EX-10.3 26 d894111dex103.htm EX-10.3 EX-10.3

Exhibit 10.3

Execution Version

 

 

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT

made by

DRIVEN SYSTEMS LLC

1-800-RADIATOR FRANCHISOR SPV LLC

MEINEKE FRANCHISOR SPV LLC

MAACO FRANCHISOR SPV LLC

ECONO LUBE FRANCHISOR SPV LLC

DRIVE N STYLE FRANCHISOR SPV LLC

MERLIN FRANCHISOR SPV LLC

DRIVEN PRODUCT SOURCING LLC

1-800-RADIATOR PRODUCT SOURCING LLC

DRIVEN FUNDING HOLDCO, LLC

CARSTAR FRANCHISOR SPV LLC

TAKE 5 FRANCHISOR SPV LLC and

TAKE 5 PROPERTIES SPV LLC,

each as a Guarantor

in favor of

CITIBANK, N.A.,

as Trustee

Dated as of April 24, 2018

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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SECTION 1 DEFINED TERMS

     2  

1.1

 

Definitions

     2  

SECTION 2 GUARANTEE

     2  

2.1

 

Guarantee

     2  

2.2

 

No Subrogation

     3  

2.3

 

Amendments, etc. with respect to the Issuer Obligations

     3  

2.4

 

Guarantee Absolute and Unconditional

     3  

2.5

 

Reinstatement

     4  

2.6

 

Payments

     4  

2.7

 

Information

     4  

SECTION 3 SECURITY

     5  

3.1

 

Grant of Security Interest

     5  

3.2

 

Certain Rights and Obligations of the Guarantors Unaffected

     6  

3.3

 

Performance of Transaction Documents

     7  

3.4

 

Stamp, Other Similar Taxes and Filing Fees

     8  

3.5

 

Authorization to File Financing Statements

     8  

SECTION 4 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

     9  

4.1

 

Existence and Power

     9  

4.2

 

Company and Governmental Authorization

     9  

4.3

 

No Consent

     9  

4.4

 

Binding Effect

     9  

4.5

 

Ownership of Equity Interests; Subsidiaries

     9  

4.6

 

Security Interests

     10  

4.7

 

Other Representations

     10  

SECTION 5 COVENANTS

     11  

5.1

 

Maintenance of Office or Agency

     11  

5.2

 

Covenants in Base Indenture and Other Transaction Documents

     11  

5.3

 

Further Assurances

     11  

5.4

 

Legal Name, Location Under Section 9-301 or 9-307

     12  

5.5

 

Equity Interests

     12  

5.6

 

Management Accounts

     12  

5.7

 

Contributed Real Property.

     12  

SECTION 6 REMEDIAL PROVISIONS

     13  

6.1

 

Rights of the Control Party and Trustee upon Event of Default

     13  

6.2

 

Waiver of Appraisal, Valuation, Stay and Right to Marshaling

     15  

6.3

 

Limited Recourse

     15  

6.4

 

Optional Preservation of the Collateral

     15  

6.5

 

Control by the Control Party

     15  

6.6

 

The Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

     16  

6.7

 

Undertaking for Costs

     16  

6.8

 

Restoration of Rights and Remedies

     16  

6.9

 

Rights and Remedies Cumulative

     17  

6.10

 

Delay or Omission Not Waiver

     17  

6.11

 

Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws

     17  

 

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SECTION 7 THE TRUSTEE’S AUTHORITY

     17  

SECTION 8 MISCELLANEOUS

     18  

8.1

 

Amendments

     18  

8.2

 

Notices

     18  

8.3

 

Governing Law

     19  

8.4

 

Successors

     19  

8.5

 

Severability

     19  

8.6

 

Counterpart Originals

     19  

8.7

 

Table of Contents, Headings, etc.

     19  

8.8

 

Recording of Agreement

     19  

8.9

 

Waiver of Jury Trial

     19  

8.10

 

Submission to Jurisdiction; Waivers

     19  

8.11

 

Additional Guarantors

     20  

8.12

 

Currency Indemnity

     20  

8.13

 

Acknowledgment of Receipt; Waiver

     20  

8.14

 

Termination; Partial Release

     20  

8.15

 

Third Party Beneficiary

     21  

8.16

 

Entire Agreement

     21  

8.17

 

Amendment and Restatement. The execution and delivery of this Agreement shall constitute an amendment,

replacement and restatement, but not a novation, of the obligations and liabilities under the Original Guarantee and

Collateral Agreement. All Liens, deeds of trust, mortgages, assignments and security interests securing the Original

Guarantee and Collateral Agreement and the obligations relating thereto are hereby ratified, confirmed, renewed,

extended, brought forward and rearranged as security for the Obligations, shall continue without any diminution

thereof and shall remain in full force and effect on and after the Series 2018-1 Closing Date. The Guarantors

hereby reaffirm all financing statements and amendments thereof filed and all other filings and recordations made

in respect of the Collateral and the Liens and security interests granted under the Original Guarantee and Collateral

Agreement and this Agreement and acknowledge that all such filings and recordations were and remain authorized

and effective.

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SCHEDULES

Schedule 4.5 — Guarantor Ownership Relationships

EXHIBITS

Exhibit A — Form of Assumption Agreement

 

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AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT

AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, this “Agreement”), dated as of April 24, 2018, made by DRIVEN SYSTEMS LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Franchisor Holdco”), 1-800-RADIATOR FRANCHISOR SPV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“1-800-Radiator Franchisor”), MEINEKE FRANCHISOR SPV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Meineke Franchisor”), MAACO FRANCHISOR SPV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Maaco Franchisor”), ECONO LUBE FRANCHISOR SPV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Econo Lube Franchisor”), DRIVE N STYLE FRANCHISOR SPV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Drive N Style Franchisor”), MERLIN FRANCHISOR SPV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Merlin Franchisor”), CARSTAR FRANCHISOR SPV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Carstar Franchisor”) and TAKE 5 FRANCHISOR SPV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Take 5 Franchisor” and, together with Franchisor Holdco, 1-800-Radiator Franchisor, Meineke Franchisor, Maaco Franchisor, Econo Lube Franchisor, Drive N Style Franchisor and Carstar Franchisor, the “SPV Franchising Entities”), DRIVEN PRODUCT SOURCING LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“SPV Product Sales Holder”), 1-800-RADIATOR PRODUCT SOURCING LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Radiator Product Sales Holder”), DRIVEN FUNDING HOLDCO, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Funding Holdco”), and TAKE 5 PROPERTIES SPV LLC (“Take 5 Properties” and, together with SPV Product Sales Holder, Radiator Product Sales Holder, Funding Holdco, the SPV Franchising Entities and any Future Securitization Entities, the “Guarantors”), in favor of CITIBANK, N.A., a national banking association, as trustee under the Indenture referred to below (in such capacity, together with its successors, the “Trustee”) for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, Driven Brands Funding, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, the Trustee and Citibank, N.A., as securities intermediary, have entered into the Amended and Restated Base Indenture, dated as of the date of this Agreement (as further amended and restated, amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, exclusive of any Series Supplements, the “Base Indenture” and, together with all Series Supplements, the “Indenture”), providing for the issuance from time to time of one or more Series of Notes thereunder;

WHEREAS, the Guarantors and the Trustee previously entered into that certain Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, dated as of July 31, 2015 (the “Original Guarantee and Collateral Agreement”); and

WHEREAS, the Indenture and the other Transaction Documents require that the parties hereto execute and deliver this Agreement to amend and restate the Original Guarantee and Collateral Agreement in the manner set forth in this Agreement and that the parties hereto execute and deliver this Agreement;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, each Guarantor hereby agrees with the Trustee, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as follows:


SECTION 1

DEFINED TERMS

1.1 Definitions.

(a) Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Base Indenture Definitions List attached to the Base Indenture as Annex A thereto and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in such Base Indenture Definitions List.

