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Exhibit 10.23

EXECUTION VERSION

 

COLLATERAL AGREEMENT

dated as of

December 17, 2009

among

NORTEK, INC.

the GUARANTORS named herein

and

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Collateral Agent

          THIS COLLATERAL AGREEMENT IS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS
OF THE LIEN SUBORDINATION AND INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
OF EVEN DATE HEREWITH AMONG NORTEK, INC., OTHER
SUBSIDIARIES OF NORTEK, INC. NAMED THEREIN, BANK OF
AMERICA, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT FOR THE REVOLVING
CREDIT FACILITY SECURED PARTIES REFERRED TO THEREIN,
AND U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS NOTEHOLDER
COLLATERAL AGENT, AS MORE FULLY SET FORTH IN SECTION
27 HEREOF.

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	Page
	Section 1.

	 	Grant of Security
	 	 	5	 
	Section 2.

	 	Security for Obligations
	 	 	9	 
	Section 3.

	 	Grantors Remain Liable
	 	 	9	 
	Section 4.

	 	Delivery and Control of Pledged Collateral
	 	 	9	 
	Section 5.

	 	RESERVED
	 	 	10	 
	Section 6.

	 	RESERVED
	 	 	10	 
	Section 7.

	 	Maintaining Electronic Chattel Paper, Transferable Records and
Letter-of-Credit Rights and Giving Notice of Commercial Tort Claims
	 	 	10	 
	Section 8.

	 	Representations and Warranties
	 	 	12	 
	Section 9.

	 	Further Assurances
	 	 	14	 
	Section 10.

	 	As to Equipment and Inventory and Insurance
	 	 	16	 
	Section 11.

	 	Post-Closing Changes; Bailees; Collections on Assigned
Agreements and Accounts; Assigned Agreements
	 	 	17	 
	Section 12.

	 	As to Intellectual Property Collateral
	 	 	19	 
	Section 13.

	 	Voting Rights; Dividends; Etc
	 	 	20	 
	Section 14.

	 	Transfers and Other Liens; Additional Shares
	 	 	22	 
	Section 15.

	 	Collateral Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact
	 	 	22	 
	Section 16.

	 	Collateral Agent May Perform
	 	 	23	 
	Section 17.

	 	Collateral Agent’s Duties
	 	 	23	 
	Section 18.

	 	Remedies
	 	 	24	 
	Section 19.

	 	Indemnity and Expenses
	 	 	27	 
	Section 20.

	 	Amendments; Waivers; Additional Grantors; Etc
	 	 	28	 
	Section 21.

	 	Notices, Etc
	 	 	28	 
	Section 22.

	 	Continuing Security Interest; Assignments under the Indenture
	 	 	29	 
	Section 23.

	 	Release; Termination
	 	 	29	 
	Section 24.

	 	Execution in Counterparts
	 	 	30	 
	Section 25.

	 	The Mortgages
	 	 	30	 
	Section 26.

	 	Governing Law
	 	 	30	 
	Section 27.

	 	Intercreditor Agreement Governs
	 	 	30	 

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          COLLATERAL AGREEMENT, dated as of December [•], 2009 (as amended, amended and restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, this “Agreement”), made by NORTEK, INC., a
Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), the GUARANTORS listed on the signature pages hereof and the
Additional Grantors (as hereinafter defined) (the Issuer, the Guarantors so listed and the
Additional Grantors being, collectively, the “Grantors”), to U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as
Collateral Agent (in such capacity, together with any successor collateral agent, the “Collateral
Agent”) for the Secured Parties.

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS

          (1) The Issuer, the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee
(in such capacity, the “Trustee”) and collateral agent, have entered into an Indenture dated of
even date herewith (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time
to time, the “Indenture”).

          (2) Pursuant to the Indenture, the Grantors are entering into this Agreement in order to grant
to the Collateral Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties a security interest in the
Collateral (as hereinafter defined).

          (3) It is a condition precedent to the issuance of the Notes, that the Grantors shall have
granted the assignment and security interest and made the pledge and assignment contemplated by
this Agreement.

          (4) Each Grantor will derive substantial direct and indirect benefit from the issuance and
sale of the Notes pursuant to the Indenture.

          (5) Terms defined in the Indenture and not otherwise defined in this Agreement are used in
this Agreement as defined in the Indenture. Further, unless otherwise defined in this Agreement or
in the Indenture, terms defined in Article 8 or 9 of the UCC (as defined below) are used in this
Agreement as such terms are defined in such Article 8 or 9 (including Accounts, Certificated
Security, Chattel Paper, Commercial Tort Claims, Commodity Accounts, Commodity Contract, Deposit
Accounts, Documents, Equipment, Farm Products, Financial Assets, Fixtures, General Intangibles,
Goods, Instruments, Inventory, Investment Property, Letter of Credit Rights, Securities Accounts,
Securities Intermediary, Security, Security Entitlements and Supporting Obligations).
Additionally, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

          “Account Debtor” a Person who is obligated under an Account, Chattel Paper or General
Intangible.

          “Closing Date” shall mean December [•], 2009.

          “Commodity Account Control Agreement” shall mean an agreement in form reasonably satisfactory
to the Collateral Agent (as advised by legal counsel, on which it may conclusively rely, or as
directed by Majority Noteholders) sufficient to grant the Collateral Agent
or, pursuant to Section 3.02 of the Intercreditor Agreement (as in effect on the Issue Date),
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Collateral Agent (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) Control over a specified Commodity
Account.

          “Control” shall mean (i) in the case of each Deposit Account, “control,” as such term is
defined in Section 9-104 of the UCC, (ii) in the case of any Security Entitlement, “control,” as
such term is defined in Section 8-106 of the UCC and (iii) in the case of any Commodity Contract,
“control,” as such term is defined in Section 9-106 of the UCC.

          “Control Agreements” shall mean, collectively, the Deposit Account Control Agreements, the
Securities Account Control Agreements and the Commodity Account Control Agreements.

          “Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States and all other liquidation,
conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement,
receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or
other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors
generally.

          “Deposit Account Control Agreement” shall mean an agreement in form reasonably satisfactory
to the Collateral Agent (as advised by legal counsel, on which it may conclusively rely, or as
directed by Majority Noteholders) sufficient to grant the Collateral Agent or, pursuant to Section
3.02 of the Intercreditor Agreement (as in effect on the Issue Date), the Collateral Agent (as
defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) Control over a specified Deposit Account.

          “Dominion Account” means any Deposit Account of a Grantor at Bank of America, N.A. or its
Affiliates or branches or another bank acceptable to the Collateral Agent, in each case which is
subject to a Deposit Account Control Agreement.

          “Excluded Accounts” shall mean each of the following, but in each case only to the extent that
Control of the same has not been provided to or for the benefit of any other creditor or as
security for any other obligations:

     (i) all Deposit Accounts maintained by the Grantors solely for the purpose of making
current payments of or maintaining funds in respect of current obligations for payroll
taxes, sales tax, 401K funds or other similar tax or employee benefit obligations in the
ordinary course of business;

     (ii) for a period of not more than 30 days (or such longer period as may be approved by
the Collateral Agent in its sole discretion) after a Person becomes a Guarantor, the Deposit
Accounts, Securities Accounts and Commodity Accounts of such Guarantor; and

     (ii) any Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts and Commodity Accounts as to which (A)
during the first 90 days following the Closing Date, the aggregate book balances thereof,
taken as a whole, do not exceed $10,000,000 and (B) thereafter, the aggregate collected
balances thereof, taken as a whole, do not exceed $10,000,000 (or

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such greater amount as may be agreed from time to time by the Collateral Agent in its
discretion).

          “Excluded Equity” shall mean each of the following, but in each case only to the extent that
the same has not been pledged to or for the benefit of any other creditor or as security for any
other obligations:

     (i) shares of Voting Foreign Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary to the extent (and only to
the extent) that the pledge thereof hereunder would result in more than 66% of the Voting
Foreign Stock of such Foreign Subsidiary (measured by total combined voting power) to be
pledged hereunder;

     (ii) Equity Interests in Foreign Subsidiaries that are not first-tier Material Foreign
Subsidiaries; and

     (iii) Equity Interests in Foreign Subsidiaries that are organized under the laws of the
People’s Republic of China.

          “Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary not incorporated or organized under the laws of the
United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.

          “Intercompany Note” means an intercompany note, substantially in the form of Exhibit E hereto,
executed by the Issuer and each of its Subsidiaries and endorsed in blank by each of the
Guarantors.

          “Lien Waiver” means an agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Collateral Agent, by 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 the Collateral Agent to
enter upon the premises and remove the Collateral or to use the premises for an agreed upon period
of time to store or dispose of the Collateral; (b) for any Collateral held by a warehouseman,
processor, shipper, customs broker 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 the Collateral Agent, and agrees to deliver the Collateral to the
Collateral Agent upon request and (c) for any Collateral held by a repairman, mechanic or bailee,
such Person acknowledges the Collateral Agent’s Lien, waives or subordinates any Lien it may have
on the Collateral, and agrees to deliver the Collateral to the Collateral Agent upon request.

          “Majority Noteholders” means the Holders of 25% or more of the outstanding principal amount of
the Notes issued under the Indenture.

          “Mortgages” means the mortgages, deeds of trust, leasehold mortgages, assignments of leases
and rents, modifications and other security documents delivered pursuant to Section 4.26 of the
Indenture.

          “Note Documents” means the Indenture (including the Note Guarantees set forth therein), the
Notes, this Agreement, the other Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the other
documents and instruments executed and delivered pursuant to the foregoing, as

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such documents and instruments may be amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time.

          “Obligations” means (a) the Indebtedness evidenced by the Notes and all obligations in respect
thereof, including principal, premium (if any), interest (including interest accruing on or after
the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to the Issuer or any
Guarantor whether or not a claim for post-filing interest is allowed in such proceedings), fees,
charges, expenses, reimbursement obligations, Guarantees and all other amounts payable thereunder
or in respect thereof, and (b) any other obligations of the Issuer or any Guarantor under the
Indenture or any other Note Document.

          “Payment Item” means each check, draft or other item of payment payable to a Grantor,
including those constituting proceeds of any Collateral.

          “Release Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 22.

          “Secured Parties” means, collectively, (a) the Holders (as defined in the Indenture), (b) the
Trustee, (c) the Collateral Agent, (d) each other Person that holds, or is an obligee in respect
of, any Obligations, and (e) the successors and assigns of each of the foregoing.

          “Securities Account Control Agreement” shall mean an agreement in form reasonably satisfactory
to the Collateral Agent (as advised by legal counsel, on which it may conclusively rely, or as
directed by Majority Noteholders) sufficient to grant the Collateral Agent or, pursuant to Section
3.02 of the Intercreditor Agreement (as in effect on the Issue Date), the Collateral Agent (as
defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) Control with respect to a specified Securities Account.

          “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York; provided that,
if perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any security
interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a
jurisdiction other than the State of New York, “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect
from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such
perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.

          “Voting Foreign Stock” shall mean Equity Interests in any Foreign Subsidiary entitled to vote
(including within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.956-2(c)(2) promulgated under the
Code).

          NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, each Grantor hereby agrees with the
Collateral Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties as follows:

          Section 1. Grant of Security. Each Grantor hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, for
the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in such Grantor’s right, title and
interest in and to the following, in each case, as to each type of property described

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below, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by such Grantor, wherever located, and whether
now or hereafter existing or arising (collectively, the “Collateral”):

          (a) all Accounts;

          (b) all cash and Cash Equivalents;

          (c) all Chattel Paper;

     (d) all Commercial Tort Claims (including, without limitation, the Commercial Tort
Claims set forth on Schedule 15 to the Perfection Certificate);

          (e) all Deposit Accounts;

          (f) all Documents;

          (g) all Equipment;

          (h) all Farm Products;

          (i) all Fixtures;

          (j) all General Intangibles;

          (k) all Goods;

          (l) all Instruments;

          (m) all Inventory;

     (n) all Letter-of-Credit Rights (together with all Accounts, Chattel Paper,
Instruments, Deposit Accounts, General Intangibles and other obligations of any kind,
whether or not arising out of or in connection with the sale or lease of goods or the
rendering of services and whether or not earned by performance, the “Receivables”; and all
rights now or hereafter existing in and to all supporting obligations and in and to all
security agreements, mortgages, Liens, leases, letters of credit and other contracts
securing or otherwise relating to the Receivables, being the “Related Contracts”);

     (o) the following (the “Security Collateral”):

     (i) all indebtedness from time to time owed to such Grantor, including without
limitation, all debt securities, all promissory notes or instruments, if any, evidencing
such indebtedness, all indebtedness owed to such Grantor pursuant to the Intercompany Note
and the instruments set forth on Schedule 12 to the Perfection Certificate (all the
foregoing, the “Pledged Debt”), and all interest, cash, instruments and other property from
time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for
any or all of the Pledged Debt;

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     (ii) all Equity Interests, other than Excluded Equity, from time to time acquired,
owned or held by such Grantor in any manner, including, without limitation, the Equity
Interests of each Grantor set forth opposite such Grantor’s name on and otherwise described
on Schedule 11 to the Perfection Certificate, and the certificates, if any, representing
such shares or units or other Equity Interests (all the foregoing, the “Pledged Equity”),
and all dividends, distributions, return of capital, cash, instruments and other property
from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange
for any or all of such shares or other Equity Interests and all subscription warrants,
rights or options issued thereon or with respect thereto;

     (iii) all Investment Property and all Financial Assets (including, without limitation,
all securities, security entitlements and securities accounts), the certificates or
instruments, if any, representing or evidencing such Investment Property or Financial Assets
and all dividends, distributions, return of capital, interest, cash, instruments and other
property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in
exchange therefor and all subscription warrants, rights or options issued thereon or with
respect thereto; and

     (iv) all rights and privileges of such Grantor with respect to the securities and other
property referred to in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above;

provided, however, that (i) the Equity Interests and other securities of a Subsidiary will
constitute Security Collateral only to the extent that such Equity Interests and other
securities can secure the Notes without Rule 3-10 or Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X under the
Securities Act (“Rule 3-10” and “Rule 3-16,” respectively) (or any other law, rule or
regulation) requiring separate financial statements of such Subsidiary to be filed with the
Commission (or any other governmental agency); (ii) in the event that either Rule 3-10 or
Rule 3-16 requires or is amended, modified or interpreted by the Commission to require (or
is replaced with another rule or regulation, or any other law, rule or regulation is
adopted, which would require) the filing with the Commission (or any other governmental
agency) of separate financial statements of any Subsidiary due to the fact that such
Subsidiary’s Equity Interests or other securities constitute Security Collateral, then such
Equity Interests or other securities shall automatically be deemed not to be Security
Collateral, but only to the extent necessary to not be subject to such requirement; and
(iii) in the event that either Rule 3-10 or Rule 3-16 is amended, modified or interpreted by
the Commission to permit (or is replaced with another rule or regulation, or any other law,
rule or regulation is adopted, which would permit) such Equity Interests or other securities
to constitute Security Collateral without the filing with the Commission (or any other
governmental agency) of separate financial statements of such Subsidiary, then such Equity
Interests and other securities shall automatically be deemed to be Security Collateral but
only to the extent necessary to not be subject to any such financial statement requirement.

     (p) all contracts and agreements between any Grantor and one or more additional parties
(including, without limitation, any swap contracts, licensing agreements and any partnership
agreements, joint venture agreements, limited liability company agreements), the Related
Contracts and the IP Agreements (as hereinafter defined), in

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each case as such agreements may be amended, amended and restated, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time (collectively, the “Assigned Agreements”), including,
without limitation, (i) all rights of such Grantor to receive moneys due and to become due
under or pursuant to the Assigned Agreements, (ii) all rights of such Grantor to receive
proceeds of any insurance, indemnity, warranty or guaranty with respect to the Assigned
Agreements, (iii) claims of such Grantor for damages arising out of or for breach of or
default under the Assigned Agreements, to perform thereunder and to compel performance and
otherwise exercise all remedies thereunder (all such Collateral being the “Agreement
Collateral”);

     (q) the following (collectively, the “Intellectual Property Collateral”):

     (i) all patents, patent applications, utility models and statutory invention
registrations, all inventions claimed or disclosed therein and all improvements thereto
(“Patents”);

     (ii) all trademarks, service marks, domain names, trade dress, logos, designs, slogans,
trade names, business names, corporate names and other source identifiers, whether
registered or unregistered (provided that no security interest shall be granted in United
States intent-to-use trademark applications to the extent that, and solely during the period
in which, the grant of a security interest therein would impair the validity or
enforceability of such intent-to-use trademark applications under applicable federal law),
together, in each case, with the goodwill symbolized thereby (“Trademarks”);

     (iii) all copyrights, including, without limitation, copyrights in Computer Software
(as hereinafter defined), internet web sites and the content thereof, whether registered or
unregistered (“Copyrights”);

     (iv) all computer software, programs and databases (including, without limitation,
source code, object code and all related applications and data files), firmware and
documentation and materials relating thereto, together with any and all maintenance rights,
service rights, programming rights, hosting rights, test rights, improvement rights, renewal
rights and indemnification rights and any substitutions, replacements, improvements, error
corrections, updates and new versions of any of the foregoing (“Computer Software”);

     (v) all confidential and proprietary information of the Grantor, including, without
limitation, know-how, trade secrets, manufacturing and production processes and techniques,
inventions, research and development information, databases and data, including, without
limitation, technical data, financial, marketing and business data, pricing and cost
information, business and marketing plans and customer and supplier lists and information
(collectively, “Trade Secrets”), and all other intellectual, industrial and intangible
property of any type, including, without limitation, industrial designs and mask works;

     (vi) all registrations and applications for registration for any of the foregoing,
including, without limitation, those registrations and applications for registration set
forth

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in Schedule 14 to the Perfection Certificate, together with all reissues, divisions,
continuations, continuations-in-part, extensions, renewals and reexaminations thereof;

     (vii) all tangible embodiments of the foregoing, all rights in the foregoing provided
by international treaties or conventions, all rights corresponding thereto throughout the
world and all other rights of any kind whatsoever of such Grantor accruing thereunder or
pertaining thereto;

     (viii) all agreements, permits, consents, orders and franchises relating to the
license, development, use or disclosure of any of the foregoing to which such Grantor, now
or hereafter, is a party or a beneficiary (“IP Agreements”); and

     (ix) any and all claims for damages and injunctive relief for past, present and future
infringement, dilution, misappropriation, violation, misuse or breach with respect to any of
the foregoing, with the right, but not the obligation, to sue for and collect, or otherwise
recover, such damages (the property described in this Section 1(q) is referred to herein as
the “Intellectual Property”);

     (r) all books and records (including, without limitation, customer lists, credit files,
printouts and other computer output materials and records) of such Grantor pertaining to any
of the Collateral;

     (s) all other tangible and intangible personal property of whatever nature whether or
not covered by Article 9 of the UCC; and

     (t) all proceeds of, collateral for, income, royalties and other payments now or
hereafter due and payable with respect to and Supporting Obligations relating to, any and
all of the Collateral (including, without limitation, proceeds, collateral and supporting
obligations that constitute property of the types described in clauses (a) through (t) of
this Section 1 and, to the extent not otherwise included, all payments under insurance
(whether or not the Collateral Agent is the loss payee thereof), or any indemnity, warranty
or guaranty, payable by reason of loss or damage to or otherwise with respect to any of the
foregoing Collateral;

provided that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, this Agreement shall not
constitute a grant of a security interest in Excluded Assets or Excluded Equity.

          Section 2. Security for Obligations. This Agreement secures, in the case of each
Grantor, the payment of all Obligations of such Grantor now or hereafter existing under the Note
Documents, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, and whether for principal,
reimbursement obligations, interest (including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement
by or against any Grantor of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the
debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such
proceeding), fees, premiums, penalties, indemnifications, contract causes of action, costs,
expenses or otherwise (all such obligations being the “Secured Obligations”).

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          Section 3. Grantors Remain Liable. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding,
(a) each Grantor shall remain liable under the contracts and agreements included in such Grantor’s
Collateral to the extent set forth therein to perform all of its duties and obligations thereunder
to the same extent as if this Agreement had not been executed, (b) the exercise by the Collateral
Agent of any of the rights hereunder shall not release any Grantor from any of its duties or
obligations under the contracts and agreements included in the Collateral and (c) no Secured Party
shall have any obligation or liability under the contracts and agreements included in the
Collateral by reason of this Agreement or any other Note Document, nor shall any Secured Party be
obligated to perform any of the obligations or duties of any Grantor thereunder or to take any
action to collect or enforce any claim for payment assigned hereunder.

          Section 4. Delivery and Control of Security Collateral. (a) (i) All certificates
representing or evidencing the Pledged Equity and (ii) all instruments representing or evidencing
the Pledged Debt (excluding, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Pledged
Debt in an aggregate principal amount not in excess of $2,500,000), shall be delivered to and held
by or on behalf of the Collateral Agent pursuant hereto (unless the Administrative Agent (as
defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) is granted a prior security interest in such certificates
and instruments and the same are required to be delivered (and are delivered) to the Administrative
Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement) and shall be
in suitable form for transfer by delivery, or shall be accompanied by duly executed instruments of
transfer or assignment in blank, all in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent;
provided that, unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, with respect to
intercompany indebtedness to the extent evidenced by the Intercompany Note, the Grantors shall only
be required to deliver possession of the Intercompany Note with respect to such indebtedness.
During the continuation of an Event of Default, the Collateral Agent shall have the right, at any
time in its discretion and without notice to any Grantor, to (A) transfer to or to register in the
name of the Collateral Agent or any of its nominees any or all of the Security Collateral, subject
only to the revocable rights specified in Section 13(a), (B) exchange certificates or instruments
representing or evidencing Security Collateral for certificates or instruments of smaller or larger
denominations, and (C) convert Security Collateral consisting of financial assets credited to any
Securities Account to Security Collateral consisting of financial assets held directly by the
Collateral Agent, and to convert Security Collateral consisting of financial assets held directly
by the Collateral Agent to Security Collateral consisting of financial assets credited to any
Securities Account.

