Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom. (b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated. (c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty. (d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient. (e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers. (f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group. (g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Credit Agreement (Affinity Guest Services, LLC), Credit Agreement (Affinity Group Holding, Inc.)
Guaranty. Guarantor, upon the occurrence of a Springing Recourse Event, hereby absolutely, irrevocably and unconditionally guaranties the due and punctual payment and performance when due, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of all of the following (collectively referred to as the “Guarantied Obligations”): (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees all indebtedness and obligations owing by the Borrower to any Lender, the Administrative AgentSwingline Lender, for the benefit Issuing Lender or the Agent under or in connection with the Credit Agreement and any other Loan Document, including without limitation, the repayment of all principal of the Lender GroupRevolving Loans, Term Loans A, Term Loans B, Swingline Loans and the full Reimbursement Obligations, and prompt the payment of all interest, Fees, charges, attorneys’ fees and other amounts payable to any Lender or the ObligationsAgent thereunder or in connection therewith; (b) any and all extensions, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreementrenewals, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingsmodifications, whether amendments or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes substitutions of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)foregoing; (c) all expenses, plus including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if disbursements, that are incurred by the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless Lenders and the Agent in the enforcement of whether any proposed guarantor of the foregoing or any obligation of Guarantor hereunder; and (d) all other Person shall become in any other way responsible to Obligations. For the Lender Grouppurposes of this Guaranty, or the occurrence of any of them, for or the events described in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty (1)-(3) below shall be a joint “Springing Recourse Event”:
(A) Guarantor fails to perform or comply with any of the following terms (each, a “Guarantor Covenant Breach”):
(i) the Guarantor shall not, directly or indirectly, enter into or conduct any business other than in connection with the ownership, acquisition and several obligationdisposition of general or limited partnership interests in the Borrower and the management of the business of the Borrower, and such activities as are incidental thereto, all of which shall be a continuing guaranty and solely in furtherance of the business of the Borrower;
(ii) the Guarantor shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash not own any assets other than (A) equity interests (or rights, options or warrants in respect thereof) of the case of Letter of Credit ObligationsBorrower, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal (B) up to a one hundred five percent (1051%) equity interest in any partnership or limited liability company at least ninety-nine percent (99%) of the Letter equity of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Borrower; (C) money that has been distributed to Guarantor by Borrower or a Subsidiary of Borrower described in clause (ii)(B) above in accordance with Section 10.2. of the Credit ObligationsAgreement that is held for ten (10) Business Days or less pending further distribution to equity holders of the Guarantor, (D) assets received by the Guarantor from third parties (including, without limitation, the proceeds from any Equity Issuance), that are held for ten (10) Business Days or less pending further contribution to Borrower, (E) such bank accounts or similar instruments (subject to the other terms hereof) as it deems necessary to carry out its responsibilities under the limited partnership agreement of the Borrower, and (F) other tangible and intangible assets that, taken as a whole, are de minimis in relation to the net assets of Borrower and its Subsidiaries (but which in no event shall include any real estate, cash, cash equivalents or other liquid assets in excess of $500,000 in the aggregate (except as permitted in clauses (ii)(C) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(cD) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense above) or equity interests (other than equity interests permitted in clauses (ii)(A) and (B) above);
(iii) the defense of payment in cash in full, Guarantor shall promptly contribute or otherwise downstream to the extent Borrower any net assets received by the Guarantor from third parties (including, without limitation, the proceeds from any Equity Issuance), subject to the terms of its obligations hereunderclause (ii)(D) above;
(iv) the Guarantor shall not merge or consolidate (except as permitted in the Credit Agreement), or dissolve, liquidate or otherwise wind up its business, affairs or assets;
(v) the Guarantor shall not guarantee, or otherwise be or become obligated in respect of, any Indebtedness (which for the purposes hereof shall include any obligations under any Derivatives Contract but shall exclude (A) guarantees of obligations under any Derivatives Contracts in favor of Associated Bank National Association and any lender under the Prior Term Loan Agreement or Prior Existing Credit Agreement in place as of ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇, ▇▇▇▇, (▇) any Indebtedness described in clause (f) of the definition of Indebtedness, (C) any liability pursuant to a defense Customary Nonrecourse Debt Guaranty until a claim is made with respect thereto (provided that such for the purposes of this clause (v), the Guarantor shall not be deemed to have violated this covenant with respect to Indebtedness under a Customary Nonrecourse Debt Guaranty until a judgment is obtained with respect to claims under Customary Nonrecourse Debt Guaranties individually or in the aggregate of $30,000,000 or greater), and (D) any liability pursuant to a springing guaranty on substantially the same terms as the Springing Guaranty; and provided further that the Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty (x) Indebtedness of Borrower in place as of March 31, 2014 and (y) Indebtedness of Inland Diversified assumed by Borrower and that is existing debt of Inland Diversified as of July 1, 2014 and was not incurred as a part of or the obligations in anticipation of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations merger of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any Inland Diversified with and into KRG Magellan, solely by virtue of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise Guarantor being the general partner of Borrower and not as a guarantor, shall be excluded from the foregoing provided such liability is not increased; and
(B) with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations a Guarantor Covenant Breach of any event described in (1)(A)(i)-(iii) above, the passage of forty-five (45) days after the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any first to occur of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, either (i) take Borrower or Guarantor becoming aware of such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem properGuarantor Covenant Breach, or (ii) releaseAgent notifying Borrower in writing of any such Guarantor Covenant Breach, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal or
(C) with or fail respect to deal with any a Guarantor Covenant Breach of the Obligations event described in clause (1)(A)(v) above, the passage of ten (10) Business Days (or any security forty-five (45) days if the aggregate Indebtedness for the purposes of clause (1)(A)(v) above is less than $10,000,000), after the first to occur of either (i) Borrower or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any Guarantor becoming aware of themsuch Guarantor Covenant Breach, or (iiiii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive Agent notifying Borrower in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage writing of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.Guarantor Covenant Breach; or
(e2) Each Borrower or Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in shall commence a voluntary case under the nature or terms Bankruptcy Code of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents1978, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other handas amended, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent federal bankruptcy or any other Person pursuant domestic or foreign laws relating to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratoriumwinding-up, fraudulent conveyance composition or adjustment of debts, in each case with respect to Borrower or Guarantor, whether now or hereinafter in effect (collectively, a “Bankruptcy Proceeding”); or
(3) Borrower or Guarantor or any officer or director thereof shall collude with, or otherwise assist any party in connection with any such filing in a Bankruptcy Proceeding or solicit or cause to be solicited petitioning creditors for any involuntary petition against Borrower or Guarantor in any such Bankruptcy Proceeding from any party. Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that the guaranty under this Guaranty of the Guarantied Obligations shall automatically become fully effective upon the occurrence of any Springing Recourse Event and no other similar laws relating documentation or notice shall be required to evidence the insolvency of debtorssame.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Credit Agreement (Kite Realty Group, L.P.), Springing Guaranty (Kite Realty Group, L.P.)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives guarantees to Administrative Agent for the benefit of Administrative Agent and the Lenders and becomes surety for each of the following, but only to the extent that the same are not timely paid by Borrower: (i) subject to the terms and conditions of Section 27 below, the full and timely payment when due, whether by declaration, acceleration or otherwise, of all principal of the Loan including the full and timely payment of principal when due pursuant to the terms of the Loan Agreement, (ii) any accrued and unpaid obligations pursuant to any Lender-Provided Swap other than (and expressly excluding) any obligations under any Swaps that are not secured by the Property (any such obligations, “Lender-Provided Swap Obligations”) relating to the Loan, and any and all right to assert any defense present and future Swaps and Lender-Provided Swaps (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)Excluded Swap Obligations) and (iii), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim the reasonable expenses and fees of legal counsel in connection with any nature whatsoever with respect collection and/or enforcement relative to this Guaranty or (“Costs”) (all amounts due, debts, liabilities and payment obligations described in this Section 2 which are not timely paid by Borrower are hereinafter collectively referred to as the obligations “Guaranteed Obligations”). This is a guaranty of the Guarantors payment and performance and not of collection. The liability of Guarantor under this Guaranty is direct and immediate and not conditional or contingent upon the obligations pursuit of any remedies against Borrower or any other person (including other guarantors, if any), nor against the collateral for the Loan. To the extent permitted by applicable law, Guarantor waives any right to require that an action be brought against Borrower or any other Person or party to require that resort be had to any collateral for the Loan or to any balance of any deposit account or credit on the books of Administrative Agent or any Lender in favor of Borrower or any other Person. In the event, on account of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, as amended, or any other debtor relief law (whether statutory, common law, case law or otherwise) of any jurisdiction whatsoever, now or hereafter in effect, which may be or become applicable, Borrower is relieved of or fails to incur any debt, obligation or liability as provided in the Loan Documents, Guarantor will nevertheless be fully liable for the Guaranteed Obligations. In the event of a Default or Event of Default which is not cured within any applicable grace or cure period, Administrative Agent and/or the Required Lenders will have the right to enforce their respective rights, powers and remedies (including Borrowersforeclosure of all or any portion of the collateral for the Loan) relating thereunder or hereunder, in any order, and all rights, powers and remedies available to this Guaranty Administrative Agent and/or the Required Lenders in such event will be non-exclusive and cumulative of all other rights, powers and remedies provided thereunder or hereunder or by law or in equity. If the obligations Guaranteed Obligations are partially paid or discharged by reason of the exercise of any of the Guarantors under remedies available to Administrative Agent and/or the Required Lenders, this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations will nevertheless remain in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole full force and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangementseffect, and realize upon any security Guarantor will remain liable for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit remaining Guaranteed Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to even though any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim rights which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers Borrower may be destroyed or diminished by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full exercise of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Groupany such remedy.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Payment Guaranty Agreement (KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III, Inc.), Payment Guaranty Agreement (KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III, Inc.)
Guaranty. Without limiting the terms of Section 1, the New Additional Subsidiary Guarantor hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably, jointly and severally,
(a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt punctual payment when due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all Obligations of the ObligationsBorrower and each other Obligor, including any interest therein whether for principal, interest, fees, expenses or otherwise (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after all such amounts which would become due but for the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes operation of the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the United States Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceedingCode, 11 U.S.C. Section 362(a), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by lawoperation of Sections 502(b) and 506(b) of the United States Bankruptcy Code, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.11 U.S.C. Section 502(b) and Section 506(b)); and
(b) Regardless indemnifies and holds harmless each Lender Party and each holder of whether a Note for any proposed guarantor and all costs and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees and expenses) incurred by such Lender Party or such holder, as the case may be, in enforcing any rights under this Supplement or the Subsidiary Guaranty; provided, however, that the New Additional Subsidiary Guarantor shall be liable under this Supplement and the Subsidiary Guaranty for the maximum amount of such liability that can be incurred without rendering this Supplement and the Subsidiary Guaranty, as it relates to the New Additional Subsidiary Guarantor, voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, and not for any greater amount. This Supplement and the Subsidiary Guaranty constitute a guaranty of payment when due and not of collection, and the New Additional Subsidiary Guarantor specifically agrees that it shall not be necessary or required that any Lender Party or any holder of any Note exercise any right, assert any claim or demand or enforce any remedy whatsoever against the Borrower or any other Person shall become in Obligor (or any other way responsible Person) before or as a condition to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors New Additional Subsidiary Guarantor under this Guaranty Supplement or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Subsidiary Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Credit Agreement (Adt Limited), Subsidiary Guaranty (Adt Limited)
Guaranty. (ai) Each For value received and in consideration of any loan, advance or financial accommodation of any kind whatsoever heretofore, now or hereafter made, given or granted to any Borrower by the Lenders, each Guarantor hereby unconditionally guarantees the full and prompt payment when due, whether at maturity or earlier, by reason of acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of all the Guaranteed Obligations (including, without limitation, interest accruing following the filing of a bankruptcy petition by or against any applicable Borrower, at the applicable rate specified in the Credit Agreement, whether or not such interest is allowed as a claim in bankruptcy).
(ii) At any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default, each Guarantor shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lender GroupAgents and the Lenders, on demand and in immediately available funds, the full and prompt payment amount of the Guaranteed Obligations. Each Guarantor further agrees to pay and reimburse the Agents and the Lenders for, including any interest therein on demand and in immediately available funds, (including interest as provided in this Agreementa) all reasonable fees, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingscosts and expenses (including, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)without limitation, plus all court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees ' fees, costs and expenses if the obligations represented expenses) paid or incurred by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
such Person in: (b1) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group endeavoring to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of Guaranteed Obligations owing to such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenantsPerson from, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by prosecuting any action against, the applicable Borrower or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of Borrowers relating to the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount transactions contemplated thereby; (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” 2) taking any action with respect to any Guarantorsecurity or collateral securing the Guaranteed Obligations; and (3) preserving, protecting or defending the enforceability of, or enforcing, this Guaranty or the Agents' or the Lenders' rights hereunder (all such costs and expenses are hereinafter referred to as the "Expenses") and (b) interest on the Expenses, from the date of demand under this Guaranty until paid in full at the per annum rate of interest described in Section 4.01(d) of the Credit Agreement. Each Guarantor hereby agrees that this Guaranty is an absolute guaranty of payment and is not a guaranty of collection.
(iii) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Guaranty to the contrary, the amount guaranteed by each Guarantor hereunder shall mean the maximum be limited to an aggregate amount which could be paid which, together with other amounts owing by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency Agents and the Lenders, is equal to the largest amount that would not be subject to avoidance under Section 548 of debtorsTitle 11 of the United States Code (11 U.S.C. ▇▇.▇▇. 101 et seq.) (the "Bankruptcy Code") or any applicable provisions of any comparable state law.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Credit Agreement (General Inspection Laboratories Inc), Credit Agreement (General Inspection Laboratories Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each The Guarantor hereby guarantees unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees, as primary obligor and not merely surety, to the Administrative Agent, for Beneficiaries the benefit prompt and complete payment by the Owner Participant when due of all payment obligations of the Lender GroupOwner Participant under the Operative Agreements without offset or deduction and the timely performance of all other obligations of the Owner Participant thereunder (such payment and other obligations, the full "Obligations"), and prompt payment the Guarantor further agrees to pay any and all expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) that may be paid or incurred by the Beneficiaries in enforcing any rights with respect to, or collecting, any or all of the ObligationsObligations and/or enforcing any rights with respect to, including or collecting against, the Guarantor under this Guaranty. The Guarantor will not exercise any interest therein (including interest as provided rights that it may now or hereafter acquire against Owner Participant that arise from the existence, payment, performance or enforcement of the Guarantor's Obligations under this Guaranty or the Operative Agreements, including, without limitation, any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or indemnification and any right to participate in this Agreement, accruing after the filing any claim or remedy of a petition initiating any Insolvency ProceedingsBeneficiary against Owner Participant or any collateral, whether or not such interest accrues claim, remedy or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code right arises in equity or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)under contract, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by statute or common law, through an attorneyincluding, without limitation, the right to take or receive from Owner Participant, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-at-law, off or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Groupmanner, payment or any security on account of themsuch claim, for remedy or in respect right, unless and until all of the Obligations or any part thereof, have been performed in full and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether all other amounts payable under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or cash. If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) violation of the Letter preceding sentence at any time prior to the final payment in full in cash of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any Obligations and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way amounts payable under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities amount shall be held in trust for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage benefit of any security for Beneficiary and shall forthwith be paid to such Beneficiary to be credited and applied to the Obligations and accept all other amounts payable under this Guaranty, whether matured or make any compositions or arrangementsunmatured, and realize upon any security for in accordance with the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Operative Agreements, or to be held as collateral for any Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable amounts payable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiversthereafter arising.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Owner Participant Guaranty (Federal Express Corp), Guaranty (Federal Express Corp)
Guaranty. Except as otherwise provided for herein (a) Each including under Section 3.14), each Note Guarantor hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, and absolutely and unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Administrative AgentCollateral Agent (for the set-off of the Secured Parties), the full and prompt payment, when and as the same become due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Obligations, including amounts that would become due but for the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. §362(a), together with any and all expenses which may be incurred by the Collateral Agent and other Secured Parties in collecting any of the Obligations that are reimbursable in accordance with Section 5(a) of the Note Purchase Agreement (collectively, the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each Note Guarantor further agrees that all or any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations may be increased, extended or renewed in whole or in part without notice to or further assent from it, and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any such extension or renewal. In addition, if any or all of the Guaranteed Obligations become due and payable hereunder, each Note Guarantor, unconditionally and irrevocably, promises to pay such Guaranteed Obligations to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Lender GroupSecured Parties, on demand. Each Note Guarantor unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the full and prompt payment of any and all of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, Guaranteed Obligations whether or not such interest accrues due or is recoverable against Borrowers after payable by the filing of such petition for purposes of Issuer upon the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations occurrence of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member Bankruptcy Event of Default of the Lender Group Note and thereafter irrevocably and unconditionally promises to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take pay such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Guaranteed Obligations to the satisfaction Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Secured Parties. This Note Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, a continuing one and shall remain in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or full force and effect until the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall beReference Date (or, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Note Guarantor, until the release of such Note Guarantor from its obligations hereunder in accordance with Section 3.14 hereof), and all liabilities to which it applies or may apply under the terms hereof shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction conclusively presumed to have been created in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsreliance hereon.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Note Guaranty (Li-Cycle Holdings Corp.), Note Guaranty (Li-Cycle Holdings Corp.)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor jointly and severally hereby unconditionally and irrevocably (i) guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment and performance when due of the all now existing and hereafter arising Obligations, including and (ii) agrees to pay any interest therein and all costs, fees and expenses (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable in-house and external attorneys’ fees and expenses if (but, in the obligations represented case of in-house counsels’ fees and expenses, without duplication of work performed by outside counsel)) reasonably incurred by Lender Parties in enforcing the Guaranty set forth in this Article XIV (collectively, the “Guaranteed Obligations”). This Guaranty is a continuing guaranty of payment and performance when due and not of collection which shall not be discharged until all Guaranteed Obligations are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefromindefeasibly paid in cash and performed in full and this Agreement is terminated.
(b) Regardless Each Guarantor jointly and severally hereby unconditionally and irrevocably (i) guarantees that the Guaranteed Obligations will be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, regardless of any Applicable Law now or hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any such terms or the rights of any Lender Party, and (ii) waives any rights and defenses it may now or hereafter have. The obligations of each Guarantor under this Article XIV are independent of the Guaranteed Obligations, and Agent may enforce the this Article XIV independently as to each Guarantor and/or each remedy, Collateral or other security Agent may at any time have, without first proceeding against or joining any other Person, Collateral or other security for the Guaranteed Obligations. A separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Guarantor to enforce such obligations, irrespective of whether any proposed guarantor or action is brought against any other Person shall become Credit Party or whether any other Credit Party is joined in any such action or actions. Lender Parties shall be under no obligation to marshal any assets in favor of any Guarantor or to proceed against or exhaust any Collateral before proceeding against any Guarantor. Each Guarantor agrees that it may be joined as a party defendant in any legal proceeding instituted by any Lender Party against any other way responsible Credit Party. The obligations of each Guarantor under this Article XIV shall extend to all amounts that constitute part of the Guaranteed Obligations and would be owed by any Credit Party to Lender GroupParties under any Loan Document but for, or and shall be unaffected by, any of themthe following:
(i) lack of genuineness, for validity, regularity or in respect enforceability of any of the Obligations or Loan Document;
(ii) change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any part thereofother term of, and regardless all or any of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender GroupGuaranteed Obligations, or any rescission, amendment or modification to, or waiver or compromise or acceleration of themor any consent with respect to, for any of the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereofLoan Document or any other guaranty or the failure to obtain the consent or any Guarantor or other Person with respect thereto;
(iii) the existence, whether value or condition of, or the failure by any Lender Party to perfect and maintain any Lien in, or to preserve any rights to, or the release or foreclosure of, any Collateral or other security for the Obligations;
(iv) the change, restructuring, dissolution or termination of the structure or existence of any Credit Party or the insolvency or bankruptcy of any Credit Party under this Guaranty any Debtor Relief Law;
(v) any action taken or otherwiseomitted by any Lender Party or any failure of any Lender Party to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against any Credit Party or any other guarantor; or
(vi) other action or circumstance (including, shall cease to be so liablewithout limitation, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees any statute of limitations) or any existence of or reliance on any representation by Lender Parties that this Guaranty shall be might otherwise constitute a joint and several obligationdefense available to, shall be or a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until legal or equitable discharge of, any co-obligor, Credit Party or any other guarantor or surety (other than actual indefeasible payment of the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedcash).
