATIONAL SERVICES, INC.

By: /s/ Scott Henry

Name: Scott Henry

Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial

Officer and Treasurer

FEIN: 20-2025075

Address for notices:

100 Phoenix Drive

Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Attn: Scott Henry

Facsimile:                                                             

Borders DIP Credit Agreement

 

 

BORDERS DIRECT, LLC

By: /s/ Scott Henry

Name: Scott Henry

Title: Executive Vice President, Chief

Financial Officer and Treasurer

FEIN: 20-899-0084

Address for notices:

100 Phoenix Drive

Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Attn: Scott Henry

Facsimile:                                                             

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

GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL

CORPORATION, as Working Capital Agent,

Swingline Lender, Revolving Lender

and FILO Lender

By: /s/ Authorized Signatory

Name: Authorized Signatory

Title: Duly Authorized Signatory

Address for Notices:

General Electric Capital Corporation

500 West Monroe Street

10th Floor

Chicago, IL 60661-3679 USA

Attn: Kristina M. Miller

Senior Vice President and Team Lead

Facsimile: 312 441 6817

With a copy to:

General Electric Capital Corporation

201 Merritt 7

PO Box 5201

Norwalk, CT 06851

Attn: Borders/John Pistocchi

Facsimile: 203 956 4002

Address for payments:

ABA# 021001033

Account# 50285681

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas

New York, NY

Account Name: GECC/CAF

Reference: Borders Group, Inc.

Borders DIP Credit Agreement

 

 

GA CAPITAL, LLC, as Term B Agent

By: /s/ Authorized Signatory

Name: Authorized Signatory

Title: Authorized Signatory

Borders DIP Credit Agreement

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 	 	SPECIAL VALUE CONTINUATION 
PARTNERS, LP, as a Term B Lender	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC	 	 
	 

	 	Its:
	 	Investment Manager	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Authorized Signatory	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

Name: Authorized Signatory
	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Authorized Signatory :	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	TENNENBAUM OPPORTUNITIES 
PARTNERS V, LP, as a Term B Lender	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC	 	 
	 

	 	Its:
	 	Investment Manager	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Authorized Signatory
 

Name: Authorized Signatory
	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Authorized Signatory	 	 

Borders DIP Credit Agreement

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 	 	1903 ONSHORE FUNDING, LLP, as a Term 
B Lender	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	GB Merchant Partners, LLC	 	 
	 

	 	Its:
	 	Investment Manager	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:

Name:
	 	/s/ Authorized Signatory
 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	Authorized Signatory	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	1903 OFFSHORE LOANS SPV LIMITED, 
as a Term B Lender	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	GB Merchant Partners, LLC	 	 
	 

	 	Its:
	 	Investment Manager	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:

Name:
	 	/s/ Authorized Signatory
 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	Authorized Signatory	 	 

Borders DIP Credit Agreement

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 	 	STONE TOWER CREDIT FUNDING I 
LTD., as a Term B Lender	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	Stone Tower Fund Management LLC	 	 
	 

	 	Its:
	 	Collateral Manager	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:

Name:
	 	/s/ Authorized Signatory
 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	Authorized Signatory	 	 

Borders DIP Credit Agreement

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 	 	CIT CAPITAL SECURITIES, LLC,

as Syndication Agent and as a Lender	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:

Name:
	 	/s/ Authorized Signatory
 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	Authorized Signatory	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Address for notices:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Attn:	 	 
	 

	 	 

	 	 	Facsimile:	 	 
	 

	 	 

	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Lending office:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 

Borders DIP Credit Agreement

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 	 	CRYSTAL FINANCIAL LLC,

as a Lender	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:

Name:
	 	/s/ Authorized Signatory
 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	Authorized Signatory	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Address for notices:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Attn:	 	 
	 

	 	 

	 	 
	 	 	Facsimile:	 	 
	 

	 	 

	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Lending office:

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