          (b) With respect to any Security Collateral in which any Grantor has any right, title or
interest and that constitutes an uncertificated security, such Grantor will promptly notify the
Collateral Agent thereof and, (i) if so requested by the Collateral Agent with respect to any such
Security Collateral (which request shall only be made with respect to Security Collateral as to
which the actions described in this Section 4(b) have not been taken to the extent that the
aggregate value thereof is in excess of $1,000,000) or (ii) solely in the case of Security
Collateral representing Equity Interests in a Subsidiary, upon the request of the Collateral Agent,
cause the issuer thereof either (x) to register the Collateral Agent as the registered owner of
such security or (y) to agree in an authenticated record with such Grantor and the Collateral Agent
that such issuer will comply with instructions with respect to such security originated by the
Collateral Agent without further consent of such Grantor, such authenticated record to be in form

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and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent. During the continuation of an Event of
Default, with respect to any Security Collateral in which any Grantor has any right, title or
interest, promptly upon the request of the Collateral Agent, such Grantor will notify each such
issuer of Security Collateral that such Security Collateral is subject to the security interest
granted hereunder.

          (c) Except as otherwise set forth herein, if any amount payable under or in connection with
any of the Collateral shall be or become evidenced by any Instrument, certificated security or
Chattel Paper, such Instrument, certificated security or Chattel Paper shall be promptly delivered
to the Collateral Agent (unless the Administrative Agent (as defined in the Intercreditor
Agreement) is granted a prior security interest in such Collateral and the same is required to be
delivered (and is delivered) to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties
pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement), duly endorsed in a manner satisfactory to the Collateral
Agent, to be held as Collateral pursuant to this Agreement; provided that, unless an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, the Grantors shall not be required to deliver the same
pursuant to this clause (c) to the extent that the aggregate value of the Collateral not so
delivered does not exceed $5,000,000.

          Section 5. RESERVED.

          Section 6. RESERVED.

          Section 7. Maintaining Electronic Chattel Paper, Transferable Records and Letter-of-Credit
Rights and Giving Notice of Commercial Tort Claims. Unless the Release Date shall have
occurred:

     (a) Each Grantor will maintain Deposit Accounts (other than Excluded Accounts) only
with a bank (which may include the Collateral Agent) (a “Pledged Account Bank”) that has
entered into a Deposit Account Control Agreement; provided that so long as the Collateral
Agent (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) has possession or controls a deposit or
securities account as gratuitous bailee for the Collateral Agent (as defined herein)
pursuant to Section 3.02 of the Intercreditor Agreement (as in effect on the Issue Date) for
purposes of perfecting the Collateral Agent’s Lien on such account, the Collateral Agent
under this Agreement will not require a separate control agreement for such account. The
Collateral Agent hereby agrees that it will not deliver a notice indicating that the
Collateral Agent will take Control over a Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodity
Account under any Control Agreement unless (a) such account is possessed by or under the
control of the Collateral Agent and (b) the Collateral Agent has received notice or has
knowledge that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

     (b) The Collateral Agent may, at any time and without notice to, or consent from, the
Grantor, transfer, or direct the transfer of, funds from the pledged Deposit Accounts to
satisfy the Grantor’s obligations under the Note Documents if it has received notice or has
knowledge that an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

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     (c) Upon any termination by a Grantor of any pledged Deposit Account, such Grantor will
immediately (i) transfer all funds and property held in such terminated
pledged Deposit Account to another pledged Deposit Account or and (ii) notify all
Account Debtors and any other obligors that were making payments to such pledged Deposit
Account to make all future payments to another pledged Deposit Account, in each case so that
the Collateral Agent shall have a continuously perfected security interest in such
Collateral, funds and property.

     (d) Upon the occurrence of and during the continuation of an Event of Default, promptly
upon the request of the Collateral Agent, each Grantor will maintain (i) all electronic
Chattel Paper with a value individually in excess of $500,000 or in the aggregate in excess
of $2,000,000 so that the Collateral Agent has control of the electronic Chattel Paper in
the manner specified in Section 9-105 of the UCC and (ii) all transferable records so that
the Collateral Agent has control of the transferable records in the manner specified in
Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in the jurisdiction
governing such transferable record (“UETA”).

     (e) Each Grantor, by granting a security interest in its Receivables consisting of
letter-of-credit rights to the Collateral Agent, intends to (and hereby does) assign to the
Collateral Agent its rights (including its contingent rights) to the proceeds of all Related
Contracts consisting of letters of credit of which it is or hereafter becomes a beneficiary
or assignee (except to the extent that the applicable Grantor is required by applicable law
to apply such proceeds to a specified purpose). If any Grantor is at any time a beneficiary
under a letter of credit now or hereafter issued in favor of such Grantor, and (i) the face
amount of such letter of credit is in excess of $1,000,000 individually or (ii) the face
amount of such letter of credit, together with the face amount of all other letters of
credit issued in favor of any Grantor in which the Collateral Agent does not have a
perfected security interest exceeds $2,500,000 in the aggregate, such Grantor shall promptly
notify the Collateral Agent thereof and such Grantor shall use commercially reasonable
efforts to either (A) arrange for the issuer and any confirmer of such letter of credit to
consent to an assignment to the Collateral Agent of the proceeds of any drawing under such
letter of credit or (B) arrange for the Collateral Agent to become the transferee
beneficiary of such letter of credit.

     (f) Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, each Grantor shall, promptly upon
request by the Collateral Agent, (i) notify (and such Grantor hereby authorizes the
Collateral Agent to notify) the issuer and each nominated person with respect to each of the
Related Contracts consisting of letters of credit that the proceeds thereof have been
assigned to the Collateral Agent hereunder and any payments due or to become due in respect
thereof are to be made directly to the Collateral Agent or its designee and (ii) arrange for
the Collateral Agent to become the transferee beneficiary of such letters of credit.

     (g) Each Grantor will give prompt notice in writing (which notice shall reference this
Section 7(g)) to the Collateral Agent of any Commercial Tort Claim individually valued in
excess of $2,500,000 that may arise in the future and, if requested by the Collateral Agent,
will promptly execute or otherwise authenticate a supplement to

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this Agreement, and
otherwise take all necessary action, to subject such Commercial Tort Claim to the first
priority security interest created under this Agreement.

          Section 8. Representations and Warranties. Each Grantor represents and warrants as
follows:

     (a) All Pledged Equity consisting of certificated securities and all Pledged Debt has
been delivered to the Collateral Agent in accordance herewith. If such Grantor is an issuer
of Security Collateral, such Grantor confirms that it has received notice of the security
interest granted hereunder.

     (b) Such Grantor is the legal and beneficial owner of the Collateral granted or
purported to be granted by such Grantor free and clear of any Lien, claim, option or right
of others, except for the security interest created under this Agreement, subject to Liens
permitted under Section 4.12 of the Indenture. To the knowledge of the Grantors, no
effective financing statement or other instrument similar in effect covering all or any part
of the Collateral or listing such Grantor or any trade name of such Grantor as debtor is on
file in any recording office, except such as may have been filed in favor of the Collateral
Agent relating to the Note Documents or as otherwise permitted under the Indenture.

     (c) All of the Equipment and Inventory of such Grantor having a value in excess of
$1,000,000 are located at the places specified therefor in Schedule 2 to the Perfection
Certificate or at another location as to which such Grantor has complied with the
requirements of Sections 10 and 11(b). Such Grantor has obtained and maintains insurance
with respect to its Equipment and Inventory in compliance with Section 10(d).

     (d) (i) The Pledged Equity issued by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries hereunder
has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and non-assessable. To the
knowledge of the Grantor, the Pledged Debt pledged by such Grantor hereunder has been duly
authorized, authenticated or issued and delivered, is the legal, valid and binding
obligation of the issuers thereof, is evidenced by one or more promissory notes (which
promissory notes have been delivered to the Collateral Agent and is not in default.

          (ii) The Pledged Equity pledged by such Grantor constitutes the percentage of the
issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the issuers thereof indicated on Schedule 11 to
the Perfection Certificate. No Grantor has any Investment Property or Financial Assets
other than the Investment Property and Financial Assets listed on Schedules 11, 12 and 13 to
the Perfection Certificate.

     (e) Each Grantor has good and valid rights in and title to the Collateral with respect
to which it has purported to grant a security interest hereunder and has full power and
authority to grant to the Collateral Agent the security interest in such Collateral pursuant
hereto and to execute, deliver and perform its obligations in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement, without the consent or approval of any other person, other than any consent
or approval that has been obtained and is in full force and effect or the need for which has
been specifically disclosed herein or in the Indenture.

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     (f) The Perfection Certificate has been duly prepared, completed and executed by the
Issuer and the information set forth therein, including the exact legal name of each
Grantor, is true, accurate and complete.

     (g) This Agreement creates in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the
Secured Parties a valid security interest in the Collateral granted by such Grantor,
securing the payment of the Secured Obligations; and (i) when the financing statements set
forth in Schedule 7 of the Perfection Certificate are filed or recorded with the appropriate
governmental authority referred to therein with respect to the Collateral described therein
in which a security interest may be perfected by filing or recordation and (ii) upon the
taking of possession or control by the Collateral Agent of the Collateral described in
Schedules 11, 12 and 16 of the Perfection Certificate with respect to which a security
interest may be perfected only by possession or control, all filings and other actions
necessary to perfect the security interest in the Collateral granted by such Grantor have
been duly made or taken and are in full force and effect; and such security interest is, in
the case of Notes Collateral, first priority and, in the case of ABL Collateral, second
priority, subject to Liens permitted by Section 4.12 of the Indenture.

     (h) None of the Grantors has filed or consented to the filing of (i) any financing
statement or analogous document under the UCC or any other applicable laws covering any
Collateral, (ii) any assignment in which any Grantor assigns any Collateral or any security
agreement or similar instrument covering any Collateral with the United States Patent and
Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office or (iii) any assignment in which any
Grantor assigns any Collateral or any security agreement or similar instrument covering any
Collateral with any foreign governmental, municipal or other office, which financing
statement or analogous document, assignment, security agreement or similar instrument is
still in effect, except, in each case, for Liens expressly permitted pursuant to Section
4.12 of the Indenture.

     (i) No authorization or approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with,
any governmental authority or regulatory body or any other third party is required for (i)
the grant by such Grantor of the security interest granted hereunder or for the execution,
delivery or performance of this Agreement by such Grantor, (ii) the perfection or
maintenance of the security interest created hereunder (including the first or second, as
applicable, priority nature of such security interest), except for the filing of financing
and continuation statements under the UCC and the recordation of the Intellectual Property
Collateral Agreement referred to in Section 12(f) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
and the U.S. Copyright Office, in each case as described in Schedule 7 to the Perfection
Certificate, and the actions described in Section 4 with respect to the Security Collateral,
or (iii) the exercise by the Collateral Agent of its voting or other rights provided for in
this Agreement or the remedies in respect of the Collateral pursuant to this Agreement,
except as may be required in connection with the disposition of any portion of the Security
Collateral by laws affecting the offering and sale of securities generally or under the
Intercreditor Agreement.

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     (j) The Inventory that has been produced or distributed by such Grantor has been
produced in all material respects in compliance with all requirements of applicable law,
including, without limitation, the Fair Labor Standards Act.

     (k) No amount payable to such Grantor under or in connection with any Receivable is
evidenced by any Instrument or Chattel Paper which has not been delivered to the Collateral
Agent to the extent otherwise required to be delivered hereunder (other than purchase
orders, supply agreements and invoices).

     (l) As to itself and its Intellectual Property Collateral:

     (i) To such Grantor’s knowledge, the operation of such Grantor’s business as currently
conducted and the use of the Intellectual Property in connection therewith do not infringe,
misappropriate or otherwise violate the intellectual property rights of any third party,
except for such infringements, individually or in the aggregate, which could not reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

     (ii) Such Grantor is the exclusive owner of all right, title and interest in and to the
material Intellectual Property Collateral, and is entitled to use all material Intellectual
Property Collateral subject only to the terms of the IP Agreements, in each case as used in
or necessary to its operations, except to the extent such failure to own or possess such
right to use, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.

     (iii) The IP Agreements, patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names and all
applications for any of the foregoing included in the Intellectual Property Collateral is
set forth on Schedule 14 to the Perfection Certificate and such schedule sets forth all such
Intellectual Property and all IP Agreements material to the operations of the Grantors.

     (iv) None of such Grantor’s Intellectual Property material to the operations of the
Grantors, has been abandoned or has been adjudged invalid or unenforceable in whole or part.

          Section 9. Further Assurances. (a) Each Grantor agrees that from time to time, at
the expense of such Grantor, such Grantor will promptly execute and deliver, or otherwise
authenticate, all further instruments and documents, and take all further action that may be
reasonably necessary or desirable, or that the Collateral Agent may reasonably request (without
hereby imposing or implying any duty or obligation on the part of the Collateral Agent to request
such action), in order to perfect and protect any pledge or security interest granted or purported
to be granted by such Grantor hereunder or to enable the Collateral Agent to exercise and enforce
its rights and remedies hereunder with respect to any Collateral of such Grantor. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, each Grantor will promptly with respect to Collateral of such
Grantor:

     (i) mark conspicuously at the request of the Collateral Agent if an Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, each Chattel Paper, each Related Contract and each Assigned
Agreement and, at the request of the Collateral Agent, each of its records

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pertaining to
such Collateral with a legend, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Collateral Agent, indicating that such document, Chattel Paper, Related Contract,
Assigned Agreement or Collateral is subject to the security interest granted hereby;

     (ii) if any Grantor shall, following the Closing Date, establish and maintain any
Securities Account or Commodity Account (other than an Excluded Account) with any Securities
Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary such Grantor shall, within 30 days (or such longer
period as the Collateral Agent may agree in its sole discretion) of opening such Securities
Account or Commodity Account, notify the Collateral Agent thereof and deliver to the
Collateral Agent an executed Control Agreement with respect to such Securities Account or
Commodity Account, as the case may be; and

     (iii) deliver to the Collateral Agent evidence that all other action that the
Collateral Agent may deem reasonably necessary or desirable in order to perfect and protect
the security interest granted or purported to be granted by such Grantor under this
Agreement has been taken (without herein imposing or implying any duty or obligation on the
part of the Collateral Agent to require or request such evidence).

          (b) Each Grantor hereby authorizes the Collateral Agent to file one or more financing or
continuation statements, and amendments thereto, including, without limitation, one or more
financing statements indicating that such financing statements cover all assets or all personal
property (or words of similar effect) of such Grantor, in each case without the signature of such
Grantor, and regardless of whether any particular asset described in such financing statements
falls within the scope of the UCC or the granting clause of this Agreement. A photocopy or other
reproduction of this Agreement or any financing statement covering the Collateral or any part
thereof shall be sufficient as a financing statement where permitted by law. Each Grantor ratifies
its authorization for the Collateral Agent to have filed such financing statements, continuation
statements or amendments filed prior to the date hereof.

          (c) Each Grantor will furnish to the Collateral Agent from time to time statements and
schedules further identifying and describing the Collateral of such Grantor and such other reports
in connection with such Collateral as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request, all in
reasonable detail (without herein imposing or implying any duty or obligation on the part of the
Collateral Agent to require or request such statements and schedules).

          (d) The Issuer will furnish to the Collateral Agent, at any time upon the request of the
Collateral Agent if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, an opinion of counsel, from
outside counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, to the effect that all financing
or continuation statements have been filed, and all other action has been taken to perfect
continuously from the date hereof the security interest granted hereunder (without herein imposing
or implying any duty or obligation on the part of the Collateral Agent to require or request such
opinion).

          (e) Each Grantor shall at all times defend its title to Collateral and the Collateral Agent’s
Liens therein against all Persons, claims and demands whatsoever, except for Liens permitted under
Section 4.12 of the Indenture.

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          Section 10. As to Equipment and Inventory and Insurance. (a) Each Grantor will keep
its Equipment and Inventory (other than Inventory sold in the ordinary course of business or
pursuant to a disposition in accordance with Section 4.13 of the Indenture) having a value in
excess of $1,000,000 at the places therefor specified in Section 2 to the Perfection Certificate or
at such other locations as such Grantor may determine from time to time, provided that such Grantor
shall give written notice to the Collateral Agent specifying any such other location within 30 days
after the first date on which any Equipment or Inventory is moved to such location.

          (b) Each Grantor will promptly furnish to the Collateral Agent a statement respecting any loss
or damage exceeding $1,000,000 to any of the Inventory of such Grantor.

          (c) In producing its Inventory, each Grantor will comply in all material respects with all
requirements of applicable law, including, without limitation, the Fair Labor Standards Act.

          (d) Each Grantor will, at its own expense, maintain insurance with respect to its Equipment
and Inventory in such amounts, against such risks, in such form and with such insurers, as required
under Section 4.05 of the Indenture. Without limitation to the foregoing, each Grantor shall
maintain insurance with respect to the Collateral, covering casualty, hazard, public liability,
theft, malicious mischief, flood and other risks, in amounts, with indorsements and with insurers
with a Best Rating of at least A7. All proceeds under each policy shall be payable to the
Collateral Agent. From time to time upon request, the Grantors shall deliver to the Collateral
Agent the originals or certified copies of its insurance policies and updated flood plain searches.
Unless the Collateral Agent shall agree otherwise, each policy of property insurance shall include
indorsements: (i) showing the Collateral Agent as sole loss payee; (ii) requiring the insurer to
endeavor to provide 30 days prior written notice to the Collateral Agent in the event of
cancellation of the policy for any reason whatsoever; and (iii) specifying that the interest of the
Collateral Agent shall not be impaired or invalidated by any act or neglect of any Grantor or the
owner of the property, nor by the occupation of the premises for purposes more hazardous than are
permitted by the policy. If any Grantor fails to provide and pay for any insurance, the Collateral
Agent may, at its option, but shall not be required to, procure the insurance and charge the Issuer
therefor. Each Grantor agrees to deliver to the Collateral Agent, promptly as rendered, copies of
all material reports made to insurance companies in respect of the insurance described herein. So
long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Grantors may settle, adjust or
compromise any insurance claim, as long as the proceeds are delivered to the Collateral Agent. If
an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, only the Collateral Agent shall be authorized
to settle, adjust and compromise such claims. Further, each Grantor will, at the request of the
Collateral Agent (without herein imposing or implying any duty or obligation on the part of the
Collateral Agent to request such action), duly execute and deliver instruments of assignment of
such insurance policies to comply with the requirements of the Note Documents and cause the
insurers to acknowledge notice of such assignment.

          (e) So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, all insurance
payments, proceeds of insurance and any awards arising from condemnation of any Collateral received
by the Collateral Agent in connection with any loss, damage or destruction of any Collateral shall
be transferred to a Dominion Account, and to the extent required to be applied to the Obligations
in accordance with Section 4.13 of the Indenture, the Collateral Agent

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may direct the applicable Pledged Account Bank to release to such Grantor any such amount if
and to the extent that any prepayment of Obligations is required under the Indenture in connection
with the receipt of such amount and such prepayment has been made. Reimbursement under any
liability insurance maintained by any Grantor pursuant to this Section 10 may be paid directly to
the Person who shall have incurred liability covered by such insurance.

          Section 11. Post-Closing Changes; Bailees; Collections on Assigned Agreements and
Accounts; Assigned Agreements. (a) No Grantor will change its name, type of organization,
jurisdiction of organization, organizational identification number or location from those set forth
in Schedule 1 to the Perfection Certificate without giving notice thereof to the Collateral Agent
within 30 days (or such lesser period of time as the Collateral Agent may agree) of such change and
thereafter taking all action required by the Collateral Agent for the purpose of perfecting or
protecting the security interest granted by this Agreement. Each Grantor will hold and preserve
its records relating to the Collateral, including, without limitation, the Assigned Agreements and
Related Contracts.

          (b) If any Collateral of any Grantor is at any time in the possession or control of a
warehouseman, bailee or agent (including as set forth on Schedule 2(e) to the Perfection
Certificate) or is located at leased premises or mortgaged property, upon the request of the
Collateral Agent (without herein imposing or implying any duty or obligation on the part of the
Collateral Agent to request such action), such Grantor will (i) notify any such warehouseman,
bailee, agent or landlord of the security interest created hereunder, (ii) instruct any such
warehouseman, bailee, agent or landlord to hold all such Collateral solely for the Collateral
Agent’s account subject only to the Collateral Agent’s instructions and (iii) if at any time the
value of the Collateral in the possession or control of such warehouseman, bailee, agent or
landlord or located at such leased or mortgaged premises exceeds or is reasonably likely to exceed
$3,000,000, use commercially reasonable efforts, to (A) cause such warehouseman, bailee or agent to
authenticate a record acknowledging that it holds possession of such Collateral for the Collateral
Agent’s benefit and shall act solely on the instructions of the Collateral Agent without the
further consent of the Grantor or any other Person and make such authenticated record available to
the Collateral Agent, and (B) obtain a Lien Waiver from such warehouseman, bailee or agent or the
applicable landlord or mortgagee.