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that (i) it will receive substantial direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated in this Agreement which would not have been available to the Credit Parties except upon the joint and several basis set forth herein and with the Guaranty provided in this Article XIV, and (ii) Lender Parties have made no change in the nature representation or terms warranty with respect to validity, genuineness, regularity, or enforceability of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, and have no duty or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related responsibility whatsoever to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in respect to the possession of any member management and maintenance of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent Guaranteed Obligations or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupCollateral.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Credit Agreement (Fibernet Telecom Group Inc\), Credit Agreement (Fibernet Telecom Group Inc\)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor Guarantor, as primary obligor and not merely as a surety, hereby absolutely and irrevocably guarantees to Beneficiary the Administrative Agent, for the benefit punctual payment and performance when due of the Lender GroupGuaranteed Obligations (as hereinafter defined). As used herein, “Guaranteed Obligations” means, collectively, (i) the full and prompt payment of all amounts, capital contributions, sums and charges payable by Guarantor-Affiliated Member under the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Limited Liability Company Agreement, accruing after including, without limitation, all obligations of Guarantor-Affiliated Member to make Guaranty Equalization Payments and all indemnification obligations of Guarantor-Affiliated Member under the filing Limited Liability Company Agreement, (ii) the full and punctual performance and observance of a petition initiating all the terms, covenants and conditions provided to be performed, observed and complied with by Guarantor-Affiliated Member under the Limited Liability Company Agreement, or provided to be performed, observed and complied with by Guarantor-Affiliated Member or an affiliate or designee thereof (each, individually and collectively, “Obligor”) under any Insolvency Proceedingsassumption agreement or other instrument delivered by it pursuant to the Limited Liability Company Agreement, whether in respect of any Land Option, Archstone Real Estate Asset, Office Lease or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after otherwise, and (iii) the filing full and prompt payment of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)all damages, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees costs and expenses if the obligations represented which shall at any time be recoverable by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorneyCreditor Member from Guarantor-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor Affiliated Member or any other Person shall become in Obligor by virtue of or under the Limited Liability Company Agreement or under any assumption agreement or other way responsible instrument delivered by it pursuant to the Lender GroupLimited Liability Company Agreement, including, without limitation, on account of any representations or any of themwarranties made by Guarantor-Affiliated Member thereunder. Guarantor further agrees to pay all Enforcement Costs (as hereinafter defined), for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible addition to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether all other amounts due hereunder. Any amounts owed under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each (that are not accruing interest under the Limited Liability Company Agreement) which are not timely made by Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that in accordance with the terms of this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligationbear interest from the date payable at the rate of fifteen percent (15%) per annum until all such amounts are fully paid. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations (x) Guarantor shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) all of the Letter of Credit Obligations) same rights, remedies and defenses as Guarantor-Affiliated Member, including, without limitation, the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense exercise the dispute resolution procedures under and in accordance with the terms of the Limited Liability Company Agreement, and (y) other than the defense payment of payment in cash in fullEnforcement Costs, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor shall have no greater liability than Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further Affiliated Member or other security Obligor under the Limited Liability Company Agreement or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid assumption agreement or instrument delivered by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsit pursuant thereto.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Limited Liability Company Agreement (Avalonbay Communities Inc), Limited Liability Company Agreement (Erp Operating LTD Partnership)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor The Guarantor, jointly and severally, hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full unconditionally and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible irrevocably guaranties to the Lender Groupthe full payment and performance, when due, by acceleration or otherwise, of all indebtedness, liabilities, and obligations of Borrower to the Lender of any kind and description (collectively, the “Indebtedness”) under and pursuant to the Note or any of them, for the other documents evidencing or in respect securing the Loan (collectively the “Loan Documents”). The guaranty of the Obligations or any part thereofGuarantor as set forth in this section is an absolute, continuing, primary, and regardless unconditional guaranty of whether or payment and not any Person now or hereafter responsible to of collection. If a claim is ever made upon the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations repayment or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim recovery of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty amount or amounts received by the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations Lender in payment of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty Indebtedness and the Lender repays all or otherwise with respect to part of such amount by reason of (a) any judgment, decree, or order of any court or administrative body having jurisdiction over the Obligations in Lender or any action of its property, or proceeding brought (b) any settlement or compromise of any such claim effected by the Administrative Agent Lender with any such claimant, including the Borrower, then in such event the Guarantor agrees that any such judgment, decree, order, settlement, or compromise shall be binding upon the Guarantor, notwithstanding any other member revocation hereof or the cancellation of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations Note or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of other instrument evidencing any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Indebtedness, and the Guarantor shall be and remain obligated to the Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities hereunder for the Obligations amount so repaid or recovered to the same extent as if such amount had never originally been received by the Lender, such amount to be included in the term “Indebtedness.” This Guaranty may be enforced by the Lender against the Guarantor without the necessity at any part thereof as they may deem propertime of the Lender’s (a) having recourse against Borrower on the Note, or (iib) releaseexercising any other rights available to it under the Note or other Loan Documents. The Guarantor on demand shall pay to the Lender in immediately available funds, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor in lawful money of the Obligations United States of America, any sum or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by sums due to the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedienthereunder.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Loan Agreement (Roberts Realty Investors Inc), Guaranty (Roberts Realty Investors Inc)
Guaranty. In order to induce ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, BILLINGS, RAMSEY, GROUP, INC., (a“Sublandlord”) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to execute and deliver that certain Sublease (the Administrative Agent“Sublease”) between Sublandlord and INNOVIVE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Tenant”) for the benefit of premises (the Lender Group“Sublease Premises”) more particularly described in the Sublease, and in consideration thereof, the undersigned PARAMOUNT BIOCAPITAL INVESTMENTS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Paramount”) and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, an individual (“Individual Guarantor”)) (Paramount and the Individual Guarantor are collectively referred to herein as the “Guarantor”) hereby unconditionally, absolutely and irrevocably guaranty to Sublandlord, and its successors and assigns, the prompt and full payment by Subtenant of each and prompt payment every item of Base Rent, Operating Payments, Tax Payments and Electricity to be paid by Subtenant under the ObligationsSublease, together with any and all costs and expenses, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if fees, which may be incurred by Sublandlord in connection with any default beyond any applicable notice or grace period by Subtenant under the obligations represented by Sublease or enforcing the Sublease and/or this Guaranty are collected by law(collectively the “Obligations”). Guarantor expressly acknowledges that he, through an attorney-at-lawshe or it has reviewed the Sublease and understands the same. If there is more than one Guarantor, the terms and conditions of this Guaranty shall apply to all Guarantors jointly and severally. The liability of Guarantor is coextensive with that of Subtenant and also joint and several, and legal action may be brought against Guarantor and carried to final judgment either with or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor without making Subtenant or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, assignee or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares successor thereof as a party thereto. The undersigned further covenants and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, Sublandlord may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due time, in its sole and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorizedabsolute unfettered discretion, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.undersigned:
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Sublease (Innovive Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), Sublease (Innovive Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees To induce the Company to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in enter into this Agreement, accruing after Sumitomo, intending to be legally bound, hereby absolutely, irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, to the filing Company the due and punctual payment of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingsall amounts payable from Parent or Merger Sub under this Agreement, in each case as and when due (collectively, the “Guaranteed Obligations”), whether now or hereafter made, incurred or created, whether absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, and however arising under this Agreement. This guarantee may not such interest accrues be revoked or is recoverable against Borrowers after terminated and will remain in full force and effect without interruption and will be binding on Sumitomo and its successors and assigns until the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim Guaranteed Obligations have been satisfied in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefromfull.
(b) Regardless of whether Sumitomo promises and undertakes to make all payments hereunder without deduction or offset for any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Groupdefense, claim, or counterclaim of Sumitomo of any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedkind.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelyThe guarantee set forth in Section 9.13(a) (the “Guarantee”) is an absolute, unconditionally unconditional, and continuing guarantee of the full and punctual payment by Parent and Merger Sub of the Guaranteed Obligations and not of collection and is binding upon Sumitomo and its successors and assigns, and Sumitomo irrevocably waives any and all right to assert revoke the guarantee set forth in this Section 9.13 as to future transactions giving rise to any defense (other than Guaranteed Obligations. Should Parent or Merger Sub default in the defense payment of payment any of the Guaranteed Obligations, Sumitomo’s obligations hereunder will become immediately due and payable in cash in fullimmediately available funds to the Company or, to the extent of its such obligations hereunderbecome due and payable after the Effective Time, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member former holders of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereofCertificates, Book-Entry Shares, Company Share Awards, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this GuarantyIndemnified Persons. Claims hereunder may be made on one or more occasions.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood Sumitomo agrees that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Guaranteed Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall will not be releasedreleased or discharged, in whole or in part, or otherwise affected or impaired by (i) the failure or delay on the part of the Company to assert any action claim or thing which mightdemand or to enforce any right or remedy against Parent or Merger Sub, but for this paragraph except to the extent Parent or Merger Sub successfully asserts rights as a result of such failure or delay that are not the subject to subclause (iv) of this GuarantySection 9.13(d); (ii) any renewal, be deemed a legal extension, acceleration or equitable discharge other change in the time, place or manner of a surety payment of the Guaranteed Obligations or guarantorrescission, waiver, compromise, consolidation, subordination or by reason other waiver, amendment or modification of any waiver, omission of the Lender Groupterms or provisions of this Agreement made in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; (iii) any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of Parent or Merger Sub; (iv) any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceeding affecting Parent or Merger Sub or their assets; (v) any request or acceptance of other guaranties of the Guaranteed Obligations or the taking or holding of security for the payment of the Guaranteed Obligations; (vi) the enforcement or application of any security now or hereafter held in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations; (vii) the exercise of other rights or remedies available to the Company or the other beneficiaries, or any of them, under this Agreement, at law or their failure in equity, except to the extent Parent or Merger Sub successfully asserts rights as a result of such exercise that are not the subject to subclause (iv) of this Section 9.13(d); and (viii) any other act or thing or omission, or delay to do any other act or thing, which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of Sumitomo as an obligor in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations (in all cases other than payment in full of the Guaranteed Obligations, any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceeding affecting Sumitomo or its assets, and defenses to the payment of the Guaranteed Obligations that are available to Parent or Merger Sub under this Agreement that are not the subject to subclause (iv) of this Section 9.13(d)). Sumitomo waives promptness, diligence, notice of the acceptance of the Guarantee and of the Guaranteed Obligations, presentment, demand for payment, notice of non-performance, default, dishonor and protest, notice of the Guaranteed Obligations incurred and all other notices of any kind, all defenses which may be available by virtue of any valuation, stay, statute of limitations, moratorium Law or other similar Law now or hereafter in effect, any right to require the marshalling of assets of Parent or Merger Sub or any other Person interested in the Transactions, any right to require the Company to proceed promptly against Parent or Merger Sub or any other Person, any right to require the Company to proceed against or exhaust any security or pursue any other remedy, any defense arising by reason of the incapacity, lack of authority or any disability or other defense of Parent or Merger Sub and all suretyship defenses generally (in all cases other than fraud by the Company, payment in full of the Guaranteed Obligations, any principles or provisions of law, statutory or otherwise, that are or by reason of any action taken or omitted by might be in conflict with the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member terms of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented toguarantee set forth in this Section 9.13, any legal or equitable discharge of Sumitomo’s obligations hereunder and defenses to the payment of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements Guaranteed Obligations that are available to Parent or waiversMerger Sub under this Agreement). Sumitomo acknowledges that it has received and will receive substantial direct and indirect benefits from the Transactions and that the waivers set forth in this Section 9.13 are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.
(fe) The Lender GroupNo failure on the part of the Company to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right, remedy or power pursuant to this Section 9.13 will operate as a waiver thereof, nor will any of them, may, without demand single or notice partial exercise by the Company of any kind upon right, remedy or power pursuant to this Section 9.13 preclude any Guarantorother or future exercise of any right, remedy or power pursuant to this Section 9.13. Each and every right, remedy and power granted to the Company pursuant to this Section 9.13 or allowed it by Law or agreement with respect to this Section 9.13 will be cumulative and not exclusive of any other, and may be exercised by the Company at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall time. The Company will not have timely paid any obligation to proceed at any time or in any manner against, exhaust any or all of the Obligations (Company’s rights against Parent or in Merger Sub prior to proceeding against Sumitomo hereunder or resort to any security or other means of collecting payment. This Guarantee may only be amended by a writing signed and delivered by Sumitomo and the case of Letter of Credit ObligationsCompany. Sumitomo agrees that Section 9.02, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off Section 9.08 and appropriate and Section 9.10 apply to any portion Sumitomo solely with respect to this Section 9.13.
(f) Sumitomo hereby represents and warrants to the Company and covenants that: (i) the execution, delivery and performance of the Obligations hereby guaranteedthis Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary action, and in such order no other proceedings on the part of application as the Administrative Agent may from time Sumitomo or its stockholders are necessary to time elect authorize this Agreement, and do not contravene any provision of Sumitomo’s organizational documents or any Law or contractual restriction binding on Sumitomo or its assets; (ii) this Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of Sumitomo enforceable against Sumitomo in accordance with this Agreementits terms, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys subject to the effect of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group applicable bankruptcy, insolvency (including all Laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or under their respective control for any purpose. If similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to effect of general principles of equity (regardless of whether considered in an Action at law or in respect equity), and (iii) Sumitomo will not issue any press release or other communication in contravention of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupSection 6.07.
(g) The creation In the event that all or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess any portion of the amount committed to Guaranteed Obligations is paid by Parent or outstanding on Merger Sub, the date obligations of this Guaranty Sumitomo hereunder will be reinstated in the event that all or any part of such payment(s) is hereby authorizedrescinded or recovered directly or indirectly from the Company or any other beneficiary as a preference, without notice to any Guarantorfraudulent transfer or otherwise, and any such payments that are so rescinded or recovered shall constitute Guaranteed Obligations.
(h) Nothing in no way impair this Section 9.13 will waive any defenses, counterclaims, or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent setoff that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering Parent or Merger Sub may have under this Guaranty void Agreement or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsapplicable Law.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Merger Agreement (Urovant Sciences Ltd.), Merger Agreement (Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees In order to induce the Administrative Agent, for the benefit Collateral Agent, the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to extend credit hereunder, and to induce the other Guaranteed Creditors to enter into Interest Rate Protection Agreements and Other Hedging Agreements and in recognition of the Lender Groupdirect benefits to be received by each Credit Agreement Party from the proceeds of the Loans, the issuance of the Letters of Credit and the entering into of such Interest Rate Protection Agreements and Other Hedging Agreements, each Credit Agreement Party hereby agrees with the Guaranteed Creditors as follows: each Credit Agreement Party hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees as primary obligor and not merely as surety the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingswhen due, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)upon maturity, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty acceleration or otherwise, shall cease of any and all of the Guaranteed Obligations to be so liablethe Guaranteed Creditors. If any or all of the Guaranteed Obligations to the Guaranteed Creditors becomes due and payable hereunder, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelyAgreement Party, unconditionally and irrevocably waives irrevocably, promises to pay such indebtedness to the Administrative Agent and/or the other Guaranteed Creditors, or order, on demand, together with any and all right to assert expenses which may be incurred by the Administrative Agent and the other Guaranteed Creditors in collecting any defense (other than of the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, Guaranteed Obligations. If claim is ever made upon any Guaranteed Creditor for repayment or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim recovery of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty amount or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty amounts received in payment or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations on account of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of and any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
aforesaid payees repays all or part of said amount by reason of (di) The Lender Groupany judgment, decree or order of any court or administrative body having jurisdiction over such payee or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, its property or (ii) release, discharge, abandon any settlement or otherwise deal with or fail to deal compromise of any such claim effected by such payee with any Guarantor of the Obligations or such claimant (including any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(eGuaranteed Party), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, then and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and event each Credit Agreement Party agrees that no change in the nature any such judgment, decree, order, settlement or terms compromise shall be binding upon such Credit Agreement Party, notwithstanding any revocation of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, this Credit Agreement Party Guaranty or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including instrument evidencing any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason liability of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or suretyGuaranteed Party, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and Credit Agreement Party shall be deemed and remain liable to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements aforesaid payees hereunder for the amount so repaid or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or recovered to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any the same extent as if such amount shall be due and payable hereunder had never originally been received by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Grouppayee.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Credit Agreement (Town Sports International Holdings Inc), Credit Agreement (Town Sports International Holdings Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each U.S. Guarantor that is not a Specified U.S. Obligor and each Non-U.S. Guarantor that is not a Specified Non-U.S. Obligor hereby jointly and severally guarantees to the Administrative Agenteach Secured Party and each other holder of Obligations as hereinafter provided, for the benefit of the Lender Groupas primary obligor and not as surety, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations in full when due (whether at stated maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration, as a mandatory cash collateralization or otherwise) strictly in accordance with the terms thereof. Each U.S. Guarantor that is not a Specified U.S. Obligor and each Non-U.S. Guarantor that is not a Specified Non-U.S. Obligor hereby further agrees that if any of the Obligations are not paid in full when due (whether at stated maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration, as a mandatory cash collateralization or otherwise), such Guarantors will, jointly and severally, promptly pay the same, without any demand or notice whatsoever, and that in the case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any of the Obligations, including any interest therein the same will be promptly paid in full when due (including interest whether at extended maturity, as provided a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration, as a mandatory cash collateralization or otherwise) in this Agreement, accruing after accordance with the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing terms of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code extension or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefromrenewal.
(b) Regardless Each Non-U.S. Guarantor hereby jointly and severally guarantees to each Secured Party and each other holder of Non-U.S. Obligations as hereinafter provided, as primary obligor and not as surety, the prompt payment of the Non-U.S. Obligations in full when due (whether any proposed guarantor at stated maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration, as a mandatory cash collateralization or any other Person shall become otherwise) strictly in any other way responsible to accordance with the Lender Group, or terms thereof. Each Non-U.S. Guarantor hereby further agrees that if any of them, for or in respect of the Non-U.S. Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or are not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in when due (whether at stated maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration, as a mandatory cash (collateralization or otherwise), such Guarantors will, jointly and severally, promptly pay the same, without any demand or notice whatsoever, and that in the case of Letter any extension of Credit time of payment or renewal of any of the Non-U.S. Obligations, secured through delivery the same will be promptly paid in full when due (whether at extended maturity, as a mandatory prepayment, by acceleration, as a mandatory cash collateralization or otherwise) in accordance with the terms of cash collateral in an amount equal such extension or renewal. For the avoidance of doubt, the liabilities established pursuant to one hundred five percent this clause (105%b) are without duplication of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and liabilities established pursuant to the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedforegoing clause (a).
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives Notwithstanding any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, provision to the extent of its obligations hereunder, contrary contained herein or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan DocumentsDocuments or the other documents relating to the Obligations, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional (in its capacity as such) under this Agreement and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder other Loan Documents shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in exceed an aggregate amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply largest amount that would not render such obligations subject to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or avoidance under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Groupapplicable Debtor Relief Laws.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Credit Agreement (Celestica Inc), Credit Agreement (Celestica Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby 2.1. Entergy irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, Guaranteed Party the full and prompt payment payment, no later than the third Business Day after the giving of notice by the Guaranteed Party to Entergy, of all amounts payable (whether at the Maturity Date, at any Prepayment Date, by acceleration or otherwise) under the Notes by ETHC (all such amounts being herein collectively called the "Guaranteed Obligations"). Entergy understands, agrees and confirms that the Guaranteed Party may enforce this Guaranty up to the full amount of the Guaranteed Obligations against Entergy without proceeding against ETHC, against any security for the Guaranteed Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefromany other guaranty covering all or a portion of the Guaranteed Obligations. All payments by Entergy hereunder shall be made as provided herein.
(a) The liability of Entergy hereunder is exclusive and independent of any security (if any) for or other guaranty (if any) of the Guaranteed Obligations, and the liability of Entergy hereunder shall not be affected or impaired by (i) any direction as to application of payment by ETHC or by any other party, (ii) any other continuing or other guaranty, undertaking or maximum liability of a guarantor or of any other party as to the Guaranteed Obligations, (iii) any payment on or in reduction of any such other guaranty or undertaking, or (iv) any payment made to the Guaranteed Party on the Guaranteed Obligations which the Guaranteed Party repays to ETHC pursuant to court order in any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium or other debtor relief proceeding with respect to ETHC, and Entergy waives any right to the deferral or modification of its obligations hereunder by reason of any such proceeding.
(b) Regardless If claim is ever made upon the Guaranteed Party for repayment or recovery of whether any proposed guarantor amount or amounts received in payment or on account of any other Person shall become in of the Guaranteed Obligations and the Guaranteed Party repays all or part of said amount by reason of (i) any other way responsible to judgment, decree or order of any court or administrative body having jurisdiction over the Lender Group, Guaranteed Party or any of themits property or (ii) any settlement or compromise of any such claim effected by the Guaranteed Party with any such claimant (including Entergy), for then and in such event Entergy agrees that any such judgment, decree, order, settlement or in respect compromise shall be binding upon it, notwithstanding any revocation hereof or the cancellation of the Obligations or any part thereofinstrument evidencing any liability of ETHC, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible Entergy shall be and remain liable to the Lender Group, or any of them, Guaranteed Party for the Obligations amount so repaid or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease recovered to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have same extent as if such amount had never originally been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in received by the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedGuaranteed Party.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the 2.3. The obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or Entergy hereunder are independent of the obligations of any other Person guarantor or party ETHC, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against Entergy whether or not an action is brought against any other guarantor or ETHC and whether or not any other guarantor or ETHC be joined in any such action or actions. Entergy waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the benefit of any statute of limitations affecting its liability hereunder or the enforcement thereof. Any payment by ETHC or other circumstance which operates to toll any statute of limitations as to ETHC shall operate to toll the statute of limitations as to Entergy.
2.4. Except as otherwise provided in the first sentence of Section 2.1 hereof, Entergy hereby waives (including Borrowersto the fullest extent permitted by applicable law) relating notice of acceptance hereof and notice of any liability to which this Guaranty may apply, and waives promptness, diligence, presentment, demand of payment, protest, notice of dishonor or nonpayment of any such liabilities, suit or taking of other action by the Guaranteed Party against, and any other notice to, any party liable thereon.