(b) Any terms used in this Agreement (including, without limitation, for purposes of Section 3) that are defined in the UCC and pertaining to Collateral shall be construed and defined as set forth in the UCC, unless otherwise defined herein.

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

Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(a).

Issuer Obligations” means all Obligations owed by the Issuer to the Secured Parties under the Indenture and the other Transaction Documents.

Other Currency” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.12.

Termination Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.1(d).

SECTION 2

GUARANTEE

2.1 Guarantee.

(a) Each of the Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally and irrevocably, guarantees to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, the prompt and complete payment and performance by the Issuer when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Issuer Obligations. In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right that the Trustee or any other Secured Party has at law or in equity against any Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Issuer to pay any Issuer Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, after notice of prepayment or otherwise, each Guarantor hereby jointly and severally promises to and shall forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, to the Trustee for distribution to the applicable Secured Parties in accordance with the Indenture, in cash, the amount of such unpaid Issuer Obligation. This is a guarantee of payment and not merely of collection.

(b) Anything herein or in any other Transaction Document to the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum liability of each Guarantor hereunder and under the other Transaction Documents shall in no event exceed the amount which can be guaranteed by such Guarantor under applicable federal and state laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.

(c) Each Guarantor agrees that the Issuer Obligations may at any time and from time to time exceed the amount of the liability of such Guarantor hereunder without impairing the guarantee contained in this Section 2 or affecting the rights and remedies of the Trustee or any other Secured Party hereunder.

(d) The guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall remain in full force and effect until the date (the “Termination Date”) on which this Agreement ceases to be of further effect in accordance with Article XII of the Base Indenture, notwithstanding that from time to time prior thereto the Issuer may be free from any Issuer Obligations.

 

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(e) No payment made by the Issuer, any of the Guarantors, any other guarantor or any other Person or received or collected by the Trustee or any other Secured Party from the Issuer, any of the Guarantors, 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 Issuer Obligations shall be deemed to modify, reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of any Guarantor which shall, notwithstanding any such payment (other than any payment made by such Guarantor in respect of the Issuer Obligations or any payment received or collected from such Guarantor in respect of the Issuer Obligations), remain liable hereunder for the Issuer Obligations up to the maximum liability of such Guarantor hereunder until the Termination Date.

2.2 No Subrogation. Notwithstanding any payment made by any Guarantor hereunder or any set-off or application of funds of any Guarantor by the Trustee or any other Secured Party, no Guarantor shall be entitled to be subrogated to any of the rights of the Trustee or any other Secured Party against the Issuer or any other Guarantor or any collateral security or guarantee or right of offset held by the Trustee or any other Secured Party for the payment of the Issuer Obligations, nor shall any Guarantor seek or be entitled to seek any contribution or reimbursement from the Issuer or any other Guarantor in respect of payments made by such Guarantor hereunder, until the Termination Date. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor on account of such subrogation, contribution or reimbursement rights at any time when all of the Issuer Obligations shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall be held by such Guarantor in trust for the Trustee and the other Secured Parties, segregated from other funds of such Guarantor, and shall, forthwith upon receipt by such Guarantor, be turned over to the Trustee in the exact form received by such Guarantor (duly endorsed by such Guarantor to the Trustee, if required), to be applied against the Issuer Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in such order as the Trustee may determine in accordance with the Indenture.

2.3 Amendments, etc. with respect to the Issuer Obligations. Each Guarantor shall remain obligated hereunder notwithstanding that, without any reservation of rights against any Guarantor and without notice to or further assent by any Guarantor, any demand for payment of any of the Issuer Obligations made by the Trustee or any other Secured Party may be rescinded by the Trustee or such other Secured Party and any of the Issuer Obligations continued, and the Issuer 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 Trustee or any other Secured Party, and the Base Indenture and any other documents executed and delivered in connection therewith may be amended, modified, supplemented or terminated, in whole or in part, from time to time, and any collateral security, guarantee or right of offset at any time held by the Trustee or any other Secured Party for the payment of the Issuer Obligations may be sold, exchanged, waived, surrendered or released (it being understood that this Section 2.3 is not intended to affect any rights or obligations set forth in any other Transaction Document).

2.4 Guarantee Absolute and Unconditional. Each Guarantor waives any and all notice of the creation, renewal, extension or accrual of any of the Issuer Obligations and notice of or proof of reliance by the Trustee or any other Secured Party upon the guarantee contained in this Section 2 or acceptance of the guarantee contained in this Section 2; the Issuer 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 the grant of the security interests pursuant to Section 3; and all dealings between the Issuer and any of the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Trustee and the other Secured Parties, 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 and the grant of

 

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the security interests pursuant to Section 3. Each Guarantor waives diligence, presentment, protest, demand for payment and notice of default or nonpayment to or upon the Issuer or any of the Guarantors with respect to the Issuer Obligations. Each Guarantor understands and agrees that the guarantee contained in this Section 2 and the grant of the security interests pursuant to Section 3 shall be construed as a continuing, absolute and unconditional guarantee of payment without regard to (a) the validity or enforceability of the Indenture or any other Transaction Document, any of the Issuer 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 Trustee or any other Secured Party, (b) any defense, set-off or counterclaim (other than a defense of full payment or performance) which may at any time be available to or be asserted by the Issuer or any other Person against the Trustee or any other Secured Party, or (c) any other circumstance whatsoever (with or without notice to or knowledge of the Issuer or such Guarantor) which constitutes, or might be construed to constitute, an equitable or legal discharge of the Issuer for the Issuer Obligations, or of such Guarantor under the guarantee contained in this Section 2 and the grant of the security interests pursuant to Section 3, in bankruptcy or in any other instance. When making any demand hereunder or otherwise pursuing its rights and remedies hereunder against any Guarantor, the Trustee or any other Secured Party 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 the Issuer, any other Guarantor or any other Person or against any collateral security or guarantee for the Issuer Obligations or any right of offset with respect thereto, and any failure by the Trustee or any other Secured Party to make any such demand, to pursue such other rights or remedies or to collect any payments from the Issuer, any other Guarantor 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 the Issuer, any other Guarantor or any other Person or any such collateral security, guarantee or right of offset, shall not relieve any Guarantor of any obligation or liability hereunder, and shall not impair or affect the rights and remedies, whether express, implied or available as a matter of law, of the Trustee or any other Secured Party against any Guarantor. Neither the Trustee nor any other Secured Party shall have any obligation to protect, secure, perfect or insure any Lien at any time held by it as security for the Issuer Obligations or for the guarantee contained in this Section 2 or any property subject thereto. For the purposes hereof “demand” shall include the commencement and continuance of any legal proceedings.

2.5 Reinstatement. The guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall continue to be effective, or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of any of the Issuer Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be restored or returned by the Trustee or any other Secured Party upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation or reorganization of the Issuer or any Guarantor, or upon or as a result of the appointment of a receiver, intervenor or conservator of, or trustee or similar officer for, the Issuer or any Guarantor or any substantial part of their respective property, or otherwise, all as though such payments had not been made.

2.6 Payments. Each Guarantor hereby guarantees that payments hereunder shall be paid to the Trustee without set-off or deduction or counterclaim in immediately available funds in Dollars at the office of the Trustee.

2.7 Information. Each Guarantor assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of the Issuer’s and each other Guarantor’s financial condition and assets, and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Issuer Obligations and the nature, scope and extent of the risks that such Guarantor assumes and incurs hereunder, and agrees that neither the Trustee nor any other Secured Party shall have any duty to advise such Guarantor of information known to it or any of them regarding such circumstances or risks.