          (c) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection (c), each Grantor will continue to
collect, at its own expense, all amounts due or to become due such Grantor under the Accounts,
Assigned Agreements and Related Contracts. In connection with such collections, such Grantor may
take (and, at the Collateral Agent’s direction during the continuation of an Event of Default, may
take) such commercially reasonable action as such Grantor (or the Collateral Agent) may deem
necessary or advisable to enforce collection thereof; provided, however, that the Collateral Agent
shall have the right at any time upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default, to notify the obligors under any Receivables, Assigned Agreements and Related Contracts,
of the assignment of such Receivables, Assigned Agreements and Related Contracts, to the Collateral
Agent and to direct such obligors to make payment of all amounts due or to become due to such
Grantor thereunder directly to the Collateral Agent and, upon such notification and at the expense
of such Grantor, to enforce collection of any such Receivables, Assigned Agreements and Related
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payment thereof, and to otherwise exercise all rights with respect to such Receivables,
Assigned Agreement and Related Contracts, including, without limitation, those set forth in Section
9-607 of the UCC. Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, all
amounts and proceeds (including, without limitation, Instruments) received by such Grantor in
respect of the Receivables, Assigned Agreements and Related Contracts of such Grantor shall be
received in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent hereunder, shall be segregated from other
funds of such Grantor and shall be applied to the Obligations as provided in Section 6.10 of the
Indenture. Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, (i) no Grantor
will grant any extension with respect to the time of payment of any Receivables, or any amount due
on any Assigned Agreement or Related Contract, adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment
of any Receivables, or any amount due on any Assigned Agreement or Related Contract for less than
the full amount thereof, release wholly or partly any Account Debtor or obligor thereof, allow any
credit or discount thereon (except, in each case, in the ordinary course of business consistent
with past practice unless the Collateral Agent shall have notified such Grantor that its right to
do so has been terminated) or make any amendment, supplement or modification thereto, in each case
in any manner that could adversely affect the value thereof and (ii) the applicable Grantor shall
deliver to the Collateral Agent a copy of each material demand, notice or document received by it
that questions or calls into doubt the validity or enforceability of more than 5% of the aggregate
amount of its then outstanding Accounts. No Grantor will permit or consent to the subordination of
its right to payment under any of the Receivables, Assigned Agreements or Related Contracts to any
other indebtedness or obligations of the Account Debtor or obligor thereof.

          (d) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, each Grantor shall remain liable under
each of the Receivables, Assigned Agreements or Related Contracts to observe and perform all the
conditions and obligations to be observed and performed by it thereunder, all in accordance with
the terms of any agreement giving rise thereto. Neither the Collateral Agent nor any Secured Party
shall have any obligation or liability under any Receivables, Assigned Agreements or Related
Contracts by reason of or arising out of this Agreement or the receipt by the Collateral Agent or
any Secured Party of any payment relating thereto, nor shall the Collateral Agent, nor any Secured
Party, be obligated in any manner to perform any of the obligations of any Grantor under or
pursuant to any Receivables, Assigned Agreements or Related Contracts, 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 which may have been
assigned to it or to which it may be entitled at any time or times.

          (e) Each Grantor will at its expense: (i) maintain the Assigned Agreements to which it is a
party in full force and effect, enforce the Assigned Agreements to which it is a party in
accordance with the terms thereof and take all such action to such end as may be requested from
time to time by the Collateral Agent, except where the failure to do could not reasonably be
expected to have a material adverse effect on the value of the Security Collateral or any part
thereof (a “Material Adverse Effect”); and (ii) furnish to the Collateral Agent promptly upon
receipt thereof copies of all material notices, requests and other documents received by such
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time
to time (A) furnish to the Collateral Agent such information and reports regarding the
Assigned Agreements and such other Collateral of such Grantor as the Collateral Agent may
reasonably request and (B) upon the reasonable request of the Collateral Agent, make to each other
party to any Assigned Agreement to which it is a party such demands and requests for information
and reports or for action as such Grantor is entitled to make thereunder.

          (f) Each Grantor hereby consents on its behalf and on behalf of its Subsidiaries to the
assignment and pledge to the Collateral Agent for benefit of the Secured Parties of each Assigned
Agreement to which it is a party by any other Grantor hereunder. Each Grantor agrees, and has
effectively so instructed each other party to each Assigned Agreement to which it is a party, that
all payments due or to become due under or in connection with such Assigned Agreement will be made
directly to a pledged Deposit Account.

          Section 12. As to Intellectual Property Collateral. (a) With respect to material
Intellectual Property Collateral, each Grantor agrees to take, at its expense, all commercially
reasonable steps, including, without limitation, in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S.
Copyright Office and any other governmental authority located in the United States, to (i) maintain
the validity and enforceability of such Intellectual Property Collateral and maintain such
Intellectual Property Collateral in full force and effect, and (ii) pursue the registration and
maintenance of each patent, trademark, or copyright registration or application, now or hereafter
included in such Intellectual Property Collateral of such Grantor, including, without limitation,
the payment of required fees and taxes, the filing of responses to office actions issued by the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office or other governmental authorities, the
filing of applications for renewal or extension, the filing of affidavits under Sections 8 and 15
of the U.S. Trademark Act, the filing of divisional, continuation, continuation-in-part, reissue
and renewal applications or extensions, the payment of maintenance fees and the participation in
interference, reexamination, opposition, cancellation, infringement and misappropriation
proceedings. No Grantor shall, without the written consent of the Collateral Agent, discontinue
use of or otherwise abandon any of its material Intellectual Property Collateral, or abandon any
right to file an application for patent, trademark, or copyright, unless such Grantor shall have
previously determined that such use or the pursuit or maintenance of such Intellectual Property
Collateral is no longer desirable in the conduct of such Grantor’s business.

          (b) Each Grantor agrees promptly to notify the Collateral Agent if such Grantor becomes aware
(i) that any item of material Intellectual Property Collateral may have become abandoned, placed in
the public domain, invalid or unenforceable, or of any adverse determination or development
regarding such Grantor’s ownership of any of such Intellectual Property Collateral or its right to
register the same or to keep and maintain and enforce the same, unless the maintenance of such
Intellectual Property Collateral is no longer desirable in the conduct of such Grantor’s business.

          (c) In the event that any Grantor becomes aware that any item of its material Intellectual
Property Collateral is being infringed or misappropriated by a third party in any way that would
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, such Grantor shall promptly notify the
Collateral Agent and shall take such actions, at its expense, as such Grantor or the Collateral
Agent deems reasonable and appropriate under the circumstances (without

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herein imposing or implying
any duty or obligation on the part of the Collateral Agent to direct
such actions) to protect or enforce such Intellectual Property Collateral, including, without
limitation, suing for infringement or misappropriation and for an injunction against such
infringement or misappropriation.

          (d) No Grantor shall do or permit any act or knowingly omit to do any act whereby any of its
material Intellectual Property Collateral may lapse or become invalid or unenforceable or placed in
the public domain, unless the maintenance of such Intellectual Property Collateral is no longer
desirable in the conduct of such Grantor’s business.

          (e) Each Grantor shall take all commercially reasonable steps which it or the Collateral Agent
(during the continuation of an Event of Default, as directed by Majority Noteholders) deems
reasonable and appropriate under the circumstances to preserve and protect each item of its
material Intellectual Property Collateral, including, without limitation, maintaining the quality
of any and all products or services used or provided in connection with any of the Trademarks,
consistent with the quality of the products and services as of the date hereof, and taking all
steps necessary to ensure that all licensed users of any of the Trademarks use such consistent
standards of quality.

          (f) With respect to its Intellectual Property Collateral, each Grantor agrees to execute or
otherwise authenticate an agreement, in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit B hereto (an
“Intellectual Property Collateral Agreement”), for recording the security interest granted
hereunder to the Collateral Agent in such Intellectual Property Collateral with the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office and any other governmental authorities necessary to
perfect the security interest hereunder in such Intellectual Property Collateral.

          (g) Each Grantor agrees that should it obtain an ownership interest in any item of the type
set forth in Section 1(q) that is not on the date hereof a part of the Intellectual Property
Collateral (“After-Acquired Intellectual Property”) (i) the provisions of this Agreement shall
automatically apply thereto, and (ii) any such After-Acquired Intellectual Property and, in the
case of trademarks, the goodwill symbolized thereby, shall automatically become part of the
Intellectual Property Collateral subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement with respect
thereto. Each Grantor shall, concurrently with the delivery of financial statements under Section
4.17 of the Indenture, execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent, or otherwise authenticate, an
agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto (an “IP Collateral Agreement Supplement”)
covering such After-Acquired Intellectual Property which IP Collateral Agreement Supplement shall
be recorded with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office and any other
governmental authorities necessary to perfect the security interest hereunder in such
After-Acquired Intellectual Property.

          (h) Nothing in this Agreement prevents any Grantor from discontinuing the use or maintenance
of any of its Intellectual Property Collateral to the extent permitted by the Indenture if such
Grantor determines in its reasonable business judgment that such discontinuance is desirable in the
conduct of its business.

          Section 13. Voting Rights; Dividends; Etc. (a) So long as no Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing:

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     (i) Each Grantor shall be entitled to exercise any and all voting and other consensual
rights pertaining to the Security Collateral of such Grantor or any part thereof for any
purpose; provided however, that such Grantor will not exercise or refrain from exercising
any such right if such action would have a Material Adverse Effect.

     (ii) Each Grantor shall be entitled to receive and retain any and all dividends,
interest and other distributions paid in respect of the Security Collateral of such Grantor
if and to the extent that the payment thereof is not otherwise prohibited by the terms of
the Note Documents; provided, however, that any and all dividends, interest and other
distributions paid or payable other than in cash in respect of, and instruments and other
property received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of, or in exchange for,
any Security Collateral shall be, and shall be forthwith delivered to the Collateral Agent
to hold as, Security Collateral and shall, if received by such Grantor, be received in trust
for the benefit of the Collateral Agent, be segregated from the other property or funds of
such Grantor and be forthwith delivered to the Collateral Agent as Security Collateral in
the same form as so received (with any necessary indorsement).

     (iii) The Collateral Agent will execute and deliver (or cause to be executed and
delivered) to each Grantor all such proxies and other instruments as such Grantor may
reasonably request for the purpose of enabling such Grantor to exercise the voting and other
rights that it is entitled to exercise pursuant to paragraph (i) above and to receive the
dividends or interest payments that it is authorized to receive and retain pursuant to
paragraph (ii) above.

          (b) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default:

     (i) All rights of each Grantor (x) to exercise or refrain from exercising the voting
and other consensual rights that it would otherwise be entitled to exercise pursuant to
Section 13(a)(i) shall, upon notice to such Grantor by the Collateral Agent, cease and (y)
to receive the dividends, interest and other distributions that it would otherwise be
authorized to receive and retain pursuant to Section 13(a)(ii) shall automatically cease,
and all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Collateral Agent, which shall
thereupon have the sole right to exercise or refrain from exercising such voting and other
consensual rights and to receive and hold as Security Collateral such dividends, interest
and other distributions.

     (ii) All dividends, interest and other distributions that are received by any Grantor
contrary to the provisions of paragraph (i) of this Section 13(b) shall be received in trust
for the benefit of the Collateral Agent, shall be segregated from other funds of such
Grantor and shall be forthwith paid over to the Collateral Agent (unless required to be
delivered to the Administrative Agent (as defined under the Intercreditor Agreement)
pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement) as Security Collateral in the same form as so
received (with any necessary indorsement).

     (c) Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default (and subject
to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement), the Collateral Agent shall be authorized to
exercise exclusive control over all Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts,

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Commodity Accounts and Asset Sale Proceed Accounts (in each case other than Excluded
Accounts).

          Section 14. Transfers and Other Liens; Additional Shares. (a) Each Grantor agrees
that it will not (i) sell, assign or otherwise dispose of, or grant any option with respect to, any
of the Collateral, other than sales, assignments and other dispositions of Collateral, and options
relating to Collateral, permitted under the terms of the Indenture, or (ii) create or suffer to
exist any Lien upon or with respect to any of the Collateral of such Grantor except for the pledge,
assignment and security interest created under this Agreement and Liens permitted under the
Indenture.

          (b) Each Grantor agrees that it will (i) cause each issuer of the Pledged Equity pledged by
such Grantor not to issue any Equity Interests or other securities in addition to or in
substitution for the Pledged Equity issued by such issuer, except to such Grantor or to another
Grantor or as otherwise permitted under the Indenture, and (ii) pledge hereunder, immediately upon
its acquisition (directly or indirectly) thereof, any and all additional Equity Interests (other
than Excluded Equity) or other securities.

          Section 15. Collateral Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact. Each Grantor hereby
irrevocably appoints the Collateral Agent such Grantor’s attorney-in-fact, with full authority in
the place and stead of such Grantor and in the name of such Grantor or otherwise, from time to
time, in the Collateral Agent’s discretion, to take any action and to execute any instrument that
the Collateral Agent may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement
(but at the cost and expense of the Grantors), including, without limitation:

     (a) to endorse a Grantor’s name on any Payment Item or other proceeds of Collateral
(including proceeds of insurance) that come into the Collateral Agent’s possession or
control;

     (b) to obtain and adjust insurance required to be paid to the Collateral Agent; and,

     upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default:

     (a) to ask for, demand, collect, sue for, recover, compromise, receive and give
acquittance and receipts for moneys due and to become due under or in respect of any of the
Collateral;

     (b) to receive, indorse and collect any drafts or other instruments, documents and
Chattel Paper;

     (c) to (i) notify any Account Debtors of the assignment of any Grantor’s Accounts,
demand and enforce payment of any Grantor’s Accounts, by legal proceedings or otherwise, and
generally exercise any rights and remedies with respect to any Grantor’s Accounts; (ii)
settle, adjust, modify, compromise, discharge or release any Accounts or other Collateral,
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Collateral; (iii) sell or assign any
Accounts and other Collateral upon such terms, for such
amounts and at such times as the Collateral Agent deems advisable; (iv) take control,
in any manner, of any proceeds of Collateral; (v) prepare, file and sign a Grantor’s name to
a proof of claim or other document in a bankruptcy of an Account Debtor, or to any notice,
assignment or satisfaction of Lien or similar document; (vi) receive, open and dispose of
mail addressed to a Grantor, and notify postal authorities to change the address for
delivery thereof to such address as the Collateral Agent may designate; (vii) endorse any
Chattel Paper, Document, Instrument, invoice, freight bill, bill of lading, or similar
document or agreement relating to any Accounts, Inventory or other Collateral; (viii) use a
Grantor’s stationery and sign its name to verifications of Accounts and notices to Account
Debtors; (ix) use the information recorded on or contained in any data processing equipment
and computer hardware and software relating to any Collateral; or (x) take any action as may
be necessary or appropriate to obtain payment under any letter of credit or banker’s
acceptance for which a Grantor is a beneficiary; and

     (d) to file any claims or take any action or institute any proceedings that the
Collateral Agent may deem necessary or desirable for the collection of any of the Collateral
or otherwise to enforce compliance with the terms and conditions of any Assigned Agreement
or the rights of the Collateral Agent with respect to any of the Collateral or any other
action as the Collateral Agent deems appropriate to fulfill any Grantor’s obligations under
the Note Documents.

     The foregoing grant of authority shall not be considered to impose or imply any duty or
obligation on the part of the Collateral Agent to take such action, or to diminish, release or
limit any obligations or responsibilities of the Grantor contained elsewhere herein (or in any of
the other Note Documents).

          Section 16. Collateral Agent May Perform. If any Grantor fails to perform any
agreement contained herein, the Collateral Agent may, but without any obligation to do so and
without notice, itself perform, or cause performance of, such agreement, and the expenses of the
Collateral Agent incurred in connection therewith shall be payable by such Grantor under Section
19.

          Section 17. Collateral Agent’s Duties. (a) The powers conferred on the Collateral
Agent hereunder are solely to protect the Secured Parties’ interest in the Collateral and shall not
impose any duty upon it to exercise any such powers. Except for the safe custody of any Collateral
in its possession and the accounting for moneys actually received by it hereunder, the Collateral
Agent shall have no duty as to any Collateral, as to ascertaining or taking action with respect to
calls, conversions, exchanges, maturities, tenders or other matters relative to any Collateral,
whether or not any Secured Party has or is deemed to have knowledge of such matters, or as to the
taking of any necessary steps to preserve rights against any parties or any other rights pertaining
to any Collateral. The Collateral Agent shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the
custody and preservation of any Collateral in its possession if such Collateral is accorded
treatment substantially equal to that which it accords its own property.

          (b) The Collateral Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set
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the Collateral
Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of
whether an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (ii) the Collateral Agent
shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers,
except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Note Documents that the
Collateral Agent is expressly required under the terms of the Note Documents to exercise upon
direction by the Trustee (or by Majority Noteholders). The Collateral Agent shall take such
actions and exercise such remedies hereunder and under the other Note Documents as it is from time
to time directed, in writing, to take or exercise by the Trustee, provided that the Collateral
Agent shall not be obligated to take any such action that adversely affects the rights, duties,
liabilities or immunities of the Collateral Agent (and subject to the terms of the Note Documents).
The Collateral Agent shall be entitled to rely conclusively, without any independent investigation
whatsoever, and shall be fully protected in so relying, on any direction, instruction or consent of
the Trustee, if such direction, instruction or consent is purported to be given on behalf of the
Trustee. The Collateral Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it with the
consent or at the request of the Trustee (or Majority Noteholders) or in the absence of its own
gross negligence or willful misconduct. In no event shall the Collateral Agent be liable, directly
or indirectly, for any special, indirect or consequential damages, even if the Collateral Agent has
been advised of the possibility of such damages.

          (c) Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Collateral Agent may from
time to time, when the Collateral Agent in its reasonable discretion deems it to be necessary,
appoint one or more subagents (each a “Subagent”) for the Collateral Agent hereunder with respect
to all or any part of the Collateral. In the event that the Collateral Agent so appoints any
Subagent with respect to any Collateral, (i) the assignment and pledge of such Collateral and the
security interest granted in such Collateral by each Grantor hereunder shall be deemed for purposes
of this Agreement to have been made to such Subagent, in addition to the Collateral Agent, for the
ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, as security for the Secured Obligations of such Grantor,
(ii) such Subagent shall automatically be vested, in addition to the Collateral Agent, with all
rights, powers, privileges, interests and remedies of the Collateral Agent hereunder with respect
to such Collateral, and (iii) the term “Collateral Agent,” when used herein in relation to any
rights, powers, privileges, interests and remedies of the Collateral Agent with respect to such
Collateral, shall include such Subagent; provided, however, that no such Subagent shall be
authorized to take any action with respect to any such Collateral unless and except to the extent
expressly authorized in writing by the Collateral Agent.

          (d) All expenses of protecting, storing, warehousing, insuring, handling, maintaining and
shipping any Collateral, all taxes payable with respect to any Collateral (including any sale
thereof), and all other payments required to be made by the Collateral Agent to any Person to
realize upon any Collateral, shall be borne and paid by the Grantors. The Collateral Agent shall
not be liable or responsible in any way for the safekeeping of any Collateral, for any loss or
damage thereto (except for reasonable care in its custody while Collateral is in the Collateral
Agent’s actual possession), for any diminution in the value thereof, or for any act or default of
any warehouseman, carrier, forwarding agency or other Person whatsoever, but the same shall be at
the Grantors’ sole risk.

          Section 18. Remedies. If any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing:

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     (a) The Collateral Agent may exercise in respect of the Collateral, in addition to
other rights and remedies provided for herein or otherwise available to it, all the rights
and remedies of a secured party upon default under the UCC (whether or not the UCC applies
to the affected Collateral) and also may: (i) require each Grantor to, and each Grantor
hereby agrees that it will at its expense and upon request of the Collateral Agent
forthwith, assemble all or part of the Collateral as directed by the Collateral Agent and
make it available to the Collateral Agent at a place and time to be designated by the
Collateral Agent that is reasonably convenient to both parties; (ii) without notice except
as specified below, sell the Collateral or any part thereof in one or more parcels at public
or private sale, at any of the Collateral Agent’s offices or elsewhere, for cash, on credit
or for future delivery, and upon such other terms as the Collateral Agent may deem
commercially reasonable; (iii) occupy any premises owned or to the extent lawful and
permitted leased by any of the Grantors where the Collateral or any part thereof is
assembled or located for a reasonable period in order to effectuate its rights and remedies
hereunder or under law, without obligation to such Grantor in respect of such occupation;
and (iv) exercise any and all rights and remedies of any of the Grantors under or in
connection with the Collateral, or otherwise in respect of the Collateral, including,
without limitation, (A) any and all rights of such Grantor to demand or otherwise require
payment of any amount under, or performance of any provision of, the Receivables, Assigned
Agreements, Related Contracts and the other Collateral, (B) withdraw, or cause or direct the
withdrawal of, all funds and all other property held in or credited to any Deposit Account,
Securities Account or Commodity Account and (C) exercise all other rights and remedies with
respect to the Receivables, Assigned Agreements, the Related Contracts and the other
Collateral, including, without limitation, those set forth in Section 9-607 of the UCC.
Each Grantor agrees that, to the extent notice of sale shall be required by law, at least
ten (10) days’ notice to such Grantor of the time and place of any public sale or the time
after which any private sale is to be made shall constitute reasonable notification. The
Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to make any sale of Collateral regardless of notice
of sale having been given. The Collateral Agent may adjourn any public or private sale from
time to time by announcement at the time and place fixed therefor, and such sale may,
without further notice, be made at the time and place to which it was so adjourned.

     (b) Any cash held by or on behalf of the Collateral Agent and all cash proceeds
received by or on behalf of the Collateral Agent in respect of any sale of, collection from,
or other realization upon all or any part of the Collateral may, in the discretion of the
Collateral Agent, be held by the Collateral Agent as collateral for, and/or then or at any
time thereafter applied (after payment of any amounts payable to the Collateral Agent and
Trustee pursuant to Section 19) in whole or in part by the Collateral Agent for the ratable
benefit of the Secured Parties against, all or any part of the Secured Obligations, as set
forth in Section 6.10 of the Indenture. Any surplus of such cash or cash proceeds held by
or on the behalf of the Collateral Agent and remaining after payment in full of all the
Secured Obligations shall be paid over to the applicable Grantor or to whomsoever may be
lawfully entitled to receive such surplus.

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     (c) All payments received by any Grantor under or in connection with any Assigned
Agreement or otherwise in respect of the Collateral shall be received in trust for
the benefit of the Collateral Agent, shall be segregated from other funds of such
Grantor and shall be forthwith paid over to the Collateral Agent in the same form as so
received (with any necessary indorsement).

     (d) The Collateral Agent may, without notice to any Grantor except as required by law
and at any time or from time to time, charge, set-off and otherwise apply all or any part of
the Secured Obligations against any funds held with respect to any Deposit Account.