2.5. The Guaranteed Party may at any time and from time to time without the consent of, or notice to, Entergy, without incurring responsibility to Entergy, without impairing or releasing the obligations of Entergy hereunder, upon or without any terms or conditions and in whole or in part:
(a) change the manner, place or terms of payment of, and/or change or extend the time of payment of, renew, accelerate or alter, any of the Guarantors under this Guaranteed Obligations, any security therefor, or any liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof, and the Guaranty herein made shall apply to the Guaranteed Obligations as so changed, extended, renewed or altered;
(b) sell, exchange, release, surrender, realize upon or otherwise deal with respect to the Obligations in any action manner and in any order any property by whomsoever at any time pledged or proceeding brought by mortgaged to secure, or howsoever securing, the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Guaranteed Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of liabilities (including any of the Guarantors those under this Guaranty.) incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof or of this Guaranty, and/or any offset thereagainst;
(c) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against ETHC and Entergy or others or otherwise act or refrain from acting;
(d) The Lender Groupsettle or compromise any of the Guaranteed Obligations, any security therefor or any liability (including any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way those under this Guaranty) incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof or hereof, (i) take such further or other security or securities for and may subordinate the Obligations payment of all or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage payment of any security for the Obligations and accept liability (whether due or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.not) of ETHC to creditors of ETHC;
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in apply any sums by whomsoever paid or howsoever realized to any liability or liabilities of ETHC to the nature Guaranteed Party regardless of what liabilities of ETHC remain unpaid;
(f) consent to, or terms of waive any breach of, any act, omission or default under the Obligations Notes or any of the Loan Documentsinstruments or agreements referred to herein, or otherwise amend, modify or supplement the Notes or any of such other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencingagreements; and/or
(g) act or fail to act in any manner referred to in this Guaranty which may deprive Entergy of its right to subrogation against ETHC.
2.6. No invalidity, related to irregularity or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge unenforceability of all or any part of the liabilities and Guaranteed Obligations or of the obligations of such Guarantor pursuant ETHC under the Notes or of any security therefor shall affect, impair or be a defense to this Guaranty; it being the purpose , and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performedshall be primary, absolute and without possibility unconditional notwith standing the occurrence of recourse, whether by operation any event or the existence of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing other circumstances which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed might constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior except payment in full of the Obligations Guaranteed Obligations.
2.7. This Guaranty is a continuing guaranty and all liabilities to which it applies or may apply under the satisfaction terms hereof shall be conclusively presumed to have been created in reliance hereon. No failure or delay on the part of the Lender Group.
(g) Guaranteed Party in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. The creation rights and remedies herein expressly specified are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of remedies which the amount committed Guaranteed Party would otherwise have. No notice to or outstanding demand on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice Entergy in any case shall entitle Entergy to any Guarantor, and shall other further notice or demand in no way impair similar or affect this Guaranty other circumstances or constitute a waiver of the rights of the Lender Group hereinGuaranteed Party to any other or further action in any circumstances without notice or demand. It is not necessary for the intention Guaranteed Party to inquire into the capacity or powers of each Guarantor Entergy or the officers, directors, partners or agents acting or purporting to act on its behalf, and any indebtedness made or created in reliance upon the professed exercise of such powers shall be guaranteed hereunder.
2.8. Entergy waives any right (except as shall be required by applicable statute or law and cannot be waived) to require the Guaranteed Party to: (i) proceed against ETHC, any other guarantor or any other party; (ii) proceed against or exhaust any security held from ETHC, any other guarantor or any other party; or (iii) pursue any other remedy in the Guaranteed Party's power whatsoever. Entergy waives (to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law) any defense based on or arising out of any defense of ETHC, any other guarantor or any other party other than payment in full of the Guaranteed Obligations, including, without limitation, any defense based on or arising out of the unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of ETHC other than payment in full of the Guaranteed Obligations. The Guaranteed Party may, at its election, foreclose on any security held by the Guaranteed Party by one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales, whether or not every aspect of any such sale is commercially reasonable (to the extent such sale is permitted by applicable law), or exercise any other right or remedy the Guaranteed Party may have against Entergy or any other party, or any security, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of Entergy hereunder except to the extent the Guaranteed Obligations have been paid in full. Entergy waives any defense arising out of any such election by the Guaranteed Party, even though such election operates to impair or extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of Entergy against ETHC or any other party or any security; and
2.9. Entergy assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of ETHC's financial condition and assets, and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Guaranteed Obligations and the Administrative Agent nature, scope and extent of the risks which Entergy assumes and incurs hereunder, and agrees that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder the Guaranteed Party shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect have no duty to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by advise Entergy of information known to them regarding such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void circumstances or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsrisks.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Guaranty and Acknowledgment Agreement (System Energy Resources Inc), Guaranty and Acknowledgment Agreement (System Energy Resources Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees of the Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally and irrevocably, as a primary obligor and not only a surety, guaranties to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of itself and of the Lender GroupLenders, and their respective successors, indorsees, transferees and assigns, the full prompt and prompt complete payment and performance by the Borrowers when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Borrower Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor Anything herein or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible Loan Document to the Lender Groupcontrary notwithstanding, or any the maximum liability of them, for or each Guarantor hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall in respect of no event exceed the Obligations or any part thereof, amount which can be guarantied by such Guarantor under applicable federal and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible state laws relating to the Lender Group, or any insolvency of them, for debtors (after giving effect to the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid right of contribution established in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedSection 2.2).
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally agrees that the Secured Obligations may at any time and irrevocably waives any and all right from time to assert any defense (other than time exceed the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations amount of the Guarantors under liability of such Guarantor hereunder without impairing the guaranty contained in this Guaranty Section 2 or affecting the obligations rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder.
(d) The guaranty contained in this Section 2 shall remain in full force and effect until all of the Secured Obligations shall have been Paid in Full.
(e) No payment made by the Borrowers, any of the Guarantors, any other guarantor or any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty received or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought collected by the Administrative Agent or any other member of Lender from the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereofBorrowers, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender GroupGuarantors, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, other Person by virtue of any action or proceeding or any right of counterclaim set-off or offset of any nature appropriation or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, application at any time or from time to time when any amount in reduction of or in payment of the Secured Obligations shall be due and payable deemed to modify, reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of any Guarantor hereunder which shall, notwithstanding any such payment (other than any payment made by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any such Guarantor in respect of the Secured Obligations (or any payment received or collected from such Guarantor in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) respect of the Letter of Credit Secured Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of remain liable for the Secured Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and up to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect maximum liability of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to hereunder until the prior payment Secured Obligations are Paid in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupFull.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Guaranty and Collateral Agreement (Russ Berrie & Co Inc), Guaranty and Collateral Agreement (Russ Berrie & Co Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor The Parent hereby agrees that it is liable for, and, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to the Administrative Agentholders of Notes the prompt payment when due, for the benefit whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Lender Groupobligations and all costs and expenses including, the full without limitation, all court costs and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees (including allocated costs of in‑house counsel and paralegals that are documented in writing) and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, paid or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other member holders of the Lender Group Notes in endeavoring to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, the Company or any other guarantor of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent all or any part of the Guarantors Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Lender Group obligations, collectively the “Guaranteed Obligations”). The Parent further agrees that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, renewed in whole or in partpart without notice to or further assent from it, by and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any action such extension or thing which might, but for this paragraph renewal. All terms of this Guaranty, Parent Guaranty apply to and may be deemed a legal enforced by or equitable discharge on behalf of any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of any holder of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to Note that extended any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, Guaranteed Obligations. The Parent irrevocably and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, unconditionally agrees that if any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group Guaranteed Obligations is or under their respective control for becomes unenforceable, invalid or illegal, it will, as an independent and primary obligation, indemnify the the holders of Notes immediately on demand against any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent cost, loss or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full liability they incur as a result of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation Company not paying any amount which would, but for such unenforceability, invalidity, or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding illegality, have been payable by it under this Section 22 on the date when it would have been due (but so that the amount payable by the Parent under this indemnity will not exceed the amount it would have had to pay under this Section 22 if the amount claimed had been recoverable on the basis of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defineda guaranty). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Note Purchase and Guarantee Agreement (Paychex Inc), Note Purchase and Guarantee Agreement (Paychex Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor The Guarantors hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, jointly and severally unconditionally and irrevocably guarantee the full and prompt payment of when due, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of, and the performance of, (a) the Obligations, including whether now or hereafter existing and whether for principal, interest, fees, expenses or otherwise, (b) all Swap Obligations owed to any interest therein Guarantied Party, (including interest as provided in this Agreementc) any and all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingswithout limitation, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ expenses and reasonable counsel fees and expenses if of the obligations represented Administrative Agent and the Lenders) incurred by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or the Guarantied Parties in respect of the Obligations or enforcing any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether rights under this Guaranty and (d) all present and future amounts that would become due but for the operation of any provision of Debtor Relief Laws, and all present and future accrued and unpaid interest, including, without limitation, all post-petition interest if the Borrower or otherwiseany Guarantor voluntarily or involuntarily becomes subject to any Debtor Relief Laws (the items set forth in clauses (a), shall cease to be so liable(b), each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelyand (d) immediately above being herein referred to as the “Guarantied Obligations”). Upon failure of the Borrower to pay any of the Guarantied Obligations when due after the giving by the Administrative Agent and/or the Lenders of any notice and the expiration of any applicable cure period in each case provided for in the Credit Agreement and other Loan Documents (whether at stated maturity, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, by acceleration or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)otherwise), set-offthe Guarantors hereby further jointly and severally agree to promptly pay the same after the Guarantors’ receipt of notice from the Administrative Agent of the Borrower’s failure to pay the same, counterclaim without any other demand or cross-claim notice whatsoever, including without limitation, any notice having been given to any Guarantor of any nature whatsoever with respect to either the acceptance by the Guarantied Parties of this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty creation or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations incurrence of any of the Guarantors under this Guarantied Obligations. This Guaranty or otherwise with respect is an absolute guaranty of payment and performance of the Guarantied Obligations and not a guaranty of collection, meaning that it is not necessary for the Guarantied Parties, in order to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought enforce payment by the Administrative Agent Guarantors, first or contemporaneously to accelerate payment of any other member of the Lender Group Guarantied Obligations, to collect the Obligations institute suit or exhaust any portion thereofrights against any Loan Party, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, rights against any Collateral. Notwithstanding anything herein or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and Document to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guarantycontrary, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state corporate law, or Federal any state or federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganizationreorganization or other law affecting the rights of creditors generally, moratoriumif, as a result of applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, including Section 548 of Bankruptcy Code or any applicable provisions of comparable state law (collectively, “Fraudulent Transfer Laws”), the obligations of any Guarantor under this Section 1 would otherwise, after giving effect to (a) all other similar laws relating liabilities of such Guarantor, contingent or otherwise, that are relevant under such Fraudulent Transfer Laws (specifically excluding, however, any liabilities of such Guarantor in respect of intercompany Indebtedness to the insolvency Borrower to the extent that such Indebtedness would be discharged in an amount equal to the amount paid by such Guarantor hereunder) and (b) to the value as assets of debtorssuch Guarantor (as determined under the applicable provisions of such Fraudulent Transfer Laws) of any rights of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or similar rights held by such Guarantor pursuant to (i) applicable requirements of Law, (ii) Section 10 hereof or (iii) any other contractual obligations providing for an equitable allocation among such Guarantor and other Subsidiaries or Affiliates of the Borrower of obligations arising under this Guaranty or other guaranties of the Guarantied Obligations by such parties, be held or determined to be void, invalid or unenforceable, or subordinated to the claims of any other creditors, on account of the amount of its liability under this Section 1, then the amount of such liability shall, without any further action by such Guarantor, any Lender, the Administrative Agent or any other Person, be automatically limited and reduced to the highest amount that is valid and enforceable and not subordinated to the claims of other creditors as determined in such action or proceeding.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Guaranty (Helen of Troy LTD), Guaranty (Helen of Troy LTD)
Guaranty. Company hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guaranties the due and punctual payment of all Obligations of all Borrowers hereunder, all obligations and liabilities under Interest Rate Agreements by and between Company or any of its Subsidiaries and Lenders or Affiliates of Lenders (a“Interest Rate Obligations”) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees and all Currency Agreements by and between Company or any of its Subsidiaries and Lenders or Affiliates of Lenders (“Currency Obligations”) and any Other Permitted Credit Exposure, when the same shall become due, whether at stated maturity, by required payment, declaration, demand or otherwise (including amounts which would become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code), and agrees to the Administrative pay any and all costs and expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel and allocated costs of internal counsel) incurred by Collateral Agent, for Agents or Lenders or their Affiliates party to such Other Lender Guarantied Obligations (each, a “Guarantied Party” and collectively, the “Guarantied Parties”) in enforcing or preserving any rights under this Guaranty (all such obligations collectively, the “Guarantied Obligations”); provided, that, in order to enjoy the benefit of the foregoing guaranty any such Lender Groupor Affiliate thereof party to any such Other Permitted Credit Exposure, the full Interest Rate Obligations or Currency Obligations shall execute and prompt payment of the Obligationsdeliver to Collateral Agent, including any interest therein (including interest during such time as provided in such Lender is a Lender under this Agreement, accruing after an acknowledgment to the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether Intercreditor Agreement agreeing to be bound thereby and acknowledged by Borrowers’ Agent. Any Lender or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after Affiliate thereof obtaining the filing of such petition for purposes benefit of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing foregoing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty Other Permitted Credit Exposure, Interest Rate Obligations or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise Currency Obligations shall remain a Guarantied Party hereunder with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the such Other Permitted Credit Exposure, Interest Rate Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors Currency Obligations only for so long as such Lender remains a Lender under this GuarantyAgreement.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Secured Credit Agreement (Owens Illinois Group Inc), Secured Credit Agreement (Owens Illinois Inc /De/)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor Pubco hereby guarantees to Investor, subject to the Administrative Agentprovisions hereof, for that the benefit aggregate Net Proceeds received by Investor from all sales of the Lender Group, the full Investor’s Backstop Shares and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein Additional Shares (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after repurchases by Pubco pursuant to the filing last sentence of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or Section 6) shall be not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after less than one hundred and ten percent (110%) of Investor’s Aggregate Purchase Price (the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding“Guaranteed Amount”), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to In the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect event that the Net Proceeds received by Investor as of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless second Business Day after the end of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty Resale Period shall be a joint less than Investor’s Guaranteed Amount (the “Shortfall”), Pubco and several obligationInvestor shall, shall be a continuing guaranty on the second Business Day after the end of the Resale Period instruct the Escrow Agent in accordance with the Escrow Agreement to pay (i) to Investor’s brokerage account with the Broker (the “Broker Account”), the aggregate amount of the Shortfall and shall be operative and binding until (ii) to Pubco the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or remaining balance of the funds in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedEscrow Account.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, Notwithstanding anything to the extent of its contrary contained herein, Pubco’s obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or Section 7 shall be limited to the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or funds held in the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise Escrow Account with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by Escrow Amount (including earnings thereon, if any) (the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e“Escrow Funds”), it and if the Shortfall is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed Escrow Funds, Pubco shall not be required to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to make any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” payment with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean such excess Shortfall. Upon making such payment from the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating Escrow Account to the insolvency Broker Account, the balance of debtorsthe Escrow Funds shall be delivered to Pubco. Upon making such payment to the Broker Account, Pubco shall have no continuing obligations under this Section 7, and Investor’s sole recourse should it not receive the Shortfall shall be to seek payment from the Broker, and Investor shall have in no circumstance have recourse against Pubco or its officers or directors.
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Sources: Backstop Agreement (Reebonz Holding LTD), Backstop Agreement (Draper Oakwood Technology Acquisition Inc.)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor Borrower hereby unconditionally and irrevocably, jointly and severally guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit Lenders, and each other holder of the Lender GroupObligations, as primary obligor and not as surety:
(i) the due and punctual payment in full (and prompt payment not merely the collectibility) by each Borrower of the Obligations, including any unpaid and accrued interest therein (including interest as provided thereon, in each case when due and payable, all according to the terms of this Agreement, accruing after the filing Notes and the other Loan Documents;
(ii) the due and punctual payment in full (and not merely the collectibility) by each of a petition initiating Borrower of all other sums and charges which may at any Insolvency Proceedingstime be due and payable in accordance with this Agreement, whether the Notes or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes any of the Bankruptcy Code other Loan Documents;
(iii) the due and punctual performance by each Borrower of all of the other terms, covenants and conditions contained in the Loan Documents; and
(iv) all the other Obligations of each Borrower. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained herein or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)any other of the Loan Documents or the other documents relating to the Obligations, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by of each Borrower solely in its capacity as a guarantor (and not in its capacity as a Borrower hereunder) under this Guaranty are collected by law, through Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not exceed an attorney-at-law, or aggregate amount equal to the largest amount that would not render such obligations subject to avoidance under advice therefromapplicable Debtor Relief Laws.
(b) Regardless The obligations and liabilities of whether any proposed each Borrower as a guarantor or any other Person under this Section shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Groupbe absolute and unconditional and joint and several, or any of them, for or in respect irrespective of the Obligations genuineness, validity, priority, regularity or any part thereofenforceability of this Agreement, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations Notes or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all Documents or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing other circumstance which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor. Each Borrower solely in its capacity as a guarantor (and not in its capacity as a Borrower hereunder) expressly agrees that Administrative Agent and Lenders may, in their sole and absolute discretion, without notice to or by reason further assent of such Borrower and without in any waiverway releasing, omission affecting or in any way impairing the joint and several obligations and liabilities of the Lender Groupsuch Borrower as a guarantor hereunder:
(i) waive compliance with, or any of themdefaults under, or their failure grant any other indulgences under or with respect to proceed promptly any of the Loan Documents;
(ii) modify, amend, change or otherwise, or by reason terminate any provisions of any action taken of the Loan Documents;
(iii) grant extensions or omitted by renewals of or with respect to the Lender GroupCommitments, the Notes or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.Loan Documents;
(fiv) The Lender Groupeffect any release, subordination, compromise or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or settlement in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance connection with this Agreement, any depositsof the Notes or any of the other Loan Documents;
(v) agree to the substitution, propertyexchange, balancesrelease or other disposition of the Collateral or any part thereof, credit accounts or moneys any other collateral for the Commitments or to the subordination of any Guarantor lien or security interest therein;
(vi) make advances for the purpose of performing any term, provision or covenant contained in the possession of this Agreement, any member of the Lender Group Notes or under their respective control for any purpose. If of the other Loan Documents with respect to which any Borrower shall then be in default;
(vii) make future advances pursuant to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents;
(viii) assign, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise transfer the Commitments, the Obligations, the Notes, any of the other Loan Documents or any interest therein, all as and to the extent permitted by the provisions of this Agreement;
(ix) deal in all respects with Borrower as if this Section were not in effect;
(x) effect any release, compromise or settlement with any of Borrower, whether in their capacity as a Borrower or as a guarantor under this Section, or any other guarantor; and
(xi) provide debtor-in-possession financing or allow use of cash collateral in proceedings under the Bankruptcy Code, it being expressly agreed by each Borrower that any Guarantor makes such financing and/or use would be part of the Obligations.
(c) The obligations and liabilities of each Borrower, as guarantor under this Section, shall be primary, direct and immediate, shall not be subject to any payment to counterclaim, recoupment, set off, reduction or defense based upon any claim that a Borrower may have against any one or more of the other Borrower, Administrative Agent, any one or more of Lenders and/or any other guarantor and shall not be conditional or contingent upon pursuit or enforcement by Administrative Agent or other Lenders of any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor remedies it may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate Borrower with respect to this Agreement, the Notes or any of the other Loan Documents, whether pursuant to the prior payment terms thereof or by operation of law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Administrative Agent and Lenders shall not be required to make any demand upon any of Borrower, or to sell the Collateral or otherwise pursue, enforce or exhaust its or their remedies against Borrower or the Collateral either before, concurrently with or after pursuing or enforcing its rights and remedies hereunder. Any one or more successive or concurrent actions or proceedings may be brought against each Borrower under this Section, either in the same action, if any, brought against any one or more of Borrower or in separate actions or proceedings, as often as Administrative Agent may deem expedient or advisable. Without limiting the foregoing, it is specifically understood that any modification, limitation or discharge of any of the liabilities or obligations of any one or more of Borrower, any other guarantor or any obligor under any of the Loan Documents, arising out of, or by virtue of, any bankruptcy, arrangement, reorganization or similar proceeding for relief of debtors under federal or state law initiated by or against any one or more of Borrower, in their respective capacities as borrowers and guarantors under this Section, or under any of the Loan Documents shall not modify, limit, lessen, reduce, impair, discharge, or otherwise affect the liability of each Borrower under this Section in any manner whatsoever, and this Section shall remain and continue in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, force and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group hereineffect. It is the intention intent and purpose of this Section that each Guarantor Borrower shall and does hereby waive all rights and benefits which might accrue to any other guarantor by reason of any such proceeding, and each Borrower agrees that it shall be liable for the full amount of the obligations and liabilities under this Section, regardless of, and irrespective to, any modification, limitation or discharge of the liability of any one or more of Borrower, any other guarantor or any obligor under any of the Loan Documents, that may result from any such proceedings.
