EXHIBIT 10.2
GUARANTY AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT
made by
AFTERMARKET TECHNOLOGY CORP.
and certain of its Subsidiaries
in favor of
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
Dated as of March 21, 2006
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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SECTION 1.
DEFINED TERMS
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1.1
Definitions
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1.2
Other Definitional Provisions
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SECTION 2.
GUARANTEE
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2.1
Guarantee
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2.2
Right of Contribution
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2.3
No Subrogation
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2.4
Amendments, etc. with respect to the Obligations
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2.5
Subordination
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2.6
Guarantee Absolute and Unconditional
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2.7
Reinstatement
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2.8
Payments
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SECTION 3.
GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST
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SECTION 4.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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4.1
Representations in Credit Agreement
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4.2
Title; No Other Liens
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4.3
Perfected First Priority Liens
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4.4
Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office
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4.5
Inventory and Equipment
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4.6
Farm Products
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4.7
Investment Property
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4.8
Receivables
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4.9
Intellectual Property
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4.10
Commercial Tort Claims
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SECTION 5.
COVENANTS
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5.1
Covenants in Credit Agreement
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5.2
Delivery of Instruments, Certificated Securities and Chattel Paper
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5.3
Maintenance of Insurance
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5.4
Payment of Obligations
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5.5
Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest; Further Documentation
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5.6
Changes in Locations, Name, etc
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5.7
Notices
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5.8
Investment Property
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5.9
Receivables
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5.10
Intellectual Property
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SECTION 6.
REMEDIAL PROVISIONS
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6.1
Certain Matters Relating to Receivables
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6.2
Communications with Obligors; Domestic Loan Parties Remain Liable
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6.3
Pledged Stock
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6.4
Proceeds to be Turned Over To Agent
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6.5
Application of Proceeds
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6.6
Code and Other Remedies
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6.7
Registration Rights
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6.8
Deficiency
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SECTION 7.
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
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7.1
Agent's Appointment as Attorney-in-Fact, etc
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7.2
Duty of the Administrative Agent
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7.3
Execution of Financing Statements
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7.4
Authority of the Administrative Agent
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SECTION 8.
MISCELLANEOUS
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8.1
Amendments in Writing
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8.2
Notices
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8.3
No Waiver by Course of Conduct; Cumulative Remedies
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8.4
Enforcement Expenses; Indemnification
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8.5
Successors and Assigns
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8.6
Set-Off
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8.7
Foreign Currency
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8.8
Counterparts
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8.9
Severability
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8.10
Section Headings
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8.11
Integration
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8.12
GOVERNING LAW
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8.13
Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers
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8.14
Acknowledgements
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8.15
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
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8.16
Additional Domestic Loan Parties
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8.17
Releases
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SCHEDULES
Schedule 1
Notice Addresses
Schedule 2
Investment Property
Schedule 3
Perfection Matters
Schedule 4
Jurisdictions of Organization and Chief Executive Offices
Schedule 5
Inventory and Equipment Locations
Schedule 6
Intellectual Property
Schedule 7
Existing Lien
Schedule 8
Commercial Tort Claims
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GUARANTY AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT
GUARANTY AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT, dated as of March 21, 2006, made by each of the signatories hereto (together with any other entity that may become a party
hereto as provided herein, the " Domestic Loan Parties "), in favor of Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the " Administrative
Agent ") for the banks and other financial institutions (the " Lenders ") from time to time parties to the Credit Agreement, dated as of March 21,
2006 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the " Credit Agreement "), among Aftermarket Technology Corp., a Delaware corporation (the "
Company "), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto (each a " Designated Borrower " and, together with the Company, the "
Borrowers " and, each a " Borrower "), each lender from time to time party thereto (collectively, the " Lenders
" and individually, a " Lender "), Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Syndication Agent and L/C Issuer.