     (e) In the event of any sale or other disposition of any of the Intellectual Property
Collateral of any Grantor, the goodwill symbolized by any Trademarks subject to such sale or
other disposition shall be included therein, and such Grantor shall supply to the Collateral
Agent or its designee such Grantor’s know-how and expertise, and documents and things
relating to any Intellectual Property Collateral subject to such sale or other disposition,
and such Grantor’s customer lists and other records and documents relating to such
Intellectual Property Collateral and to the manufacture, distribution, advertising and sale
of products and services of such Grantor.

     (f) If the Collateral Agent shall determine to exercise its right to sell all or any of
the Security Collateral of any Grantor pursuant to this Section 18, each Grantor agrees
that, upon request of the Collateral Agent, such Grantor will, at its own expense, do or
cause to be done all such other acts and things as may be necessary to make such sale of
such Security Collateral or any part thereof valid and binding and in compliance with
applicable law.

     (g) The Collateral Agent is authorized, in connection with any sale of the Security
Collateral pursuant to this Section 18, to deliver or otherwise disclose to any prospective
purchaser of the Security Collateral: (i) any registration statement or prospectus, and all
supplements and amendments thereto; (ii) any information and projections; and (iii) any
other information in its possession relating to such Security Collateral.

     (h) Each Grantor acknowledges the impossibility of ascertaining the amount of damages
that would be suffered by the Secured Parties by reason of the failure by such Grantor to
perform any of the covenants contained in subsection (a) above and, consequently, agrees
that, if such Grantor shall fail to perform any of such covenants, it will pay, as
liquidated damages and not as a penalty, an amount equal to the value of the Security
Collateral on the date the Collateral Agent shall demand compliance with subsection (a)
above.

     (i) For the purpose of enabling the Collateral Agent, during the continuance of an
Event of Default, to exercise rights and remedies under this Section 19 at such time as the
Collateral Agent shall be lawfully entitled to exercise such rights and remedies, and for no
other purpose, each Grantor hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, to the extent assignable,
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of the Intellectual
Property Collateral now owned or hereafter acquired by such Grantor, wherever the same may
be located. Such license shall include access to all media in
which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer programs
used for the compilation or printout hereof to the extent that such non-exclusive license
does not violate the express terms of any agreement between a Grantor and a third party
governing the applicable Grantor’s use of such Intellectual Property Collateral. If (i) an
Event of Default shall have occurred and, by reason of cure, waiver, modification, amendment
or otherwise, no longer be continuing, (ii) no other Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, (iii) an assignment or other transfer to the Collateral Agent of any
rights, title and interests in and to the Intellectual Property Collateral shall have been
previously made in accordance with the terms hereof and shall have become absolute and
effective, and (iv) the Secured Obligations shall not have become immediately due and
payable, the Collateral Agent shall promptly execute and deliver to such Grantor, at such
Grantor’s sole cost and expense, such assignments or other transfer as may be necessary to
reassign to such Grantor any such rights, title and interests as may have been assigned to
the Collateral Agent; provided, after giving effect to such reassignment, the Collateral
Agent’s security interest granted pursuant hereto, as well as all other rights and remedies
of the Collateral Agent granted hereunder, shall continue to be in full force and effect;
and provided further, the rights, title and interest so reassigned shall be free and clear
of any other Liens granted by or on behalf of the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties.

     (j) Each Grantor recognizes that, by reason of certain prohibitions contained in the
Securities Act, and applicable state securities laws, the Collateral Agent may be compelled,
with respect to any sale of all or any part of the Security Collateral and Investment
Property, to limit purchasers to persons who will agree, among other things, to acquire such
Security Collateral or Investment Property for their own account, for investment and not
with a view to the distribution or resale thereof. Each Grantor acknowledges that any such
private sales may be at prices and on terms less favorable to the Collateral Agent than
those obtainable through a public sale without such restrictions (including a public
offering made pursuant to a registration statement under the Securities Act), and, so long
as such private sale is made in a commercially reasonable manner and that the Collateral
Agent shall have no obligation to engage in public sales and no obligation to delay the sale
of any Security Collateral or Investment Property for the period of time necessary to permit
the issuer thereof to register it for a form of public sale requiring registration under the
Securities Act or under applicable state securities laws, even if such issuer would agree to
do so.

          Section 19. Indemnity and Expenses. (a) Each Grantor agrees to indemnify, defend
and save and hold harmless each Secured Party and each of their Affiliates and their respective
officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors (each, an “Indemnified Party”) from and
against, and shall pay on demand, any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses
(including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) that may be incurred by or
asserted or awarded against any Indemnified Party, in each case arising out of or in connection
with or resulting from this Agreement (including, without limitation, enforcement of this
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a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such
Indemnified Party’s bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct. The obligations of the
Grantor under this paragraph shall survive the termination of this Agreement (and any earlier
resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent).

          (b) Each Grantor will upon demand pay to the Collateral Agent the amount of any and all
reasonable expenses, disbursements, advances and costs, including, without limitation, the
reasonable fees and expenses of its counsel and of any experts and agents, that the Collateral
Agent may incur in connection with (i) the administration of this Agreement, (ii) the custody,
preservation, use or operation of, or the sale of, collection from or other realization upon, any
of the Collateral of such Grantor, (iii) the exercise or enforcement of any of the rights of the
Collateral Agent or the other Secured Parties hereunder or (iv) the failure by such Grantor to
perform or observe any of the provisions hereof.

          Section 20. Amendments; Waivers; Additional Grantors; Etc. (a) Subject to Article IX
of the Indenture, no amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, and no consent to any
departure by any Grantor herefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in
writing and signed by (i) each Grantor (other than the Issuer) to which such amendment or waiver is
to apply, (ii) the Issuer and (iii) the Collateral Agent, and then such waiver or consent shall be
effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given. No failure
on the part of the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party to exercise, and no delay in
exercising any right hereunder, shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial
exercise of any such right preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any
other right.

          (a) Upon the execution and delivery, or authentication, by any Person of a security agreement
supplement in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto (each a “Collateral Agreement
Supplement”), such Person shall be referred to as an “Additional Grantor” and shall be and become a
Grantor hereunder, and each reference in this Agreement and the other Note Documents to “Grantor”
shall also mean and be a reference to such Additional Grantor, and each reference in this
Agreement and the other Note Documents to “Collateral” shall also mean and be a reference to the
Collateral of such Additional Grantor. Concurrently with the delivery or authentication by such
Additional Grantor of a Collateral Agreement Supplement, such Additional Grantor shall deliver a
supplement to the Perfection Certificate attaching supplemental schedules 1 through 18 to the
Perfection Certificate and each reference in this Agreement and in the other Note Documents to the
Perfection Certificate shall mean and be a reference to the Perfection Certificate as supplemented
thereby.

          Section 21. Notices, Etc. All notices and other communications provided for hereunder
shall be in writing (including telegraphic, telecopy or telex communication or facsimile
transmission) and mailed, telegraphed, telecopied, telexed, faxed or delivered to it, if to any
Grantor, addressed to it in care of the Issuer at the Issuer’s address specified in Section 12.02
of the Indenture and if to the Collateral Agent, at its address specified in Section 12.02 of the
Indenture. All such notices and other communications shall be deemed to be given or made at such
time as shall be set forth in Section 12.02 of the Indenture.

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          Section 22. Continuing Security Interest; Assignments under the Indenture. This
Agreement shall create a continuing security interest in the Collateral and shall (a) remain in
full force and effect until the date (such date being the “Release Date”) of the payment in full
of all Secured Obligations (other than contingent indemnification obligations), (b) be binding
upon each Grantor, its successors and assigns and (c) inure, together with the rights and remedies
of the Collateral Agent hereunder, to the benefit of the Secured Parties and their respective
successors, transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing clause (c),
any Holder may assign or otherwise transfer all or any portion of its rights and obligations under
the Indenture (including, without limitation, all or any portion of the Note or Notes, if any, held
by it) to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all the
benefits in respect thereof granted to such Holder herein or otherwise, in each case as provided in
Section 2.07 of the Indenture.

          Section 23. Release; Termination. (a) Upon any sale, lease, transfer or other
disposition of any item of Collateral of any Grantor permitted by, and in accordance with, the
terms of the Note Documents, or upon the effectiveness of any consent to the release of the
security interest granted hereby in any Collateral pursuant to Article IX of the Indenture, or upon
the release of any Grantor from its obligations under the applicable Guarantee, if any, in
accordance with the terms of the Note Documents, the Collateral Agent will, at such Grantor’s
expense, execute and deliver to such Grantor such documents as such Grantor shall reasonably
request to evidence the release of such item of Collateral from the assignment and security
interest granted hereby; provided, however, that (i) at the time of such request and such release
no Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) such Grantor shall have delivered to the
Collateral Agent, at least ten Business Days prior to the date of the proposed release, a written
request for release describing the item of Collateral and the terms of the sale, lease, transfer or
other disposition in reasonable detail, including, without limitation, the price thereof and any
expenses in connection therewith, together with a form of release for execution by the Collateral
Agent and a certificate of such Grantor to the effect that the transaction is in compliance with
the Note Documents and as to such other matters as the Collateral Agent may request, and an opinion
of counsel to the effect that such release, and the execution and delivery of such documents by the
Collateral Agent is permitted under and in compliance with this Agreement and such other Note
Documents that may be applicable, and all conditions precedent thereto under this Agreement and any
such other Note Documents that may be applicable have been satisfied and (iii) the proceeds of any
such sale, lease, transfer or other disposition required to be applied, or any payment to be made
in connection therewith, in accordance with Section 4.13 of the Indenture shall, to the extent so
required, be paid or made to, or in accordance with the instructions of, the Collateral Agent when
and as required under Section 4.13 of the Indenture.

          (b) Upon the occurrence of the Release Date, the pledge and security interest granted hereby
shall terminate and all rights to the Collateral shall revert to the applicable Grantor. Upon any
such termination as evidenced by a certificate of the Grantor to such effect, and a certificate of
the Trustee (which may be based upon and limited to its actual knowledge), the Collateral Agent
will, at the applicable Grantor’s expense, execute and deliver to such Grantor such documents as
such Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination.

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          Section 24. Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any
number of 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. Delivery of an executed
counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement, or of any amendment or waiver of any provision
of this Agreement or of any Collateral Agreement Supplement, by telecopier or in “pdf” or similar
format by electronic mail, shall be effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart
thereof.

          Section 25. The Mortgages. In the event that any of the Collateral hereunder is also
subject to a valid and enforceable Lien under the terms of any Mortgage and the terms of such
Mortgage are inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, then with respect to such Collateral,
the terms of such Mortgage shall be controlling in the case of fixtures and real estate leases,
letting and licenses of, and contracts and agreements relating to the lease of, real property, and
the terms of this Agreement shall be controlling in the case of all other Collateral.

          Section 26. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in
accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

          Section 27. Intercreditor Agreement Governs. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING HEREIN TO THE
CONTRARY, THE LIEN AND SECURITY INTEREST GRANTED TO THE COLLATERAL AGENT, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
SECURED PARTIES, PURSUANT TO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE EXERCISE OF ANY RIGHT OR REMEDY BY THE
COLLATERAL AGENT AND THE OTHER SECURED PARTIES HEREUNDER ARE SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE
INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT. IN THE EVENT OF ANY CONFLICT OR INCONSISTENCY BETWEEN THE PROVISIONS OF
THE INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT AND THIS AGREEMENT, THE PROVISIONS OF THE INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT SHALL
CONTROL.

          Section 28. Certain Additional Terms Concerning the Collateral Agent. (a) The
Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for the terms or the sufficiency of this Agreement for
any purpose. In entering into this Agreement, or in taking (or forbearing from) any action under
or pursuant to this Agreement, the Collateral Agent shall have and be protected by all of the
rights, immunities, indemnities and other protections granted to it under the Indenture (including
without limitation Section 10.11 thereof), in addition to the rights, immunities, indemnities and
other protections granted to it hereunder (and under any other Note Documents that may be
applicable in the instance).

          (b) The Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for, or under any obligation to monitor,
verify or confirm the filing, recording, registration or contents of, any financing statements or
other instruments required to be filed, recorded or registered with any governmental office in
order to perfect, continue or make effective (or continue the effectiveness or priority of) any
Lien or security interest granted or intended to be granted hereunder or any other Note Documents
or other documents or instruments described herein (unless and except to the extent it may be
directed in writing on a timely basis by Majority Noteholders, subject to the terms hereof and
Section 10.11 of the Indenture) or to determine whether the foregoing are accurate, complete and in
the necessary locations. Without limitation, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any

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obligation to review, investigate, verify or confirm whether the filings, recordings and other
matters set forth in any Perfection Certificate have properly been completed or are sufficient,
accurate or complete.

          (c) The Collateral Agent shall be entitled and authorized to forward to the Trustee and/or
any Holders any notices, reports, statements, certificates or other information provided to it from
time to time pursuant to the terms hereof (including, without limitation, notices and reports
provided by the Grantor with respect to any collateral and any insurance relating thereto), or to
make such notices, reports, statements, certificates and other information available for review and
inspection by, the Trustee and any Holders; and the Collateral Agent shall not be under any
obligation to examine, review or evaluate the contents of such notices, reports, statements,
certificates or other information, or to take any action in respect thereof (unless, until and
except to the extent it may be directed by the Trustee acting pursuant to, or as the Collateral
Agent may be directed by, the direction of Majority Noteholders pursuant and subject to the terms
hereof and the terms of Section 10.11 of the Indenture).

          (d) The Collateral Agent shall in no instance be under any obligation to enter into or
deliver any agreement, instrument or other document (whether pursuant to or as may be described in
or contemplated by the terms hereof or any other Note Document) that is not acceptable to it (with
respect to the duties, obligations, burdens, liabilities, immunities or protections contained
therein).

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Grantor has caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered
by its officer thereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	NORTEK, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Edward J. Cooney
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Edward J. Cooney 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Vice President and Treasurer 	 
	 

[Signature Page to the Collateral Agreement]

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	AIGIS MECHTRONICS, INC.

BROAN-MEXICO HOLDINGS, INC.

BROAN-NUTONE LLC

BROAN-NUTONE STORAGE SOLUTIONS LP

CES GROUP, INC.

CES INTERNATIONAL LTD.

CLEANPAK INTERNATIONAL, INC.

ELAN HOME SYSTEMS, L.L.C.

GEFEN, LLC

GATES THAT OPEN, LLC

GOVERNAIR CORPORATION

HC INSTALLATIONS, INC.

HUNTAIR, INC.

INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS, LLC

LINEAR LLC

LITETOUCH, INC.

MAGENTA RESEARCH LTD.

MAMMOTH-WEBCO, INC.

NILES AUDIO CORPORATION

NORDYNE LLC

NORDYNE INTERNATIONAL, INC.

NORTEK INTERNATIONAL, INC.

NUTONE LLC

OMNIMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.

OPERATOR SPECIALTY COMPANY, INC.

PACIFIC ZEPHYR RANGE HOOD INC.

PANAMAX LLC

RANGAIRE GP, INC.

RANGAIRE LP, INC.

SECURE WIRELESS, INC.

SPEAKERCRAFT, LLC

TEMTROL, INC.

XANTECH LLC

ZEPHYR VENTILATION, LLC

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Edward J. Cooney
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Edward J. Cooney 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Vice President and Treasurer 	 
	 
	 	(of entity listed or as an officer of the

managing member, sole member or general partner)

 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 

[Signature Page to the Collateral Agreement]

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

     as Collateral Agent

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Todd R. DiNezza
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Todd R. DiNezza 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Assistant Vice President 	 
	 

[Signature Page to the Collateral Agreement]

 

 

Exhibit A to the

Collateral Agreement

FORM OF COLLATERAL AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT

[Date of Collateral Agreement Supplement]

U.S. Bank National Association, as the Collateral Agent for

the Secured Parties referred to in the

Indenture referred to below

One Federal Street, 3rd Floor

Boston, MA 02110

Attention: Corporate Trust Services

Nortek, Inc.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

          Reference is made to (i) the Indenture, dated as of                     , 2009 (as amended, amended and
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Indenture”), among Nortek,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), the other Guarantors party thereto and U.S. Bank
National Association, as Trustee and Collateral Agent (the “Collateral Agent”), and (ii) the
Collateral Agreement, dated as of                     , 2009 (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented
or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Collateral Agreement”), made by the Grantors from
time to time party thereto in favor of the Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties. Terms defined
in the Collateral Agreement and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as defined in the
Collateral Agreement.

          SECTION 1. Grant of Security. Subject to Section 1 of the Collateral Agreement, the
undersigned hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties,
a security interest in all of its right, title and interest in and to the following, in each case
whether now owned or hereafter acquired by the undersigned, wherever located and whether now or
hereafter existing or arising (collectively, the undersigned’s “Collateral”): all Equipment,
Inventory, Accounts, cash and Cash Equivalents, Chattel Paper, Deposit Accounts, Documents,
Equipment, Farm Products, Fixtures, General Intangibles, Goods, Instruments, Inventory,
Letter-of-Credit Rights, Related Contracts, Security Collateral, Agreement Collateral, Intellectual
Property Collateral, Commercial Tort Claims, all books and records (including, without limitation,
customer lists, credit files, printouts and other computer output materials and records) of the
undersigned pertaining to any of the undersigned’s Collateral, all other tangible and intangible
personal property of whatever nature whether or not covered by Article 9 of the UCC, and all
proceeds of, collateral for, income, royalties and other payments now or hereafter due and payable
with respect to, and supporting obligations relating to, any and all of the undersigned’s
Collateral (including, without limitation, proceeds, collateral and supporting obligations that
constitute property of the types described in this Section 1) and, to the extent not otherwise
included, all payments under insurance (whether or not the Collateral Agent is the loss payee
thereof), or any indemnity, warranty or guaranty, payable by reason of loss or damage to or
otherwise with respect to any of the foregoing Collateral; provided, however, that Collateral shall
not include any Excluded Assets as defined in the Indenture or any Excluded Equity as defined in
the Collateral Agreement.

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          SECTION 2. Security for Obligations. The grant of a security interest in, the
Collateral by the undersigned under this Collateral Agreement Supplement and the Collateral
Agreement secures the payment of all Secured Obligations of the undersigned now or hereafter
existing under or in respect of the Note Documents. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, this Collateral Agreement Supplement and the Collateral Agreement secures the payment of
all amounts that constitute part of the Secured Obligations and that would be owed by the
undersigned to any Secured Party under the Note Documents but for the fact that such Secured
Obligations are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization
or similar proceeding involving a Grantor.

          SECTION 3. Perfection Certificate. The undersigned has delivered concurrently
herewith a supplement to the Perfection Certificate attaching supplemental schedules 1 through 18
to the Perfection Certificate. Such supplemental Perfection Certificate has been duly prepared,
completed and executed by the undersigned and the information set forth therein, including the
exact legal name of the undersigned, is true, accurate and complete.

          SECTION 3. Representations and Warranties. The undersigned hereby makes each
representation and warranty set forth in Section 10 of the Collateral Agreement with respect to
itself and the Collateral granted by it.

          SECTION 4. Obligations Under the Collateral Agreement. The undersigned hereby
agrees, as of the date first above written, to be bound as a Grantor by all of the terms and
provisions of the Collateral Agreement to the same extent as each of the other Grantors. The
undersigned further agrees, as of the date first above written, that each reference in the
Collateral Agreement to an “Additional Grantor” or a “Grantor” shall also mean and be a reference
to the undersigned, that each reference to the “Collateral” or any part thereof shall also mean and
be a reference to the undersigned’s Collateral or part thereof, as the case may be, and that each
reference in the Collateral Agreement to a Schedule shall also mean and be a reference to the
schedules attached hereto.

          SECTION 5. Governing Law. This Collateral Agreement Supplement shall be governed by,
and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

          SECTION 6. Intercreditor Agreement Governs. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, the lien and security interest granted to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the
Secured Parties, pursuant to this Agreement and the exercise of any right or remedy by the
Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties hereunder are subject to the provisions of the
Intercreditor Agreement. In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of
the Intercreditor Agreement and this Agreement, the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement shall
control.

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	Very truly yours,

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 

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Name:
	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 
	 

	 	Address for Notices:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 

	 	 
	 

	 	 

	 	 
	 

	 	 

	 	 

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Exhibit B to the

Collateral Agreement

FORM OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COLLATERAL AGREEMENT

          This INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COLLATERAL AGREEMENT (as amended, amended and restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “IP Collateral Agreement”) dated
                    , 2009, is made by the Persons listed on the signature pages hereof (collectively, the
“Grantors”) in favor of U.S. Bank National Association, as Collateral Agent (the “Collateral
Agent”) for the Secured Parties (as defined in the Indenture referred to below).

          WHEREAS Nortek, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”) and the other Guarantors party
thereto have entered into an Indenture dated as of                     , 2009 (as amended, amended and
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Indenture”), with U.S. Bank
National Association, as Trustee and Collateral Agent. Terms defined in the Indenture and not
otherwise defined herein are used herein as defined in the Indenture.

          WHEREAS, as a condition precedent to the issuance of the Notes, each Grantor has executed and
delivered that certain Collateral Agreement dated                     , 2009 made by the Grantors to the
Collateral Agent (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, the “Collateral Agreement”).

          WHEREAS, under the terms of the Collateral Agreement, the Grantors have granted to the
Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in, among
other property, certain intellectual property of the Grantors, and have agreed as a condition
thereof to execute this IP Collateral Agreement for recording with the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, the United States Copyright Office and other governmental authorities.

          NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are
hereby acknowledged, each Grantor agrees as follows:

          SECTION 1. Grant of Security. Subject to Section 1 of the Collateral Agreement, each
Grantor hereby grants to the Collateral Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties a
security interest in all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest in and to the following (the
“Collateral”):

(a) the patents and patent applications set forth in Schedule A hereto (the
“Patents”);

(b) the trademark and service mark registrations and applications set forth in
Schedule B hereto (provided that no security interest shall be granted in United
States intent-to-use trademark applications to the extent that, and solely during
the period in which, the grant of a security interest therein would impair the
validity or enforceability of such intent-to-use trademark applications under
applicable federal law), together with the goodwill symbolized thereby (the
“Trademarks”);

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(c) all copyrights, whether registered or unregistered, now owned or hereafter
acquired by such Grantor, including, without limitation, the copyright registrations
and applications and exclusive copyright licenses set forth in Schedule C hereto
(the “Copyrights”);

(d) all reissues, divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part, extensions,
renewals and reexaminations of any of the foregoing, all rights in the foregoing
provided by international treaties or conventions, all rights corresponding thereto
throughout the world and all other rights of any kind whatsoever of such Grantor
accruing thereunder or pertaining thereto;

(e) any and all claims for damages and injunctive relief for past, present and
future infringement, dilution, misappropriation, violation, misuse or breach with
respect to any of the foregoing, with the right, but not the obligation, to sue for
and collect, or otherwise recover, such damages; and

(f) any and all proceeds of, collateral for, income, royalties and other payments
now or hereafter due and payable with respect to, and supporting obligations
relating to, any and all of the Collateral of or arising from any of the foregoing.

          SECTION 2. Security for Obligations. The grant of a security interest in, the
Collateral by each Grantor under this IP Collateral Agreement secures the payment of all Secured
Obligations of such Grantor now or hereafter existing under or in respect of the Note Documents.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this IP Collateral Agreement secures, as to each
Grantor, the payment of all amounts that constitute part of the Secured Obligations and that would
be owed by such Grantor to any Secured Party under the Note Documents but for the fact that such
Secured Obligations are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of a bankruptcy,
reorganization or similar proceeding involving a Grantor.

          SECTION 3. Recordation. Each Grantor authorizes and requests that the Register of
Copyrights, the Commissioner for Patents and the Commissioner for Trademarks and any other
applicable government officer record this IP Collateral Agreement.

          SECTION 4. Execution in Counterparts. This IP Collateral Agreement may be executed
in any number of 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.

          SECTION 5. Grants, Rights and Remedies. This IP Collateral Agreement has been
entered into in conjunction with the provisions of the Collateral Agreement. Each Grantor does
hereby acknowledge and confirm that the grant of the security interest hereunder to, and the rights
and remedies of, the Collateral Agent with respect to the Collateral are more fully set forth in
the Collateral Agreement, the terms and provisions of which are incorporated herein by reference as
if fully set forth herein.

          SECTION 6. Governing Law. This IP Collateral Agreement shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

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          SECTION 7. Intercreditor Agreement Governs. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, the lien and security interest granted to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the
Secured Parties, pursuant to this Agreement and the exercise of any right or remedy by the
Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties hereunder are subject to the provisions of the
Intercreditor Agreement. In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of
the Intercreditor Agreement and this Agreement, the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement shall
control.

          SECTION 8. Certain Terms Concerning the Collateral Agent. The Collateral Agent is
executing and delivering this IP Collateral Agreement solely in its capacity as Collateral Agent
under the Collateral Agreement (and in no other capacity), and pursuant to direction set forth in
the Indenture. The Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for the terms or sufficiency of this
IP Collateral Agreement for any purpose, and the Collateral Agent shall have no duties or
obligations under or pursuant to this IP Collateral Agreement other than such duties as may be
expressly set forth in this IP Collateral Agreement as duties on its part to be performed or
observed (and no other duties or obligations on its part shall be implied). In executing and
delivering this IP Collateral Agreement, or in taking (or forbearing from) any action under or
pursuant to this IP Collateral Agreement, the Collateral Agent shall have and be protected by all
of the rights, immunities, indemnities, and other protections granted to it under the Collateral
Agreement and the Indenture (including without limitation Section 10.11 of the Indenture).

[Remainder of Page Intentionally Blank]

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Grantor has caused this IP Collateral Agreement to be duly executed
and delivered by its officer thereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	NORTEK, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 

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	 	AIGIS MECHTRONICS, INC.

BROAN-MEXICO HOLDINGS, INC.

BROAN-NUTONE LLC

BROAN-NUTONE STORAGE SOLUTIONS LP

CES GROUP, INC.

CES INTERNATIONAL LTD.

CLEANPAK INTERNATIONAL, INC.

ELAN HOME SYSTEMS, L.L.C.

GEFEN, LLC

GATES THAT OPEN, LLC

GOVERNAIR CORPORATION

HC INSTALLATIONS, INC.

HUNTAIR, INC.

INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS, LLC

LINEAR LLC

LITETOUCH, INC.

MAGENTA RESEARCH LTD.

MAMMOTH-WEBCO, INC.

NILES AUDIO CORPORATION

NORDYNE LLC

NORDYNE INTERNATIONAL, INC.

NORTEK INTERNATIONAL, INC.

NUTONE LLC

OMNIMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.

OPERATOR SPECIALTY COMPANY, INC.

PACIFIC ZEPHYR RANGE HOOD INC.

PANAMAX LLC

RANGAIRE GP, INC.

RANGAIRE LP, INC.

SECURE WIRELESS, INC.

SPEAKERCRAFT, LLC

TEMTROL, INC.

XANTECH LLC

ZEPHYR VENTILATION, LLC

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 
	 
	 	(of entity listed or as an officer of the managing

member, sole member or general partner)

 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 

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Exhibit C to the

Collateral Agreement

FORM OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COLLATERAL AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT

          This INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COLLATERAL AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT (this “IP Collateral Agreement
Supplement”) dated ___, 200_, is made by the Person listed on the signature page hereof (the
“Grantor”) in favor of U.S. Bank National Association, as collateral agent (the “Collateral Agent”)
for the Secured Parties (as defined in the Indenture referred to below).

          WHEREAS Nortek, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”) and the other Guarantors party
thereto have entered into an Indenture dated as of ___, 2009 (as amended, amended and
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Indenture”), with U.S. Bank
National Association, as Trustee and Collateral Agent. Terms defined in the Indenture and not
otherwise defined herein are used herein as defined in the Indenture.

          WHEREAS, pursuant to the Indenture, the Grantor and certain other Persons have executed and
delivered that certain Collateral Agreement dated
_______, 2009 made by the Grantor and such
other Persons to the Collateral Agent (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time, the “Collateral Agreement”) and that certain Intellectual Property
Collateral Agreement dated _______, 2009 (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, the “IP Collateral Agreement”).

          WHEREAS, under the terms of the Collateral Agreement, the Grantor has granted to the
Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in the
Additional Collateral (as defined in Section 1 below) of the Grantor and has agreed as a condition
thereof to execute this IP Collateral Agreement Supplement for recording with the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office and other governmental authorities.

          NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are
hereby acknowledged, the Grantor agrees as follows:

          SECTION 1. Grant of Security. Subject to Section 1 of the Collateral. Agreement,
each Grantor hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties,
a security interest in all of such Grantor’s right, title and interest in and to the following (the
“Collateral”):

(a) the patents and patent applications set forth in Schedule A hereto (the
“Patents”);

(b) the trademark and service mark registrations and applications set forth in
Schedule B hereto (provided that no security interest shall be granted in United
States intent-to-use trademark applications to the extent that, and solely during
the period in which, the grant of a security interest therein would impair the
validity

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or enforceability of such intent-to-use trademark applications under applicable
federal law), together with the goodwill symbolized thereby (the “Trademarks”);

(c) all copyrights, whether registered or unregistered, now owned or hereafter
acquired by such Grantor, including, without limitation, the copyright registrations
and applications and exclusive copyright licenses set forth in Schedule C hereto
(the “Copyrights”);

(d) all reissues, divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part, extensions,
renewals and reexaminations of any of the foregoing, all rights in the foregoing
provided by international treaties or conventions, all rights corresponding thereto
throughout the world and all other rights of any kind whatsoever of such Grantor
accruing thereunder or pertaining thereto;

(e) any and all claims for damages and injunctive relief for past, present and
future infringement, dilution, misappropriation, violation, misuse or breach with
respect to any of the foregoing, with the right, but not the obligation, to sue for
and collect, or otherwise recover, such damages; and

(f) any and all proceeds of, collateral for, income, royalties and other payments
now or hereafter due and payable with respect to, and supporting obligations
relating to, any and all of the Collateral of or arising from any of the foregoing.

          SECTION 2. Security for Obligations. The grant of a security interest in the
Additional Collateral by the Grantor under this IP Collateral Agreement Supplement secures the
payment of all Secured Obligations of the Grantor now or hereafter existing under or in respect of
the Note Documents.

          SECTION 3. Recordation. The Grantor authorizes and requests that the Register of
Copyrights, the Commissioner for Patents and the Commissioner for Trademarks and any other
applicable government officer record this IP Collateral Agreement Supplement.

          SECTION 4. Grants, Rights and Remedies. This IP Collateral Agreement Supplement has
been entered into in conjunction with the provisions of the Collateral Agreement. The Grantor does
hereby acknowledge and confirm that the grant of the security interest hereunder to, and the rights
and remedies of, the Collateral Agent with respect to the Additional Collateral are more fully set
forth in the Collateral Agreement, the terms and provisions of which are incorporated herein by
reference as if fully set forth herein.

          SECTION 5. Governing Law. This IP Collateral Agreement Supplement shall be governed
by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

          SECTION 6. Intercreditor Agreement Governs. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, the lien and security interest granted to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the
Secured Parties, pursuant to this Agreement and the exercise of any right or remedy by the
Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties hereunder are subject to the provisions of the
Intercreditor Agreement. In the event of any conflict or inconsistency

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between the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement and this Agreement, the provisions of
the Intercreditor Agreement shall control.

[Remainder of Page Intentionally Blank]

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Grantor has caused this IP Collateral Agreement Supplement to be duly
executed and delivered by its officer thereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	By:	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	Name: 	 
	 	Title: 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	Address for Notices:	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 

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Exhibit D to the

Collateral Agreement

FORM OF PERFECTION CERTIFICATE

          Reference is hereby made to that certain (i) Credit Agreement, dated as of ___, 2009
(the “Credit Agreement”); terms defined in the Credit Agreement and not otherwise defined in this
Certificate are used in this Certificate as defined in the Credit Agreement) among Nortek, Inc.
(the “Borrower”), the “Canadian Borrower” referred to therein, the “Guarantors” referred to therein
(together with the Borrower, the “Grantors”) and the Lender Parties and Agents referred to therein,
and (b) the Indenture, dated as of ___, 2009 among the Borrower, the Grantors and the
“Trustee” as referred to therein.

          As used herein, the term “Company” means the Specified U.S. Borrower or Issuer, as applicable,
and each of its Domestic Subsidiaries that are Borrowers and/or Guarantors, as applicable,
individually or “Companies” plural.

          The undersigned hereby certifies to the Trustee and the Administrative Agent as follows:

          1 Names. (a) The exact legal name of each Company, as such name appears in its
respective certificate of incorporation or any other organizational document, is set forth in
Schedule 1(a). Each Company is (i) the type of entity disclosed next to its name in
Schedule 1(a) and (ii) a registered organization except to the extent disclosed in
Schedule 1(a). Also set forth in Schedule 1(a) is the organizational
identification number, if any, of each Company that is a registered organization, the Federal
Taxpayer Identification Number of each Company and the jurisdiction of formation of each Company.

(b) Set forth in Schedule 1(b) hereto is any other corporate or
organizational names each Company has had in the past five years, together with the
date of the relevant change.

(c) Set forth in Schedule 1(c) is a list of all other names (including trade
names or similar appellations) used by each Company, or any other business or
organization to which each Company became the successor by merger, consolidation,
acquisition, change in form, nature or jurisdiction of organization or otherwise, at
any time in the five-year period prior to the date hereof. Also set forth in
Schedule 1(c) is the information required by Section 1 of this certificate
for any other business or organization to which each Company became the successor by
merger, consolidation, acquisition, change in form, nature or jurisdiction of
organization or otherwise, at any time in the five-year period prior to the date
hereof. Except as set forth in Schedule 1(c), no Company has changed its
jurisdiction of organization at any time during the past four months.

          2 Current Locations. (a) The chief executive office of each Company is located at the
address set forth in Schedule 2(a) hereto.

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(b) Set forth in Schedule 2(b) are all locations where each Company
maintains any books or records relating to any Collateral.

(c) Set forth in Schedule 2(c) hereto are all the other places of business
of each Company.

(d) Set forth in Schedule 2(d) hereto are all other locations where each
Company maintains any of the Collateral consisting of inventory or equipment not
identified above, having a value in excess of $1,000,000.

(e) Set forth in Schedule 2(e) hereto are the names and addresses of all
persons or entities other than each Company, such as lessees, consignees,
warehousemen or purchasers of chattel paper, which have possession or are intended
to have possession of any of the Collateral consisting of instruments, chattel
paper, inventory or equipment.

          3 [Reserved].

          4 Extraordinary Transactions. During the two-year period prior to the date hereof,
except for those purchases, acquisitions and other transactions described on Schedule 4 attached
hereto, all of the Collateral has been originated by each Company in the ordinary course of
business or consists of goods which have been acquired by such Company in the ordinary course of
business from a person in the business of selling goods of that kind.

          5 UCC. The financing statements (duly authorized, where applicable, by each Company
constituting the debtor therein), or equivalent, including the indications of the collateral,
attached as Schedule 6 relating to the Collateral or the applicable Mortgage, are in the
appropriate forms for filing in the filing offices in the jurisdictions identified in Schedule
6 hereof.

          6 Schedule of Filings. Attached hereto as Schedule 6 is a schedule of (i) the
appropriate filing offices for the financing statements attached hereto as Schedule 6 and (ii) the
appropriate filing offices for the filings described in Schedule 12(c) and (iii) any other actions
required to create, preserve, protect and perfect the security interests in the Collateral granted
to the Administrative Agent and the Trustee, as applicable, pursuant to the Collateral Documents.
No other filings or actions are required to create, preserve, protect and perfect the security
interests in the Collateral granted to the Administrative Agent and the Trustee, as applicable,
pursuant to the Collateral Documents.

          7 Real Property. Attached hereto as Schedule 7 is a list of all real property
owned or leased by each Company.

          8 Termination Statements. Attached hereto as Schedule 8(a) are the duly
authorized termination statements in the appropriate form for filing in each applicable
jurisdiction identified in Schedule 8(b) hereto with respect to each Lien described
therein, which shall be filed upon the expiration of the time to take any appeal, petition for
certiorari, or move for a stay, new trial, reargument or rehearing regarding the confirmation
order.

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          9 Stock Ownership and Other Equity Interests. Attached hereto as Schedule 9
is a true and correct list of all the issued and outstanding stock, partnership interests, limited
liability company membership interests or other equity interest of, and held by, each Company and
the record and beneficial owners of such stock, partnership interests, membership interests or
other equity interests. Also set forth on Schedule 9 is each equity investment of each
Company that represents 50% or less of the equity of the entity in which such investment was made.

          10 Instruments and Tangible Chattel Paper. Attached hereto as Schedule 10 is
a true and correct list of all promissory notes, instruments (other than checks to be deposited in
the ordinary course of business), tangible chattel paper, electronic chattel paper and other
evidence of indebtedness held by each Company as of _________, 2009 including all intercompany
notes between or among any two or more Companies.

          11 Advances. Attached hereto as Schedule 11 is (a) a true and correct list of
all advances made by any Company to any other Company as of ___, 2009 (other than those
identified on Schedule 10) and (b) a true and correct list of all unpaid intercompany
transfers of goods sold and delivered by or to any Company as of _________, 2009.

          12 Intellectual Property. (a) Attached hereto as Schedule 12(a) is a schedule
setting forth all of each Company’s Patents, Patent licenses, Trademarks and Trademark licenses
registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and all other Patents, Patent
licenses, Trademarks and Trademark licenses that are material to the operations of the Companies,
including the name of the registered owner and the registration number of each such Patent, Patent
license, Trademark and Trademark license owned by each Company. Attached hereto as Schedule
12(b) is a schedule setting forth all of each Company’s registered United States Copyrights and
Copyright licenses, and all other Copyrights and Copyright licenses that are material to the
operations of the Companies, including the name of the registered owner and the registration number
of each such Copyright or Copyright license owned by each Company.

(b) Attached hereto as Schedule 12(c) in proper form for filing with the
United States Patent and Trademark Office and United States Copyright Office are the
filings necessary to preserve, protect and perfect the security interests in the
United States Trademarks, Trademark licenses, Patents, Patent licenses, Copyrights
and Copyright licenses set forth on Schedule 12(a) and Schedule
12(b), including duly signed copies of the Intellectual Property Collateral
Agreement (as defined under the Security Documents entered into pursuant to the
Indenture) and U.S. Intellectual Property Security Agreement (as defined in the
Credit Agreement), as applicable.

          13 Commercial Tort Claims. Attached hereto as Schedule 13 is a true and correct list
of all Commercial Tort Claims held by each Company, including a brief description thereof.

          14 Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts and Commodity Accounts. Attached hereto as
Schedule 14 is a true and complete list of all Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts and
Commodity Accounts maintained by each Company, including the name of each

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institution where each such account is held, the name of each such account and the name of
each entity that holds each account.

          15 Letter-of-Credit Rights. Attached hereto as Schedule 15 is a true and
correct list of all Letters of Credit issued in favor of each Company, as beneficiary thereunder.

[Remainder of Page Intentionally Blank]

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto signed this Perfection Certificate as of this ___day of
___, 2009.

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	NORTEK, INC.

 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	Title:  	 	 

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Exhibit E to the

Collateral Agreement

	 	 	 	 	 

FORM OF INTERCOMPANY NOTE

New York, New York

_______, 2009

     FOR VALUE RECEIVED, each of the undersigned, to the extent a borrower from time to time
from any other entity listed on the signature page hereto (each, in such capacity, a “Payor”),
hereby promises to pay on demand to the order of such other entity listed below (each, in such
capacity, a “Payee”), in lawful money of the United States of America in immediately available
funds, at such location in the United States of America as a Payee shall from time to time
designate, the unpaid principal amount of all loans and advances (including trade payables) made by
such Payee to such Payor. Each Payor promises also to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount
of all such loans and advances in like money at said location from the date of such loans and
advances until paid at such rate per annum as shall be agreed upon from time to time by such Payor
and such Payee.

     Reference is made to (a) the Indenture dated as of ___, 2009 (as amended, restated,
amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Indenture”) among
Nortek, Inc. (“Issuer”), the “Guarantors” named therein and U.S. Bank National Association, as
trustee and collateral agent (in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”), (b) the Credit Agreement
dated as of _________, 2009 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”) among Nortek, Inc., the subsidiaries party
thereto, the other parties thereto and Bank of America, as administrative agent (in such capacity,
the “Administrative Agent”), (c) the Collateral Agreement dated as of _________, 2009 (as amended,
restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“Collateral Agreement”) among Issuer, the “Guarantors” named therein and the Collateral Agent and
(d) the Security Agreement dated as of ___, 2009 (as amended, restated, amended and restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Security Agreement”) among Issuer, the
“Grantors” party thereto and the Administrative Agent. This Note is an Intercompany Note referred
to in the Collateral Agreement and Security Agreement and is subject to the terms of each, and
shall be pledged by each Payee, to the extent required pursuant to the Collateral Agreement,
Security Agreement and Intercreditor Agreement. Each Payee hereby acknowledges and agrees that the
Collateral Agent or Administrative Agent, as applicable, may exercise all rights provided in the
Indenture, Collateral Agreement, Credit Agreement and Security Agreement with respect to this Note.
A party to this Note may be released from its obligations hereunder in accordance with the terms of
the Indenture, Collateral Agreement, Credit Agreement, Security Agreement and Intercreditor
Agreement. Terms defined in the Indenture, the Collateral Agreement, Credit Agreement or Security
Agreement and not otherwise defined in this Note are used in this Note as defined in such
documents.

     Anything in this Note to the contrary notwithstanding, the indebtedness evidenced by this Note
owed by any Payor that is a Borrower or a Guarantor to any Payee other than a Borrower or Guarantor
shall be subordinate and junior in right of payment, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter
set forth, to all Obligations of such Payor under the Indenture and Credit Agreement, including,
without limitation, where applicable, under such Payor’s guarantee of the Obligations under the
Indenture and Credit Agreement (such Obligations and other indebtedness and obligations in
connection with any renewal, refunding, restructuring or refinancing thereof, including interest
thereon accruing after the commencement of any proceedings referred to in clause (i) below, whether
or not such interest is an allowed claim in such proceeding, being hereinafter collectively
referred to as “Senior Indebtedness”):

     (i) In the event of any insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings, and any receivership,
liquidation, reorganization or other similar proceedings in connection therewith, relative to any

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Payor or to its creditors, as such, or to its property, and in the event of any
proceedings for voluntary liquidation, dissolution or other winding up of such Payor,
whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy, then (x) the holders of Senior
Indebtedness shall be paid in full in cash in respect of all amounts constituting Senior
Indebtedness before any Payee is entitled to receive (whether directly or indirectly), or
make any demands for, any payment on account of this Note and (y) until the holders of
Senior Indebtedness are paid in full in cash in respect of all amounts constituting Senior
Indebtedness, any payment or distribution to which such Payee would otherwise be entitled
(other than debt securities of such Payor that are subordinated, to at least the same extent
as this Note, to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness then outstanding (such securities
being hereinafter referred to as “Restructured Debt Securities”)) shall be made to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness;

     (ii) if any Event of Default (as defined under the Indenture) occurs and is continuing
with respect to any Senior Indebtedness, then no payment or distribution of any kind or
character shall be made by or on behalf of the Payor or any other Person on its behalf with
respect to this Note; and

     (iii) if any payment or distribution of any character, whether in cash, securities or
other property (other than Restructured Debt Securities), in respect of this Note shall
(despite these subordination provisions) be received by any Payee in violation of clause (i)
or (ii) before all Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in full in cash, such payment or
distribution shall be held in trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid over or delivered
to, the holders of Senior Indebtedness (or their representatives), ratably according to the
respective aggregate amounts remaining unpaid thereon, to the extent necessary to pay all
Senior Indebtedness in full in cash.