 

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SECTION 3

SECURITY

3.1 Grant of Security Interest.

(a) To secure the Obligations, each Guarantor hereby pledges, assigns, conveys, delivers, transfers and sets over to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in, such Guarantor’s right, title and interest in, to and under all of the following property, to the extent now owned or at any time hereafter acquired by such Guarantor or in which such Guarantor now has or at any time in the future may acquire any right, title or interest (collectively, the “Collateral”):

(i) with respect to Funding Holdco, the Equity Interests that represent 100% ownership interest in the Issuer;

(ii) with respect to the Issuer, the Equity Interests that represent 100% ownership interest in Franchisor Holdco, SPV Product Sales Holder, Radiator Product Sales Holder and Take 5 Properties;

(iii) with respect to Franchisor Holdco, the Equity Interests that represent the 100% ownership interest in Meineke Franchisor, Maaco Franchisor, Econo Lube Franchisor, Drive N Style Franchisor, Merlin Franchisor, 1-800-Radiator Franchisor, CARSTAR Franchisor and Take 5 Franchisor;

(iv) with respect to each SPV Franchising Entity and any applicable Future Securitization Entity, the Securitization IP held by such Person, all license agreements to which such Person is a party relating to such Securitization IP and rights to license fees with respect thereto and the right to bring an action at law or in equity for any infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violation thereof occurring prior to, on or after the Series 2018-1 Closing Date, and to collect all damages, settlements and proceeds relating thereto;

(v) with respect to each SPV Franchising Entity and any applicable Future Securitization Entity, the Franchise Assets;

(vi) with respect to Take 5 Properties, the Take 5 Company Locations and Take 5 Assets, in each case, contributed to it on the Series 2018-1 Closing Date and thereafter all future Take 5 Company Locations and the related Take 5 Assets;

(vii) the Accounts and all amounts on deposit in or otherwise credited to the Accounts;

(viii) any Interest Reserve Letter of Credit;

 

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(ix) the books and records (whether in physical, electronic or other form) of each of the Guarantors, including those books and records maintained by the Manager on behalf of each SPV Franchising Entity relating to the Securitization Assets and the Securitization IP;

(x) the rights, powers, remedies and authorities of the Guarantors under (A) each of the Transaction Documents (other than the Indenture and the Notes) to which they are a party and (B) with respect to each SPV Franchising Entity, SPV Product Sales Holder, Radiator Product Sales Holder and any applicable Future Securitization Entity, each of the documents relating to the Securitization Assets to which it is a party;

(xi) to the extent contributed to any Guarantor, all property of any Securitization-Owned Locations;

(xii) any and all other property of the Guarantors now or hereafter acquired, including, without limitation, all accounts (including, without limitation, the rights to receive payments under short-term notes in respect of delinquent royalty payments from Franchisees), chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, documents, equipment, fixtures, general intangibles, health-care-insurance receivables, instruments, inventory, securities, securities accounts and other investment property and letter-of-credit rights and real property (but only to the extent elected to be contributed); and

(xiii) all payments, proceeds, supporting obligations and accrued and future rights to payment with respect to the foregoing;

provided that (A) the Collateral shall exclude the Collateral Exclusions; (B) the Guarantors shall not be required to pledge, and the Collateral shall not include, more than 65% of the Equity Interests (and any rights associated with such Equity Interests) of any foreign Subsidiary of any of the Guarantors that is a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes; (C) the security interest in (1) the Senior Notes Interest Reserve Account and the funds or securities deposited therein or credited thereto shall only be for the benefit of the Senior Noteholders and the Trustee, in its capacity as trustee for the Senior Noteholders, and (2) the Senior Subordinated Notes Interest Reserve Account and the funds or securities deposited therein or credited thereto shall only be for the benefit of the Senior Subordinated Noteholders and the Trustee, in its capacity as trustee for the Senior Subordinated Noteholders. The Trustee, on behalf of the Secured Parties, acknowledges that it shall have no security interest in any Collateral Exclusions.

(b) The foregoing grant is made in trust to secure the Obligations and to secure compliance with the provisions of this Agreement, all as provided in this Agreement. The Trustee, on behalf of and for the benefit of the Secured Parties, acknowledges such grant, accepts the trusts under this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and agrees to perform its duties required in this Agreement. The Collateral shall secure the Obligations equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction (except, with respect to any Series of Notes, as otherwise stated in the applicable Series Supplement or in the applicable provisions of the Base Indenture).

(c) The parties hereto agree and acknowledge that each certificated Equity Interest constituting Collateral may be held by a custodian on behalf of the Trustee.

3.2 Certain Rights and Obligations of the Guarantors Unaffected.

(a) Notwithstanding the grant of the security interest in the Collateral hereunder to the Trustee, on behalf of the Secured Parties, the Guarantors acknowledge that the Manager, on behalf of the Securitization Entities, shall, subject to the terms and conditions of the Management Agreement,

 

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nevertheless have the right, subject to the Trustee’s right to revoke such right, in whole or in part, in the event of the occurrence of an Event of Default, (i) to give, in accordance with the Managing Standard, all consents, requests, notices, directions, approvals, extensions and waivers, if any, which are required or permitted to be given by any Guarantor under the Collateral Documents to which it is a party, and to enforce all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims of such Guarantor under the Collateral Documents to which it is a party, (ii) to give, in accordance with the Managing Standard, all consents, requests, notices, directions and approvals, if any, which are required or permitted to be given by any Guarantor under any IP License Agreement to which such Guarantor is a party and (iii) to take any other actions required or permitted to be taken by any Guarantor under the terms of the Management Agreement.

(b) The grant of the security interest by the Guarantors in the Collateral to the Trustee on behalf of the Secured Parties hereunder shall not (i) relieve any Guarantor from the performance of any term, covenant, condition or agreement on such Guarantor’s part to be performed or observed under or in connection with any of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party or (ii) impose any obligation on the Trustee or any of the other Secured Parties to perform or observe any such term, covenant, condition or agreement on any Guarantor’s part to be so performed or observed or impose any liability on the Trustee or any of the other Secured Parties for any act or omission on the part of such Guarantor or from any breach of any representation or warranty on the part of such Guarantor.

(c) Each Guarantor hereby jointly and severally agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Trustee and each other Secured Party (including its respective directors, officers, employees and agents) from and against any and all losses, liabilities (including liabilities for penalties), claims, demands, actions, suits, judgments, reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses arising out of or resulting from the security interest granted hereby, whether arising by virtue of any act or omission on the part of such Guarantor or otherwise, including, without limitation, the reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs, expenses and disbursements (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by the Trustee or any other Secured Party in enforcing this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or preserving any of its rights to, or realizing upon, any of the Collateral; provided, however, that the foregoing indemnification shall not extend to any action by the Trustee or any other Secured Party which constitutes gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct by the Trustee or such other Secured Party or any other indemnified person hereunder. The indemnification provided for in this Section 3.2 shall survive the removal of, or a resignation by, any Person as Trustee as well as the termination of this Agreement.

3.3 Performance of Transaction Documents. Upon the occurrence of a default or breach (after giving effect to any applicable grace or cure periods) by any Person party to (a) a Transaction Document to which a Guarantor is a party or (b) a Franchise Document to which a Guarantor is a party (only if a Manager Termination Event or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing), promptly following a request from the Trustee to do so and at such Guarantors’ expense, each such Guarantor shall take all such lawful action as permitted under this Agreement as the Trustee (acting at the direction of the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative)) may reasonably request to compel or secure the performance and observance by such Person of its obligations to any Guarantor, and to exercise any and all rights, remedies, powers and privileges lawfully available to any Guarantor to the extent and in the manner directed by the Trustee (acting at the direction of the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative)), including, without limitation, the transmission of notices of default and the institution of legal or administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by such Person of its obligations thereunder. If (i) any Guarantor shall have failed, within ten (10) Business Days of receiving the direction of the Trustee, to take commercially reasonable action to accomplish such directions of the Trustee, (ii) any Guarantor refuses to take any such action, as reasonably determined by the Trustee in good faith, or (iii) the Control Party (at the direction of

 

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the Controlling Class Representative) reasonably determines that such action must be taken immediately, in any such case the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative) may, but shall not be obligated to, take, and the Trustee shall take (if so directed by the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative)), at the expense of the Guarantors, such previously directed action and any related action permitted under this Agreement which the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative) thereafter determines is appropriate (without the need under this provision or any other provision under this Agreement to direct the Guarantor to take such action), on behalf of the Guarantor and the Secured Parties.