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Lenders have severally agreed to make extensions of credit to the Borrowers upon the terms and subject to the conditions set
forth therein;
WHEREAS, the Company and the Designated Borrowers are members of an affiliated group of companies that includes each other Domestic Loan Party;
WHEREAS, the proceeds of the extensions of credit under the Credit Agreement will be used in part to enable the Borrowers to make valuable transfers to one or more of the other
Domestic Loan Parties in connection with the operation of their respective businesses;
WHEREAS, the Borrowers and the other Domestic Loan Parties are engaged in related businesses, and each Domestic Loan Party will derive substantial direct and indirect benefit
from the making of the extensions of credit under the Credit Agreement; and
WHEREAS, it is a condition precedent to the obligation of the Lenders to make their respective extensions of credit to the Borrowers under the Credit Agreement that the Domestic
Loan Parties shall have executed and delivered this Agreement to the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Lenders;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and to induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into the Credit Agreement and to induce the Lenders to make their
respective extensions of credit to the Borrowers thereunder, each Domestic Loan Party hereby agrees with the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders, as follows:
SECTION 1. DEFINED TERMS
1.1 Definitions. (a) Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement,
and the following terms are used herein as defined in the New York UCC: Accounts, Certificated Security, Commercial Tort Claims, Chattel Paper, Deposit Accounts, Documents, Equipment, Farm Products, Fixtures, Instruments, Inventory, Letter of Credit Rights,
Securities Accounts and Supporting Obligations.
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(b)
The following terms shall have the following meanings:
" Agreement ": this Guaranty and Collateral Agreement, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
" Collateral ": as defined in Section 3.
" Collateral Account ": any collateral account established by the Administrative Agent as provided in Section 6.1 or 6.4.
" Copyrights ": (i) all copyrights arising under the laws of the United States, any other country or any political subdivision thereof, whether registered or unregistered
and whether published or unpublished (including, without limitation, those listed in Schedule 6 ), all registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications in connection therewith, including, without limitation, all registrations, recordings
and applications in the United States Copyright Office, and (ii) the right to obtain all renewals thereof.
" Copyright Licenses ": any written agreement naming any Domestic Loan Party as licensor or licensee (including, without limitation, those listed in Schedule 6
), granting any right under any Copyright, including, without limitation, the grant of rights to manufacture, distribute, exploit and sell materials derived from any Copyright.
" Foreign Subsidiary ": any Subsidiary organized under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the United States of America.
" Foreign Subsidiary Voting Stock ": the voting Capital Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary.
" General Intangibles ": all "general intangibles" as such term is defined in Section 9-102(a)(42) of the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in the State
of New York on the date hereof and, in any event, including, without limitation, with respect to any Domestic Loan Party, all contracts, agreements, instruments and indentures in any form, and portions thereof, to which such Domestic Loan Party is a party
or under which such Domestic Loan Party has any right, title or interest or to which such Domestic Loan Party or any property of such Domestic Loan Party is subject, as the same may from time to time be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, including,
without limitation, (i) all rights of such Domestic Loan Party to receive moneys due and to become due to it thereunder or in connection therewith, (ii) all rights of such Domestic Loan Party to damages arising thereunder and (iii) all rights of such
Domestic Loan Party to perform and to exercise all remedies thereunder, in each case to the extent the grant by such Domestic Loan Party of a security interest pursuant to this Agreement in its right, title and interest in such contract, agreement, instrument
or indenture is not prohibited by such contract, agreement, instrument or indenture without the consent of any other party thereto, would not give any other party to such contract, agreement, instrument or indenture the right to terminate its obligations
thereunder, or is permitted with consent if all necessary consents to such grant of a security interest have been obtained
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from the other parties thereto (it being understood that the foregoing shall not be deemed to obligate such Domestic Loan Party to obtain such consents); provided , that the foregoing limitation shall not
affect, limit, restrict or impair the grant by such Domestic Loan Party of a security interest pursuant to this Agreement in any Receivable or any money or other amounts due or to become due under any such contract, agreement, instrument or indenture.
" Intellectual Property ": the collective reference to all rights, priorities and privileges relating to intellectual property, whether arising under United
States, multinational or foreign laws or otherwise, including, without limitation, the Copyrights, the Copyright Licenses, the Patents, the Patent Licenses, the Trademarks and the Trademark Licenses, and all rights to sue at law or in equity for any infringement
or other impairment thereof, including the right to receive all proceeds and damages therefrom.