     To the fullest extent permitted by law, no present or future holder of Senior Indebtedness
shall be prejudiced in its right to enforce the subordination of this Note by any act or failure to
act on the part of any Payor or by any act or failure to act on the part of such holder or any
trustee or agent for such holder. Each Payee and each Payor hereby agree that the subordination of
this Note is for the benefit of the Trustee, the Holders, the Collateral Agent, the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders, and the Trustee, the Holders, the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent
and the Lenders are obligees under this Note to the same extent as if their names were written
herein as such and the Collateral Agent may, on behalf of itself, the Trustee and the Holders, and
the Administrative Agent may, on behalf of itself and the Lenders, each proceed to enforce the
subordination provisions herein.

     The indebtedness evidenced by this Note owed by any Payor that is not a Borrower or a
Guarantor shall not be subordinated to, and shall rank pari passu in right of payment with, any
other obligation of such Payor.

     Nothing contained in the subordination provisions set forth above is intended to or will
impair, as between each Payor and each Payee, the obligations of such Payor, which are absolute and
unconditional, to pay to such Payee the principal of and interest on this Note as and when due and
payable in accordance with its terms, or is intended to or will affect the relative rights of such
Payee and other creditors of such Payor other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness.

     Each Payee is hereby authorized to record all loans and advances made by it to any Payor (all
of which shall be evidenced by this Note), and all repayments or prepayments thereof, in its books
and records, such books and records constituting prima facie evidence of the accuracy of the
information contained therein; provided, however, that the failure of any Payee to record such
information shall not affect any Payor’s obligations.

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     Each Payor hereby waives presentment, demand, protest or notice of any kind in connection with
this Note. All payments under this Note shall be made without offset, counterclaim or deduction of
any kind.

     Upon the commencement of any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debt,
relief of debtors, dissolution, insolvency or liquidation or similar proceeding of any jurisdiction
relating to any Payor, all amounts owed by such Payor to each Payee shall become immediately due
and payable without presentment, demand, protest or notice of any kind in connection with this
Note.

     No amendment, modification or waiver of, or consent with respect to, any provision of this
Note shall in any event be effective against any party unless the same shall be in writing and
signed and delivered by such party. This Note shall be construed as a separate agreement with
respect to each party and may be amended, modified, supplemented, waived or released with respect
to any party without the approval of any other party and without affecting the obligations of any
other party hereunder.

     Upon execution and delivery after the date hereof by any subsidiary of Nortek, Inc. of a
counterpart signature page hereto, such subsidiary shall become a party hereunder with the same
force and effect as if originally named as a party hereunder. The rights and obligations of each
party hereunder shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the addition of any new
Person as a party to this Note.

     THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS THEREOF.

[Signature Page Follows]

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	 	NORTEK, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Edward J. Cooney 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Vice President & Treasurer 	 

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	 	AIGIS MECHTRONICS, INC.

BROAN-MEXICO HOLDINGS, INC.

BROAN-NUTONE LLC

BROAN-NUTONE STORAGE SOLUTIONS LP

CES GROUP, INC.

CES INTERNATIONAL LTD.

CLEANPAK INTERNATIONAL, INC.

ELAN HOME SYSTEMS, L.L.C.

GATES THAT OPEN, LLC

GEFEN, LLC

GOVERNAIR CORPORATION

HC INSTALLATIONS, INC.

HUNTAIR, INC.

INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS, LLC

LINEAR LLC

LITE TOUCH, INC.

MAGENTA RESEARCH LTD.

MAMMOTH-WEBCO, INC.

NILES AUDIO CORPORATION

NORDYNE LLC

NORDYNE INTERNATIONAL, INC.

NORTEK INTERNATIONAL, INC.

NUTONE LLC

OMNIMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.

OPERATOR SPECIALTY COMPANY, INC.

PACIFIC ZEPHYR RANGE HOOD INC.

PANAMAX LLC

RANGAIRE GP, INC.

RANGAIRE LP, INC.

SECURE WIRELESS, INC.

SPEAKERCRAFT, LLC

TEMTROL, INC.

XANTECH LLC

ZEPHYR VENTILATION, LLC

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Edward J. Cooney 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Vice President & Treasurer	 
	 
	 	(of entity listed or as an officer of the
 managing member, sole member or general partner) 	 
	 

E-5exv10w24

Exhibit 10.24

EXECUTION VERSION

 

LIEN SUBORDINATION AND INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT

dated as of

December 17, 2009,

among

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,

as Collateral Agent,

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Trustee and Noteholder Collateral Agent,

NORTEK, INC.

and

the Subsidiaries of Nortek, Inc. named herein

 

 

 

          LIEN SUBORDINATION AND INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT dated as of December 17, 2009, among BANK OF
AMERICA, N.A., as collateral agent for the Revolving Facility Secured Parties referred to herein,
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as trustee under the Indenture referred to herein and as collateral
agent for the Noteholder Secured Parties referred to herein, NORTEK, INC. and the subsidiaries of
Nortek, Inc. named herein.

          Reference is made to (a) the Credit Agreement (such term and each other capitalized term used
and not otherwise defined herein having the meaning assigned to it in Article I), under which the
Revolving Facility Lenders have extended and agreed to extend credit to the Borrowers, and (b) the
Indenture governing the Notes. In consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained and
other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the Collateral Agent (for itself and on behalf of the Revolving Facility Secured
Parties), the Trustee (for itself and on behalf of the Noteholders), the Noteholder Collateral
Agent (for itself and on behalf of the Noteholder Secured Parties), the Company and the
subsidiaries of the Company party hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

Definitions

          SECTION 1.01. Construction; Certain Defined Terms. (a) The definitions of terms
herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the
context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter
forms. The words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the
phrase “without limitation”. The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and
effect as the word “shall”. Unless the context requires otherwise, (i) any definition of or
reference to any agreement, instrument, other document, statute or regulation herein shall be
construed as referring to such agreement, instrument, other document, statute or regulation as from
time to time amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, (ii) any
reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns,
but shall not be deemed to include the subsidiaries of such Person unless express reference is made
to such subsidiaries, (iii) the words “herein”, “hereof and “hereunder”, and words of similar
import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular
provision hereof, (iv) all references herein to Articles, Sections and Annexes shall be construed
to refer to Articles, Sections and Annexes of this Agreement, (v) unless otherwise expressly
qualified herein, the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and
effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash,
securities, accounts and contract rights and (vi) the term “or” is not exclusive.

          (b) As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:

 

 

          “Administrative Agent” means Bank of America, N.A., in its capacity as Administrative Agent
under the Credit Agreement, and its successors in such capacity.

          “Agreement” means this Lien Subordination and Intercreditor Agreement as in effect from time
to time.

          “Asset Sale Proceeds Account” means one or more deposit accounts or securities accounts
established or maintained by the Trustee or Collateral Agent for the sole purpose of holding the
proceeds of any sale or other disposition of any Noteholder First Lien Collateral that are required
to be held in trust in such account or accounts pursuant to the terms of the Indenture as in effect
on the date hereof (or as modified from time to time to the extent such modifications, taken as a
whole, are not materially adverse to the Revolving Facility Secured Parties).

          “Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code.

          “Borrowers” means the Company and the subsidiaries of the Company that are borrowers under the
Credit Agreement.

          “Capital Stock” means (a) in the case of a corporation, corporate stock, (b) in the case of an
association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other
equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock, (c) in the case of a partnership or limited
liability company, partnership or membership interests (whether general or limited), and (d) any
other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the
profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing Person.

          “Collateral” means the Revolving Facility Collateral and the Noteholder Collateral.

          “Collateral Agent” means Bank of America, N.A., in its capacity as Administrative Agent under
the Revolving Facility Documents, and its successors in such capacity.

          “Company” means Nortek, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

          “Credit Agreement” means the Credit Agreement dated as of December 17, 2009, among the
Borrowers named therein, the Revolving Facility Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the
“Collateral Agents” (as defined therein), as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented,
waived, Refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time.

          “Event of Default” means an “Event of Default” under and as defined in the Credit Agreement or
the Indenture, as the context may require.

          “Grantor” means the Company and each subsidiary of the Company that shall have granted any
Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent or the Noteholder Collateral Agent on any of its assets or
properties to secure any of the Obligations.

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          “Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of December 17, 2009, among the Company, the other
Grantors named therein and the Trustee, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented,
waived, Refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time.

          “Junior Documents” means (a) in respect of the Noteholder First Lien Collateral, the Revolving
Facility Documents, and (b) in respect of the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral, the
Noteholder Documents.

          “Junior Liens” means (a) in respect of the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral, the
Noteholder Liens on such Collateral, and (b) in respect of the Noteholder First Lien Collateral,
the Revolving Facility Liens on such Collateral.

          “Junior Representative” means (a) with respect to the Noteholder First Lien Collateral, the
Collateral Agent, and (b) with respect to the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral, the
Noteholder Collateral Agent.

          “Junior Secured Obligations” means (a) with respect to the Noteholder Obligations (to the
extent such Obligations are secured by the Noteholder First Lien Collateral), the Revolving
Facility Obligations, and (b) with respect to Revolving Facility Obligations (to the extent such
Obligations are secured by the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral), the Noteholder
Obligations.

          “Junior Secured Obligations Collateral” means the Collateral in respect of which the Junior
Representative (on behalf of itself and the Junior Secured Obligations Secured Parties) holds a
Junior Lien.

          “Junior Secured Obligations Secured Parties” means (a) with respect to the Noteholder First
Lien Collateral, the Revolving Facility Secured Parties, and (b) with respect to the Revolving
Facility First Lien Collateral, the Noteholder Secured Parties.

          “Junior Secured Obligations Security Documents” means (a) with respect to the Revolving
Facility First Lien Collateral, the Noteholder Security Documents, and (b) with respect to the
Noteholder First Lien Collateral, the Revolving Facility Security Documents.

          “Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest
or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise
perfected under applicable law (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement,
any lease in the nature thereof, any other agreement to give a security interest therein and any
filing of or agreement to give any financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code (or
equivalent statutes of any jurisdiction) with respect thereto; provided, however, that in no event
shall an operating lease be deemed to constitute a Lien.

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

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          “Noteholder Collateral” means all assets and properties subject to Liens created by the
Noteholder Security Documents to secure the Noteholder Obligations.

          “Noteholder Collateral Agent” means U.S. Bank National Association, in its capacity as
collateral agent under the Noteholder Security Documents, and its successors in such capacity.

          “Noteholder Documents” means the Indenture and the Noteholder Security Documents.

          “Noteholder First Lien Collateral” means any and all Noteholder Collateral other than the
Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral.

          “Noteholder Liens” means Liens on the Noteholder Collateral created under the Noteholder
Security Documents to secure the Noteholder Obligations.

          “Noteholder Mortgages” means the mortgages, deeds of trust, leasehold mortgages, assignments
of leases and rents, modifications and other security documents that convey or evidence a Lien in
favor of the Trustee or the Noteholder Collateral Agent (in each case on behalf of the Noteholder
Secured Parties) on fee or leasehold interests in real property of a Grantor to secure Noteholder
Obligations, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise
modified from time to time.

          “Noteholder Obligations” means all “Obligations” (as such term is defined in the Indenture)
under the Noteholder Documents.

          “Noteholder Secured Parties” means, at any time, the Trustee, the Noteholder Collateral Agent,
each Noteholder, the beneficiaries of each indemnification obligation undertaken by any Grantor
under any Noteholder Document and each other holder of, or obligee in respect of, any Noteholder
Obligations outstanding at such time.

          “Noteholder Security Agreement” means the Collateral Agreement dated as of December 17, 2009,
among the Company, the subsidiaries of the Company party thereto and the Noteholder Collateral
Agent, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified
from time to time.

          “Noteholder Security Documents” means the Noteholder Security Agreement, the Noteholder
Mortgages, the Intellectual Property Collateral Agreements (as defined in the Noteholder Security
Agreement) and any other documents now existing or entered into after the date hereof that create
Liens on any assets or properties of any Grantor to secure any Noteholder Obligations.

          “Noteholders” means the Noteholders or the Holders under and as defined in the Indenture.

          “Notes” means the 11% Senior Secured Notes due 2013 issued under the Indenture.

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          “Obligations” means the Noteholder Obligations and the Revolving Facility Obligations.

          “Person” means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company,
joint venture, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, association, corporation,
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity.

          “Refinance” means, in respect of any indebtedness, and in each case subject to the provisions
of Section 2.10 hereof, to refinance, extend, renew, restructure or replace such indebtedness, or
to issue other indebtedness or enter into alternative financing arrangements in exchange or
replacement for such indebtedness (in each case in whole or in part), including by adding or
replacing lenders, creditors, agents, trustees, borrowers and/or guarantors, and including, in each
case, but not limited to, after the original instrument giving rise to such indebtedness has been
terminated and including, in each case, through any credit agreement, indenture or other agreement.
“Refinanced” and “Refinancing” have correlative meanings.

          “Representative” means (a) in the case of any Noteholder Obligations, the Noteholder
Collateral Agent, and (b) in the case of any Revolving Facility Obligations, the Collateral Agent.

          “Revolving Facility Collateral” means all assets and properties subject to Liens created by
the Revolving Facility Security Documents to secure the Revolving Facility Obligations.

          “Revolving Facility Documents” means the Credit Agreement and the Revolving Facility Security
Documents.

          “Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral” means any and all of the following Revolving
Facility Collateral now owned or at any time hereafter acquired by the Company or any other Grantor
or in which any such Person may have now or in the future any right, title or interest:

     (a) all Accounts;

     (b) all Inventory;

     (c) to the extent evidencing, governing, securing or otherwise related to the items
referred to in the preceding clauses (a) and (b), all (i) General Intangibles, (ii) Chattel
Paper, (iii) Instruments and (iv) Documents;

     (d) all Payment Intangibles (including corporate tax refunds), other than any Payment
Intangibles that represent tax refunds in respect of or otherwise relate to real property,
Fixtures or Equipment;

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     (e) all indebtedness of the Company or any of its subsidiaries that arises from cash
advances made after the date hereof to enable the obligor or obligors thereon to acquire
Inventory;

     (f) all collection accounts, deposit accounts, lock-boxes, securities accounts and
commodity accounts and any cash or other assets in any such accounts and all “Cash
Equivalents” as defined in the Credit Agreement on the date hereof (or as modified from
time to time to the extent such modifications, taken as a whole, are not materially adverse
to the Noteholder Secured Parties)) (other than (i) identifiable cash proceeds in respect
of real estate, Fixtures or Equipment and (ii) amounts held in any Asset Sale Proceeds
Account to the extent that such amounts (A) do not exceed the amount of proceeds of the
sale or other disposition of any Noteholder First Lien Collateral that are deposited in
such Asset Sale Proceeds Account plus interest, dividends, earnings and other
proceeds thereof, and minus withdrawals thereof that are applied as provided in the
Indenture, and (B) are then required to be held in trust in such account under the terms of
the Indenture as in effect on the date hereof (or as modified from time to time to the
extent such modifications, taken as a whole, are not materially adverse to the Revolving
Facility Secured Parties));

     (g) all books and records related to the foregoing; and

     (h) all Products and Proceeds (including Proceeds of Proceeds) and Supporting
Obligations of any and all of the foregoing in whatever form received, including proceeds
of insurance policies related to Inventory of any Grantor and business interruption
insurance and all collateral security and guarantees given by any other Person with respect
to any of the foregoing; provided that Proceeds of Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral
described in clause (f) above shall not constitute Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral
unless such Proceeds are otherwise described in any of the foregoing clauses (a) through
(g).

All capitalized terms used in this definition and not defined elsewhere in this Agreement have the
meanings assigned to them in the New York UCC.

          “Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral Transition Date” means the earlier of (a) the date
on which all the Revolving Facility Obligations shall have been paid in full (other than indemnity
payments not yet accrued under the Revolving Facility Documents) and all commitments to extend
credit under the Credit Agreement shall have been terminated and (b) the date on which all Senior
Liens on the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral shall have been released from the Liens
created under the Revolving Facility Security Documents.

          “Revolving Facility Lenders” means the Lenders under and as defined in the Credit Agreement.

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          “Revolving Facility Liens” means Liens on the Revolving Facility Collateral created under
Revolving Facility Security Documents to secure the Revolving Facility Obligations.

          “Revolving Facility Mortgages” means the mortgages, deeds of trust, leasehold mortgages,
assignments of leases and rents, modifications and other security documents that convey or evidence
a Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent (on behalf of the Revolving Facility Secured Parties) on
fee or leasehold interests in real property of a Grantor to secure the Revolving Facility
Obligations, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise
modified from time to time.

          “Revolving Facility Obligations” means all “U.S. Obligations” (as such term is defined in the
Credit Agreement) under the Revolving Facility Documents, the Secured Hedge Agreements and the
Secured Cash Management Agreements (as such terms are defined in the Credit Agreement).

          “Revolving Facility Secured Parties” means, at any time, the Collateral Agent, each
“Collateral Agent” (as defined in the Credit Agreement), the Administrative Agent, each Revolving
Facility Lender, each L/C Issuer (as defined in the Credit Agreement), each counterparty under any
Secured Hedge Agreements and the Secured Cash Management Agreements, the beneficiaries of each
indemnification obligation undertaken by any Grantor under any Revolving Facility Document and each
other holder of, or obligee in respect of, any Revolving Facility Obligations outstanding at such
time.

          “Revolving Facility Security Documents” means the Credit Agreement (insofar as the same grants
a Lien on Collateral), the U.S. Security Agreement, the Revolving Facility Mortgages, the U.S.
Intellectual Property Security Agreement (as defined in the Credit Agreement) and any other
documents now existing or entered into after the date hereof that create Liens on any assets or
properties of any Grantor or any of its subsidiaries to secure any Revolving Facility Obligations.

          “Secured Parties” means the Noteholder Secured Parties and the Revolving Facility Secured
Parties.

          “Security Documents” means the Noteholder Security Documents and the Revolving Facility
Security Documents.

          “Senior Documents” means (a) in respect of the Noteholder First Lien Collateral, the
Noteholder Documents, and (b) in respect of the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral, the
Revolving Facility Documents.

          “Senior Liens” means (a) in respect of the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral, the
Revolving Facility Liens on such Collateral, and (b) in respect of the Noteholder First Lien
Collateral, the Noteholder Liens on such Collateral.

          “Senior Representative” means (a) with respect to the Noteholder First Lien Collateral, the
Noteholder Collateral Agent, and (b) with respect to the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral,
the Collateral Agent.

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          “Senior Secured Obligations” means (a) with respect to the Revolving Facility Obligations (to
the extent such Obligations are secured by the Noteholder First Lien Collateral), the Noteholder
Obligations, and (b) with respect to Noteholder Obligations (to the extent such Obligations are
secured by the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral), the Revolving Facility Obligations.

          “Senior Secured Obligations Collateral” means the Collateral in respect of which the Senior
Representative (on behalf of itself and the applicable Senior Secured Obligations Secured Parties)
holds a Senior Lien.

          “Senior Secured Obligations Secured Parties” means (a) with respect to the Noteholder First
Lien Collateral, the Noteholder Secured Parties, and (b) with respect to the Revolving Facility
First Lien Collateral, the Revolving Facility Secured Parties.

          “Senior Secured Obligations Security Documents” means (a) with respect to the Revolving
Facility First Lien Collateral, the Revolving Facility Security Documents, and (b) with respect to
the Noteholder First Lien Collateral, the Noteholder Security Documents.

          “subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, (a) any corporation, association or other
business entity (other than a partnership, joint venture or limited liability company) of which
more than 50% of the total voting power of the Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the
occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof
is at the time of determination owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one
or more of the other subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof, and (b) any partnership,
joint venture or limited liability company of which (i) more than 50% of the capital accounts,
distribution rights, total equity and voting interests or general and limited partnership
interests, as applicable, are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or
more of the other subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof, whether in the form of
membership, general, special or limited partnership interests or otherwise, and (ii) such Person or
any subsidiary of such Person is a controlling general partner or otherwise controls such entity.

          “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. Section 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on
the date hereof.

          “Trustee” means U.S. Bank National Association, in its capacity as trustee under the
Indenture, and its successors in such capacity.

          “U.S. Security Agreement” means the U.S. Security Agreement dated as of December 17, 2009,
among the Company, the subsidiaries of the Company party thereto and the Collateral Agent, as
amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to
time.

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ARTICLE II

Subordination of Junior Liens; Certain Agreements

          SECTION
2.01. Subordination of Junior Liens.  (a) All Junior Liens in respect of
any Collateral are expressly subordinated and made junior in right, priority, operation and effect
to any and all Senior Liens in respect of such Collateral, notwithstanding anything contained in
this Agreement, the Noteholder Documents, the Revolving Facility Documents or any other agreement
or instrument to the contrary, and irrespective of the time, order or method of creation,
attachment or perfection of such Junior Liens and Senior Liens or any failure, defect or deficiency
or alleged failure, defect or deficiency in any of the foregoing.

          (b) It is acknowledged that (i) the aggregate amount of the Senior Secured Obligations may be
increased from time to time, (ii) a portion of the Senior Secured Obligations consists or may
consist of indebtedness that is revolving in nature, and the amount thereof that may be outstanding
at any time or from time to time may be increased or reduced and subsequently reborrowed, and (iii)
the Senior Secured Obligations may be increased, Refinanced, restated, supplemented or otherwise
amended or modified from time to time, all without affecting the subordination of the Junior Liens
hereunder or the provisions of this Agreement defining the relative rights of the Revolving
Facility Secured Parties and the Noteholder Secured Parties. The lien priorities provided for
herein shall not be altered or otherwise affected by any amendment, modification, supplement,
increase, restatement or Refinancing of either the Junior Secured Obligations (or any part thereof)
or the Senior Secured Obligations (or any part thereof), by the release of any Collateral or of any
guarantees for any Senior Secured Obligations or by any action that any Representative or Secured
Party may take or fail to take in respect of any Collateral.