3.4 Stamp, Other Similar Taxes and Filing Fees. The Guarantors shall jointly and severally indemnify and hold harmless the Trustee and each other Secured Party from any present or future claim for liability for any stamp, documentary or other similar tax, and any penalties or interest and expenses with respect thereto, that may be assessed, levied or collected by any jurisdiction in connection with this Agreement, any other Transaction Document or any Collateral. The Guarantors shall pay, and jointly and severally indemnify and hold harmless each Secured Party against, any and all amounts in respect of all search, filing, recording and registration fees, taxes, excise taxes and other similar imposts that may be payable or determined to be payable in respect of the execution, delivery, performance and/or enforcement of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document.

3.5 Authorization to File Financing Statements.

(a) Each Guarantor hereby irrevocably authorizes the Control Party on behalf of the Secured Parties at any time and from time to time to file or record in any filing office in any applicable jurisdiction financing statements and other filing or recording documents or instruments with respect to the Collateral, including, without limitation, any and all Securitization IP (to the extent set forth in Section 8.25(c) and Section 8.25(d) of the Base Indenture), to perfect the security interests of the Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties under this Agreement. Each Guarantor authorizes the filing of any such financing statement, document or instrument naming the Trustee as secured party and indicating that the Collateral includes (a) “all assets” or words of similar effect or import regardless of whether any particular assets comprised in the Collateral fall within the scope of Article 9 of the UCC, including, without limitation, any and all Securitization IP, or (b) as being of an equal or lesser scope or with greater detail. Each Guarantor agrees to furnish any information necessary to accomplish the foregoing promptly upon the Control Party’s request. Each Guarantor also hereby ratifies and authorizes the filing on behalf of the Secured Parties of any financing statement with respect to the Collateral made prior to the date hereof.

(b) Each Guarantor acknowledges that the Collateral under this Agreement includes certain rights of such Guarantor as a secured party under the Transaction Documents. Each Guarantor hereby irrevocably appoints the Trustee as its representative with respect to all financing statements filed to perfect or record evidence of such security interests and authorizes the Control Party on behalf of the Secured Parties to make such filings as it deems necessary to reflect the Trustee as secured party of record with respect to such financing statements.

 

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SECTION 4

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

Each Guarantor hereby represents and warrants, for the benefit of the Trustee and the other Secured Parties, as follows as of each Series Closing Date:

4.1 Existence and Power. Each Guarantor (a) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization, (b) is duly qualified to do business as a foreign entity and in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction where the character of its property, the nature of its business or the performance of its obligations under the Transaction Documents make such qualification necessary, except to the extent that the failure to so qualify is not reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and (c) has all limited liability company, corporate or other powers and all governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals required to carry on its business as now conducted and for purposes of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.

4.2 Company and Governmental Authorization. The execution, delivery and performance by each Guarantor of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party (a) is within such Guarantor’s limited liability company, corporate or other powers and has been duly authorized by all necessary limited liability company, corporate or other action, (b) requires no action by or in respect of, or filing with, any Governmental Authority which has not been obtained (other than any actions or filings that may be undertaken after the Series 2018-1 Closing Date pursuant to the terms of the Base Indenture or any other Transaction Document) and (c) does not contravene, or constitute a default under, any Requirements of Law with respect to such Guarantor or any Contractual Obligation with respect to such Guarantor or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any property of any Guarantor, except for Liens created by this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents, except in the case of clauses (b) and (c) above, solely with respect to the Contribution Agreements, the violation of which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. This Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents to which each Guarantor is a party has been executed and delivered by a duly Authorized Officer of such Guarantor.

4.3 No Consent. Except as set forth on Schedule 7.3 of the Base Indenture, no consent, action by or in respect of, approval or other authorization of, or registration, declaration or filing with, any Governmental Authority or other Person is required for the valid execution and delivery by each Guarantor of this Agreement or any Transaction Document to which it is a party or for the performance of any of the Guarantors’ obligations hereunder or thereunder other than such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations, declarations or filings (a) as shall have been obtained or made by such Guarantor prior to the Series 2018-1 Closing Date or as are permitted to be obtained subsequent to the Series 2018-1 Closing Date in accordance with Section 4.6 hereof or Section 7.13 or Section 8.25 of the Base Indenture or (b) relating to the performance of any Franchise Document the failure of which to obtain is not reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

4.4 Binding Effect. This Agreement, and each other Transaction Document to which a Guarantor is a party, is a legal, valid and binding obligation of each such Guarantor enforceable against such Guarantor in accordance with its terms (except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally or by general equitable principles, whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity and by an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing).

4.5 Ownership of Equity Interests; Subsidiaries. All of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of each Guarantor are owned as set forth in Schedule 4.5 to this Agreement, all of which interests have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned of record by such Guarantor, free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted Liens. No Guarantor has any subsidiaries or owns any Equity Interests in any other Person, other than as set forth in such Schedule 4.5 and other than any Future Securitization Entity.

 

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4.6 Security Interests.

(a) Each Guarantor owns and has good title to its Collateral, free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted Liens. Other than any real property contributed to any Guarantor, the Collateral consists of securities, loans, investments, accounts, commercial tort claims, inventory, equipment, fixtures, health care insurance receivables, chattel paper, money, deposit accounts, instruments, financial assets, documents, investment property, general intangibles, letter of credit rights, and other supporting obligations (in each case, as defined in the UCC). This Agreement and the Base Indenture constitute a valid and continuing Lien on the Collateral in favor of the Trustee on behalf of and for the benefit of the Secured Parties, which Lien on the Collateral has been perfected (except as described on Schedule 8.11 or as permitted under Section 8.25(c) of the Base Indenture) and is prior to all other Liens (other than Permitted Liens), and is enforceable as such as against creditors of and purchasers from each Guarantor in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally or by general equitable principles, whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity, and by an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. The Guarantors have received all consents and approvals required by the terms of the Collateral to the pledge of the Collateral to the Trustee hereunder and under the Base Indenture. The Guarantors have caused, or shall have caused, the filing of all appropriate financing statements in the proper filing office in the appropriate jurisdictions under applicable law in order to perfect the first-priority security interest (subject to Permitted Liens) in the Collateral granted to the Trustee hereunder or under the Base Indenture within ten (10) days of the date of this Agreement, or, in the case of Intellectual Property, shall take all action necessary to perfect such first-priority security interest (subject to Permitted Liens) consistent with the obligations and time periods set forth in Section 8.25(c) of the Base Indenture.

(b) Other than the security interest granted to the Trustee hereunder, pursuant to the other Transaction Documents or any other Permitted Lien, none of the Guarantors has pledged, assigned, sold or granted a security interest in the Collateral. All action necessary (including the filing of UCC-1 financing statements and filings with the USPTO, USCO and the CIPO) to protect and evidence the Trustee’s security interest in the Collateral in the United States (and, with respect to the Canadian Intellectual Property, Canada) has been, or shall be, duly and effectively taken, consistent with the obligations of Section 4.6(a) above and Section 7.13(a), Section 8.25(c) and Section 8.25(d) of the Base Indenture, except as described on Schedule 8.11 of the Base Indenture. No security agreement, financing statement, equivalent security or lien instrument or continuation statement authorized by any Guarantor and listing such Guarantor as debtor covering all or any part of the Collateral is on file or of record in any jurisdiction, except in respect of Permitted Liens or such as may have been filed, recorded or made by such Guarantor in favor of the Trustee on behalf of the Secured Parties in connection with this Agreement, and no Guarantor has authorized any such filing.