(d) Each Borrower, solely as guarantor under this Section (and not in its capacity as a Borrower hereunder), hereby unconditionally, jointly and severally, irrevocably and expressly waives:
(i) presentment and demand for payment of the Obligations and protest of non-payment;
(ii) notice of acceptance of this Section and of presentment, demand and protest thereof;
(iii) notice of any default hereunder or under the Notes or any of the other Loan Documents and notice of all indulgences;
(iv) notice of any increase in the amount of any portion of or all of the indebtedness guaranteed by this Section;
(v) demand for observance, performance or enforcement of any of the terms or provisions of this Section, the Notes or any of the other Loan Documents;
(vi) all errors and omissions in connection with Administrative Agent’s administration of all indebtedness guaranteed by this Section, except errors and omissions resulting from acts of bad faith;
(vii) any right or claim of right to cause a marshalling of the assets of any one or more of the other Borrower;
(viii) any act or omission of Administrative Agent that or Lenders which changes the scope of the risk as guarantor hereunder; and
(ix) all other notices and demands otherwise required by law which Borrower may lawfully waive. Within ten (10) days following any request of Administrative Agent so to do, each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall beBorrower will furnish Administrative Agent and Lenders and such other persons as Administrative Agent may direct with a written certificate, but duly acknowledged stating in detail whether or not in excess ofany credits, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” offsets or defenses exist with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsSection.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Credit Agreement (Micros Systems Inc), Credit Agreement (Micros Systems Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor The Guarantors hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, jointly and severally unconditionally and irrevocably guarantee the full and prompt payment of when due, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of, and the performance of, (a) the Obligations, including whether now or hereafter existing and whether for principal, interest, fees, expenses or otherwise, (b) all Swap Obligations owed to any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing Lender or any Affiliate of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after Lender (provided at the filing time of such petition for purposes execution of the Bankruptcy Code or Swap Contract related to such Swap Obligations such Lender is an allowed claim in such proceedinga party to the Credit Agreement), plus (c) any and all reasonable attorneys’ out-of-pocket expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable expenses and reasonable counsel fees and expenses if of the obligations represented Administrative Agent and the Lenders) incurred by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or the Guarantied Parties in respect of the Obligations or enforcing any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether rights under this Guaranty and (d) all present and future amounts that would become due but for the operation of any provision of Debtor Relief Laws, and all present and future accrued and unpaid interest, including, without limitation, all post-petition interest if the Borrower or otherwiseany Guarantor voluntarily or involuntarily becomes subject to any Debtor Relief Laws (the items set forth in clauses (a), shall cease to be so liable(b), each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelyand (d) immediately above being herein referred to as the "Guarantied Obligations"). Upon failure of the Borrower to pay any of the Guarantied Obligations when due after the giving by the Administrative Agent and/or the Lenders of any notice and the expiration of any applicable cure period in each case provided for in the Credit Agreement and other Loan Documents (whether at stated maturity, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, by acceleration or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)otherwise), set-offthe Guarantors hereby further jointly and severally agree to promptly pay the same after the Guarantors' receipt of notice from the Administrative Agent of the Borrower's failure to pay the same, counterclaim without any other demand or cross-claim notice whatsoever, including without limitation, any notice having been given to any Guarantor of any nature whatsoever with respect to either the acceptance by the Guarantied Parties of this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty creation or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations incurrence of any of the Guarantors under this Guarantied Obligations. This Guaranty or otherwise with respect is an absolute guaranty of payment and performance of the Guarantied Obligations and not a guaranty of collection, meaning that it is not necessary for the Guarantied Parties, in order to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought enforce payment by the Administrative Agent Guarantors, first or contemporaneously to accelerate payment of any other member of the Lender Group Guarantied Obligations, to collect the Obligations institute suit or exhaust any portion thereofrights against any Loan Party, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, rights against any Collateral. Notwithstanding anything herein or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and Document to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guarantycontrary, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state corporate law, or Federal any state or federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganizationreorganization or other law affecting the rights of creditors generally, moratoriumif, as a result of applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, including Section 548 of Bankruptcy Code or any applicable provisions of comparable state law (collectively, "Fraudulent Transfer Laws"), the obligations of any Guarantor under this Section 1 would otherwise, after giving effect to (a) all other similar laws relating liabilities of such Guarantor, contingent or otherwise, that are relevant under such Fraudulent Transfer Laws (specifically excluding, however, any liabilities of such Guarantor in respect of intercompany Indebtedness to the insolvency Borrower to the extent that such Indebtedness would be discharged in an amount equal to the amount paid by such Guarantor hereunder) and (b) to the value as assets of debtorssuch Guarantor (as determined under the applicable provisions of such Fraudulent Transfer Laws) of any rights of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or similar rights held by such Guarantor pursuant to (i) applicable requirements of Law, (ii) Section 10 hereof or (iii) any other contractual obligations providing for an equitable allocation among such Guarantor and other Subsidiaries or Affiliates of the Borrower of obligations arising under this Guaranty or other guaranties of the Guarantied Obligations by such parties, be held or determined to be void, invalid or unenforceable, or subordinated to the claims of any other creditors, on account of the amount of its liability under this Section 1, then the amount of such liability shall, without any further action by such Guarantor, any Lender, the Administrative Agent or any other Person, be automatically limited and reduced to the highest amount that is valid and enforceable and not subordinated to the claims of other creditors as determined in such action or proceeding.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Guaranty (Helen of Troy LTD), Guaranty (Helen of Troy LTD)
Guaranty. (a) Each Loan Guarantor hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, and absolutely and unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Administrative Agent, Agent for the ratable benefit of the Lender Group, Secured Parties the full and prompt payment upon the failure of the ObligationsBorrower to do so, including any interest therein (including interest when and as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingssame shall become due, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)at stated maturity, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty upon acceleration or otherwise, shall cease and at all times thereafter, of the Secured Obligations (collectively, the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each Loan Guarantor further agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed in whole or in part without notice to be so liableor further assent from it, and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any such extension or renewal. If any or all of the Guaranteed Obligations becomes due and payable hereunder, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelyGuarantor, unconditionally and irrevocably waives irrevocably, promises to pay such Guaranteed Obligations to the Administrative Agent and/or the other Secured Parties, on demand, together with any and all right to assert expenses which may be incurred by the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties in collecting any defense (other than of the defense of payment in cash in fullGuaranteed Obligations, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided reimbursable in accordance with Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances9.03. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Loan Guarantor agrees that until each unconditionally and every one irrevocably guarantees the payment of any and all of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of Guaranteed Obligations to the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, Secured Parties whether or not due or payable by the Borrower upon the occurrence of any Event of Default specified in Sections 7.01(f) or 7.01(g), and in such action event, irrevocably and unconditionally promises to pay such indebtedness to the Secured Parties, on demand, in lawful money of the U.S. Each Qualified ECP Guarantor hereby jointly and severally absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to provide such funds or failure other support as may be needed from time to act varies or increases time by each other Loan Party to honor all of its obligations under this Loan Guaranty in respect of Hedging Obligations (provided, however, that each Qualified ECP Guarantor shall only be liable under this Section 10.01 for the risk ofmaximum amount of such liability that can be hereby incurred without rendering its obligations under this Section 10.01, or affects the rights otherwise under this Loan Guaranty, as it relates to such other Loan Party, voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one handfraudulent transfer, and not for any member greater amount). The obligations of each Qualified ECP Guarantor under this Section 10.01 shall remain in full force and effect until the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or suretytermination of this Loan Guaranty in accordance with Section 10.12 hereof. Each Qualified ECP Guarantor intends that this Section 10.01 constitute, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and this Section 10.01 shall be deemed to have consented toconstitute, any of the foregoing actsa “keepwell, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Groupsupport, or any other agreement” for the benefit of them, may, without demand or notice each other Loan Party for all purposes of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupCommodity Exchange Act.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Incremental Joinder to First Lien Credit Agreement (Post Holdings, Inc.), First Lien Credit Agreement (Post Holdings, Inc.)
Guaranty. (a) Each Loan Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for its successors or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense assigns (other than the defense of payment in cash in fullthose that have delivered a separate Loan Guaranty) hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally (solidariamente, with respect to each Puerto Rican Loan Party) liable for, and, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees, to the extent permissible under the laws of its obligations hereunderthe country in which such Loan Guarantor is located or organized, to the Lenders and their respective Affiliates, the Agents and the Issuing Banks (collectively, the “Guaranteed Parties”) the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g))otherwise, set-offand at all times thereafter, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever the Secured Obligations (excluding with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations any Loan Guarantor, any Excluded Swap Obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party such Loan Guarantor) and all costs and expenses including all court costs and attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees (including Borrowersallocated costs of in-house counsel and paralegals) relating to this Guaranty and expenses paid or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other member of Agents, the Lender Group Issuing Banks and the Lenders in endeavoring to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, any Borrower, any other Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of all or any part of the Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Secured Obligations, collectively the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each Loan Guarantor further agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed in whole or in part without notice to or further assent from it, and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any such extension or renewal. All terms of this Loan Guaranty apply to and may be enforced by or on behalf of any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of any Lender that extended any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing to the contrary, in no event shall the Guaranteed Obligations of any Canadian Loan Party include the Obligations of the US Loan Parties or Puerto Rican Loan Parties. If any payment by a Loan Guarantor or any discharge given by a Guaranteed Party (whether in respect of the obligations of such any Loan Guarantor pursuant or any security for those obligations or otherwise) is avoided or reduced as a result of insolvency or any similar event: (a) the liability of each Loan Guarantor shall continue as if the payment, discharge, avoidance or reduction had not occurred; and (b) each Guaranteed Party shall be entitled to this Guaranty; it being recover the purpose and intent value or amount of that security or payment from each Loan Guarantor, as if the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenantspayment, agreements and all liabilities and discharge, avoidance or reduction had not occurred. The obligations of each Loan Guarantor hereunder are absoluteunder this Article X will not be affected by an act, unconditional omission, matter or thing which, but for this Article X, would reduce, release or prejudice any of its obligations under this Article X (without limitation and irrevocable whether or not known to it or any Guaranteed Party) including: (a) any time, waiver or consent granted to, or composition with, any Loan Guarantor or other person; (b) the release of any other Loan Guarantor; (c) the taking, variation, compromise, exchange, renewal or release of, or refusal or neglect to perfect, take up or enforce, any rights against, or security over assets of, any Loan Guarantor or other person or any non-presentation or non-observance of any formality or other requirement in respect of any instrument or any failure to realize the full value of any security; (d) any incapacity or lack of power, authority or legal personality of or dissolution or change in the members or status of a Loan Guarantor or any other person; (e) any amendment, novation, supplement, extension (whether of maturity or otherwise) or restatement (in each case, however fundamental and of whatsoever nature) or replacement of a Loan Document or any other document or security; (f) any unenforceability, illegality or invalidity of any obligation of any person under any and all circumstancesLoan Document or any other document or security; or (g) any insolvency or similar proceedings. Without limiting prejudice to the generality of the foregoingabove, each Loan Guarantor agrees expressly confirms, as permissible under applicable law, that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of it intends that this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder guarantee shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or extend from time to time when to any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor(however fundamental) variation, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid increase, extension or addition of or to any of the Obligations (Loan Documents and/or any amount made available under any of the Loan Documents for the purposes of or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) connection with any of the Letter following: acquisitions of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply any nature; increasing working capital; enabling investor distributions to be made; carrying out restructurings; refinancing existing facilities; refinancing any portion other indebtedness; making facilities available to new borrowers; any other variation or extension of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in purposes for which any such order of application as the Administrative Agent may facility or amount might be made available from time to time elect in accordance time; and any fees, costs and/or expenses associated with any of the foregoing. Each Loan Guarantor waives any right it may have of first requiring any Guaranteed Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) to proceed against or enforce any other rights or security or claim payment from any person before claiming from that Loan Guarantor under this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys Article X. This waiver applies irrespective of any Guarantor in the possession law or any provision of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and a Loan Document to the extent that contrary. This guarantee is in addition to and is not in any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or way prejudiced by any other Person pursuant to guarantee or in respect of this Guaranty, security now or subsequently held by any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupGuaranteed Party.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Credit Agreement (ODP Corp), Second Amendment (ODP Corp)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to On or before the Administrative AgentCommencement Date, Tenant shall deposit with Landlord, as security for the benefit payment of the Lender Group, Rent due hereunder and the full and prompt payment faithful performance by Tenant of the Obligationscovenants and conditions on the part of Tenant to be performed under this Lease, including any interest therein a cash security deposit (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes “Security Deposit”). The initial amount of the Bankruptcy Code or Security Deposit shall be the sum of One Hundred Fifty-Five Thousand Seven Hundred Ten and no/100 ($155,710.00) Dollars. In the event of any default by Tenant under this Lease, Landlord is an allowed claim hereby authorized to draw upon the Security Deposit to cure the default. In such case, Tenant shall immediately provide Landlord with additional cash in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorneyamount equal to the aggregate of twelve (12) monthly payments of the then-at-law, or under advice therefromcurrent Basic Rent.
(b) Regardless The remainder of whether any proposed guarantor the Security Deposit shall be returned to Tenant after the expiration of the Term, provided that Tenant has fully and faithfully performed all such covenants and conditions of this Lease, is not in arrears in Rent and has vacated the Premises. In the event of a sale, pledge, transfer or any other Person encumbrance of the Premises subject to this Lease, Landlord shall become have the right to transfer the Security Deposit to a purchaser or lender, as applicable, and Landlord shall be considered released by Tenant from all liability for the return of the Security Deposit. All costs incurred in any other way responsible connection with the transfer of the Security Deposit shall be paid by Tenant. It is agreed that this shall apply to every transfer or assignment made of the Security Deposit to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatednew landlord.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelyIn the event of the insolvency of Tenant or in the event of the entry of a judgment in bankruptcy in any court against Tenant which is not discharged within thirty (30) days after entry, unconditionally or in the event a petition is filed by or against Tenant under any chapter of the bankruptcy or insolvency laws of any state or the United States of America, then and irrevocably waives any and in such event Landlord may require Tenant to deposit additional security in such amount as may be necessary to adequately assure Tenant's performance of all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or Lease, including all payments subsequently accruing. Failure of Tenant to deposit the obligations of any other Person or party additional security required by this section within ten (including Borrowers10) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors days after Landlord's written demand shall constitute a default by Tenant under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this GuarantyLease.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Real Estate Purchase and Sale Contract (Air Industries Group), Lease Agreement (Air Industries Group)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees To induce the Guaranteed Party to the Administrative Agententer into an Agreement and Plan of Merger, for the benefit dated as of the Lender Groupdate hereof (as amended, the full amended and prompt payment of the Obligationsrestated, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty supplemented or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may modified from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor the “Merger Agreement”; capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in any way under this Guarantythe Merger Agreement) among Expedition Holding Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation (i“Parent”), Expedition Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), and the Guaranteed Party, pursuant to which Merger Sub will merge with and into the Guaranteed Party (the “Merger”), each Guarantor, intending to be legally bound, hereby absolutely, irrevocably and unconditionally, severally but not jointly, guarantees to the Guaranteed Party up to such Guarantor’s respective percentage as set forth opposite its name in Annex 1 (for each such Guarantor, its “Guaranteed Percentage”) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor due and punctual performance and discharge of the Obligations obligation of Parent to pay to the Guaranteed Party the Parent Termination Fee and/or the Damages Remedy (following, with respect to the Damages Remedy, a final, non-appealable order or settlement), as the case may be, and/or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iiiamounts under Section 5.5(b) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any and Section 7.3(d) of the provisionsMerger Agreement, termsif, or conditions as and when such obligations become payable under the Merger Agreement (the “Guaranteed Obligations”). In no event shall a Guarantor’s liability in respect of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality Guaranteed Obligations exceed such Guarantor’s Guaranteed Percentage of the foregoing, or Guaranteed Obligations (such limitation on the liability each Guarantor may have for its Guaranteed Percentage of Section 3.1(ethe Guaranteed Obligations being herein referred to as such Guarantor’s “Cap”), it is being understood that this Limited Guaranty may not be enforced against any Guarantor without giving effect to such Guarantor’s Cap (and to the Lender Groupprovisions of Sections 7 and 8 hereof). This Limited Guaranty may be enforced for the payment of money only. All payments hereunder shall be made in lawful money of the United States, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage in immediately available funds. Each Guarantor promises and undertakes to make all payments hereunder free and clear of any security for the Obligations and accept deduction, offset, defense, claim or make counterclaim of any compositions or arrangementskind, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and except as expressly provided in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) this Limited Guaranty. Each Guarantor acknowledges that the Guaranteed Party entered into the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement in reliance upon the execution of this Limited Guaranty. If Parent fails to discharge its Guaranteed Obligations when due, then each Guarantor’s liabilities to the Guaranteed Party hereunder in respect of such Guaranteed Obligations shall, upon the Guaranteed Party’s demand, become immediately due and agrees that no change in payable (up to each Guarantor’s Cap), and the nature or terms of Guaranteed Party may at any time and from time to time, at the Obligations or Guaranteed Party’s option, and so long as Parent has failed to discharge any of the Loan Documentsits Guaranteed Obligations, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under take any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality actions available hereunder to collect any Guarantor’s liabilities hereunder in respect of the foregoingsuch Guaranteed Obligations, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, subject to such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiversCap.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Limited Guaranty, Limited Guaranty (Quest Software Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative AgentGuarantor, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives without limit, guarantees and becomes surety for the full, prompt and punctual payment to WFFPC, as and when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in fullindebtedness, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim and performance of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absoluteBorrower to WFFPC created at any time under, unconditional or pursuant to the terms of the Finance Agreement and irrevocable under of the promissory note issued by Borrower, jointly and severally, in favor of WFFPC, evidencing the same (as may be amended from time to time, the “Note”), whether for principal, interest, premiums, fees, expenses or otherwise (all such indebtedness, liabilities and obligations being herein called collectively the “Obligations”), together with any and all circumstancesexpenses, including without limitation reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements, which may be incurred by WFFPC in collecting any or all of the Obligations or enforcing any and all rights against Guarantor under this Guaranty (herein the “Expenses”). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings obligations hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by and notwithstanding any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph purported termination of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of if any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcyBankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratoriumarrangement, fraudulent conveyance readjustment, composition, liquidation, dissolution, assignment for the benefit of creditors, or similar event with respect to Borrower or any co-guarantor or endorser of all or any of the Obligations shall occur, and such occurrence shall result in the return of (or in such event any WFFPC shall be requested to return) any payment or performance of any of the Obligations or Expenses, then (a) without further notice, demand or other similar laws relating action, the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder shall be reinstated with respect to (i) such payment or performance returned (or requested to be returned) and (ii) with respect to all further obligations arising as a result of such return or request, and (b) Guarantor shall thereupon be liable therefor, without any obligation on the insolvency part of debtorsWFFPC to contest or resist any such return.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Finance Agreement (White River Capital Inc), Finance Agreement (White River Capital Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each Loan Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for its successors or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense assigns (other than the defense of payment in cash in fullthose that have delivered a separate Loan Guaranty) hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees, to the extent permissible under the laws of its obligations hereunderthe country in which such Loan Guarantor is located or organized, to the Lenders, the Agents and the Issuing Banks (collectively, the “Guaranteed Parties”) the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g))otherwise, set-offand at all times thereafter, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever the Secured Obligations (excluding with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations any Loan Guarantor, any Excluded Swap Obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party such Loan Guarantor) and all costs and expenses including, without limitation, all court costs and attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees (including Borrowersallocated costs of in-house counsel and paralegals) relating to this Guaranty and expenses paid or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other member of Agents, the Lender Group Issuing Banks and the Lenders in endeavoring to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, any Borrower, any other Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent all or any part of the Guarantors Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Lender Group Secured Obligations, collectively the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each Loan Guarantor further agrees that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, renewed in whole or in partpart without notice to or further assent from it, and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any such extension or renewal. All terms of this Loan Guaranty apply to and may be enforced by or on behalf of any action domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of any Lender that extended any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing to the contrary, in no event shall the Guarantee Obligations of any European Loan Party include the Obligations of the US Loan Parties. If any payment by a Loan Guarantor or any discharge given by a Guaranteed Party (whether in respect of the obligations of any Loan Guarantor or any security for those obligations or otherwise) is avoided or reduced as a result of insolvency or any similar event: (a) the liability of each Loan Guarantor shall continue as if the payment, discharge, avoidance or reduction had not occurred; and (b) each Guaranteed Party shall be entitled to recover the value or amount of that security or payment from each Loan Guarantor, as if the payment, discharge, avoidance or reduction had not occurred. The obligations of each Loan Guarantor under this Article X will not be affected by an act, omission, matter or thing which mightwhich, but for this paragraph of this GuarantyArticle X, be deemed a legal would reduce, release or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or prejudice any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, its obligations under this Article X (without limitation and whether or not such action known to it or failure to act varies any Guaranteed Party) including: (a) any time, waiver or increases the risk ofconsent granted to, or affects the rights or remedies ofcomposition with, such any Loan Guarantor or by reason other person; (b) the release of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset person under the terms of any nature composition or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, arrangement with any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession creditor of any member of the Lender Group European Group; (c) the taking, variation, compromise, exchange, renewal or release of, or refusal or neglect to perfect, take up or enforce, any rights against, or security over assets of, any Loan Guarantor or other person or any non-presentation or non-observance of any formality or other requirement in respect of any instrument or any failure to realise the full value of any security; (d) any incapacity or lack of power, authority or legal personality of or dissolution or change in the members or status of an Loan Guarantor or any other person; (e) any amendment, novation, supplement, extension (whether of maturity or otherwise) or restatement (in each case, however fundamental and of whatsoever nature) or replacement of a Loan Document or any other document or security; (f) any unenforceability, illegality or invalidity of any obligation of any person under their respective control any Loan Document or any other document or security; or (g) any insolvency or similar proceedings. Without prejudice to the generality of the above, each Loan Guarantor expressly confirms, as permissible under applicable law, that it intends that this guarantee shall extend from time to time to any (however fundamental) variation, increase, extension or addition of or to any of the Loan Documents and/or any amount made available under any of the Loan Documents for the purposes of or in connection with any purposeof the following: acquisitions of any nature; increasing working capital; enabling investor distributions to be made; carrying out restructurings; refinancing existing facilities; refinancing any other indebtedness; making facilities available to new borrowers; any other variation or extension of the purposes for which any such facility or amount might be made available from time to time; and any fees, costs and/or expenses associated with any of the foregoing. If Each Loan Guarantor waives any right it may have of first requiring any Guaranteed Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) to proceed against or enforce any other rights or security or claim payment from any person before claiming from that Loan Guarantor under this Article X. This waiver applies irrespective of any law or any provision of a Loan Document to the contrary. This guarantee is in addition to and is not in any way prejudiced by any other guarantee or security now or subsequently held by any Guaranteed Party. This guarantee does not apply to any liability to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to it would result in this guarantee constituting unlawful financial assistance within the Administrative Agent meaning of Section 678 of the UK Companies ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, or section 60 of the Irish Companies ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject equivalent and subordinate to applicable provisions under the prior payment in full laws of the Obligations to the satisfaction jurisdiction of incorporation of the Lender Grouprelevant Loan Guarantor.