          SECTION 2.02. No Action With Respect to Junior Secured Obligations Collateral Subject to
Senior Liens. No Junior Representative or other Junior Secured Obligations Secured Party shall
commence or instruct any Junior Representative to commence any judicial or nonjudicial foreclosure
proceedings with respect to, seek to have a trustee, receiver, liquidator or similar official
appointed for or over, attempt any action to take possession of, exercise any right, remedy or
power with respect to, or otherwise take any action to enforce its interest in or realize upon, or
take any other action available to it in respect of, any Junior Secured Obligations Collateral
under any Junior Secured Obligations Security Document, under applicable law or otherwise, at any
time when such Junior Secured Obligations Collateral shall be subject to any Senior Lien and any
Senior Secured Obligations secured by such Senior Lien shall remain outstanding or any commitment
to extend credit that would constitute Senior Secured Obligations secured by such Senior Lien shall
remain in effect, it being agreed that only the Senior Representative, acting in accordance with
the applicable Senior Secured Obligations Security Documents, shall be entitled to take any such
actions or exercise any such remedies. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Junior Representative
may, subject to Section 2.05, take all such actions as it shall deem necessary to perfect or
continue the perfection of its Junior Liens.

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          SECTION 2.03. No Duties of Senior Representative. Each Junior Secured Obligations
Secured Party acknowledges and agrees that neither the Senior Representative nor any other Senior
Secured Obligations Secured Party shall have any duties or other obligations to such Junior Secured
Obligations Secured Party with respect to any Senior Secured Obligations Collateral, other than to
transfer to the Junior Representative any proceeds of any such Collateral that constitutes Junior
Secured Obligations Collateral remaining in its possession following any sale, transfer or other
disposition of such Collateral (in each case, unless the Junior Liens on all such Junior Secured
Obligations Collateral are terminated and released prior to or concurrently with such sale,
transfer, disposition, payment or satisfaction), the payment and satisfaction in full of the Senior
Secured Obligations secured thereby and the termination of any commitment to extend credit that
would constitute Senior Secured Obligations secured thereby, or, if the Senior Representative shall
be in possession of all or any part of such Collateral after such payment and satisfaction in full
and termination, such Collateral or any part thereof remaining, in each case without representation
or warranty on the part of the Senior Representative or any Senior Secured Obligations Secured
Party. In furtherance of the foregoing, each Junior Secured Obligations Secured Party acknowledges
and agrees that until the Senior Secured Obligations secured by any Collateral in respect of which
such Junior Secured Obligations Secured Party holds a Junior Lien shall have been paid and
satisfied in full and any commitment to extend credit that would constitute Senior Secured
Obligations secured thereby shall have been terminated, the Senior Representative shall be
entitled, for the benefit of the holders of such Senior Secured Obligations, to sell, transfer or
otherwise dispose of or deal with such Collateral as provided herein and in the Senior Secured
Obligations Security Documents without regard to any Junior Lien or any rights to which the holders
of the Junior Secured Obligations would otherwise be entitled as a result of such Junior Lien.
Without limiting the foregoing, each Junior Secured Obligations Secured Party agrees that neither
the Senior Representative nor any other Senior Secured Obligations Secured Party shall have any
duty or obligation first to marshal or realize upon any type of Senior Secured Obligations
Collateral (or any other collateral securing the Senior Secured Obligations), or to sell, dispose
of or otherwise liquidate all or any portion of such Collateral (or any other collateral securing
the Senior Secured Obligations), in any manner that would maximize the return to the Junior Secured
Obligations Secured Parties, notwithstanding that the order and timing of any such realization,
sale, disposition or liquidation may affect the amount of proceeds actually received by the Junior
Secured Obligations Secured Parties from such realization, sale, disposition or liquidation. Each
of the Junior Secured Obligations Secured Parties waives any claim such Junior Secured Obligations
Secured Party may now or hereafter have against the Senior Representative or any other Senior
Secured Obligations Secured Party (or their representatives) arising out of (i) any actions which
the Senior Representative or the Senior Secured Obligations Secured Parties take or omit to take
(including, actions with respect to the creation, perfection or continuation of Liens on any
Collateral, actions with respect to the foreclosure upon, sale, release or depreciation of, or
failure to realize upon, any of the Collateral and actions with respect to the collection of any
claim for all or any part of the Senior Secured Obligations from any account debtor, guarantor or
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other agreement related thereto or to the collection of the Senior Secured Obligations or the
valuation, use, protection or release of any security for the Senior Secured Obligations, (ii) any
election by the Senior Representative or any Senior Secured Obligations Secured Party, in any
proceeding instituted under the Bankruptcy Code, of the application of Section 1111(b) of the
Bankruptcy Code or (iii) subject to Section 2.06, any borrowing by, or grant of a security interest
or administrative expense priority under Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code by, the Company or any
of its subsidiaries, as debtor-in-possession.

          SECTION 2.04. No Interference; Payment Over; Reinstatement.  (a) Each Junior
Secured Obligations Secured Party agrees that (i) it will not take or cause to be taken any action
the purpose or effect of which is, or could be, to make any Junior
Lien pari passu with, or to give
such Junior Secured Obligations Secured Party any preference or priority relative to, any Senior
Lien with respect to the Collateral subject to such Senior Lien and Junior Lien or any part
thereof, (ii) it will not challenge or question in any proceeding the validity or enforceability of
any Senior Secured Obligations or Senior Secured Obligations Security Document, or the validity,
attachment, perfection or priority of any Senior Lien, or the validity or enforceability of the
priorities, rights or duties established by any other provisions of this Agreement, (iii) it will
not take or cause to be taken any action the purpose or intent of which is, or could be, to
interfere, hinder or delay, in any manner, whether by judicial proceedings or otherwise, any sale,
transfer or other disposition of the Collateral subject to any Junior Lien by any Senior Secured
Obligations Secured Parties secured by Senior Liens on such Collateral or any Senior Representative
acting on their behalf, (iv) it shall have no right to (A) direct any Senior Representative or any
holder of Senior Secured Obligations to exercise any right, remedy or power with respect to the
Collateral subject to any Junior Lien or (B) consent to the exercise by any Senior Representative
or any other Senior Secured Obligations Secured Party of any right, remedy or power with respect to
the Collateral subject to any Junior Lien, (v) it will not institute any suit or assert in any
suit, bankruptcy, insolvency or other proceeding any claim against any Senior Representative or
other Senior Secured Obligations Secured Party seeking damages from or other relief by way of
specific performance, instructions or otherwise with respect to, and neither any Senior
Representative nor any other Senior Secured Obligations Secured Party shall be liable for, any
action taken or omitted to be taken by such Senior Representative or other Senior Secured
Obligations Secured Party with respect to any Collateral securing such Senior Secured Obligations
that is subject to any Junior Lien, (vi) it will not seek, and hereby waives any right, to have any
Senior Secured Obligations Collateral subject to any Junior Lien or any part thereof marshaled upon
any foreclosure or other disposition of such Collateral and (vii) it will not attempt, directly or
indirectly, whether by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to challenge the enforceability of any
provision of this Agreement.

          (b) The Junior Representative and each other Junior Secured Obligations Secured Party hereby
agrees that if it shall obtain possession of any Senior Secured Obligations Collateral or shall
realize any proceeds or payment in respect of any such Collateral, pursuant to any Junior Secured
Obligations Security Document or by the exercise of any rights available to it under applicable law
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insolvency or similar proceeding or through any other exercise of remedies, at any time when
any Senior Secured Obligations secured or intended to be secured by such Collateral shall remain
outstanding or any commitment to extend credit that would constitute Senior Secured Obligations
secured or intended to be secured by such Senior Lien shall remain in effect, then it shall hold
such Collateral, proceeds or payment in trust for the Senior Secured Obligations Secured Parties
and transfer such Collateral, proceeds or payment, as the case may be, to the Senior Representative
reasonably promptly after obtaining actual knowledge or notice from the Senior Secured Obligations
Secured Parties that it has possession of such Senior Secured Obligations Collateral or proceeds or
payments in respect thereof. Each Junior Secured Obligations Secured Party agrees that if, at any
time, it receives notice or obtains actual knowledge that all or part of any payment with respect
to any Senior Secured Obligations previously made shall be rescinded for any reason whatsoever,
such Junior Secured Obligations Secured Party shall promptly pay over to the Senior Representative
any payment received by it and then in its possession or under its control in respect of any
Collateral subject to any Senior Lien securing such Senior Secured Obligations and shall promptly
turn any Collateral subject to any such Senior Lien then held by it over to the Senior
Representative, and the provisions set forth in this Agreement shall be reinstated as if such
payment had not been made, until the payment and satisfaction in full of the Senior Secured
Obligations. Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, this Section 2.04(b) shall
not apply to any proceeds of Senior Secured Obligations Collateral realized in a transaction not
prohibited by the Senior Documents and as to which the possession or receipt thereof by the Junior
Representative or other Junior Secured Obligations Secured Party is otherwise permitted by the
Senior Documents.

          SECTION 2.05. Automatic Release of Junior Liens.  (a) The Junior Representative and
each other Junior Secured Obligations Secured Party agree that (i) in the event the Senior Secured
Obligations Secured Parties release their Lien on any Senior Secured Obligations Collateral subject
to any Junior Lien (other than a release in connection with a sale, transfer or other disposition
of Senior Secured Obligations Collateral, which shall be governed by clause (a)(ii) below), such
Junior Lien on such Collateral shall terminate and be released automatically and without further
action unless, at the time of such release by the Senior Secured Obligations Secured Parties, an
Event of Default shall then have occurred and be continuing under the Junior Documents (provided
that any Junior Lien that would have otherwise been released and terminated pursuant to this clause
(a)(i) in the absence of such an Event of Default under the Junior Documents shall terminate and be
released automatically and without further action when such Event of Default (and all other Events
of Default under the Junior Documents) cease to exist); and (ii) in the event of a sale, transfer
or other disposition of Senior Secured Obligations Collateral subject to any Junior Lien
(regardless of whether or not an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Junior
Documents at the time of such sale, transfer or other disposition), such Junior Lien on such
Collateral shall terminate and be released automatically and without further action if the
applicable Senior Liens on such Collateral are released and if such sale, transfer or other
disposition either (A) is then not prohibited by the Junior Documents or (B) occurs in connection
with the foreclosure upon or other exercise of rights and remedies with respect to such Senior
Secured Obligations Collateral; provided that such Junior Lien shall remain in place with

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respect to any proceeds of a sale, transfer or other disposition under this clause (a)(ii)
that remain after the satisfaction in full of the Senior Secured Obligations. In addition, for
the avoidance of doubt, the Junior Representative and each Junior Secured Obligations Secured Party
agree that, with respect to any property or assets that would otherwise constitute Senior Secured
Obligations Collateral, the requirement that a Junior Lien attach to, or be perfected with respect
to, such property or assets shall be waived automatically and without further action so long as the
requirement that a Senior Lien attach to, or be perfected with respect to, such property or assets
is waived by the Senior Secured Obligations Secured Parties (or the Senior Representative) in
accordance with the Senior Documents and so long as no Event of Default under the Junior Documents
shall have occurred, be continuing or would result therefrom at such time.

          (b) The Junior Representative agrees to execute and deliver (at the sole cost and expense of
the Grantors) all such releases and other instruments as shall reasonably be requested by the
Senior Representative to evidence and confirm any release of Junior Secured Obligations Collateral
provided for in this Section 2.05.

          SECTION 2.06. Certain Agreements With Respect to Bankruptcy or Insolvency
Proceedings.  (a) This Agreement shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding
the commencement of any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or any other federal, state or foreign
bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law by or against the Company or any of its
subsidiaries.

          (b) If the Company or any of its subsidiaries shall become subject to a case under the
Bankruptcy Code and shall, as debtor(s)-in-possession, move for approval of financing (“DIP
Financing”) to be provided by one or more lenders (the “DIP Lenders”) under Section 364 of the
Bankruptcy Code or the use of cash collateral under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, each Junior
Secured Obligations Secured Party agrees that it will raise no objection to any such financing or
to the Liens on the Senior Secured Obligations Collateral securing the same (“DIP Financing Liens”)
or to any use of cash collateral that constitutes Senior Secured Obligations Collateral, unless the
Senior Secured Obligations Secured Parties, or a representative authorized by the Senior Secured
Obligations Secured Parties, shall then oppose or object to such DIP Financing or such DIP
Financing Liens or use of cash collateral (and, to the extent that such DIP Financing Liens are
senior to, or rank pari passu with, the Senior Liens, the Junior Representative will, for itself
and on behalf of the other Junior Secured Obligations Secured Parties, subordinate the Junior Liens
on the Senior Secured Obligations Collateral to the Senior Liens and the DIP Financing Liens), so
long as the Junior Secured Obligations Secured Parties retain Liens on all the Junior Secured
Obligations Collateral, including proceeds thereof arising after the commencement of such
proceeding, with the same priority as existed prior to the commencement of the case under the
Bankruptcy Code.

          (c) Each Junior Secured Obligations Secured Party agrees that it will not object to or oppose
a sale or other disposition of any Senior Secured Obligations Collateral (or any portion thereof)
under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code or any other provision of the Bankruptcy Code if the
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shall have consented to such sale or disposition of such Senior Secured Obligations
Collateral.

          SECTION 2.07. Reinstatement. In the event that any of the Senior Secured Obligations
shall be paid in full and such payment or any part thereof shall subsequently, for whatever reason
(including an order or judgment for disgorgement of a preference under the Bankruptcy Code, or any
similar law, or the settlement of any claim in respect thereof), be required to be returned or
repaid, the terms and conditions of this Article II shall be fully applicable thereto until all
such Senior Secured Obligations shall again have been paid in full in cash.

          SECTION 2.08. Entry Upon Premises by the Collateral Agent and the Revolving Facility
Lenders.  (a) If the Collateral Agent takes any enforcement action with respect to the
Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral, the Noteholder Secured Parties (i) shall cooperate with
the Collateral Agent (at the sole cost and expense of the Collateral Agent and subject to the
condition that the Noteholder Secured Parties shall have no obligation or duty to take any action
or refrain from taking any action that could reasonably be expected to result in the incurrence of
any liability or damage to the Noteholder Secured Parties) in its efforts to enforce its security
interest in the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral and to finish any work-in-process and
assemble the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral, (ii) shall not take any action designed or
intended to hinder or restrict in any respect the Collateral Agent from enforcing its security
interest in the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral or from finishing any work-in-process or
assembling the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral, and (iii) subject to the rights of any
landlords under real estate leases, shall permit the Collateral Agent, its employees, agents,
advisers and representatives, at the sole cost and expense of the Revolving Facility Secured
Parties and upon reasonable advance notice, to enter upon and use the Noteholder First Lien
Collateral (including (A) equipment, processors, computers and other machinery related to the
storage or processing of records, documents or files and (B) intellectual property), for a period
not to exceed 180 days after the taking of such enforcement action, for purposes of (1) assembling
and storing the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral and completing the processing of and
turning into finished goods of any Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral consisting of
work-in-process, (2) selling any or all of the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral located on
such Noteholder First Lien Collateral, whether in bulk, in lots or to customers in the ordinary
course of business or otherwise, (3) removing any or all of the Revolving Facility First Lien
Collateral located on such Noteholder First Lien Collateral, or (4) taking reasonable actions to
protect, secure and otherwise enforce the rights of the Revolving Facility Secured Parties in and
to the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral; provided, however, that nothing contained in this
Agreement shall restrict the rights of the Trustee or the Noteholder Collateral Agent from selling,
assigning or otherwise transferring any Noteholder First Lien Collateral prior to the expiration of
such 180-day period if the purchaser, assignee or transferee thereof agrees to be bound by the
provisions of this Section 2.08. If any stay or other order prohibiting the exercise of remedies
with respect to the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral has been entered by a court of
competent jurisdiction, such 180-day period shall be tolled during the pendency of any such stay or
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Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral at any of the real property included within the
Noteholder First Lien Collateral, the Collateral Agent shall provide the Noteholder Collateral
Agent with reasonable notice and use reasonable efforts to hold such auction or sale in a manner
which would not unduly disrupt the Noteholder Collateral Agent’s use of such real property.

          (b) During the period of actual occupation, use or control by the Revolving Facility Secured
Parties or their agents or representatives of any Noteholder First Lien Collateral, the Revolving
Facility Secured Parties shall (i) be responsible for the ordinary course third-party expenses
related thereto, including costs with respect to heat, light, electricity, water and real property
taxes with respect to that portion of any premises so used or occupied, and (ii) be obligated to
repair at their expense any physical damage to such Noteholder First Lien Collateral or other
assets or property resulting from such occupancy, use or control, and to leave such Noteholder
First Lien Collateral or other assets or property in substantially the same condition as it was at
the commencement of such occupancy, use or control, ordinary wear and tear excepted. The Revolving
Facility Secured Parties jointly and severally agree to pay, indemnify and hold the Trustee and the
Noteholder Collateral Agent and their respective officers, directors, employees and agents harmless
from and against any liability, cost, expense, loss or damages, including reasonable and documented
legal fees and expenses, resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the
Collateral Agent or any of its agents, representatives or invitees in its or their operation of
such facilities. In the event, and only in the event, that in connection with its use of some or
all of the premises constituting Noteholder First Lien Collateral, the Collateral Agent requires
the services of any employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, the Collateral Agent shall
pay directly to any such employees the appropriate, allocated wages of such employees, if any,
during the time periods that the Collateral Agent requires their services. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, in no event shall the Revolving Facility Secured Parties have any liability to the
Noteholder Secured Parties pursuant to this Section 2.08 as a result of any condition (including
any environmental condition, claim or liability) on or with respect to the Noteholder First Lien
Collateral existing prior to the date of the exercise by the Revolving Facility Secured Parties of
their rights under this Section 2.08 and the Revolving Facility Secured Parties shall have no duty
or liability to maintain the Noteholder First Lien Collateral in a condition or manner better than
that in which it was maintained prior to the use thereof by the Revolving Facility Secured Parties,
or for any diminution in the value of the Noteholder First Lien Collateral that results solely from
ordinary wear and tear resulting from the use of the Noteholder First Lien Collateral by the
Revolving Facility Secured Parties in the manner and for the time periods specified under this
Section 2.08. Without limiting the rights granted in this paragraph, the Collateral Agent, to the
extent that rights have been exercised under this Section 2.08 by the Collateral Agent, shall
cooperate with the Noteholder Secured Parties in connection with any efforts made by the Noteholder
Secured Parties to sell the Noteholder First Lien Collateral.

          SECTION 2.09. Insurance. Unless and until written notice by the Collateral Agent to
the Trustee that the Revolving Facility Obligations have been paid in full and all commitments to
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terminated, as between the Collateral Agent, on the one hand, and the Trustee and Noteholder
Collateral Agent, as the case may be, on the other hand, only the Collateral Agent will have the
right (subject to the rights of the Grantors under the Revolving Facility Documents and the
Noteholder Documents) to adjust or settle any insurance policy or claim covering or constituting
Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral in the event of any loss thereunder and to approve any
award granted in any condemnation or similar proceeding affecting the Revolving Facility First Lien
Collateral. Unless and until written notice by the Trustee to the Collateral Agent that the
Noteholder Obligations have been paid in full, as between the Collateral Agent, on the one hand,
and the Trustee and the Noteholder Collateral Agent, as the case may be, on the other hand, only
the Noteholder Collateral Agent will have the right (subject to the rights of the Grantors under
the Revolving Facility Documents and the Noteholder Documents) to adjust or settle any insurance
policy covering or constituting Noteholder First Lien Collateral in the event of any loss
thereunder and to approve any award granted in any condemnation or similar proceeding solely
affecting the Noteholder First Lien Collateral. To the extent that an insured loss covers or
constitutes both Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral and Noteholder First Lien Collateral,
then the Collateral Agent and the Noteholder Collateral Agent will work jointly and in good faith
to collect, adjust or settle (subject to the rights of the Grantors under the Revolving Facility
Documents and the Noteholder Documents) under the relevant insurance policy.

          SECTION 2.10. Refinancings. The Revolving Facility Obligations and the Noteholder
Obligations may be Refinanced, in whole or in part, in each case, without notice to, or the consent
(except to the extent a consent is otherwise required to permit the Refinancing transaction under
any Revolving Facility Document or any Noteholder Document) of any Revolving Facility Secured Party
or any Noteholder Secured Party, all without affecting the Lien priorities provided for herein or
the other provisions hereof; provided, however, that the holders of any such Refinancing
indebtedness (or an authorized agent or trustee on their behalf) bind themselves in writing to the
terms of this Agreement pursuant to such documents or agreements (including amendments or
supplements to this Agreement) as the Collateral Agent or the Noteholder Collateral Agent, as the
case may be, shall reasonably request and in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the
Collateral Agent or the Noteholder Collateral Agent, as the case may be. In connection with any
Refinancing contemplated by this Section 2.10, this Agreement may be amended at the request and
sole expense of the Company, and without the consent of either Representative, (a) to add parties
(or any authorized agent or trustee therefor) providing any such Refinancing indebtedness, (b) to
establish that Liens on any Noteholder First Lien Collateral securing such Refinancing indebtedness
shall have the same priority as the Liens on any Noteholder First Lien Collateral securing the
indebtedness being Refinanced, and (c) to establish that the Liens on any Revolving Facility First
Lien Collateral securing such Refinancing indebtedness shall have the same priority as the Liens on
any Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral securing the indebtedness being Refinanced, all on the
terms provided for herein immediately prior to such Refinancing.

          SECTION 2.11. Amendments to Security Documents.  (a) Without the prior written
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Security Document may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified or entered into to the
extent such amendment, supplement or modification, or the terms of any new Junior Secured
Obligations Security Document, would be prohibited by, or would require any Grantor to act or
refrain from acting in a manner that would violate, any of the terms of this Agreement.

          (b) In the event that the Senior Secured Obligations Secured Parties or the Senior
Representative enters into any amendment, waiver or consent in respect of any of the Senior Secured
Obligations Security Documents for the purpose of adding to, or deleting from, or waiving or
consenting to any departures from any provisions of, any Senior Secured Obligations Security
Document or changing in any manner the rights of the Senior Representative, the Senior Secured
Obligations Secured Parties, the Company or any other Grantor thereunder (including the release of
any Liens in Senior Secured Obligations Collateral permitted by Section 2.05), then such amendment,
waiver or consent shall apply automatically to any comparable provision of the comparable Junior
Secured Obligations Security Document without the consent of the Junior Representative or any
Junior Secured Obligations Secured Party and without any action by the Junior Representative, the
Company or any other Grantor; provided, however, that written notice of such amendment, waiver or
consent shall have been given to the Junior Representative.