(c) All authorizations in this Agreement for the Trustee to endorse checks, instruments and securities and to execute financing statements, continuation statements, security agreements and other instruments with respect to the Collateral and to take such other actions with respect to the Collateral authorized by this Agreement are powers coupled with an interest and are irrevocable.

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qualified as to materiality, in all respects, and (ii) if not qualified as to materiality, in all material respects (unless stated to relate solely to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties were true and correct in all respects or in all material respects, as applicable, as of such earlier date) and are repeated herein as though fully set forth herein.

SECTION 5

COVENANTS

5.1 Maintenance of Office or Agency.

(a) The Guarantors shall maintain an office or agency (which, with respect to the surrender for registration or exchange or the payment of principal and premium on the Notes may be an office of the Trustee, the Registrar, co-registrar or Paying Agent) where notices and demands to or upon the Guarantors in respect of this Agreement may be served. The Guarantors shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee and the Control Party of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Guarantors shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee and the Control Party with the address thereof, such presentations and surrenders may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office and notices and demands may be made at the address such Guarantor set forth in Section 8.2.

(b) The Guarantors hereby designate the applicable Corporate Trust Office as one such office or agency of the Guarantors.

5.2 Covenants in Base Indenture and Other Transaction Documents. Each Guarantor shall take, or shall refrain from taking, as the case may be, each action that is necessary to be taken or not taken, as the case may be, so that no Default or Event of Default is caused by the failure to take such action or to refrain from taking such action by such Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries. All covenants of each Guarantor made in the Base Indenture and in each other Transaction Document are repeated herein as though fully set forth herein.

5.3 Further Assurances.

(a) Each Guarantor shall do such further acts and things, and execute and deliver to the Trustee and the Control Party such additional assignments, agreements, powers and instruments, as are necessary or desirable to obtain or maintain the security interest of the Trustee in the Collateral on behalf of the Secured Parties as a perfected security interest subject to no prior Liens (other than Permitted Liens), to carry into effect the purposes of this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents or to better assure and confirm unto the Trustee, the Control Party, the Noteholders or the other Secured Parties their rights, powers and remedies hereunder, including, without limitation, the filing of any financing or continuation statements or amendments under the UCC in effect in any jurisdiction with respect to the liens and security interests granted hereby and under the Base Indenture, except as set forth on Schedule 8.11 of the Base Indenture or in Section 8.25(c) or Section 8.25(d) of the Base Indenture. The Guarantors intend the security interests granted pursuant to this Agreement and the Base Indenture in favor of the Secured Parties to be prior to all other Liens (other than Permitted Liens) in respect of the Collateral, and each Guarantor shall take all actions necessary to obtain and maintain, in favor of the Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a first lien on and a first priority, perfected security interest in the Collateral (except with respect to Permitted Liens and except as set forth on Schedule 8.11 or in Section 8.25 of the Base Indenture). If any Guarantor fails to perform any of its agreements or obligations under this Section 5.3(a), the Control Party itself may perform such agreement or obligation, and the expenses of the Control Party incurred in connection therewith shall be payable by the Guarantors upon the Control Party’s demand therefor. The Control Party is hereby authorized to execute and file any financing statements, continuation statements, amendments or other instruments necessary or appropriate to perfect or maintain the perfection of the Trustee’s security interest in the Collateral.

 

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(b) If any amount payable under or in connection with any of the Collateral shall be or become evidenced by any promissory note, chattel paper or other instrument, such note, chattel paper or instrument shall be deemed to be held in trust and immediately pledged and within two (2) Business Days physically delivered to the Trustee hereunder, and shall, subject to the rights of any Person in whose favor a prior Permitted Lien has been perfected, be duly endorsed in a manner satisfactory to the Trustee and delivered to the Trustee promptly.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions set forth in clauses (a) and (b) above, the Guarantors shall not be required to perfect any security interest in any fixtures (other than through a central filing of a UCC financing statement), any Franchisee promissory notes or any real property.

(d) The Guarantors, upon obtaining an interest in any commercial tort claim or claims (as such term is defined in the New York UCC), shall comply with Section 8.11(d) of the Base Indenture.

(e) Each Guarantor shall warrant and defend the Trustee’s right, title and interest in and to the Collateral and the income, distributions and Proceeds thereof, for the benefit of the Trustee on behalf of the Secured Parties, against the claims and demands of all Persons whomsoever.

5.4 Legal Name, Location Under Section 9-301 or 9-307. No Guarantor shall change its location (within the meaning of Section 9-301 or 9-307 of the applicable UCC) or its legal name without at least thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the Trustee, the Control Party, the Back-Up Manager and each Rating Agency with respect to each Series of Notes Outstanding. In the event that any Guarantor desires to so change its location or change its legal name, such Guarantor shall make any required filings and prior to actually changing its location or its legal name such Guarantor shall deliver to the Trustee and the Control Party (i) an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel confirming that all required filings have been made, subject to Section 5.3(c), to continue the perfected interest of the Trustee on behalf of the Secured Parties in the Collateral under Article 9 of the applicable UCC or other applicable law in respect of the new location or new legal name of such Guarantor and (ii) copies of all such required filings with the filing information duly noted thereon by the office in which such filings were made.

5.5 Equity Interests. No Guarantor shall sell, transfer, assign, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose, in whole or in part, of any Equity Interest of the Issuer or, except as provided in the Transaction Documents, any Subsidiary.

5.6 Management Accounts. To the extent that it owns any Management Account (including any lock-box related thereto), each Guarantor shall comply with Section 5.1 of the Base Indenture with respect to each such Management Account (including any lock-box related thereto).

5.7 Contributed Real Property. To the extent that any real property is elected to be contributed to any Guarantor by Parent or the Issuer (or the Manager on its behalf), such Guarantor shall do such acts and things, and execute and deliver to the Trustee and the Control Party such additional assignments, agreements, powers and instruments, as are reasonably requested by the Control Party, and in accordance with the requirements of similar transactions for which the Control Party acts in a similar capacity in which real estate forms a significant portion of the Collateral) to obtain or maintain the security interest of the Trustee in such real property on behalf of the Secured Parties as a perfected

 

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security interest subject to no prior Liens (other than Permitted Liens), or to better assure and confirm to the Trustee, the Control Party or the other Secured Parties their rights, powers and remedies hereunder, including, without limitation, mortgages, title insurance policies, surveys, environmental reports and legal opinions, in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Control Party and the Trustee.

SECTION 6

REMEDIAL PROVISIONS

6.1 Rights of the Control Party and Trustee upon Event of Default.

(a) Proceedings To Collect Money. In case any Guarantor shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts due on this Guaranty upon such demand, the Trustee at the direction of the Control Party (subject to Section 11.4(e) of the Base Indenture) (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative), in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against any Guarantor and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of any Guarantor, wherever situated, the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.

(b) Other Proceedings. If and whenever an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Trustee, at the direction of the Control Party (subject to Section 11.4(e) of the Base Indenture, at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative), shall:

(i) proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the other Secured Parties, by such appropriate Proceedings as the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative) shall deem most effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or in aid of the exercise of any power granted therein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or by law, including any remedies of a secured party under applicable law;

(ii) (A) direct the Guarantors to exercise (and each Guarantor agrees to exercise) all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims of any Guarantor against any party to any Transaction Document to which the Guarantors are party arising as a result of the occurrence of such Event of Default or otherwise, including the right or power to take any action to compel performance or observance by any such party of its obligations to any Guarantor, and any right of any Guarantor to take such action independent of such direction shall be suspended, and (B) if (x) the Guarantors shall have failed, within ten (10) Business Days of receiving the direction of the Trustee (given at the direction of the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative)), to take commercially reasonable action to accomplish such directions of the Trustee, (y) any Guarantor refuses to take such action or (z) the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative) reasonably determines that such action must be taken immediately, take (or the Control Party on behalf of the Trustee shall take) such previously directed action (and any related action as permitted under this Agreement thereafter determined by the Trustee or the Control Party to be appropriate without the need under this provision or any other provision under this Agreement to direct the Guarantors to take such action);

(iii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or partial foreclosure of this Agreement or, to the extent applicable, any other Transaction Document, with respect to the Collateral; provided that the Trustee shall not be required to take title to any real property in connection with any foreclosure or other exercise of remedies hereunder or under such Transaction Documents and title to such property shall instead be acquired in an entity designated and (unless owned by a third party) controlled by the Control Party; and/or

 

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(iv) sell all or a portion of the Collateral at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in any manner permitted by law; provided that the Trustee shall not proceed with any such sale without the prior written consent of the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative) and the Trustee shall provide notice to the Guarantors and each Holder of Senior Subordinated Notes and Subordinated Notes of a proposed sale of Collateral.