(gb) The creation or existence from time Notwithstanding anything to time the contrary in the Credit Agreement, the aggregate obligations and liabilities of Obligations in excess any entity incorporated under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (a “Luxembourg Guarantor”) with respect to the repayment under a joint and several liability clause of any borrowing, costs or expenses, and the granting of any guarantee, indemnity or security under this Agreement:
(i) shall not include any payment which, if made, would either constitute a misuse of corporate assets as defined under article 171-1 of the LSC or amount committed to prohibited financial assistance as provided in article 49-6 of the LSC; and
(ii) shall be limited to the aggregate of:
(A) any sums borrowed by such Luxembourg Guarantor or outstanding any obligation or liability of such Luxembourg Guarantor’s direct or indirect subsidiaries incurred under the Credit Agreement; and
(B) ninety-five percent (95%) of the net assets of such Luxembourg Guarantor, where the net assets means the shareholder’s equity (capitaux propres, as referred to in article 34 of the Luxembourg law of December 19, 2002 on the commercial register and annual accounts) of such Luxembourg Guarantor as (i) shown in the latest financial statements (comptes annuels) available at the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, the relevant payment hereunder and shall in no way impair approved by the shareholders of such Luxembourg Guarantor or affect this Guaranty or the rights (ii) existing as of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsClosing Date.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Credit Agreement (Office Depot Inc), Credit Agreement (Office Depot Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby hereby, jointly and severally, irrevocably, absolutely, and unconditionally guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt punctual payment or performance when due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all of the Guaranteed Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided i) Guaranteed Obligations in this Agreement, accruing after respect of amounts that would become due but for the filing operation of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed the operation of Sections 502(b) and 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code; and (ii) Guaranteed Obligations to deliver and pledge cash collateral upon certain events. This Guaranty constitutes a guaranty of payment and performance when due and not of collection, and each Guarantor specifically agrees that it shall not be necessary or required that the Agent or any Lender exercise any right, assert any claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if or demand or enforce any remedy whatsoever against the Borrower (or any other Person) before or as a condition to the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by lawof the Guarantors hereunder. The Agent or any Lender may permit the indebtedness of the Borrower to the Agent or any Lender to include indebtedness other than the Guaranteed Obligations, through an attorney-at-lawand may apply any amounts received from any source, other than from the Guarantors, to that portion of Borrower's indebtedness to the Agent or under advice therefromany Lender which is not a part of the Guaranteed Obligations.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect To secure all of the Obligations or any part thereofGuarantors' obligations hereunder, each Guarantor assigns and grants to Lender a security interest in all moneys, securities, and regardless other property of whether or not any Person such Guarantor now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member Lender, all deposit accounts of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject maintained with Lender, and subordinate to the prior payment in full all proceeds thereof. Upon default or breach of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor's obligations to Lender, Lender may apply any deposit account to reduce the indebtedness, and shall may foreclose any collateral as provided in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor Uniform Commercial Code and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorssecurity agreements between Lender and Guarantor.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Guaranty (Hispanic Express Inc), Guaranty (Central Financial Acceptance Corp)
Guaranty. (a) Each Loan Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for its successors or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense assigns (other than the defense of payment in cash in fullthose that have delivered a separate Loan Guaranty) hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or permissible under the obligations laws of the Guarantors under this Guaranty country in which such Loan Guarantor is located or organized, to the obligations Lenders, the Agents and the Issuing Banks (collectively, the “Guaranteed Parties”) the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of any other Person or party the Secured Obligations and all costs and expenses including, without limitation, all court costs and attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees (including Borrowersallocated costs of in-house counsel and paralegals) relating to this Guaranty and expenses paid or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other member of Agents, the Lender Group Issuing Banks and the Lenders in endeavoring to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, any Borrower, any other Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent all or any part of the Guarantors Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Lender Group Secured Obligations, collectively the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each Loan Guarantor further agrees that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, renewed in whole or in partpart without notice to or further assent from it, and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any such extension or renewal. All terms of this Loan Guaranty apply to and may be enforced by or on behalf of any action domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of any Lender that extended any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing to the contrary, in no event shall the Guarantee Obligations of any European Loan Party include the Obligations of the US Loan Parties. If any payment by a Loan Guarantor or any discharge given by a Guaranteed Party (whether in respect of the obligations of any Loan Guarantor or any security for those obligations or otherwise) is avoided or reduced as a result of insolvency or any similar event: (a) the liability of each Loan Guarantor shall continue as if the payment, discharge, avoidance or reduction had not occurred; and (b) each Guaranteed Party shall be entitled to recover the value or amount of that security or payment from each Loan Guarantor, as if the payment, discharge, avoidance or reduction had not occurred. The obligations of each Loan Guarantor under this Article X will not be affected by an act, omission, matter or thing which mightwhich, but for this paragraph of this GuarantyArticle X, be deemed a legal would reduce, release or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or prejudice any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, its obligations under this Article X (without limitation and whether or not such action known to it or failure to act varies any Guaranteed Party) including: (a) any time, waiver or increases the risk ofconsent granted to, or affects the rights or remedies ofcomposition with, such any Loan Guarantor or by reason other person; (b) the release of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset person under the terms of any nature composition or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, arrangement with any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession creditor of any member of the Lender Group European Group; (c) the taking, variation, compromise, exchange, renewal or release of, or refusal or neglect to perfect, take up or enforce, any rights against, or security over assets of, any Loan Guarantor or other person or any non-presentation or non-observance of any formality or other requirement in respect of any instrument or any failure to realise the full value of any security; (d) any incapacity or lack of power, authority or legal personality of or dissolution or change in the members or status of an Loan Guarantor or any other person; (e) any amendment, novation, supplement, extension (whether of maturity or otherwise) or restatement (in each case, however fundamental and of whatsoever nature) or replacement of a Loan Document or any other document or security; (f) any unenforceability, illegality or invalidity of any obligation of any person under their respective control any Loan Document or any other document or security; or (g) any insolvency or similar proceedings. Without prejudice to the generality of the above, each Loan Guarantor expressly confirms, as permissible under applicable law, that it intends that this guarantee shall extend from time to time to any (however fundamental) variation, increase, extension or addition of or to any of the Loan Documents and/or any amount made available under any of the Loan Documents for the purposes of or in connection with any purposeof the following: acquisitions of any nature; increasing working capital; enabling investor distributions to be made; carrying out restructurings; refinancing existing facilities; refinancing any other indebtedness; making facilities available to new borrowers; any other variation or extension of the purposes for which any such facility or amount might be made available from time to time; and any fees, costs and/or expenses associated with any of the foregoing. If Each Loan Guarantor waives any right it may have of first requiring any Guaranteed Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) to proceed against or enforce any other rights or security or claim payment from any person before claiming from that Loan Guarantor under this Article X. This waiver applies irrespective of any law or any provision of a Loan Document to the contrary. This guarantee is in addition to and is not in any way prejudiced by any other guarantee or security now or subsequently held by any Guaranteed Party. This guarantee does not apply to any liability to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to it would result in this guarantee constituting unlawful financial assistance within the Administrative Agent meaning of Section 151 of the UK Companies ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, or section 60 of the Irish Companies ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject equivalent and subordinate to applicable provisions under the prior payment in full laws of the Obligations to the satisfaction jurisdiction of incorporation of the Lender Grouprelevant Loan Guarantor.
(gb) The creation or existence from time Notwithstanding anything to time the contrary in the Credit Agreement, the aggregate obligations and liabilities of Obligations in excess any entity incorporated under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (a “Luxembourg Guarantor”) with respect to the repayment under a joint and several liability clause of any borrowing, costs or expenses, and the granting of any guarantee, indemnity or security under this Agreement:
(i) shall not include any payment which, if made, would either constitute a misuse of corporate assets as defined under article 171-1 of the LSC or amount committed to prohibited financial assistance as provided in article 49-6 of the LSC; and
(ii) shall be limited to the aggregate of:
(A) any sums borrowed by such Luxembourg Guarantor or outstanding any obligation or liability of such Luxembourg Guarantor’s direct or indirect subsidiaries incurred under the Credit Agreement; and
(B) ninety-five percent (95%) of the net assets of such Luxembourg Guarantor, where the net assets means the shareholder’s equity (capitaux propres, as referred to in article 34 of the Luxembourg law of December 19, 2002 on the commercial register and annual accounts) of such Luxembourg Guarantor as (i) shown in the latest financial statements (comptes annuels) available at the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, the relevant payment hereunder and shall in no way impair approved by the shareholders of such Luxembourg Guarantor or affect this Guaranty or the rights (ii) existing as of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsClosing Date.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Credit Agreement (Office Depot Inc), Credit Agreement (Office Depot Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees jointly and severally and unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees, as a primary obligor and not as a surety to each Secured Party and their respective permitted successors and assigns, the Administrative Agentpunctual payment in cash when due, for the benefit without any demand or notice whatsoever, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of all Obligations of the Lender GroupBorrowers now or hereafter existing under any Loan Document, the full and prompt payment of the Obligationswhether for principal, including any interest therein (including all interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing that accrues after the filing commencement of a petition initiating any Insolvency ProceedingsProceeding of any Borrower or any other Loan Party, whether or not a claim for post-filing interest is allowed in such interest accrues Insolvency Proceeding) fees, commissions, expense reimbursements, indemnifications or is recoverable against otherwise (such obligations, to the extent not paid by the Borrowers, being the “Guaranteed Obligations”), and agrees to pay any and all expenses (including reasonable and documented counsel fees and expenses) incurred by the Secured Parties in enforcing any rights under the guaranty set forth in this Article XI. The Guarantors hereby jointly and severally agree that if the Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes or other Guarantors shall fail to pay in full when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) any of the Bankruptcy Code Guaranteed Obligations, the Guarantors will promptly pay the same in cash, without any demand or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereofnotice whatsoever, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter any extension of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense time of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations renewal of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty Guaranteed Obligations, the same will be promptly paid in full when due (whether at extended maturity, by acceleration or otherwise otherwise) in accordance with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations such extension or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstancesrenewal. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees Guarantor’s liability shall extend to all amounts that until each and every one constitute part of the covenants Guaranteed Obligations and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether would be owed by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by the Borrowers to the Secured Parties under any action or thing which might, Loan Document but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether fact that they are unenforceable or not such action or failure allowable due to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason existence of an Insolvency Proceeding involving any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, Borrower or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and Loan Party. In no event shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys obligation of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean exceed the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in could guarantee under any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsDebtor Relief Law.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Financing Agreement (BRC Inc.), Financing Agreement (BRC Inc.)
Guaranty. (a) Each US Loan Guarantor hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to the Lenders the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the US Secured Obligations and all reasonable, documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses including, without limitation, all court costs and attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees (including allocated costs of in-house counsel and paralegals) and expenses paid or incurred by the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) Issuing Bank and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment Lenders in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group endeavoring to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations US Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, the US Borrower, any US Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent all or any part of the Guarantors US Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Lender Group US Secured Obligations, collectively the “US Guaranteed Obligations”). Each US Loan Guarantor further agrees that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law US Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, renewed in whole or in partpart without notice to or further assent from it, by and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any action such extension or thing which might, but for this paragraph renewal. All terms of this Guaranty, Loan Guaranty apply to and may be deemed a legal enforced by or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason on behalf of any waiver, omission domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of any Lender that extended any portion of the Lender GroupUS Guaranteed Obligations.
(b) Each Loan Guarantor hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for, or any of themand, or their failure as primary obligor and not merely as surety, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to proceed promptly the Lenders the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Netherlands Secured Obligations and all reasonable, documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses including, without limitation, all court costs and attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees (including allocated costs of in-house counsel and paralegals) and expenses paid or incurred by reason the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in endeavoring to collect all or any part of the Netherlands Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action taken or omitted by the Lender Groupagainst, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of all or suretyany part of the Netherlands Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Netherlands Secured Obligations, collectively the “Netherlands Guaranteed Obligations” and together with the US Guaranteed Obligations, the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each Loan Guarantor further agrees that the Netherlands Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed in whole or in part without notice to or further assent from it, and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any such Guarantor hereby expressly waives extension or renewal. All terms of this Loan Guaranty apply to and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, may be enforced by or any right of counterclaim or offset on behalf of any nature domestic or description which it may have foreign branch or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice Affiliate of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to Lender that extended any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupNetherlands Guaranteed Obligations.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Credit Agreement (Libbey Inc), Credit Agreement (Libbey Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor The Company hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lender GroupLenders and their respective successors, indorsees, transferees and assigns, any Hedge Bank and any Cash Management Bank, the full prompt and prompt complete payment and performance when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Guaranteed Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless The Company agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may at any time and from time to time exceed the amount of whether the liability of the Company hereunder that would exist in the absence of this Article 10 without impairing this Guarantee or affecting the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, any proposed Lender, any Hedge Bank or any Cash Management Bank hereunder.
(c) This Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect until all the Guaranteed Obligations (other than Guaranteed Obligations in respect of Hedge Agreements and Cash Management Obligations) shall have been satisfied by payment in full in immediately available funds, the Commitments have been terminated and either no Letter of Credit shall be outstanding or each outstanding Letter of Credit has been cash collateralized so that it is fully secured to the reasonable satisfaction of the Administrative Agent, notwithstanding that from time to time during the term of this Guarantee the European Borrower may be free from any Guaranteed Obligations.
(d) No payment made by the Company, any other guarantor or any other Person shall become in or received or collected by the Administrative Agent, any other way responsible to the Lender GroupLender, any Hedge Bank or any of themCash Management Bank from the Company, for any guarantor or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations by virtue of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations set-off or any portion thereof, appropriation or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, application at any time or from time to time when any amount in reduction of or in payment of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantordeemed to modify, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of the Company hereunder which shall, notwithstanding any such payment (other than any payment made by the Company in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations or any payment received or collected from the Company in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations), remain liable for the Guaranteed Obligations until the Guaranteed Obligations (or other than Guaranteed Obligations in respect of Hedge Agreements and Cash Management Obligations) shall have been satisfied by payment in full in immediately available funds, the case of Commitments have been terminated and either no Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the shall be outstanding or each outstanding Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and has been cash collateralized so that it is fully secured to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the reasonable satisfaction of the Lender GroupAdministrative Agent.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Restatement Agreement (Constellation Brands, Inc.), Restatement Agreement (Constellation Brands, Inc.)
Guaranty. (a) Each Subject to the provisions of subsection 2.1(b), the Guarantor hereby hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally and irrevocably, guarantees to the Administrative AgentAgent and the Guaranteed Creditors and their respective successors, for indorsees, transferees and assigns, the benefit prompt and complete payment and performance by the Borrower when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Lender Group, Borrower’s Obligations up to but not exceeding the full and prompt payment amount of the Obligations, including any loan obligations plus interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing and costs of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefromenforcement.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor Anything herein or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible Loan Document to the Lender Groupcontrary notwithstanding, or any of them, for or in respect the maximum liability of the Obligations or any part thereof, Guarantor hereunder and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible under the other Loan Documents shall in no event exceed the amount which can be guaranteed by the Guarantor under applicable federal and state laws relating to the Lender Group, or any insolvency of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminateddebtors.
(c) Each The Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives further agrees to pay any and all right to assert expenses (including, without limitation, all reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) which may be paid or incurred by the Agent or any defense (other than Guaranteed Creditor in enforcing, or obtaining advice of counsel in respect of, any rights with respect to, or collecting, any or all of the defense of payment Borrower’s Obligations and/or enforcing any rights with respect to, or collecting against, the Guarantor under this Guaranty. This Guaranty shall remain in cash full force and effect until the Borrower’s Obligations are paid in full, notwithstanding that from time to time prior thereto no amounts may be outstanding under the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this GuarantyCredit Agreement.
(d) The Lender Group, or Guarantor agrees that the Borrower’s Obligations may at any of them, may time and from time to time, time exceed the amount of the liability of the Guarantor hereunder without exonerating impairing this Guaranty or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for affecting the Obligations rights and remedies of the Agent or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedientGuaranteed Creditor hereunder.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature No payment or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted payments made by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one handGuarantor, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, other Person or received or collected by the Agent or any right of counterclaim Guaranteed Creditor from the Borrower, the Guarantor, any other guarantor or offset any other Person by virtue of any nature action or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, proceeding or any of them, may, without demand set-off or notice of any kind upon appropriation or to any Guarantor, application at any time or from time to time when any amount in reduction of or in payment of the Borrower’s Obligations shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantordeemed to modify, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of the Obligations Guarantor hereunder which shall, notwithstanding any such payment or payments (other than payments made by the Borrower or the Guarantor in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) respect of the Letter Borrower’s Obligations or payments received or collected from the Guarantor in respect of Credit the Borrower’s Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply remain liable for the Borrower’s Obligations up to any portion the maximum liability of the Guarantor hereunder until the Borrower’s Obligations hereby guaranteedare paid in full.
(f) The Guarantor agrees that whenever, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may at any time, or from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreementtime, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes it shall make any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or Guaranteed Creditor on account of its liability hereunder, it will notify the Agent in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which writing that such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of is made under this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by for such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorspurpose.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Guaranty (Resaca Exploitation, Inc.), Guaranty (Resaca Exploitation, Inc.)
Guaranty. In order to induce the Lenders to extend credit hereunder, (ai) each of Parent and BRCL hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees the Obligations of Canadian Hunter, and (ii) each of Parent and Canadian Hunter hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees the Obligations of BRCL. Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be the Guaranteed Parties may make a joint and several obligationclaim under its guarantee immediately upon the occurrence of an Event of Default or at any time thereafter, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash but (or other than in the case of Letter an Event of Credit ObligationsDefault in respect of either Borrower under Section 6.01(e) (except clause (i)(A) thereof)) following the making of a demand on the applicable Borrower for payment or performance, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal as applicable, without any obligation to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) first seek any other remedy or take any other action against such Borrower. Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally further agrees that the due and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of punctual payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations may be extended or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be releasedrenewed, in whole or in part, without notice to or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound upon its Guaranty hereunder notwithstanding any such extension or renewal of any Obligation. Each and every default in payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest on any Obligation shall give rise to a separate cause of action hereunder, and separate suits may be brought hereunder as each cause of action arises. Each Guarantor waives presentment to, demand of payment from and protest to the applicable Borrower of any of the Obligations of such Borrower, and also waives notice of acceptance of its obligations and notice of protest for nonpayment. The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected by (a) the failure of any Guaranteed Party to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against any Borrower or Parent under the provisions of this Agreement, any other Financing Document or otherwise; (b) any extension or renewal of any of the Obligations; (c) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of, or release from, any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement or any other Financing Document or agreement; (d) the failure or delay of any Guaranteed Party to exercise any right or remedy against any other guarantor of the Obligations; (e) the failure of any Guaranteed Party to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any remedy under any Financing Document, any guaranty or any other agreement or instrument; (f) any default, failure or delay, wilful or otherwise, in the performance of the Obligations; or (h) any other act, omission or delay to do any other act which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Guarantor or otherwise operate as a discharge of any Guarantor as a matter of law or equity or which would impair or eliminate any right of any Guarantor to subrogation. Each Guarantor further agrees that its agreement hereunder constitutes a promise of payment when due (whether or not any bankruptcy or similar proceeding shall have stayed the accrual or collection of any of the Obligations or operated as a discharge thereof) and not merely of collection, and waives any right to require that any resort be had by any action Guaranteed Party to any balance of any deposit account or thing which mightcredit on the books of any Guaranteed Party in favor of the applicable Borrower or any other Person. The obligations of the Guarantors hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, but limitation, impairment or termination for this paragraph any reason, and shall not be subject to any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever, by reason of this Guarantythe invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Obligations, any impossibility in the performance of the Obligations or otherwise. Each Guarantor further agrees that its obligations hereunder shall continue to be deemed a legal effective or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantorbe reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of any Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Guaranteed Party upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the applicable Borrower or otherwise. In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which any Guaranteed Party may have at law or in equity against any Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the applicable Borrower to pay any Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, after notice of prepayment or otherwise, Parent and (a) BRCL (in the event such Obligation is due and payable by Canadian Hunter) or (b) Canadian Hunter (in the event such Obligation is due and payable by BRCL), hereby, in their respective capacity as Guarantor, promise to and will, upon receipt of written demand by the Administrative Agent, forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, to the Administrative Agent for distribution to the Guaranteed Parties in cash an amount equal to the sum of (i) the unpaid principal amount of such Obligations then due, (ii) accrued and unpaid interest and fees on such Obligations and (iii) all other monetary Obligations then due. Each Guarantor, as applicable, further agrees that if payment in respect of any Obligation shall be due in a currency other than Cdn. Dollars and/or at a place of payment other than Toronto, Ontario and if, by reason of any waiverChange in Law, omission disruption of currency or foreign exchange markets, war or civil disturbance or similar event, payment of such Obligation in such currency or at such place of payment shall be impossible or, in the judgment of any Guaranteed Party, not consistent with the protection of its rights or interests, then, at the election of such Guaranteed Party, each Guarantor, as applicable, shall make payment of such Obligation in Cdn. Dollars (based upon the applicable Exchange Rate in effect on the date of payment) and/or in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, and shall indemnify such Guaranteed Party against any losses or expenses that it shall sustain as a result of such alternative payment. Upon payment in full by a Guarantor of any Obligation of the applicable Borrower, each Lender Groupshall, in a reasonable manner, assign the amount of such Obligation owed to it and so paid to such Guarantor, such assignment to be pro tanto to the extent to which the Obligation in question was discharged by such Guarantor, or make such disposition thereof as such Guarantor, as applicable, shall direct (all without recourse to any of them, Guaranteed Party and without any representation or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or warranty by reason any Guaranteed Party). Upon payment by any Guarantor of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Groupsums as provided above, or any all rights of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor against the applicable Borrower arising as a result thereof by way of right of subrogation or otherwise shall in all respects be subordinated and junior in right of payment to the prior indefeasible payment in full of all the Obligations owed by reason such Borrower to the Guaranteed Parties. Nothing shall discharge or satisfy the liability of any further dealings between any Borrower, on Guarantor hereunder except the one hand, full performance and any member payment of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or Obligations. Each reference herein to any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and Guaranteed Party shall be deemed to have consented toinclude their or its successors and assigns, any of in whose favor the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date provisions of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsalso inure.