" Intercompany Note ": any promissory note evidencing loans made by any Domestic Loan Party to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
" Investment Property ": the collective reference to (a) all "investment property" as such term is defined in Section 9-102(a)(49) of the New York UCC
(other than any Foreign Subsidiary Voting Stock excluded from the definition of "Pledged Stock") and (b) whether or not constituting "investment property" as so defined, all Pledged Notes and all Pledged Stock.
" Issuers ": the collective reference to each issuer of any Investment Property.
" New York UCC ": the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the State of New York.
" Non-Control Accounts ": means all Deposit Accounts (other than payroll accounts and zero balance accounts) and Securities Accounts of the Domestic Loan Parties over
which the Administrative Agent does not have "control" (within the meaning of the applicable Uniform Commercial Code).
" Obligations ": as defined in the Credit Agreement.
" Patents ": (i) all letters patent of the United States, any other country or any political subdivision thereof, all reissues and extensions thereof and all goodwill
associated therewith, including, without limitation, any of the foregoing referred to in Schedule 6 , (ii) all applications for letters patent of the United States or any other country and all divisions, continuations and continuations-in-part
thereof, including, without limitation, any of the foregoing referred to in Schedule 6 , and (iii) all rights to obtain any reissues or extensions of the foregoing.
" Patent License ": all agreements, whether written or oral, providing for the grant by or to any Domestic Loan Party of any right to manufacture, use or sell any
invention covered in whole or in part by a Patent, including, without limitation, any of the foregoing referred to in Schedule 6 .
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" Pledged Notes ": all promissory notes listed on Schedule 2 , all Intercompany Notes at any time issued to any Domestic Loan Party and all other promissory
notes issued to or held by any Domestic Loan Party (other than promissory notes issued in connection with extensions of trade credit by any Domestic Loan Party in the ordinary course of business).
" Pledged Stock ": the shares of Capital Stock listed on Schedule 2 , together with any other shares, stock certificates, options, interests or rights of any
nature whatsoever in respect of the Capital Stock of any Person that may be issued or granted to, or held by, any Domestic Loan Party while this Agreement is in effect; provided that in no event shall more than 65% of the total outstanding Foreign
Subsidiary Voting Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary be required to be pledged hereunder.
" Proceeds ": all "proceeds" as such term is defined in Section 9-102(a)(64) of the New York UCC and, in any event, shall include, without limitation,
all dividends or other income from the Investment Property, collections thereon or distributions or payments with respect thereto.
" Receivable ": any right to payment for goods sold or leased or for services rendered, whether or not such right is evidenced by an Instrument or Chattel Paper and
whether or not it has been earned by performance (including, without limitation, any Account).
" Securities Act ": the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
" Trademarks ": (i) all trademarks, trade names, corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious business names, trade styles, service marks, domain names,
logos and other source or business identifiers, and all goodwill associated therewith, now existing or hereafter adopted or acquired, all registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications in connection therewith, whether in the United States
Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States, any State thereof or any other country or any political subdivision thereof, or otherwise, and all common-law rights related thereto, including, without limitation, any
of the foregoing referred to in Schedule 6 , and (ii) the right to obtain all renewals thereof.
" Trademark License ": any agreement, whether written or oral, providing for the grant by or to any Domestic Loan Party of any right to use any Trademark, including,
without limitation, any of the foregoing referred to in Schedule 6 .
1.2 Other Definitional Provisions . (a) The words "hereof," "herein", "hereto" and "hereunder" and words of similar
import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and Section and Schedule references are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified.
(b) The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural
forms of such terms.
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(c) Where the context requires, terms relating to the Collateral or any part thereof, when used
in relation to a Domestic Loan Party, shall refer to such Domestic Loan Party's Collateral or the relevant part thereof.
SECTION 2. GUARANTEE
2.1 Guarantee . (a) Each of the Domestic Loan Parties that are not Borrowers hereby, jointly and severally,
unconditionally and irrevocably, guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders and their respective successors, indorsees, transferees and assigns, the prompt and complete payment and performance by each other Loan Party
when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Obligations.