(c) Sale of Collateral. In connection with any sale of the Collateral hereunder (which may proceed separately and independently from the exercise of remedies under the Indenture) or under any judgment, order or decree in any judicial proceeding for the foreclosure or involving the enforcement of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document:

(i) the Trustee, any Noteholder and/or any other Secured Party may bid for and purchase the property being sold, and upon compliance with the terms of the sale may hold, retain, possess and dispose of such property in its own absolute right without further accountability;

(ii) the Trustee (at the direction of the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative)) may make and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers a good and sufficient deed, bill of sale and instrument of assignment and transfer of the property sold;

(iii) all right, title, interest, claim and demand whatsoever, either at law or in equity or otherwise, of any Guarantor of, in and to the property so sold shall be divested; and such sale shall be a perpetual bar both at law and in equity against any Guarantor, its successors and assigns, and against any and all Persons claiming or who may claim the property sold or any part thereof from, through or under such Guarantor or its successors or assigns; and

(iv) the receipt of the Trustee or of the officer thereof making such sale shall be a sufficient discharge to the purchaser or purchasers at such sale for his or their purchase money, and such purchaser or purchasers, and his or their assigns or personal representatives, shall not, after paying such purchase money and receiving such receipt of the Trustee or of such officer therefor, be obliged to see to the application of such purchase money or be in any way answerable for any loss, misapplication or non-application thereof.

(d) Application of Proceeds. Any amounts obtained by the Trustee or the Control Party on account of or as a result of the exercise by the Trustee or the Control Party of any right hereunder or under the Base Indenture shall be held by the Trustee as additional collateral for the repayment of the Obligations, shall be deposited into the Collection Account and shall be applied as provided in Article V of the Base Indenture; provided that unless otherwise provided in this Section 6 or Article IX of the Base Indenture, with respect to any distribution to any Class of Notes, notwithstanding the provisions of Article V of the Base Indenture, such amounts shall be distributed sequentially in order of alphabetical designation and pro rata among each Class of Notes of the same alphabetical (as opposed to alphanumerical) designation based upon Outstanding Principal Amount of the Notes of each such Class.

(e) Additional Remedies. In addition to any rights and remedies now or hereafter granted hereunder or under applicable law with respect to the Collateral, the Trustee shall have all of the rights and remedies of a secured party under the UCC and similar laws as enacted in any applicable jurisdiction.

 

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(f) Proceedings. The Trustee may maintain a Proceeding even if it does not possess any of the Notes or does not produce any of them in the Proceeding, and any such Proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be in its own name as trustee. All remedies are cumulative to the extent permitted by law.

(g) Power of Attorney. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Guarantor hereby grants to the Trustee an absolute and irrevocable power of attorney to sign, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, any document which may be required by the USPTO, the USCO, the CIPO, any similar office or agency in each foreign country in which any Securitization IP is located, or any other Governmental Authority in order to effect an absolute assignment of all right, title and interest in or to any Securitization IP, and record the same.

6.2 Waiver of Appraisal, Valuation, Stay and Right to Marshaling. To the extent it may lawfully do so, each Guarantor for itself and for any Person who may claim through or under it hereby:

(a) agrees that neither it nor any such Person shall step up, plead, claim or in any manner whatsoever take advantage of any appraisal, valuation, stay, extension or redemption laws, now or hereafter in force in any jurisdiction, which may delay, prevent or otherwise hinder (i) the performance, enforcement or foreclosure of this Agreement, (ii) the sale of any of the Collateral or (iii) the putting of the purchaser or purchasers thereof into possession of such property immediately after the sale thereof;

(b) waives all benefit or advantage of any such laws;

(c) waives and releases all rights to have the Collateral marshaled upon any foreclosure, sale or other enforcement of this Agreement; and

(d) consents and agrees that, subject to the terms of this Agreement, all the Collateral may at any such sale be sold by the Trustee as an entirety or in such portions as the Trustee may (upon direction by the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative)) determine.

6.3 Limited Recourse. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or otherwise, the liability of the Guarantors to the Secured Parties under or in relation to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or otherwise, is limited in recourse to the Collateral. The Collateral having been applied in accordance with the terms hereof, none of the Secured Parties shall be entitled to take any further steps against any Guarantor to recover any sums due but still unpaid hereunder or under any of the other agreements or documents described in this Section 6.3, all claims in respect of which shall be extinguished.

6.4 Optional Preservation of the Collateral. If the maturity of the Outstanding Notes of each Series has been accelerated pursuant to Section 9.2 of the Base Indenture following an Event of Default and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and annulled, the Trustee, at the direction of the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative), shall elect to maintain possession of such portion, if any, of the Collateral as the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative) shall in its discretion determine.

6.5 Control by the Control Party. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the Control Party (subject to Section 11.4(e) of the Base Indenture, at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative) may cause the institution of and direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding in respect of any enforcement of Liens on the Collateral or conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercise any trust or power conferred on the Trustee; provided that:

 

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(a) such direction of time, method and place shall not be in conflict with any rule of law, with the Servicing Standard or with this Agreement;

(b) the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative) may take any other action deemed proper by the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative) that is not inconsistent with such direction (as the same may be modified by the Control Party (with the consent of the Controlling Class Representative)); and

(c) such direction shall be in writing;

provided further that, subject to Section 10.1 of the Base Indenture, the Trustee need not take any action that it determines might involve it in liability unless it has received an indemnity for such liability as provided in the Base Indenture. The Trustee shall take no action referred to in this Section 6.5 unless instructed to do so by the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative).

6.6 The Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. The Trustee is authorized to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and any other Secured Party (as applicable) allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to any Guarantor, its creditors or its property, and shall be entitled and empowered to collect, receive and distribute any money or other property payable or deliverable on any such claim and any custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Secured Party to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to any other Secured Party, to pay the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 10.5 of the Base Indenture. To the extent that the payment of any such compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 10.5 of the Base Indenture out of the estate in any such proceeding, shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a Lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, money and other properties which any other Secured Party may be entitled to receive in such proceeding whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any other Secured Party any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any other Secured Party, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Secured Parties in any such proceeding.

6.7 Undertaking for Costs. In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Agreement or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as a Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in the suit of any undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant. This Section 6.7 does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by a Noteholder pursuant to Section 9.9 of the Base Indenture, the Control Party or a suit by Noteholders of more than 10% of the Aggregate Outstanding Principal Amount of all Series of Notes.

6.8 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or any other Secured Party has instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document and such Proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such other Secured Party, then and in every such case the Trustee and any such other Secured Party shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the other Secured Parties shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been instituted.

 

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6.9 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to any other Secured Party is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right or remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

6.10 Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission of the Trustee, the Control Party, the Controlling Class Representative or of any other Secured Party to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Potential Rapid Amortization Event, Rapid Amortization Event, Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Potential Rapid Amortization Event, Rapid Amortization Event, Default or Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Section 6 or by law to the Trustee, the Control Party, the Controlling Class Representative or to any other Secured Party may be exercised from time to time to the extent not inconsistent with the Indenture or this Agreement, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee, the Control Party, the Controlling Class Representative or by any other Secured Party, as the case may be.