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Sources: Canadian Credit Agreement (Burlington Resources Inc), Canadian Credit Agreement (Burlington Resources Inc)
Guaranty. Guarantor, upon the occurrence of a Springing Recourse Event, hereby absolutely, irrevocably and unconditionally guaranties the due and punctual payment and performance when due, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of all of the following (collectively referred to as the “Guarantied Obligations”): (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees all indebtedness and obligations owing by the Borrower to any Lender or the Administrative AgentAgent under or in connection with the Term Loan Agreement and any other Loan Document, for including without limitation, the benefit repayment of all principal of the Lender GroupTerm Loans and the Related Swap Obligations (other than Excluded Swap Obligations), and the full and prompt payment of all interest, fees, charges, attorneys’ fees and other amounts payable to any Lender or the ObligationsAgent thereunder or in connection therewith; (b) any and all extensions, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreementrenewals, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingsmodifications, whether amendments or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes substitutions of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)foregoing; (c) all expenses, plus including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if disbursements, that are incurred by the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless Lenders and the Agent in the enforcement of whether any proposed guarantor of the foregoing or any obligation of Guarantor hereunder; and (d) all other Person shall become in any other way responsible to Obligations. For the Lender Grouppurposes of this Guaranty, or the occurrence of any of them, for or the events described in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty (1)-(3) below shall be a joint “Springing Recourse Event”:
(A) Guarantor fails to perform or comply with any of the following terms (each, a “Guarantor Covenant Breach”):
(i) the Guarantor shall not, directly or indirectly, enter into or conduct any business other than in connection with the ownership, acquisition and several obligationdisposition of general or limited partnership interests in the Borrower and the management of the business of the Borrower, and such activities as are incidental thereto, all of which shall be a continuing guaranty and solely in furtherance of the business of the Borrower;
(ii) the Guarantor shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash not own any assets other than (A) equity interests (or rights, options or warrants in respect thereof) of the case of Letter of Credit ObligationsBorrower, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal (B) up to a one hundred five percent (1051%) equity interest in any partnership or limited liability company at least ninety-nine percent (99%) of the Letter equity of Credit Obligationswhich is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Borrower; (C) money that has been distributed to Guarantor by Borrower or a Subsidiary of Borrower described in clause (ii)(B) above in accordance with Section 6.11 of the Term Loan Agreement that is held for ten (10) Business Days or less pending further distribution to equity holders of the Guarantor, (D) assets received by the Guarantor from third parties (including, without limitation, the proceeds from any issuance of equity interests), that are held for ten (10) Business Days or less pending further contribution to Borrower, (E) such bank accounts or similar instruments (subject to the other terms hereof) as it deems necessary to carry out its responsibilities under the limited partnership agreement of the Borrower, and (F) other tangible and intangible assets that, taken as a whole, are de minimis in relation to the net assets of Borrower and its Subsidiaries (but which in no event shall include any real estate, cash, cash equivalents or other liquid assets in excess of $500,000 in the aggregate (except as permitted in clauses (ii)(C) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(cD) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense above) or equity interests (other than equity interests permitted in clauses (ii)(A) and (B) above);
(iii) the defense Guarantor shall promptly contribute or otherwise downstream to the Borrower any net assets received by the Guarantor from third parties (including, without limitation, the proceeds from any issuance of equity interests), subject to the terms of clause (ii)(D) above;
(iv) the Guarantor shall not merge or consolidate (except as permitted in the Term Loan Agreement), or dissolve, liquidate or otherwise wind up its business, affairs or assets;
(v) the Guarantor shall not guarantee, or otherwise be or become obligated in respect of, any Indebtedness (which for the purposes hereof shall include any obligations under any Swap Contract but shall exclude (A) [intentionally omitted], (B) all obligations of the Guarantor to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in cash respect of any Mandatorily Redeemable Stock (as hereinafter defined) issued by the Guarantor or any other Person, (C) any liability pursuant to non-recourse carveout guaranties with customary exceptions for fraud, misapplication of funds, environmental indemnities, voluntary bankruptcy, collusive involuntary bankruptcy and other similar customary exceptions to recourse liability (a “Customary Nonrecourse Debt Guaranty”) until a claim is made with respect thereto (provided that for the purposes of this clause (v), the Guarantor shall not be deemed to have violated this covenant with respect to Indebtedness under a Customary Nonrecourse Debt Guaranty until a judgment is obtained with respect to claims under Customary Nonrecourse Debt Guaranties individually or in fullthe aggregate of $30,000,000 or greater), and (D) any liability pursuant to a springing guaranty on substantially the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense same terms as the Springing Guaranty; and provided further that such the Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty (x) Indebtedness of Borrower in place as of March 31, 2014 and (y) Indebtedness of Inland Diversified Real Estate Trust, Inc., a Maryland corporation (“Inland Diversified”) assumed by Borrower and that is existing debt of Inland Diversified as of July 1, 2014 and was not incurred as a part of or the obligations in anticipation of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations merger of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any Inland Diversified with and into KRG Magellan, LLC, solely by virtue of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise Guarantor being the general partner of Borrower and not as a guarantor, shall be excluded from the foregoing provided such liability is not increased); and
(B) with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations a Guarantor Covenant Breach of any event described in (1)(A)(i)-(iii) above, the passage of forty-five (45) days after the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any first to occur of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, either (i) take Borrower or Guarantor becoming aware of such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem properGuarantor Covenant Breach, or (ii) releaseAgent notifying Borrower in writing of any such Guarantor Covenant Breach, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal or
(C) with or fail respect to deal with any a Guarantor Covenant Breach of the Obligations event described in clause (1)(A)(v) above, the passage of ten (10) Business Days (or any security forty-five (45) days if the aggregate Indebtedness for the purposes of clause (1)(A)(v) above is less than $10,000,000), after the first to occur of either (i) Borrower or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any Guarantor becoming aware of themsuch Guarantor Covenant Breach, or (iiiii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive Agent notifying Borrower in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage writing of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.Guarantor Covenant Breach; or
(e2) Each Borrower or Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in shall commence a voluntary case under the nature or terms Bankruptcy Code of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents1978, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other handas amended, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent federal bankruptcy or any other Person pursuant domestic or foreign laws relating to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratoriumwinding-up, fraudulent conveyance composition or adjustment of debts, in each case with respect to Borrower or Guarantor, whether now or hereinafter in effect (collectively, a “Bankruptcy Proceeding”); or
(3) Borrower or Guarantor or any officer or director thereof shall collude with, or otherwise assist any party in connection with any such filing in a Bankruptcy Proceeding or solicit or cause to be solicited petitioning creditors for any involuntary petition against Borrower or Guarantor in any such Bankruptcy Proceeding from any party. Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that the guaranty under this Guaranty of the Guarantied Obligations shall automatically become fully effective upon the occurrence of any Springing Recourse Event and no other similar laws relating documentation or notice shall be required to evidence the insolvency of debtorssame.
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Sources: Springing Guaranty (Kite Realty Group, L.P.), Springing Guaranty (Kite Realty Group, L.P.)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees In recognition of the direct and indirect benefits to be received by Guarantors from the proceeds of the Loans and the entering into of any Secured Cash Management Agreement and any Secured Hedge Agreements and by virtue of the financial accommodations to be made to the Administrative Borrower, each of the Guarantors, jointly and severally, hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety the full and prompt payment when due, whether upon maturity, acceleration, or otherwise, of all of the Guarantied Obligations. If any or all of the Guarantied Obligations becomes due and payable, each of the Guarantors, unconditionally and irrevocably, and without the need for demand, protest, or any other notice or formality, promises to pay such indebtedness to Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, together with any and all expenses (including Lender GroupExpenses) that may be incurred by any Secured Party in demanding, enforcing, or collecting any of the full and prompt Guarantied Obligations (including the enforcement of any collateral for such Guarantied Obligations). If claim is ever made upon any Secured Party for repayment or recovery of any amount or amounts received in payment of the Obligations, including or on account of any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes all of the Bankruptcy Code Guarantied Obligations and any Secured Party repays all or is an allowed claim part of said amount by reason of any judgment, decree, or order of any court or administrative body having jurisdiction over such payee or any of its property, then and in each such proceeding)event, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if each of the obligations represented by Guarantors agrees that any such judgment, decree, order, settlement, or compromise shall be binding upon the Guarantors, notwithstanding any revocation (or purported revocation) of this Guaranty are collected or other instrument evidencing any liability of any Grantor, and the Guarantors shall be and remain liable to the aforesaid payees hereunder for the amount so repaid or recovered to the same extent as if such amount had never originally been received by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefromany such payee.
(b) Regardless Additionally, each of the Guarantors unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the payment of any and all of the Guarantied Obligations to Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, whether or not due or payable by any proposed guarantor Credit Party upon the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 8.1(i) or (j) of the Credit Agreement, and irrevocably and unconditionally promises to pay such indebtedness to Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, without the requirement of demand, protest, or any other Person shall become notice or other formality, in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect lawful money of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedUnited States.
(c) Each The liability of each of the Guarantors hereunder is primary, absolute, and unconditional, and is independent of any security for or other guaranty of the Guarantied Obligations, whether executed by any other Guarantor absolutelyor by any other Person, unconditionally and irrevocably the liability of each of the Guarantors hereunder shall not be affected or impaired by (i) any payment on, or in reduction of, any such other guaranty or undertaking, (ii) any dissolution, termination, or increase, decrease, or change in personnel by any Grantor, (iii) any payment made to Agent, or any other Secured Party on account of the Guarantied Obligations which Agent or such other Secured Party repays to any Grantor pursuant to court order in any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium or other debtor relief proceeding (or any settlement or compromise of any claim made in such a proceeding relating to such payment), and each of the Guarantors waives any and all right to assert the deferral or modification of its obligations hereunder by reason of any defense such proceeding, or (iv) any action or inaction by Agent or any other than Secured Party or (v) any invalidity, irregularity, avoidability, or unenforceability of all or any part of the defense Guarantied Obligations or of any security therefor.
(d) This Guaranty includes all present and future Guarantied Obligations including any under transactions continuing, compromising, extending, increasing, modifying, releasing, or renewing the Guarantied Obligations, changing the interest rate, payment terms, or other terms and conditions thereof, or creating new or additional Guarantied Obligations after prior Guarantied Obligations have been satisfied in cash whole or in fullpart. To the maximum extent permitted by law, each Guarantor hereby waives any right to revoke this Guaranty as to future Guarantied Obligations. If such a revocation is effective notwithstanding the foregoing waiver, each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that (i) no such revocation shall be effective until written notice thereof has been received by Agent, (ii) no such revocation shall apply to any Guarantied Obligations in existence on the date of receipt by Agent of such written notice (including any subsequent continuation, extension, or renewal thereof, or change in the interest rate, payment terms, or other terms and conditions thereof), (iii) no such revocation shall apply to any Guarantied Obligations made or created after such date to the extent made or created pursuant to a legally binding commitment of its obligations any Lender or any other Secured Party in existence on the date of such revocation, (iv) no payment by any Guarantor, the Borrower, or from any other source, prior to the date of Agent's receipt of written notice of such revocation shall reduce the maximum obligation of such Guarantor hereunder, and (v) any payment by the Borrower or a defense from any source other than such Guarantor subsequent to the date of such revocation shall first be applied to that portion of the Guarantied Obligations as to which the revocation is effective and which are not, therefore, guarantied hereunder, and to the extent so applied shall not reduce the maximum obligation of such Guarantor hereunder. This Guaranty shall be binding upon each Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-offits successors and assigns and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) and its successors, counterclaim transferees, or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations assigns.
(e) The guaranty by each of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or hereunder is a guaranty of payment and not of collection. The obligations of each of the Guarantors hereunder are independent of the obligations of any other Guarantor or Grantor or any other Person and a separate action or party actions may be brought and prosecuted against one or more of the Guarantors whether or not action is brought against any other Guarantor or Grantor or any other Person and whether or not any other Guarantor or Grantor or any other Person be joined in any such action or actions. Any payment by any Grantor or other circumstance which operates to toll any statute of limitations as to any Grantor shall operate to toll the statute of limitations as to each of the Guarantors.
(f) Each of the Guarantors authorizes Agent and the other Secured Parties, without notice or demand, and without affecting or impairing its liability hereunder, from time to time to, but in each case only in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement and other Loan Documents:
(i) change the manner, place, or terms of payment of, or change or extend the time of payment of, renew, increase, accelerate, or alter: (A) any of the Guarantied Obligations (including Borrowersany increase or decrease in the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest or fees thereon); or (B) relating to any security therefor or any liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof, and this Guaranty shall apply to the Guarantied Obligations as so changed, extended, renewed, or altered;
(ii) take and hold security for the payment of the Guarantied Obligations and sell, exchange, release, impair, surrender, realize upon, collect, settle, or otherwise deal with in any manner and in any order any property at any time pledged or mortgaged to secure the Guarantied Obligations (including any of the obligations of all or any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty Guaranty) incurred directly or otherwise with indirectly in respect to the Obligations in any action thereof or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent hereof, or any offset on account thereof;
(iii) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against any Grantor;
(iv) release or substitute any one or more endorsers, Guarantors, any Grantor, or other member obligors;
(v) settle or compromise any of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations Guarantied Obligations, any security therefor, or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations liability (including any of those of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.) incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof or hereof, and may subordinate the payment of all or any part thereof to the payment of any liability (whether due or not) of any Grantor to its creditors;
(dvi) The Lender Groupapply any sums by whomever paid or however realized to any liability or liabilities of any Grantor to Agent or any other Secured Party regardless of what liability or liabilities of such Grantor remain unpaid;
(vii) consent to or waive any breach of, or any act, omission, or default under, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, any Secured Cash Management Agreement, any Secured Hedge Agreement, or any of them, may from time the instruments or agreements referred to time, without exonerating herein or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem propertherein, or (ii) releaseotherwise amend, dischargemodify, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with supplement this Agreement, any Guarantor of the Obligations or other Loan Document, any security or securities therefor or Secured Cash Management Agreement, any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender GroupSecured Hedge Agreement, or any of themsuch other instruments or agreements; or
(viii) take any other action that could, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any under otherwise applicable principles of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantorlaw, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related rise to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety one or guarantormore of the Guarantors from all or part of its liabilities under this Guaranty.
(g) It is not necessary for Agent or any other Secured Party to inquire into the capacity or powers of any of the Guarantors or the officers, directors, partners or agents acting or purporting to act on their behalf, and any Guarantied Obligations made or created in reliance upon the professed exercise of such powers shall be Guaranteed hereunder.
(h) Each Guarantor jointly and severally guarantees that the Guarantied Obligations will be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, regardless of any law, regulation, or order now or hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the rights of any Lender or any other Secured Party with respect thereto. The obligations of each Guarantor under this Guaranty are independent of the Guarantied Obligations, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Guarantor to enforce such obligations, irrespective of whether any action is brought against any other Guarantor or whether any other Guarantor is joined in any such action or actions. The liability of each Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of, and each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any defense it may now or hereafter have in any way relating to, any or all of the following:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or any agreement or instrument relating thereto against Borrower or another Guarantor;
(ii) any change in the time, manner, or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Guarantied Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from any Loan Document, including any increase in the Guarantied Obligations resulting from the extension of additional credit;
(iii) any taking, exchange, release, or non-perfection of any Lien in and to any Collateral, or any taking, release, amendment, waiver of, or consent to departure from any other guaranty, for all or any of the Guarantied Obligations;
(iv) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense, or other right that any Guarantor may have at any time against any Person, including Agent or any of the other Secured Parties;
(v) any defense, set-off, counterclaim, or claim, of any kind or nature, arising directly or indirectly from the present or future lack of perfection, sufficiency, validity, or enforceability of the Guarantied Obligations or any security therefor;
(vi) any right or defense arising by reason of any waiverclaim or defense based upon an election of remedies by any Lender or any other Secured Party including any defense based upon an impairment or elimination of such Guarantor's rights of subrogation, omission reimbursement, contribution, or indemnity of such Guarantor against any other Grantor or any guarantors or sureties;
(vii) any change, restructuring, or termination of the Lender Groupcorporate, limited liability company, or partnership structure or existence of any of themGrantor; or
(viii) any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk a discharge of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, Grantor or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Guaranty and Security Agreement (Kronos Worldwide Inc), Guaranty and Security Agreement (Kronos Worldwide Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees, jointly with the other Guarantors and severally, as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, the due and punctual payment when due (whether at the stated maturity, by required prepayment, by acceleration or otherwise) and performance by each of the Loan Parties of all Obligations (collectively, the “Guaranteed Obligations”), including all such Guaranteed Obligations which shall become due but for the operation of the Debtor Relief Laws. Each Guarantor further agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice to or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound upon this Guaranty notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Guaranteed Obligation. If any or all of the Obligations becomes due and payable, each of the Guarantors, unconditionally and irrevocably, and without the need for demand, protest, or any other notice or formality, promises to pay such indebtedness to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender GroupCredit Parties, together with any and all expenses that may be incurred by the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor Administrative Agent or any other Person shall become Credit Party in any other way responsible to the Lender Groupdemanding, enforcing, or collecting any of them, the Guaranteed Obligations (including the enforcement of any collateral for or in respect of the such Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, collateral for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of Guaranty). If claim is ever made upon any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member Credit Party for repayment or recovery of any amount or amounts received in payment of or on account of any or all of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations and any Agent or any portion thereofother Credit Party repays all or part of said amount by reason of (i) any judgment, decree, or to enforce the obligations order of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, court or administrative body having jurisdiction over such payee or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem properits property, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon any settlement or otherwise deal with or fail to deal compromise of any such claim effected by such payee with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations claimant (including any novationBorrower or any Guarantor), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities then and obligations of in each such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent event, each of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of any such judgment, decree, order, settlement, or compromise shall be binding upon the covenants and agreements Guarantors, notwithstanding any revocation (or purported revocation) of this Guaranty is fully performedor other instrument evidencing any liability of any Loan Party, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law the Guarantors shall be and remain liable to the aforesaid payees hereunder for the amount so repaid or otherwise, recovered to the same extent as if such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, amount had never originally been received by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiverspayee.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Term Loan Agreement (Coldwater Creek Inc), Credit Agreement (Coldwater Creek Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees In order to induce the Administrative Agent, for the benefit Collateral Agent, the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to extend credit hereunder, and to induce the other Guaranteed Creditors to enter into Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Qualified Secured Hedging Agreements and Qualified Secured Cash Management Agreements and in recognition of the Lender Groupdirect benefits to be received by Holdings from the proceeds of the Loans, the issuance of the Letters of Credit and the entering into of such Interest Rate Protection Agreements, Qualified Secured Hedging Agreements and Qualified Secured Cash Management Agreements, Holdings hereby agrees with the Guaranteed Creditors as follows: Holdings hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees as primary obligor and not merely as surety the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingswhen due, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)upon maturity, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty acceleration or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction Guaranteed Creditors. If any or all of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time Obligations to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed Guaranteed Creditors becomes due and payable hereunder, Holdings, unconditionally and irrevocably, promises to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice pay such indebtedness to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall beand/or the other Guaranteed Creditors, but not or order, on demand, together with any and all expenses which may be incurred by the Administrative Agent and the other Guaranteed Creditors in excess ofcollecting any of the Obligations. If claim is ever made upon any Guaranteed Creditor for repayment or recovery of any amount or amounts received in payment or on account of any of the Obligations and any of the aforesaid payees repays all or part of said amount by reason of (i) any judgment, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount decree or order of any court or administrative body having jurisdiction over such payee or any of its property or (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to ii) any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid settlement or compromise of any such claim effected by such Guarantor without rendering payee with any such claimant (including the Borrowers and any other Guaranteed Party), then and in such event Holdings agrees that any such judgment, decree, order, settlement or compromise shall be binding upon Holdings, notwithstanding any revocation of this Holdings Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating instrument evidencing any liability of any Guaranteed Party, and Holdings shall be and remain liable to the insolvency of debtorsaforesaid payees hereunder for the amount so repaid or recovered to the same extent as if such amount had never originally been received by any such payee.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Abl Credit Agreement (Affinia Group Holdings Inc.), Abl Credit Agreement (Affinia Group Intermediate Holdings Inc.)