(b) Anything herein or in any other Loan Document to the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum liability of each Domestic Loan Party hereunder and under the other Loan Documents
shall in no event exceed the amount which can be guaranteed by such Domestic Loan Party under applicable federal and state laws relating to the insolvency of debtors (after giving effect to the right of contribution established in Section 2.2); provided
, that this paragraph shall not limit the obligations of the Borrowers under the Credit Agreement.
(c) Each Domestic Loan Party agrees that the Obligations may at any time and from time to time exceed the amount of the liability of such Domestic Loan Party hereunder without
impairing the guarantee contained in this Section 2 or affecting the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder.
(d) The guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall remain in full force and effect until all the Obligations (other than Related Credit Arrangements) and the obligations
of each Domestic Loan Party under the guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall have been satisfied by payment in full, no Letter of Credit shall be outstanding and the Commitments shall be terminated, notwithstanding that from time to time during the
term of the Credit Agreement the Borrowers may be free from any Obligations.
(e) No payment made by the Borrowers, any of the other Domestic Loan Parties, any other guarantor or any other Person or received or collected by the Administrative Agent
or any Lender from the Borrowers, any of the other Domestic Loan Parties, any other guarantor or any other Person by virtue of any action or proceeding or any set-off or appropriation or application at any time or from time to time in reduction of or
in payment of the Obligations shall be deemed to modify, reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of any Domestic Loan Party hereunder which shall, notwithstanding any such payment (other than any payment made by such Domestic Loan Party in respect
of the Obligations or any payment received or collected from such Domestic Loan Party in respect of the Obligations), remain liable for the Obligations up to the maximum liability of such Domestic Loan Party hereunder until the Obligations (other than
Related Credit Arrangements) are paid in full, no Letter of Credit shall be outstanding and the Commitments are terminated.
2.2 Right of Contribution . Each Domestic Loan Party hereby agrees that to the extent that a Domestic Loan Party that is not a Borrower shall have paid more than its proportionate
share of any payment made hereunder, such Domestic Loan Party shall be entitled to seek and receive contribution from and against any other Domestic Loan Party
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hereunder which has not paid its proportionate share of such payment. Each Domestic Loan Party's right of contribution shall be subject to the terms and conditions of Section 2.3. The provisions of this Section 2.2 shall
in no respect limit the obligations and liabilities of any Domestic Loan Party to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and each Domestic Loan Party shall remain liable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for the full amount guaranteed by
such Domestic Loan Party hereunder.
2.3 No Subrogation . Notwithstanding any payment made by any Domestic Loan Party hereunder or any set-off or application of funds of any Domestic Loan Party by
the Administrative Agent or any Lender, no Domestic Loan Party shall be entitled to be subrogated to any of the rights of the Administrative Agent or any Lender against the Borrowers or any other Domestic Loan Party or any collateral security or guarantee
or right of offset held by the Administrative Agent or any Lender for the payment of the Obligations, nor shall any Domestic Loan Party seek or be entitled to seek any contribution or reimbursement from the Borrowers or any other Domestic Loan Party in
respect of payments made by such Domestic Loan Party hereunder, until all amounts owing to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders by the Borrowers on account of the Obligations (other than Related Credit Arrangements) are paid in full, no Letter of
Credit shall be outstanding and the Commitments are terminated. If any amount shall be paid to any Domestic Loan Party on account of such subrogation rights at any time when all of the Obligations shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall be
held by such Domestic Loan Party in trust for the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, segregated from other funds of such Domestic Loan Party, and shall, forthwith upon receipt by such Domestic Loan Party, be turned over to the Administrative Agent
in the exact form received by such Domestic Loan Party (duly indorsed by such Domestic Loan Party to the Administrative Agent, if required), to be applied against the Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in such order as the Administrative Agent,
with the consent of the Required Lenders, may determine.