6.11 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. Each Guarantor covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document; and each Guarantor (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantages of any such law, and covenants that it shall not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, the Control Party or the Controlling Class Representative, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

SECTION 7

THE TRUSTEE’S AUTHORITY

Each Guarantor acknowledges that the rights and responsibilities of the Trustee under this Agreement with respect to any action taken by the Trustee or the exercise or non-exercise by the Trustee of any option, voting right, request, judgment or other right or remedy provided for herein or resulting or arising out of this Agreement shall, as between the Trustee and the other Secured Parties, be governed by the Indenture and by such other agreements with respect thereto as may exist from time to time among them, but, as between the Trustee and the Guarantors, the Trustee shall be conclusively presumed to be acting as agent for the Secured Parties with full and valid authority so to act or refrain from acting, it being understood that the Trustee (at the direction of the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative)) and the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative) directly shall be the only parties entitled to exercise remedies under this Agreement; and no Guarantor shall be under any obligation, or entitlement, to make any inquiry respecting such authority.

 

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SECTION 8

MISCELLANEOUS

8.1 Amendments. None of the terms or provisions of this Agreement may be amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified except in accordance with Article XIII of the Base Indenture.

8.2 Notices.

(a) Any notice or communication by any Guarantor or the Trustee to any other party hereto shall be in writing and delivered in person or mailed by first-class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested) facsimile or overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, to such other party’s address:

If to any Guarantor with a copy to:

c/o Driven Brands, Inc.

440 S. Church Street, Suite 700

Charlotte, North Carolina 28202

Attention: Stephen Jackson, EVP & Chief Financial Officer

and

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10019-6064

Attention: Jordan Yarett

Facsimile: (212) 492-0126

If to the Trustee:

Citibank, N.A.

388 Greenwich Street

New York, NY 10013

Attention: Agency & Trust – Driven Brands

Phone: (888) 855-9695

E-mail: anthony.bausa@citi.com

(b) The Guarantors or the Trustee by notice to each other party may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications; provided, however, the Guarantors may not at any time designate more than a total of three (3) addresses to which notices must be sent in order to be effective.

(c) Any notice (i) given in person shall be deemed delivered on the date of delivery of such notice, (ii) given by first class mail shall be deemed given five days after the date that such notice is mailed, (iii) delivered by facsimile shall be deemed given on the date of delivery of such notice and (iv) delivered by overnight air courier shall be deemed delivered one (1) Business Day after the date that such notice is delivered to such overnight courier.

(d) Notwithstanding any provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, the Trustee shall have no liability based upon or arising from the failure to receive any notice required by or relating to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document.

 

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8.3 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAW PRINCIPLES (OTHER THAN SECTIONS 5-1401 AND 5-1402 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK).

8.4 Successors. All agreements of each of the Guarantors in this Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which it is a party shall bind its successors and assigns; provided that no Guarantor may assign its obligations or rights under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, except with the written consent of the Control Party. All agreements of the Trustee in the Indenture and in this Agreement shall bind its successors as permitted by the Transaction Documents.

8.5 Severability. In case any provision in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

8.6 Counterpart Originals. The parties may sign any number of copies of this Agreement. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.

8.7 Table of Contents, Headings, etc. The Table of Contents and headings of the Sections of this Agreement have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

8.8 Recording of Agreement. If this Agreement is subject to recording in any appropriate public recording offices, such recording is to be effected by the Guarantors and at their expense accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel (which may be counsel to the Guarantors, the Trustee or any other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Control Party (at the direction of the Controlling Class Representative) and the Trustee) to the effect that such recording is necessary either for the protection of the Secured Parties or for the enforcement of any right or remedy granted to the Trustee under this Agreement.

8.9 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE GUARANTORS AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY.

8.10 Submission to Jurisdiction; Waivers. Each of the Guarantors and the Trustee hereby irrevocably and unconditionally:

(a) submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the non-exclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York, the courts of the United States for the Southern District of New York, and appellate courts from any thereof;

(b) consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts and waives any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;

 

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(c) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to the Guarantors or the Trustee, as the case may be, at its address set forth in Section 8.2 or at such other address of which the Trustee shall have been notified pursuant thereto;

(d) agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in any other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to sue in any other jurisdiction; and

(e) waives, to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim or recover in any legal action or proceeding referred to in this Section 8.10 any special, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages.

8.11 Additional Guarantors. Each Future Securitization Entity shall become a Guarantor for all purposes of this Agreement upon execution and delivery by such Future Securitization Entity of an Assumption Agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit A attached hereto. Upon the execution and delivery by any Future Securitization Entity of such an Assumption Agreement, the supplemental schedules attached to such Assumption Agreement shall be incorporated into and become a part of and supplement the Schedules to this Agreement, and each reference to such Schedules shall mean and be a reference to such Schedules as supplemented pursuant to each Assumption Agreement.

8.12 Currency Indemnity. Each Guarantor shall make all payments of amounts owing by it hereunder in Dollars. If a Guarantor makes any such payment to the Trustee or any other Secured Party in a currency (the “Other Currency”) other than Dollars (whether voluntarily or pursuant to an order or judgment of a court or tribunal of any jurisdiction), such payment shall constitute a discharge of the liability of such party hereunder in respect of such amount owing only to the extent of the amount of Dollars which the Trustee or such Secured Party is able to purchase, with the amount it receives on the date of receipt. If the amount of Dollars which the Trustee or such Secured Party is able to purchase is less than the amount of such currency originally so due in respect of such amount, such Guarantor shall indemnify and save the Trustee or such Secured Party, as applicable, harmless from and against any loss or damage arising as a result of such deficiency. This indemnity shall constitute an obligation separate and independent from the other obligations contained in this Agreement, shall give rise to a separate and independent cause of action, shall survive termination hereof, shall apply irrespective of any indulgence granted by the Trustee or such Secured Party and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any judgment or order in respect of any amount due hereunder or under any judgment or order.

8.13 Acknowledgment of Receipt; Waiver. Each Guarantor acknowledges receipt of an executed copy of this Agreement and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, waives the right to receive a copy of any financing statement, financing change statement or verification statement in respect of any registered financing statement or financing change statement prepared, registered or issued in connection with this Agreement.

8.14 Termination; Partial Release.

(a) This Agreement and any grants, pledges and assignments hereunder shall become effective on the date hereof and shall terminate on the Termination Date.

(b) On the Termination Date, the Collateral shall be automatically released from the Liens created hereby, and this Agreement and all obligations (other than those expressly stated to survive such termination) of the Trustee and each Guarantor shall automatically terminate, all without delivery of

 

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any instrument or performance of any act by any party, and all rights to the Collateral shall revert to the Guarantors. At the request and sole expense of any Guarantor following any such termination, the Trustee shall deliver to such Guarantor any Collateral held by the Trustee hereunder, and execute and deliver to such Guarantor such documents as such Guarantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination.

(c) Any partial release of Collateral hereunder requested by the Issuer in connection with any Permitted Asset Disposition or Permitted Brand Disposition shall be governed by Section 8.16 of the Base Indenture.

8.15 Third Party Beneficiary(a) . Each of the Secured Parties and the Controlling Class Representative is an express third party beneficiary of this Agreement.

8.16 Entire Agreement(a) . This Agreement, together with the schedule hereto, the Indenture and the other Transaction Documents, contain a final and complete integration of all prior expressions by the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and shall constitute the entire agreement among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof, superseding all previous oral statements and writings with respect thereto.