Guaranty. The Guarantor does hereby absolutely and unconditionally, represent, warrant and guarantee to Lender that:
(a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees All Accounts from time to time reported to Lender as Eligible Accounts or otherwise listed or included on any Borrowing Base Certificate shall be genuine Accounts owned by the Credit Parties and in all respects what they purport to be and shall, in the case of Accounts, represent bona fide and existing obligations of Account Debtors to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefromCredit Parties.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender GroupAll reports, or any of themschedules, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereofcertificates, and regardless of whether other information from time to time delivered or not any Person now otherwise reported to Lender by Borrower, including, without limitation, all financial statements, tax returns, and Borrowing Base Certificates and all supporting information or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligationdocumentation delivered in connection therewith, shall be a continuing guaranty bona fide, complete, correct, and accurate in all material respects and shall accurately and completely report all matters purported to be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (covered or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedreported thereby.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelyAccount from time to time identified to Lender in any Borrowing Base Certificate as an Eligible Account shall, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or date of such Borrowing Base Certificate, constitute an Eligible Account in accordance with the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any terms of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this GuarantyCredit Agreement.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, Guarantor may from time to time, sign and deliver reports (including, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guarantylimitation, (ithose specifically mentioned above) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail deliver any such information to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they Lender may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangementsrequest, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedientGuarantor are duly authorized to deliver same to Lender on behalf of each Credit Party.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges All collections and agrees that no change in proceeds of Eligible Accounts from time to time received by the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender GroupCredit Parties, or any of themits officers, employees, agents or their failure other representatives, shall forthwith be delivered to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by Lender as required under the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiversCredit Agreement.
(f) The Lender GroupAll Collateral: (i) will be owned by the Credit Parties and will be possessed by the Credit Parties or their agents, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or respectively and as applicable; (ii) will not be subject to any Guarantor, lien or security interest except as permitted by Lender; and (iii) will be maintained only at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or locations designated in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement or Security Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in unless the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the Credit Parties obtain Lender’s prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Groupwritten consent.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility Agreement (Sunpeaks Ventures, Inc.), Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility Agreement (Sunpeaks Ventures, Inc.)
Guaranty. Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees on a senior subordinated basis, jointly and severally, to each Holder and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment (within applicable grace periods) of principal of and interest on the Securities when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, and all other monetary obligations of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in Company under this Agreement, accruing after Indenture and the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees Securities and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless the full and 105 prompt performance within applicable grace periods of whether all other obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Securities (all the foregoing being hereinafter collectively called the "Guaranty Obligations"). Each Guarantor further agrees that the Guaranty Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from such Guarantor, and that such Guarantor will remain bound under this Article XIII notwithstanding any proposed guarantor extension or renewal of any other Person Guaranty Obligation. To the extent that any Guarantor shall become be required to pay any amounts on account of the Securities pursuant to a Guaranty in any other way responsible excess of an amount calculated as the product of (i) the aggregate amount payable by the Guarantors on account of the Securities pursuant to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or Guarantees times (ii) the proportion (expressed as a fraction) that such Guarantor's net assets (determined in respect accordance with GAAP) at the date enforcement of the Obligations or any part thereofGuarantees is sought bears to the aggregate net assets (determined in accordance with GAAP) of all Guarantors at such date, then such Guarantor shall be reimbursed by the other Guarantors for the amount of such excess, pro rata, based upon the respective net assets (determined in accordance with GAAP) of such other Guarantors at the date enforcement of the Guarantees is sought. This paragraph is intended only to define the relative rights of Guarantors as among themselves, and regardless of whether nothing set forth in this paragraph is intended to or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to shall impair the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or their respective Guarantees. The Guarantors shall have the obligations right to seek contribution from any non- paying Guarantor so long as the exercise of such right does not impair the rights of the Holders under any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating Guaranty. Each Guarantor waives presentation to, demand of payment from and protest to this Guaranty or the obligations Company of any of the Guarantors Guaranty Obligations and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment. Each Guarantor waives notice of any default under this the Securities or the Guaranty Obligations. The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected by (a) the failure of any Holder or otherwise with respect the Trustee to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent Company or any other member of Person under this Indenture, the Lender Group to collect the Obligations Securities or any portion other agreement or otherwise; (b) any extension or renewal of any thereof; (c) any rescission, waiver, amendment or to enforce the obligations modification of any of the Guarantors under terms or provisions of this Guaranty.
Indenture, the Securities or any other agreement; (d) The Lender Group, the release of any security held by any Holder or the Trustee for the Guaranty Obligations or any of them, may from time ; (e) the failure of any Holder or Trustee to time, without exonerating exercise any right or releasing remedy against any other guarantor of the Guaranty Obligations; or (f) any change in the ownership of any Guarantor in (subject to Section 13.5(b)). Each Guarantor further agrees that its Guaranty herein constitutes a guaranty of payment, performance and compliance when due (and not a guaranty of collection) and waives any way under this Guarantyright to require that any resort be had by any Holder or the Trustee to any security held for payment of the Guaranty Obligations. To the fullest extent permitted by law, (i) take such further the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or other security termination for any reason, including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or securities for compromise, and shall not be subject to any defense of setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever or by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Guaranty Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretionotherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e)to the fullest extent permitted by law, it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absoluteherein shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by the failure of any Holder or the Trustee to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any remedy under this Indenture, unconditional and irrevocable under the Securities or any and all circumstances. Without limiting other agreement, by any waiver or modification of any thereof, by any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the generality performance of the foregoingGuaranty Obligations, or by any other act or thing or omission or delay to do any other act or thing which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of such Guarantor or would otherwise operate as a discharge of each Guarantor as a matter of law or equity. Each Guarantor further agrees that its Guaranty herein shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of principal of or interest on any Guaranty Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Holder or the Trustee upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or otherwise. In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which any Holder or the Trustee has at law or in equity against each Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Company to pay the principal of or interest on any Guaranty Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise (within applicable grace periods), or to perform or comply with any other Guaranty Obligation (within applicable grace periods), each Guarantor hereby promises to and shall, upon receipt of written demand by the Trustee, forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, in cash, to the Holders or the Trustee an amount equal to the sum of (i) the unpaid principal amount of such 107 Guaranty Obligations (ii) accrued and unpaid interest on such Guaranty Obligations (but only to the extent not prohibited by law) and (iii) all other monetary Guaranty Obligations of the Company to the Holders and the Trustee. Each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder it shall not be released, entitled to any right of subrogation in whole or relation to the Holders in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason respect of any waiverGuaranty Obligations guarantied hereby until payment in full of all Guaranty Obligations. Each Guarantor further agrees that, omission of as between the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any BorrowerGuarantors, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender GroupHolders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the Guaranty Obligations guarantied hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article V for the purposes of its Guaranty herein, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or any other guarantor or suretyprohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Guaranty Obligations guaranteed hereby, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset (y) in the event of any nature declaration of acceleration of such Guaranty Obligations as provided in Article V, such Guaranty Obligations (whether or description which it may have or may exist based upon, not due and payable) shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be forthwith become due and payable hereunder by each Guarantor for the purposes of this Section. Each Guarantor also agrees to pay any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of and all costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses) incurred by the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent Trustee or any other Person pursuant to or Holder in respect of enforcing any rights under this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupSection.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Indenture (Group Maintenance America Corp), Indenture (Group Maintenance America Corp)
Guaranty. (a) Each U.S. Loan Guarantor hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to the Lenders the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Secured Obligations and all costs and expenses including, without limitation, all court costs and attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees and expenses paid or incurred by the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) Issuing Bank and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment Lenders in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group endeavoring to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, either Borrower, any Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent all or any part of the Guarantors Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Lender Group Secured Obligations, collectively the “U.S. Guaranteed Obligations”). Each U.S. Loan Guarantor further agrees that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law U.S. Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, renewed in whole or in partpart without notice to or further assent from it, by and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any action such extension or thing which mightrenewal.
(b) Each Foreign Loan Guarantor hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for, but for this paragraph of this Guarantyand, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantoras primary obligor and not merely as surety, or by reason of any waiverabsolutely and unconditionally guarantees to the Lenders the prompt payment when due, omission of the Lender Groupwhether at stated maturity, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Canadian Secured Obligations and all costs and expenses including, without limitation, all court costs and attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees and expenses paid or incurred by reason the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders in endeavoring to collect all or any part of the Canadian Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action taken or omitted by the Lender Groupagainst, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any either Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of all or suretyany part of the Canadian Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Canadian Secured Obligations, collectively the “Foreign Guaranteed Obligations” and, together with the U.S. Guaranteed Obligations, the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each Foreign Loan Guarantor further agrees that the Foreign Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed in whole or in part without notice to or further assent from it, and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, extension or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiversrenewal.
(fc) The Lender Group, All terms of this Loan Guaranty apply to and may be enforced by or any of them, may, without demand or notice on behalf of any kind upon domestic or to foreign branch or Affiliate of any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to Lender that extended any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupGuaranteed Obligations.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Credit Agreement (Indalex Holdings Finance Inc), Credit Agreement (Indalex Holding Corp.)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor In recognition of the direct and indirect benefits to be received by Guarantors from the proceeds of the Term Loans and by virtue of the Term Loans to be made to Borrower, each of the Guarantors, jointly and severally, hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety the full and prompt payment when due, whether upon maturity, acceleration, or otherwise, of all of the Guarantied Obligations. If any or all of the Obligations constituting Guarantied Obligations becomes due and payable, each of the Guarantors, unconditionally and irrevocably, and without the need for demand, protest, or any other notice or formality, promises to the Administrative pay such indebtedness to Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full together with any and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein all expenses (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented Lender Group Expenses) that may be incurred by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor Agent or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to member of the Lender GroupGroup in demanding, enforcing, or collecting any of them, the Guarantied Obligations (including the enforcement of any collateral for or in respect of the such Guarantied Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, collateral for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty). If claim is ever made upon Agent or any other member of the Lender Group for repayment or recovery of any amount or amounts received in payment of or on account of any or all of the Guarantied Obligations and any of Agent or any other member of the Lender Group repays all or part of said amount by reason of (i) any judgment, decree, or order of any court or administrative body having jurisdiction over such payee or any of its property, or (ii) any settlement or compromise of any such claim effected by such payee with any such claimant (including Borrower or any Guarantor), then and in each such event, each of the Guarantors agrees that any such judgment, decree, order, settlement, or compromise shall be binding upon the Guarantors, notwithstanding any revocation (or purported revocation) of this Guaranty or other instrument evidencing any liability of any Grantor, and the Guarantors shall be and remain liable to the aforesaid payees hereunder for the amount so repaid or recovered to the same extent as if such amount had never originally been received by any such payee.
(b) Additionally, each of the Guarantors unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the payment of any and all of the Guarantied Obligations to Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, whether or not due or payable by any Loan Party upon the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 8.4 or 8.5 of the Credit Agreement, and irrevocably and unconditionally promises to pay such indebtedness to Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, without the requirement of demand, protest, or any other notice or other formality, in lawful money of the United States.
(c) The liability of each of the Guarantors hereunder is primary, absolute, and unconditional, and is independent of any security for or other guaranty of the Guarantied Obligations, whether executed by any other Guarantor or by any other Person, and the liability of each of the Guarantors hereunder shall not be affected or impaired by (i) any payment on, or in reduction of, any such other guaranty or undertaking, (ii) any dissolution, termination, or increase, decrease, or change in personnel by any Grantor, (iii) any payment made to Agent or any other member of the Lender Group on account of the Obligations which Agent or such other member of the Lender Group repays to any Grantor pursuant to court order in any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium or other debtor relief proceeding (or any settlement or compromise of any claim made in such a proceeding relating to such payment), and each of the Guarantors waives any right to the deferral or modification of its obligations hereunder by reason of any such proceeding, (iv) any action or inaction by Agent or any other member of the Lender Group, or (v) any invalidity, irregularity, avoidability, or unenforceability of all or any part of the Obligations or of any security therefor.
(d) This Guaranty includes all present and future Guarantied Obligations including any under transactions continuing, compromising, extending, increasing, modifying, releasing, or renewing the Guarantied Obligations, changing the interest rate, payment terms, or other terms and conditions thereof, or creating new or additional Guarantied Obligations after prior Guarantied Obligations have been satisfied in whole or in part. To the maximum extent permitted by law, each Guarantor hereby waives any right to revoke this Guaranty as to future Guarantied Obligations. If such a revocation is effective notwithstanding the foregoing waiver, each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that (i) no such revocation shall be effective until written notice thereof has been received by Agent, (ii) no such revocation shall apply to any Guarantied Obligations in existence on the date of receipt by Agent of such written notice (including any subsequent continuation, extension, or renewal thereof, or change in the interest rate, payment terms, or other terms and conditions thereof), (iii) no such revocation shall apply to any Guarantied Obligations made or created after such date to the extent made or created pursuant to a legally binding commitment of any member of the Lender Group in existence on the date of such revocation, (iv) no payment by any Guarantor, Borrower, or from any other source, prior to the date of Agent’s receipt of written notice of such revocation shall reduce the maximum obligation of such Guarantor hereunder, and (v) any payment by Borrower or from any source other than such Guarantor subsequent to the date of such revocation shall first be applied to that portion of the Guarantied Obligations as to which the revocation is effective and which are not, therefore, guarantied hereunder, and to the extent so applied shall not reduce the maximum obligation of such Guarantor hereunder. This Guaranty shall be binding upon each Guarantor, its successors and assigns and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by Agent (for the benefit of the Lender Group) and its successors, transferees, or assigns.
(e) The guaranty by each of the Guarantors hereunder is a guaranty of payment and not of collection. The obligations of each of the Guarantors hereunder are independent of the obligations of any other Guarantor or Grantor or any other Person and a separate action or party actions may be brought and prosecuted against one or more of the Guarantors whether or not action is brought against any other Guarantor or Grantor or any other Person and whether or not any other Guarantor or Grantor or any other Person be joined in any such action or actions. Each of the Guarantors waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the benefit of any statute of limitations affecting its liability hereunder or the enforcement hereof. Any payment by any Grantor or other circumstance which operates to toll any statute of limitations as to any Grantor shall operate to toll the statute of limitations as to each of the Guarantors.
(f) Each of the Guarantors authorizes Agent, the other members of the Lender Group without notice or demand, and without affecting or impairing its liability hereunder, from time to time to:
(i) change the manner, place, or terms of payment of, or change or extend the time of payment of, renew, increase, accelerate, or alter: (A) any of the Obligations (including Borrowersany increase or decrease in the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest or fees thereon); or (B) relating to any security therefor or any liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof, and this Guaranty shall apply to the Obligations as so changed, extended, renewed, or altered;
(ii) take and hold security for the payment of the Obligations and sell, exchange, release, impair, surrender, realize upon, collect, settle, or otherwise deal with in any manner and in any order any property at any time pledged or mortgaged to secure the Obligations or any of the Guarantied Obligations (including any of the obligations of all or any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty) incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof or hereof, or any offset on account thereof;
(iii) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against any Grantor;
(iv) release or substitute any one or more endorsers, guarantors, any Grantor, or other obligors;
(v) settle or compromise any of the Obligations, any security therefor, or any liability (including any of those of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty Guaranty) incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof or hereof, and may subordinate the payment of all or any part thereof to the payment of any liability (whether due or not) of any Grantor to its creditors;
(vi) apply any sums by whomever paid or however realized to any liability or liabilities of any Grantor to Agent or any other member of the Lender Group regardless of what liability or liabilities of such Grantor remain unpaid;
(vii) consent to or waive any breach of, or any act, omission, or default under, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any of the instruments or agreements referred to herein or therein, or otherwise with respect amend, modify, or supplement this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any of such other instruments or agreements; or
(viii) take any other action that could, under otherwise applicable principles of law, give rise to a legal or equitable discharge of one or more of the Obligations in any action Guarantors from all or proceeding brought by the Administrative part of its liabilities under this Guaranty.
(g) It is not necessary for Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect inquire into the Obligations capacity or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations powers of any of the Guarantors under this Guarantyor the officers, directors, partners or agents acting or purporting to act on their behalf, and any Obligations made or created in reliance upon the professed exercise of such powers shall be guarantied hereunder.
(dh) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Each Guarantor jointly and severally guarantees that the Guarantied Obligations will be paid strictly in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for accordance with the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions terms of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality regardless of the foregoingany law, regulation, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, order now or hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of them, may, without exonerating such terms or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group with respect thereto. The obligations of each Guarantor under this Guaranty are independent of the Guarantied Obligations, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Guarantor to enforce such obligations, irrespective of whether any action is brought against any other Guarantor or whether any other Guarantor is joined in any such action or actions. The liability of each Guarantor under their respective control for this Guaranty shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of, and each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any purpose. If defense it may now or hereafter have in any way relating to, any or all of the following:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or any agreement or instrument relating thereto;
(ii) any change in the time, manner, or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Guarantied Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from any Loan Document, including any increase in the Guarantied Obligations resulting from the extension of additional credit;
(iii) any taking, exchange, release, or non-perfection of any Lien in and to any Collateral, or any taking, release, amendment, waiver of, or consent to departure from any other guaranty, for all or any of the extent Guarantied Obligations;
(iv) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense, or other right that any Guarantor makes may have at any payment to the Administrative time against any Person, including Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction member of the Lender Group.;
(gv) The creation any defense, set-off, counterclaim, or existence claim, of any kind or nature, arising directly or indirectly from time to time the present or future lack of Obligations in excess perfection, sufficiency, validity, or enforceability of the amount committed to Guarantied Obligations or outstanding on the date any security therefor;
(vi) any right or defense arising by reason of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair claim or affect this Guaranty or the rights defense based upon an election of remedies by any member of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention including any defense based upon an impairment or elimination of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each such Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall berights of subrogation, but not in excess reimbursement, contribution, or indemnity of such Guarantor against any other Grantor or any guarantors or sureties;
(vii) any change, restructuring, or termination of the corporate, limited liability company, or partnership structure or existence of any Grantor; or
(viii) any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void Grantor or voidable as would otherwise be held any other guarantor or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorssurety.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Subordination Agreement, Subordination Agreement (Nuverra Environmental Solutions, Inc.)