2.4 Amendments, etc. with respect to the Obligations . Each Domestic Loan Party shall remain obligated hereunder notwithstanding that, without any reservation
of rights against any Domestic Loan Party and without notice to or further assent by any Domestic Loan Party, any demand for payment of any of the Obligations made by the Administrative Agent or any Lender may be rescinded by the Administrative Agent
or such Lender and any of the Obligations continued, and the Obligations, or the liability of any other Person upon or for any part thereof, or any collateral security or guarantee therefor or right of offset with respect thereto, may, from time to time,
in whole or in part, be renewed, extended, amended, modified, accelerated, compromised, waived, surrendered or released by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, and the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any other documents executed and
delivered in connection therewith may be amended, modified, supplemented or terminated, in whole or in part, as the Administrative Agent (or the Required Lenders or all Lenders, as the case may be) may deem advisable from time to time, and any collateral
security, guarantee or right of offset at any time held by the Administrative Agent or any Lender for the payment of the Obligations may be sold, exchanged, waived, surrendered or released. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall have any
obligation to protect, secure, perfect or insure any Lien at any time held by it as security for the Obligations or for the guarantee contained in this Section 2 or any property subject thereto.
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2.5 Subordination . Each Domestic Loan Party hereby subordinates the payment of all obligations and indebtedness of any Borrower owing to such Domestic Loan Party, whether
now existing or hereafter arising, including but not limited to any obligation of any Borrower to such Domestic Loan Party as subrogee of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders or resulting from such Domestic Loan Party's performance under this
Guaranty and Collateral Agreement, to the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all Obligations. If the Administrative Agent so requests, any such obligation or indebtedness of the Borrowers to a Domestic Loan Party shall be enforced and performance
received by such Domestic Loan Party as trustee for the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and the proceeds thereof shall be paid over to the Administrative Agent on account of the Obligations, but without reducing or affecting in any manner the liability
of such Domestic Loan Party under this Guaranty and Collateral Agreement.
2.6 Guarantee Absolute and Unconditional . Each Domestic Loan Party waives any and all notice of the creation, renewal, extension or accrual of any of the Obligations
and notice of or proof of reliance by the Administrative Agent or any Lender upon the guarantee contained in this Section 2 or acceptance of the guarantee contained in this Section 2; the Obligations, and any of them, shall conclusively be deemed to have
been created, contracted or incurred, or renewed, extended, amended or waived, in reliance upon the guarantee contained in this Section 2; and all dealings between the Borrowers and any of the other Domestic Loan Parties, on the one hand, and the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders, on the other hand, likewise shall be conclusively presumed to have been had or consummated in reliance upon the guarantee contained in this Section 2. Each Domestic Loan Party waives diligence, presentment, protest, demand for payment
and notice of default or nonpayment to or upon the Borrowers or any of the other Domestic Loan Parties with respect to the Obligations. Each Domestic Loan Party understands and agrees that the guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall be construed as
a continuing, absolute and unconditional guarantee of payment without regard to (a) the validity or enforceability of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, any of the Obligations or any other collateral security therefor or guarantee or right
of offset with respect thereto at any time or from time to time held by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, (b) any defense, set-off or counterclaim (other than a defense of payment or performance) which may at any time be available to or be asserted
by any Borrower or any other Person against the Administrative Agent or any Lender, or (c) any other circumstance whatsoever (with or without notice to or knowledge of the Borrowers or such Domestic Loan Party) which constitutes, or might be construed
to constitute, an equitable or legal discharge of the Borrowers for the Obligations, or of such Domestic Loan Party under the guarantee contained in this Section 2, in bankruptcy or in any other instance. When making any demand hereunder or otherwise
pursuing its rights and remedies hereunder against any Domestic Loan Party, the Administrative Agent or any Lender may, but shall be under no obligation to, make a similar demand on or otherwise pursue such rights and remedies as it may have against any
Borrower, any other Domestic Loan Party or any other Person or against any collateral security or guarantee for the Obligations or any right of offset with respect thereto, and any failure by the Administrative Agent or any Lender to make any such demand,
to pursue such other rights or remedies or to collect any payments from any Borrower, any other Domestic Loan Party or any other Person or to realize upon any such collateral security or guarantee or to exercise any such right of offset, or any release
of any Borrower, any other Domestic Loan Party or any other Person or any such collateral security, guarantee or right of offset, shall not relieve any Domestic Loan Party of any obligation or liability hereunder, and shall not impair or affect the rights
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