8.17 Amendment and Restatement. The execution and delivery of this Agreement shall constitute an amendment, replacement and restatement, but not a novation, of the obligations and liabilities under the Original Guarantee and Collateral Agreement. All Liens, deeds of trust, mortgages, assignments and security interests securing the Original Guarantee and Collateral Agreement and the obligations relating thereto are hereby ratified, confirmed, renewed, extended, brought forward and rearranged as security for the Obligations, shall continue without any diminution thereof and shall remain in full force and effect on and after the Series 2018-1 Closing Date. The Guarantors hereby reaffirm all financing statements and amendments thereof filed and all other filings and recordations made in respect of the Collateral and the Liens and security interests granted under the Original Guarantee and Collateral Agreement and this Agreement and acknowledge that all such filings and recordations were and remain authorized and effective.

[Signature pages follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the Guarantors and the Trustee has caused this Amended and Restated Guarantee and Collateral Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by its duly authorized officer as of the date first above written.

 

DRIVEN FUNDING HOLDCO, LLC

DRIVEN SYSTEMS LLC

DRIVEN PRODUCT SOURCING LLC

1-800-RADIATOR PRODUCT SOURCING LLC

1-800-RADIATOR FRANCHISOR SPV LLC

MEINEKE FRANCHISOR SPV LLC

MAACO FRANCHISOR SPV LLC

ECONO LUBE FRANCHISOR SPV LLC

DRIVE N STYLE FRANCHISOR SPV LLC

MERLIN FRANCHISOR SPV LLC

CARSTAR FRANCHISOR SPV LLC

TAKE 5 FRANCHISOR SPV LLC

TAKE 5 PROPERTIES SPV LLC,

each as a Guarantor

By:  

  /s/ Noah Pollack

Name: Noah Pollack

Title:   Executive Vice President and Secretary

 

[SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT (DRIVEN BRANDS)]


AGREED AND ACCEPTED:

 

CITIBANK, N.A., in its capacity as Trustee

By:  

    /s/ Jacqueline Suarez

Name: Jacqueline Suarez

Title:   Senior Trust Officer

 

[SIGNATURE PAGE TO GUARANTEE AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT (DRIVEN BRANDS)]


The Servicer and Control Party hereby consent to this amendment and restatement of the Original Guarantee and Collateral Agreement.

 

MIDLAND LOAN SERVICES, a division of PNC Bank, National Association, as Servicer and Control Party
By:   /s/ David A. Eckels
  Name: David A. Eckels
  Title: Senior Vice President

 

Signature Page to Amended and Restated Guarantee and Collateral Agreement


Schedule 4.5

GUARANTOR OWNERSHIP RELATIONSHIPS

 

ENTITY    OWNED BY    SUBSIDIARIES
Driven Funding Holdco, LLC    Driven Brands, Inc.    Driven Brands Funding, LLC
Driven Systems LLC    Driven Brands Funding, LLC    Meineke Franchisor SPV LLC, Maaco Franchisor SPV LLC, Econo Lube Franchisor SPV LLC, Drive N Style Franchisor SPV LLC, Merlin Franchisor SPV LLC, 1-800-Radiator Franchisor SPV LLC, Carstar Franchisor SPV LLC and Take 5 Franchisor SPV LLC
Driven Product Sourcing LLC    Driven Brands Funding, LLC    None
1-800-Radiator Product Sourcing LLC    Driven Brands Funding, LLC    None
Take 5 Properties SPV LLC    Driven Brands Funding, LLC    None
Meineke Franchisor SPV LLC    Driven Systems LLC    None
Maaco Franchisor SPV LLC    Driven Systems LLC    None
Econo Lube Franchisor SPV LLC    Driven Systems LLC    None
Drive N Style Franchisor SPV LLC    Driven Systems LLC    None
Merlin Franchisor SPV LLC    Driven Systems LLC    None
1-800-Radiator Franchisor SPV LLC    Driven Systems LLC    None
Carstar Franchisor SPV LLC    Driven Systems LLC    None
Take 5 Franchisor SPV LLC    Driven Systems LLC    None


Exhibit A to

Amended and Restated

Guarantee and Collateral Agreement

FORM OF ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT

ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT, dated as of                 , 20     (this “Assumption Agreement”), made by                          a                          (the “Additional Guarantor”), in favor of CITIBANK, N.A., as Trustee under the Indenture referred to below (in such capacity, together with its successors, the “Trustee”). All capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Base Indenture Definitions List attached to the Base Indenture (as defined below) as Annex A thereto.

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, Driven Brands Funding, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, the Trustee and Citibank, N.A., as securities intermediary, have entered into an Amended and Restated Base Indenture dated as of April 24, 2018 (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, exclusive of any Series Supplements, the “Base Indenture” and, together with all Series Supplements, the “Indenture”), providing for the issuance from time to time of one or more Series of Notes thereunder; and

WHEREAS, in connection with the Base Indenture, the Guarantors and the Trustee have entered into the Amended and Restated Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, dated as of April 24, 2018 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Guarantee and Collateral Agreement”) in favor of the Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties;

WHEREAS, the Base Indenture requires the Additional Guarantor to become a party to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement; and

WHEREAS, the Additional Guarantor has agreed to execute and deliver this Assumption Agreement in order to become a party to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement;

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED:

1. Guarantee and Collateral Agreement. By executing and delivering this Assumption Agreement, the Additional Guarantor, as provided in Section 8.11 of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, hereby becomes a party to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement as a Guarantor thereunder with the same force and effect as if originally named therein as a Guarantor and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, hereby expressly assumes all obligations and liabilities of a Guarantor thereunder. In furtherance of the foregoing, the Additional Guarantor, as security for the payment and performance in full of the Obligations, does (x) hereby create and grant to the Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties a security interest in all of the Additional Guarantor’s right, title and interest in and to the Collateral of the Additional Guarantor and (y) jointly and severally with the other Guarantors, unconditionally and irrevocably hereby guarantee the prompt and complete payment and performance by the Issuer when due (whether at the stated maturity by acceleration or otherwise, but after giving effect to all applicable grace periods) of the Issuer Obligations. Each reference to a “Guarantor” in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement shall be deemed to include the Additional Guarantor. The Guarantee and Collateral Agreement is hereby incorporated herein by reference. The information set forth in Annex 1-A hereto (A) is true and correct as of the date hereof in all material respects and (B) is hereby added to the information set forth in Schedule 4.5 to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement and such Schedule shall be deemed so amended. The Additional Guarantor hereby represents and warrants that each of the representations and warranties contained in Section 4 of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement applicable to it is true and correct on and as the date hereof (after giving effect to this Assumption Agreement) as if made on and as of such date.

 

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2. Representations of Additional Guarantor. The Additional Guarantor represents and warrants to the Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties that this Assumption Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by it and constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

3. Counterparts; Binding Effect. This Assumption Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Assumption Agreement shall become effective when (a) the Trustee shall have received a counterpart of this Assumption Agreement that bears the signature of the Additional Guarantor and (b) the Trustee has executed a counterpart hereof. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Assumption Agreement by telecopy or .pdf file shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Assumption Agreement.

4. Full Force and Effect. Except as expressly supplemented hereby, the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

5. Severability. In case any provision in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

6. Notices. All communications and notices hereunder shall be in writing and given as provided in Section 8.2 of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement. All communications and notices hereunder to the Additional Guarantor shall be given to it at the address set forth under its signature below.

7. Fees and Expenses. The Additional Guarantor agrees to reimburse the Trustee for its reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses in connection with the execution and delivery of this Assumption Agreement, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of outside counsel for the Trustee.

8. Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAW PRINCIPLES (OTHER THAN SECTIONS 5-1404 AND 5-1402 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK).

 

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

 

[ADDITIONAL GUARANTOR]
By:    

Name:

Title:
[Address]:
Attention:
Facsimile:

 

AGREED TO AND ACCEPTED

CITIBANK, N.A., in its capacity as Trustee

By:    

Name:

 
Title:  

 

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Annex 1-A

GUARANTOR OWNERSHIP RELATIONSHIPS

 

ENTITY    OWNED BY    SUBSIDIARIES
     
           
     
           
     
           
     
           
     
           
     
           
     
           
     
           
     
           
     
           

 

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