          SECTION 2.12. Legends. The Collateral Agent acknowledges with respect to the Credit
Agreement and the Revolving Facility Security Documents, and the Trustee and the Noteholder
Collateral Agent acknowledge with respect to the Indenture and the Noteholder Security Documents,
that the Credit Agreement, the Indenture and each Security Document will contain the appropriate
legend set forth on Annex I.

          SECTION 2.13. No Debt Subordination. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to
subordinate the right of the Revolving Facility Lenders or the Noteholders to receive payment,
whether before or after the occurrence of any default, event of default or insolvency proceeding
(other than payments from Collateral, to the extent contrary to the provisions of this Agreement).

ARTICLE III

Gratuitous Bailment for Perfection of Certain Security Interests; Rights Under Permits and Licenses

          SECTION 3.01. General. The Senior Representative agrees that if it shall at any time
hold a Senior Lien on any Junior Secured Obligations Collateral that can be perfected by the
possession or control of such Collateral or of any account in which such Collateral is held, and if
such Collateral or any such account is in fact in the possession or under the control of the Senior
Representative, the Senior Representative will serve as gratuitous bailee for the Junior
Representative for the sole purpose of perfecting the Junior Lien of the Junior Representative on
such Collateral. It is agreed that the obligations of the Senior Representative and the rights of
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with any such bailment arrangement will be in all respects subject to the provisions of
Article II. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Senior Representative will be
deemed to make no representation as to the adequacy of the steps taken by it to perfect the Junior
Lien on any such Collateral and shall have no responsibility, duty, obligation or liability to the
Junior Representative or other Junior Secured Obligations Secured Party or any other Person for
such perfection or failure to perfect, it being understood that the sole purpose of this Article is
to enable the Junior Secured Obligations Secured Parties to obtain a perfected Junior Lien in such
Collateral to the extent, if any, that such perfection results from the possession or control of
such Collateral or any such account by the Senior Representative. Subject to Section 2.07, at such
time as the Senior Secured Obligations secured by the Senior Lien of the Senior Representative
shall have been paid and satisfied in full and any commitment to extend credit that would
constitute such Senior Secured Obligations shall have been terminated, the Senior Representative
shall take all such actions in its power as shall reasonably be requested by the Junior
Representative (at the sole cost and expense of the Grantors) to transfer possession or control of
such Collateral or any such account (in each case to the extent the Junior Representative has a
Lien on such Collateral or account after giving effect to any prior or concurrent releases of
Liens) to the Junior Representative; provided that if the Revolving Facility Obligations are
Refinanced in accordance with Section 2.10, such Collateral and control will be transferred to the
collateral agent designated for such Refinancing indebtedness.

          SECTION 3.02. Deposit Accounts. The Company and its subsidiaries, to the extent
required by the Credit Agreement, may from time to time establish deposit accounts (the “Deposit
Accounts”) with certain depositary banks in which collections from Inventory and Accounts may be
deposited. To the extent that any such Deposit Account is under the control of the Collateral
Agent at any time, the Collateral Agent will act as gratuitous bailee for the Trustee and the
Noteholder Collateral Agent for the purpose of perfecting the Liens of the Noteholder Secured
Parties in such Deposit Accounts and the cash and other assets therein as provided in Section 3.01
(but will have no duty, responsibility or obligation to the Noteholder Secured Parties (including,
without limitation, any duty, responsibility or obligation as to the maintenance of such control,
the effect of such arrangement or the establishment of such perfection) except as set forth in the
last sentence of this Section 3.02). Unless the Junior Liens on such Revolving Facility First Lien
Collateral shall have been or concurrently are released, after the occurrence of the Revolving
Facility First Lien Collateral Transition Date, the Collateral Agent shall (a) to the extent that
the same are then under the sole dominion and control of the Collateral Agent and that such action
is otherwise within the power and authority of the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Revolving
Facility Documents, at the request of the Trustee, transfer all cash and other assets in any such
Deposit Account maintained with the Collateral Agent to the Noteholder Collateral Agent (and each
Grantor hereby authorizes and consents to any such transfer) and (b) at the request of the
Noteholder Collateral Agent, cooperate with the Company and the Noteholder Collateral Agent (at the
expense of the Company) in permitting control of any other Deposit Accounts to be transferred to
the Noteholder Collateral Agent (or for other arrangements with respect to each such Deposit
Account satisfactory to the Noteholder Collateral Agent to be made); provided that if the Revolving
Facility Obligations are Refinanced in accordance with

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Section 2.10, such Collateral and control will be transferred to the collateral agent
designated for such Refinancing indebtedness.

          SECTION 3.03. Rights under Permits and Licenses. The Trustee agrees that if the
Collateral Agent shall require rights available under any permit or license controlled by the
Trustee (as certified to the Trustee by the Collateral Agent, upon which the Trustee may rely) in
order to realize on any Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral, the Trustee shall (subject to the
terms of the Indenture, including the Trustee’s rights to indemnification thereunder) take all such
actions as shall be available to it (at the sole expense of the Grantors), consistent with
applicable law and reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent in writing, to make such rights
available to the Collateral Agent, subject to the Noteholder Liens. The Collateral Agent agrees
that if the Trustee shall require rights available under any permit or license controlled by the
Collateral Agent (as certified to the Collateral Agent by the Trustee, upon which the Collateral
Agent may rely) in order to realize on any Noteholder First Lien Collateral, the Collateral Agent
shall take all such actions as shall be available to it (at the sole expense of the Grantors),
consistent with applicable law and reasonably requested by the Trustee in writing, to make such
rights available to the Trustee, subject to the Revolving Facility Liens.

ARTICLE IV

Existence and Amounts of Liens and Obligations

          Whenever a Representative shall be required, in connection with the exercise of its rights or
the performance of its obligations hereunder, to determine the existence or amount of any Senior
Secured Obligations (or the existence of any commitment to extend credit that would constitute
Senior Secured Obligations) or Junior Secured Obligations, or the existence of any Lien securing
any such obligations, or the Collateral subject to any such Lien, it may request that such
information be furnished to it in writing by the other Representative and shall be entitled to make
such determination on the basis of the information so furnished; provided, however, that if a
Representative shall fail or refuse reasonably promptly to provide the requested information, the
requesting Representative shall be entitled to make any such determination by such method as it
may, in the exercise of its good faith judgment, determine, including by reliance upon a
certificate of the Company. Each Representative may rely conclusively, and shall be fully
protected in so relying, on any determination made by it in accordance with the provisions of the
preceding sentence (or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction) and shall have
no liability to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, any Secured Party or any other Person as a
result of such determination.

ARTICLE V

Consent of Grantors

          Each Grantor hereby consents to the provisions of this Agreement and the intercreditor
arrangements provided for herein and agrees that the obligations of the

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Grantors under the Security Documents will in no way be diminished or otherwise affected by
such provisions or arrangements (except as expressly provided herein).

ARTICLE VI

Representations and Warranties

          SECTION 6.01. Representations and Warranties of Each Party. Each party hereto
represents and warrants to the other parties hereto as follows:

          (a) Such party is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its organization and has all requisite power and authority to enter into and
perform its obligations under this Agreement.

          (b) This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by such party.

          (c) The execution, delivery and performance by such party of this Agreement (i) do not require
any consent or approval of, registration or filing with or any other action by any governmental
authority of which the failure to obtain could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect (as defined in the Credit Agreement), (ii) will not violate any applicable law or regulation
or any order of any governmental authority or any indenture, agreement or other instrument binding
upon such party which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (iii) will
not violate the charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of such party.

          SECTION 6.02. Representations and Warranties of Each Representative. Each of the
Trustee, the Noteholder Collateral Agent and the Collateral Agent represents and warrants to the
other parties hereto that it is authorized under the Indenture and the Credit Agreement,
respectively, to enter into this Agreement.

ARTICLE VII

Miscellaneous

          SECTION 7.01. Notices. All notices and other communications provided for herein shall
be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or
registered mail or sent by telecopy, as follows:

     (a) if to the Collateral Agent, to it at Bank of America, N.A., 335 Madison Avenue,
New York, New York 10017, Attention of Robert Anchundia (Telecopy No. (212) 503-7483);

     (b) if to the Trustee or the Noteholder Collateral Agent, to it at U.S. Bank National
Association, One Federal Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02110, Attention of
Corporate Trust Services (Telecopy No. (617) 603-6668);

     (c) if to the Company, to it at Nortek, Inc., 50 Kennedy Plaza, Providence, RI 02903,
Attention: Kevin W. Donnelly (Telecopy No. 401-751-4610); and

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     (d) if to any other Grantor, to it in care of the Company as provided in clause (d)
above.

Any party hereto may change its address or telecopy number for notices and other communications
hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto (and for this purpose a notice to the Company shall
be deemed to be a notice to each Grantor). All notices and other communications given to any party
hereto in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been given on
the date of receipt (if a Business Day) and on the next Business Day thereafter (in all other
cases) if delivered by hand or overnight courier service or sent by telecopy or on the date five
Business Days after dispatch by certified or registered mail if mailed, in each case delivered,
sent or mailed (properly addressed) to such party as provided in this Section 7.01 or in accordance
with the latest unrevoked direction from such party given in accordance with this Section 7.01. As
agreed to in writing among the Company, the Trustee, the Noteholder Collateral Agent and the
Collateral Agent from time to time, notices and other communications may also be delivered by
e-mail to the e-mail address of a representative of the applicable Person provided from time to
time by such Person.

          SECTION 7.02. Waivers; Amendment.  (a) No failure or delay on the part of any
party hereto in exercising any right or power hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor
shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or
discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise
thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the parties hereto
are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No
waiver of any provision of this Agreement or consent to any departure by any party therefrom shall
in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section 7.02,
and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the
purpose for which given. No notice or demand on any party hereto in any case shall entitle such
party to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances.

          (b) Neither this Agreement nor any provision hereof may be terminated, waived, amended or
modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by each
Representative and the Company; provided, however, that this Agreement may be amended from time to
time (x) as provided in Section 2.10 and (y) at the sole request and expense of the Company, and
without the consent of either Representative, (i) (A) to add other parties (or any authorized agent
thereof or trustee therefor) holding Other Pari Passu Lien Obligations (as defined in the
Indenture) that are incurred in compliance with the Revolving Facility Documents and the Noteholder
Documents, (B) to establish that the Liens on any Noteholder First Lien Collateral securing such
Other Pari Passu Lien Obligations shall be pari passu hereunder with the Liens on such Noteholder
First Lien Collateral securing the Noteholder Obligations and senior to the Liens on such
Noteholder First Lien Collateral securing any Revolving Facility Obligations, all on the terms
provided for herein immediately prior to such amendment and (C) to establish that the Liens on any
Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral securing such Other Pari Passu Lien Obligations shall be
pari passu hereunder with the Liens on such Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral securing the
Noteholder

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Obligations and junior and subordinated to the Liens on such Revolving Facility First Lien
Collateral securing any Revolving Facility Obligations, all on the terms provided for herein
immediately prior to such amendment, and (ii) (A) to add other parties (or any authorized agent
thereof or trustee therefor) holding Lenders Debt (as defined in the Indenture) that is incurred in
compliance with the Revolving Facility Documents and the Noteholder Documents, (B) to establish
that the Liens on any Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral securing such Lenders Debt shall be
pari passu hereunder with the Liens on such Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral securing the
Revolving Facility Obligations and senior to the Liens on such Revolving Facility First Lien
Collateral securing any Noteholder Obligations, all on the terms provided for herein immediately
prior to such amendment and (C) to establish that the Liens on any Noteholder First Lien Collateral
securing such Lenders Debt shall be pari passu hereunder with the Liens on such Noteholder First
Lien Collateral securing the Revolving Facility Obligations and junior and subordinated to the
Liens on such Noteholder First Lien Collateral securing any Noteholder Obligations, all on the
terms provided for herein immediately prior to such amendment. Any such additional party and each
party hereto shall be entitled to rely upon a certificate delivered by an officer of the Company
certifying that such Other Pari Passu Lien Obligations or Lenders Debt, as the case may be, were
issued or borrowed in compliance with the Revolving Facility Documents and the Noteholder
Documents. Any amendment of this Agreement that is proposed to be effected without the consent of
a Representative as permitted by the proviso to the preceding sentence shall be submitted to such
Representative for its review at least 5 Business Days prior to the proposed effectiveness of such
amendment.

          SECTION 7.03. Parties in Interest. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to
the benefit of the parties hereto (including any Person that becomes a party hereto after the date
hereof, including, but not limited to, the holders of Other Pari Passu Lien Obligations and Lenders
Debt) and their respective successors and assigns, as well as the other Noteholder Secured Parties
and Revolving Facility Secured Parties, all of whom are intended to be bound by, and to be third
party beneficiaries of, this Agreement.

          SECTION 7.04. Survival of Agreement. All covenants, agreements, representations and
warranties made by any party in this Agreement shall be considered to have been relied upon by the
other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement.

          SECTION 7.05. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of
which shall constitute an original but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single
contract. Delivery of an executed signature page to this Agreement by facsimile transmission shall
be as effective as delivery of a manually signed counterpart of this Agreement.

          SECTION 7.06. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid,
illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the
extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality
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invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such
provision in any other jurisdiction. The parties shall endeavor in good-faith negotiations to
replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect
of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.

          SECTION 7.07. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process.  (a)
This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the law of the State of New
York.

          (b) Each party hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its
property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in
New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and
any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to
this Agreement, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto
hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or
proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law,
in such federal court. Each of the parties hereto 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. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect any right
that any party hereto may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this
Agreement in the courts of any jurisdiction.

          (c) Each party hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it
may legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying
of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement in any
court referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section 7.07. Each of the parties hereto hereby
irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to
the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.

          (d) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner
provided for notices in Section 7.01. Nothing in this Agreement will affect the right of any party
to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.

          SECTION 7.08. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL
PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT. EACH PARTY HERETO
(A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY 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

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BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 7.08.

          SECTION 7.09. Headings. Article, Section and Annex headings used herein are for
convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and are not to affect the
construction of, or to be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.

          SECTION 7.10. Conflicts. In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the
provisions of this Agreement and the provisions of any of the other Revolving Facility Documents
and/or Noteholder Documents, the provisions of this Agreement shall control; provided, however,
that if any of the provisions of the Noteholder Security Documents limit, qualify or conflict with
the duties imposed by the provisions of the TIA, the TIA shall control.

          SECTION 7.11. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights. The provisions of this
Agreement are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the
Revolving Facility Secured Parties, on the one hand, and the Noteholder Secured Parties, on the
other hand. None of the Company, any other Grantor or any other creditor thereof shall have any
rights or obligations hereunder, except as expressly provided in this Agreement (provided that
nothing in this Agreement (other than Sections 2.05, 2.06, 2.10, 2.11 or Article VII) is intended
to or will amend, waive or otherwise modify the provisions of the Credit Agreement or the
Indenture), and neither the Company nor any other Grantor may rely on the terms hereof (other than
Sections 2.01(b), 2.05, 2.06, 2.10, 2.11, Article VI and Article VII). Nothing in this Agreement
is intended to or shall impair the obligations of the Company or any other Grantor, which are
absolute and unconditional, to pay the Obligations under the Noteholder Documents and the Revolving
Facility Documents as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their
terms. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in any Noteholder Document or any
Revolving Facility Document, the Grantors shall not be required to act or refrain from acting (a)
pursuant to this Agreement or any Noteholder Document with respect to any Revolving Facility First
Lien Collateral in any manner that would cause a default under any Revolving Facility Document, or
(b) pursuant to this Agreement or any Revolving Facility Document with respect to any Noteholder
First Lien Collateral in any manner that would cause a default under any Noteholder Document.

          SECTION 7.12. Certain Terms Concerning Trustee, Noteholder Collateral Agent and Collateral
Agent. Each of the Trustee and Noteholder Collateral Agent is executing and delivering this
Agreement solely in its capacity as such and pursuant to direction set forth in the Indenture; and
in so doing, neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall be responsible for the terms or
sufficiency of this Agreement for any purpose. Neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall
have any duties or obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement other than such duties as may be
expressly set forth in this Agreement as duties on its part to be performed or observed. In
entering into this Agreement, or in taking (or forbearing from) any action under or pursuant to the
Agreement, the Trustee shall have and be protected by all of the rights,

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immunities, indemnities and other protections granted to it under the Indenture (including
without limitation Sections 7.01, 7.02, 7.07 and 10.11 thereof) and, in the case of the Noteholder
Collateral Agent, the Noteholder Security Agreement. In entering into this Agreement, or in taking
(or forbearing from) any action under or pursuant to the Agreement, the Collateral Agent shall have
and be protected by all of the rights, immunities, indemnities and other protections granted to it
under the Credit Agreement (including without limitation Article IX thereof) and the other
Revolving Facility Documents.

          SECTION 7.13. Certain Terms Concerning Collateral Agent and Noteholder Collateral
Agent. Neither the Collateral Agent nor the Noteholder Collateral Agent shall have any
liability or responsibility for the actions or omissions of any other Secured Party, or for any
other Secured Party’s compliance with (or failure to comply with) the terms of this Agreement.
Neither the Collateral Agent nor the Noteholder Collateral Agent shall have individual liability to
any Person if it shall mistakenly pay over or distribute to any Secured Party (or any Grantor) any
amounts in violation of the terms of this Agreement, so long as the Collateral Agent or Noteholder
Collateral Agent, as the case may be, is acting in good faith.

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

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Collateral

Agent,

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Robert Anchundia
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Robert Anchundia 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Vice President 	 
	 

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	 	U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee and

Noteholder Collateral Agent,

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Todd R. DiNezza
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Todd R. DiNezza 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Assistant Vice President 	 
	 

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	 	NORTEK, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Edward J. Cooney 	 
	 	 	Name:    	Edward J. Cooney 	 
	 	 	Title:  	
Vice President and Treasurer 	 
	 

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	 	AIGIS MECHTRONICS, INC.
	 

	 	BROAN-MEXICO HOLDINGS, INC.
	 

	 	BROAN-NUTONE LLC
	 

	 	BROAN-NUTONE STORAGE SOLUTIONS LP
	 

	 	CES GROUP, INC.
	 

	 	CES INTERNATIONAL LTD.
	 

	 	CLEANPAK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
	 

	 	ELAN HOME SYSTEMS, L.L.C.
	 

	 	GEFEN, INC.
	 

	 	GOVERNAIR CORPORATION
	 

	 	GTO, INC.
	 

	 	HC INSTALLATIONS, INC.
	 

	 	HUNTAIR, INC.
	 

	 	INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS, LLC
	 

	 	LINEAR H.K. LLC
	 

	 	LINEAR LLC
	 

	 	LITE TOUCH, INC.
	 

	 	MAGENTA RESEARCH, LTD.
	 

	 	MAMMOTH-WEBCO, INC.
	 

	 	NILES AUDIO CORPORATION
	 

	 	NORDYNE, INC.
	 

	 	NORDYNE INTERNATIONAL, INC.
	 

	 	NORTEK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
	 

	 	NUTONE LLC
	 

	 	OMNIMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
	 

	 	OPERATOR SPECIALTY COMPANY, INC.
	 

	 	PACIFIC ZEPHYR RANGE HOOD, INC.
	 

	 	PANAMAX INC.
	 

	 	RANGAIRE GP, INC.
	 

	 	RANGAIRE LP, INC.
	 

	 	SECURE WIRELESS, INC.
	 

	 	SPEAKERCRAFT, INC.
	 

	 	TEMTROL, INC.
	 

	 	XANTECH CORPORATION
	 

	 	ZEPHYR CORPORATION

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Edward J. Cooney
 	 
	 	 	Name:   	   Edward J. Cooney 	 
	 	 	Title:  	
Vice President and Treasurer 	 
	 

	 	 	 

	 

	 	(of entity listed or as an officer of the
managing member, sole member or general partner)

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ANNEX I

Provision for the Credit Agreement and the Indenture

          Reference is made to the Lien Subordination and Intercreditor Agreement dated as of December
17, 2009, among Bank of America, N.A., as collateral agent thereunder for the Revolving Facility
Secured Parties referred to therein; U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee and as Noteholder
Collateral Agent; Nortek, Inc.; and the other subsidiaries of Nortek, Inc. named therein (the
“Intercreditor Agreement”). Each [Lender hereunder] [Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note,] (a)
consents to the subordination of Liens provided for in the Intercreditor Agreement, (b) agrees that
it will be bound by and will take no actions contrary to the provisions of the Intercreditor
Agreement and (c) authorizes and instructs the [Collateral Agent] [Trustee] to enter into the
Intercreditor Agreement as [Collateral Agent] [Trustee] and on behalf of such [Lender]
[Noteholder]. The foregoing provisions are intended as an inducement to the [lenders under the
Credit Agreement] [Noteholders] to [extend credit] [to acquire the Notes of the Company] and such
[lenders] [Noteholders] are intended third party beneficiaries of such provisions and the
provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement.

Provision for Revolving Facility Security Documents and Noteholder Security Documents

          Reference is made to the Lien Subordination and Intercreditor Agreement dated as of December
17, 2009, among Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent thereunder for the Revolving Facility
Secured Parties referred to therein; U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee and as Noteholder
Collateral Agent; Nortek, Inc.; and the other subsidiaries of Nortek, Inc. named therein (the
“Intercreditor Agreement”). Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, this Agreement,
the Liens created hereby and the rights, remedies, duties and obligations provided for herein are
subject in all respects to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement and, to the extent
provided therein, the applicable Senior Secured Obligations Security Documents (as defined in the
Intercreditor Agreement). In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of
this Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement shall
control.

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