Guaranty. In order to induce the Lenders to extend credit to the Borrower, the Borrower and Holdings (acollectively, the “Guaranty Parties”) hereby absolutely and irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees, on a joint and several basis and as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, the payment when and as due of the Obligations. Each Guarantor Guaranty Party further agrees that the due and punctual payment of such Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice to or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound upon its guarantee hereunder notwithstanding any such extension or renewal of any such Obligation. Each Guaranty Party hereby guarantees to irrevocably and unconditionally agrees, jointly and severally with the other Guaranty Parties, that if any obligation guaranteed by it is or becomes unenforceable, invalid or illegal, it will, as an independent and primary obligation, indemnify the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders immediately on demand against any cost, loss or liability they incur as a result of any other Guaranty Party or any of its Affiliates not paying any amount which would, but for such unenforceability, invalidity or illegality, have been payable by such Guaranty Party under this Article X on the benefit date when it would have been due (but so that the amount payable by each Guaranty Party under this indemnity will not exceed the amount which it would have had to pay under this Article X if the amount claimed had been recoverable on the basis of the Lender Groupa guarantee). Each Guaranty Party waives presentment to, the full demand of payment from and prompt payment protest to any Guaranty Party of any of the Obligations, including and also waives notice of acceptance of its obligations and notice of protest for nonpayment. The obligations of each Guaranty Party hereunder shall not be affected by (a) the failure of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any interest therein (including interest as provided in Lender to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against any Guaranty Party under the provisions of this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether other Loan Document or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
otherwise; (b) Regardless any extension or renewal of whether any proposed guarantor of the Obligations; (c) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of, or release from, any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement, or any other Person shall become Loan Document or agreement; (d) any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of any of the Obligations; (e) the failure of the Administrative Agent to take any steps to perfect and maintain any security interest in, or to preserve any rights to, any security or collateral for the Obligations, if any; (f) any change in the corporate, partnership or other existence, structure or ownership of any Guaranty Party or any other way responsible to guarantor of any of the Lender Group, Obligations; (g) the enforceability or validity of the Obligations or any part thereof or the genuineness, enforceability or validity of them, for any agreement relating thereto or in with respect of to any collateral securing the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless or any other invalidity or unenforceability relating to or against any Guaranty Party or any other guarantor of any of the Obligations, for any reason related to this Agreement, any Swap Agreement, any Banking Services Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any provision of applicable law, decree, order or regulation of any jurisdiction purporting to prohibit the payment by such Guaranty Party or any other guarantor of the Obligations, of any of the Obligations or otherwise affecting any term of any of the Obligations; or (h) any other act, omission or delay to do any other act which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of such Guaranty Party or otherwise operate as a discharge of a guarantor as a matter of law or equity or which would impair or eliminate any right of such Guaranty Party to subrogation. Each Guaranty Party further agrees that its agreement hereunder constitutes a guarantee of payment when due (whether or not any Person bankruptcy or similar proceeding shall have stayed the accrual or collection of any of the Obligations or operated as a discharge thereof) and not merely of collection, and waives any right to require that any resort be had by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender to any balance of any deposit account or credit on the books of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender in favor of any Guaranty Party or any other Person. The obligations of each Guaranty Party hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason, and shall not be subject to any defense or set-off, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever, by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of any of the Obligations, any impossibility in the performance of any of the Obligations or otherwise. Each Guaranty Party further agrees that its obligations hereunder shall constitute a continuing and irrevocable guarantee of all Obligations now or hereafter responsible existing and shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the Lender Groupcase may be, or if at any of themtime payment, for the Obligations or any part thereof, of any Obligation (including a payment effected through exercise of a right of setoff) is rescinded, or is or must otherwise be restored or returned by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of any Guaranty Party or otherwise (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by a holder of Obligations in its discretion). In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender may have at law or in equity against any Guaranty Party by virtue hereof, upon the failure of any other Guaranty Party to pay any Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether under this Guaranty at maturity, by acceleration, after notice of prepayment or otherwise, shall cease each Guaranty Party hereby promises to and will, upon receipt of written demand by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender, forthwith pay, or cause to be so liablepaid, each Guarantor hereby declares to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender in cash an amount equal to the unpaid principal amount of the Obligations then due, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon. Each Guaranty Party further agrees that this Guaranty if payment in respect of any Obligation shall be due in a joint currency other than Dollars and/or at a place of payment other than New York, Chicago or any other Eurocurrency Payment Office and several if, by reason of any Change in Law, disruption of currency or foreign exchange markets, war or civil disturbance or other event, payment of such Obligation in such currency or at such place of payment shall be impossible or, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender, disadvantageous to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender in any material respect, then, at the election of the Administrative Agent, such Guaranty Party shall make payment of such Obligation in Dollars (based upon the applicable Equivalent Amount in effect on the date of payment) and/or in New York, Chicago or such other Eurocurrency Payment Office as is designated by the Administrative Agent and, as a separate and independent obligation, shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and any Lender against any losses or reasonable out-of-pocket expenses that it shall sustain as a result of such alternative payment. Upon payment by any Guaranty Party of any sums as provided above, all rights of such Guaranty Party against any Guaranty Party arising as a result thereof by way of right of subrogation or otherwise shall in all respects be a continuing guaranty subordinated and shall be operative and binding until junior in right of payment to the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid prior indefeasible payment in full in cash (of all the Obligations owed by such Guaranty Party to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders. Nothing shall discharge or satisfy the liability of any Guaranty Party hereunder except the full performance and payment in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit ObligationsObligations (other than obligations not yet due and payable under any Swap Agreement or any Banking Services Agreement). Each Guaranty Party that is a Qualified ECP Guarantor (each, a “Qualified Guaranty Party”) hereby jointly and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor severally absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and undertakes to provide such funds or other support as may be needed from time to time by each other Loan Party to honor all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to under this Guaranty Article X or the obligations Subsidiary Guaranty, as applicable, in respect of the Guarantors Specified Swap Obligations (provided, however, that each Qualified Guaranty Party shall only be liable under this Guaranty paragraph for the maximum amount of such liability that can be hereby incurred without rendering its obligations under this paragraph or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) otherwise under this Article X voidable under applicable law relating to this Guaranty fraudulent conveyance or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangementsfraudulent transfer, and realize upon not for any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novationgreater amount), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and . The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional Qualified Guaranty Party under this paragraph shall remain in full force and irrevocable effect until a discharge of such Qualified Guaranty Party’s obligations under any and all circumstancesthis Article X in accordance with the terms hereof. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees Each Qualified Guaranty Party intends that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performedparagraph constitute, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented toconstitute, any of the foregoing actsa “keepwell, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Groupsupport, or any other agreement” for the benefit of them, may, without demand or notice each other Loan Party for all purposes of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupCommodity Exchange Act.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Credit Agreement (On Semiconductor Corp), Credit Agreement (On Semiconductor Corp)
Guaranty. Each Loan Guarantor (aother than those that have delivered a separate guaranty) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as a joint primary obligor and several obligationnot merely as surety, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any guarantees to the Secured Parties, the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Secured Obligations and all right reasonable and documented costs and expenses, including, without limitation, the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of (I) one primary counsel to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent and (II) one primary counsel to the FILO Agent, plus, (II) if reasonably necessary, one specialist counsel and one local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction (in each case taken as a whole and excluding allocated costs of in-house counsel and paralegals) and reasonable expenses paid or any other member incurred by (x) the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Revolving Lenders and (y) the FILO Agent and the FILO Term Loan Lenders (in each case of the Lender Group clauses (x) and (y) taken as a whole and excluding allocated costs of in- house counsel and paralegals) in endeavoring to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, any Borrower, any Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of all or any part of the Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Secured Obligations, collectively the “Guaranteed Obligations”; provided, however, that the definition of “Guaranteed Obligations” shall not create any guarantee by any Loan Guarantor of (or grant of security interest by any Loan Guarantor to support, as applicable) any Excluded Swap Obligations of such Loan Guarantor for purposes of determining any obligations of such any Loan Guarantor). Each Loan Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group further agrees that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, renewed in whole or in partpart without notice to or further assent from it, by and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any action such extension or thing which might, but for this paragraph renewal. All terms of this Guaranty, Loan Guaranty apply to and may be deemed a legal enforced by or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason on behalf of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, domestic or any of them, foreign branch or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason Affiliate of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to that extended any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupGuaranteed Obligations.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Credit Agreement (Bed Bath & Beyond Inc), Credit Agreement (Bed Bath & Beyond Inc)
Guaranty. Each Loan Guarantor (aother than those that have delivered a separate Guaranty) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as a joint primary obligor and several obligationnot merely as surety, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any guarantees to the Secured Parties, the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Secured Obligations and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in fullreasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses including, to the extent of its obligations hereunderwithout limitation, all court costs and attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees and expenses paid or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought incurred by the Administrative Agent Agent, the Issuing Banks and the Lenders (limited, in the case of attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees and expenses to one counsel for all Secured Parties (and, if reasonably necessary, a single local counsel for all Secured Parties taken as a whole in each relevant jurisdiction) and, solely in the case of an actual or perceived conflict of interest, one additional counsel (and, if reasonably necessary, (x) one firm of local counsel in each relevant jurisdiction and (y) any special regulatory counsel) to each group of affected Secured Parties similarly situated taken as a whole and any other member of counsel retained with the Lender Group Borrower’s consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) in endeavoring to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, the Borrower, any Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of all or any part of the Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Secured Obligations, collectively the “Guaranteed Obligations”; provided, however, that the definition of “Guaranteed Obligations” shall not create any guarantee by any Loan Guarantor of (or grant of security interest by any Loan Guarantor to support, as applicable) any Excluded Swap Obligations of such Loan Guarantor for purposes of determining any obligations of such any Loan Guarantor). Each Loan Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group further agrees that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, renewed in whole or in partpart without notice to or further assent from it, by and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any action such extension or thing which might, but for this paragraph renewal. All terms of this Guaranty, Loan Guaranty apply to and may be deemed a legal enforced by or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason on behalf of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, domestic or any of them, foreign branch or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason Affiliate of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to that extended any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupGuaranteed Obligations.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Credit Agreement (Medifast Inc), Credit Agreement (Medifast Inc)
Guaranty. TO: AEP Texas Central Company and its successors and assigns (acollectively “Beneficiary”) Each Guarantor FOR GOOD AND VALUABLE CONSIDERATION, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, and to induce Beneficiary to enter into a Standard Generation Interconnection Agreement dated as of , as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Agreement”), with [Generator name], a (“Debtor”), the undersigned , a (“Guarantor”), hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees the due punctual and full payment of any and all obligations of the Debtor to the Administrative Agent, for Beneficiary now or hereafter due pursuant to the benefit Agreement or pursuant to applicable law in connection with the activities of the Lender Groupparties under the Agreement (the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Upon any failure by the Debtor to pay any of the Guaranteed Obligations, the full Guarantor agrees that it will forthwith on demand pay any amounts which the Debtor has failed to pay the Beneficiary, at the place and prompt in the manner specified in the Agreement. This Guaranty is a guaranty of payment and not merely a guaranty of collection. The Guarantor agrees that the Beneficiary may resort to the Guarantor for payment of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues the Beneficiary shall have resorted to any collateral security, or is recoverable shall have proceeded against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes any other obligor principally or secondarily obligated with respect to any of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if Guaranteed Obligations. Guarantor reserves the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert defenses which the Debtor may have to payment of any defense (Guaranteed Obligations other than the defense defenses based on lack of payment in cash in fullcapacity, to the extent lack of its obligations hereunderauthorization, lack of due execution, illegality, or limitations of actions, or arising from the bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar proceeding of the Debtor and other defenses expressly waived hereby. The Guarantor agrees that, in the event of the dissolution or bankruptcy of the Debtor, if such event shall occur at a defense that time when any of the Guaranteed Obligations may not then be due and payable, the Guarantor will pay the Beneficiary forthwith the full amount which would be payable hereunder by the Guarantor if all such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided Guaranteed Obligations were then due and payable and in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the default. The obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to timeGuarantor hereunder shall be unconditional and absolute and, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole discharged or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.affected by:
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Service Agreement, Service Agreement
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor Borrower hereby unconditionally and irrevocably, guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for Lender:
(i) the benefit of due and punctual payment in full (and not merely the Lender Group, collectibility) by the full and prompt payment other Borrowers of the Obligations, including any unpaid and accrued interest therein (including interest as provided thereon, in each case when due and payable, all according to the terms of this Agreement, accruing after the filing Notes and the other Financing Documents;
(ii) the due and punctual payment in full (and not merely the collectibility) by the other Borrowers of a petition initiating all other sums and charges which may at any Insolvency Proceedingstime be due and payable in accordance with this Agreement, whether the Notes or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes any of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim other Financing Documents;
(iii) the due and punctual performance by the other Borrowers of all of the other terms, covenants and conditions contained in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefromFinancing Documents; and
(iv) all the other Obligations of the other Borrowers.
(b) Regardless The obligations and liabilities of whether any proposed each Borrower as a guarantor or any other Person under this Section 2.5.5 shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Groupbe absolute and unconditional and joint and several, or any of them, for or in respect irrespective of the Obligations genuineness, validity, priority, regularity or any part thereofenforceability of this Agreement, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations Notes or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all Financing Documents or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing other circumstance which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of . Each Borrower in its capacity as a guarantor expressly agrees that the Lender Groupmay, in its sole and absolute discretion, without notice to or further assent of such Borrower and without in any way releasing, affecting or in any way impairing the joint and several obligations and liabilities of such Borrower as a guarantor hereunder:
(i) waive compliance with, or any of themdefaults under, or their failure grant any other indulgences under or with respect to proceed promptly any of the Financing Documents;
(ii) modify, amend, change or otherwise, or by reason terminate any provisions of any action taken of the Financing Documents;
(iii) grant extensions or omitted by renewals of or with respect to the Lender GroupCredit Facilities, the Notes or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.Financing Documents;
(fiv) The Lender Groupeffect any release, subordination, compromise or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or settlement in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance connection with this Agreement, any depositsof the Notes or any of the other Financing Documents;
(v) agree to the substitution, propertyexchange, balancesrelease or other disposition of the Collateral or any part thereof, credit accounts or moneys any other collateral for the Loan or to the subordination of any Guarantor lien or security interest therein;
(vi) make advances for the purpose of performing any term, provision or covenant contained in the possession of this Agreement, any member of the Lender Group Notes or under their respective control for any purpose. If of the other Financing Documents with respect to which the Borrowers shall then be in default;
(vii) make future advances pursuant to the Financing Agreement or any of the other Financing Documents;
(viii) assign, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise transfer the Commitment, the Obligations, the Notes, any of the other Financing Documents or any interest therein, all as and to the extent that permitted by the provisions of this Agreement;
(ix) deal in all respects with the other Borrowers as if this Section 2.5.5 were not in effect;
(x) effect any Guarantor makes release, compromise or settlement with any payment to of the Administrative Agent other Borrowers, whether in their capacity as a Borrower or as a guarantor under this Section 2.5.5, or any other Person pursuant guarantor; and
(xi) provide debtor-in-possession financing or allow use of cash collateral in proceedings under the Bankruptcy Code, it being expressly agreed by all Borrowers that any such financing and/or use would be part of the Obligations.
(c) The obligations and liabilities of each Borrower, as guarantor under this Section 2.5.5, shall be primary, direct and immediate, shall not be subject to any counterclaim, recoupment, set off, reduction or in respect of this Guaranty, defense based upon any claim which such Guarantor that a Borrower may have against any one or more of the other Borrowers, the Lender, and/or any other guarantor and shall not be conditional or contingent upon pursuit or enforcement by the Lender of any remedies it may have against the Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate with respect to this Agreement, the Notes or any of the other Financing Documents, whether pursuant to the prior payment terms thereof or by operation of law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Lender shall not be required to make any demand upon any of the Borrowers, or to sell the Collateral or otherwise pursue, enforce or exhaust its remedies against the Borrowers or the Collateral either before, concurrently with or after pursuing or enforcing its rights and remedies hereunder. Any one or more successive or concurrent actions or proceedings may be brought against each Borrower under this Section 2.5.5, either in the same action, if any, brought against any one or more of the Borrowers or in separate actions or proceedings, as often as the Lender may deem expedient or advisable. Without limiting the foregoing, it is specifically understood that any modification, limitation or discharge of any of the liabilities or obligations of any one or more of the Borrowers, any other guarantor or any obligor under any of the Financing Documents, arising out of, or by virtue of, any bankruptcy, arrangement, reorganization or similar proceeding for relief of debtors under federal or state law initiated by or against any one or more of the Borrowers, in their respective capacities as borrowers and guarantors under this Section 2.5.5, or under any of the Financing Documents shall not modify, limit, lessen, reduce, impair, discharge, or otherwise affect the liability of each Borrower under this Section 2.5.5 in any manner whatsoever, and this Section 2.5.5 shall remain and continue in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, force and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group hereineffect. It is the intention intent and purpose of this Section 2.5.5 that each Guarantor Borrower shall and does hereby waive all rights and benefits which might accrue to any other guarantor by reason of any such proceeding, and the Administrative Agent Borrowers agree that each Guarantor’s they shall be liable for the full amount of the obligations hereunder shall beand liabilities under this Section 2.5.5, but not in excess regardless of, and irrespective to, any modification, limitation or discharge of the Maximum Guaranteed Amount liability of any one or more of the Borrowers, any other guarantor or any obligor under any of the Financing Documents, that may result from any such proceedings.
(d) Each Borrower, as herein defined)guarantor under this Section 2.5.5, hereby unconditionally, jointly and severally, irrevocably and expressly waives:
(i) presentment and demand for payment of the Obligations and protest of non-payment;
(ii) notice of acceptance of this Section 2.5.5 and of presentment, demand and protest thereof;
(iii) notice of any default hereunder or under the Notes or any of the other Financing Documents and notice of all indulgences;
(iv) notice of any increase in the amount of any portion of or all of the indebtedness guaranteed by this Section 2.5.5;
(v) demand for observance, performance or enforcement of any of the terms or provisions of this Section 2.5.5, the Notes or any of the other Financing Documents;
(vi) all errors and omissions in connection with the Lender’s administration of all indebtedness guaranteed by this Section 2.5.5, except errors and omissions resulting from acts of bad faith;
(vii) any right or claim of right to cause a marshalling of the assets of any one or more of the other Borrowers;
(viii) any act or omission of the Lender which changes the scope of the risk as guarantor hereunder; and
(ix) all other notices and demands otherwise required by law which the Borrower may lawfully waive. The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” Within ten (10) days following any request of the Lender so to do, each Borrower will furnish the Lender and such other persons as the Lender may direct with a written certificate, duly acknowledged stating in detail whether or not any credits, offsets or defenses exist with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsSection 2.5.5.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Financing and Security Agreement (Tvi Corp), Financing and Security Agreement (Tvi Corp)
Guaranty. (a) Each Partner (together with any Person who may hereafter agree to become a guarantor under this Agreement by signing a written instrument expressly agreeing to be so bound, each a "GUARANTOR," and collectively, the "GUARANTORS") hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees severally (and not jointly) the full payment in cash, when due, of such Guarantor's Pro Rata Share of the Clawback Obligation, and if for any reason the Partnership (the "OBLIGOR") shall fail fully and punctually to pay the Clawback Obligation, each of the Guarantors shall pay its Pro Rata Share of such Clawback Obligation; provided that (i) the payment obligation of each Guarantor hereby guarantees shall be reduced by any amounts applied from such Guarantor's Segregated Account and (ii) the amount payable by each Guarantor shall not exceed the aggregate Carried Interest distributions received by such Guarantor directly or indirectly from the Partnership (or held in such Guarantor's Segregated Account) less the deemed income tax liability (calculated based on the Tax Percentage) on income allocated with respect to such Carried Interest distributions. This Agreement is an absolute, unconditional, continuing guarantee of payment and not of collection, and is in no way conditioned or contingent upon any attempt to collect from the Administrative AgentObligor, enforce performance by the Obligor or on any other condition or contingency.
(a) Each guaranty pursuant to paragraph (a) above is expressly for the benefit of the Lender Group, Funds and the full and prompt payment limited partners of the ObligationsFunds (the "FUND LIMITED PARTNERS") and shall not be impaired, including discharged or terminated by any interest therein (including interest as provided other act or omission that may, in this Agreementaccordance with applicable law, accruing after affect the filing enforceability of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingsguaranty, whether and shall not be affected by the bankruptcy, insolvency or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes inability to pay of the Bankruptcy Code Obligor, a Guarantor or is an allowed claim of any other party. Paragraph (a) above may not be amended in such proceedinga manner adverse to the Fund Limited Partners without the consent of the "Required Limited Partners" of the Funds (as defined in the Fund Partnership Agreements), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless Promptly following the determination that a contribution is required to be made by the Obligor pursuant to Section 10.04(b) of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person the Fund Partnership Agreement, the Obligor shall become notify the Guarantors of each Guarantor's Pro Rata Share of the amount of the Clawback Obligation, after application of the amounts in any other way responsible the Segregated Accounts, which shall be payable to the Lender GroupPartnership or as otherwise designated in such notice. When the Clawback Obligation becomes due and payable and the Obligor fails to fully and punctually pay and perform its Clawback Obligation, the Funds or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, Fund Limited Partners may make demand upon a Guarantor for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case payment of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedsuch Guarantor's obligations hereunder.
(c) Each To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives acceptance hereof, presentment, demand, protest, benefit of order, notice of dishonor and any and all right to assert notice not provided for herein, as well as any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense requirement that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of at any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in time any action or proceeding brought be taken by any Person against the Administrative Agent Obligor or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this GuarantyPerson.
(d) The Lender Groupobligations of each Guarantor under this Agreement shall be unconditional and primary (as though such Guarantor were the maker of its Pro Rata Share of the Clawback Obligation), irrespective of the validity or enforceability of the Clawback Obligation, and shall not be affected by any action taken under the Clawback Obligation in the exercise of any right or remedy therein conferred, or by any failure or omission on the part of them, may from time the Funds or the Fund Limited Partners to time, without exonerating enforce any right given thereunder or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations hereunder or any part thereof as they may deem properremedy therein conferred, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon by any failure or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor omission on the part of the Obligations Funds or the Fund Limited Partners to enforce any right given thereunder or hereunder or any security remedy conferred thereby or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Grouphereby, or by any waiver of themany term, covenant, agreement or condition of the Clawback Obligation or this Agreement, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate by any other circumstance which may or waive might be in any manner or to any of extent vary the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage risk of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedientGuarantor hereunder.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges Except for the addition of Guarantors set forth in the following sentence and subject to the second sentence of Section 13.02(b), this Article 13 may not be amended except with the written consent of the Required Partners and the unanimous consent of the Guarantors. The Obligor hereby agrees that no change in it will not admit any Person as a Partner and the nature or terms General Partner hereby agrees that it will not permit any Person to become entitled to any share of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), its distributions unless such Person shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor have first executed a supplement hereto pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each which such Person agrees to become a Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting to be bound by the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements provisions of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiversArticle 13.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Limited Partnership Agreement, Limited Partnership Agreement (Greenhill & Co Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby of the FNIS Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally and irrevocably, guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lender GroupGuaranteed Parties and their respective successors, indorsees, transferees and assigns, the full prompt and prompt complete payment and performance by the Borrower when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Borrower Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor Anything herein or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible Loan Document to the Lender Groupcontrary notwithstanding, or any the maximum liability of them, for or each FNIS Guarantor hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall in respect of no event exceed the Obligations or any part thereof, amount which can be guaranteed by such FNIS Guarantor under applicable federal and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible state laws relating to the Lender Group, or any insolvency of them, for debtors (after giving effect to the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid right of contribution established in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedSection 3).
(c) Each FNIS Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally agrees that the Borrower Obligations may at any time and irrevocably waives from time to time exceed the amount of the liability of such FNIS Guarantor hereunder without impairing the guarantee contained herein or affecting the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder.
(d) This Guaranty shall remain in full force and effect until (i) the Commitments have been terminated and (ii) all right to assert any defense the Borrower Obligations (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its contingent indemnity obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty unasserted claims) and the Guarantor Obligations under the guarantee contained herein shall have been satisfied by payment in full and no Letter of Credit shall be outstanding (or have been cash collateralized or otherwise subject to arrangements reasonably acceptable to the obligations Administrative Agent), notwithstanding that from time to time during the term of the Guarantors under this Guaranty Credit Agreement the Borrower may be free from any Borrower Obligations.
(e) No payment made by the Borrower, any of the Guarantors, any other guarantor or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty received or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought collected by the Administrative Agent or any other member of Lender from the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereofBorrower, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender GroupGuarantors, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, other Person by virtue of any action or proceeding or any right of counterclaim set-off or offset of any nature appropriation or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, application at any time or from time to time when any amount in reduction of or in payment of the Borrower Obligations shall be deemed to modify, reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of any FNIS Guarantor hereunder which shall, notwithstanding any such payment (other than any payment made by such FNIS Guarantor in respect of the Borrower Obligations or any payment received or collected from such FNIS Guarantor in respect of the Borrower Obligations), remain liable for the Borrower Obligations up to the maximum liability of such FNIS Guarantor hereunder until the Commitments have been terminated and the Borrower Obligations (other than, in each case, indemnities and other contingent obligations not then due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely payable) are paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of full and no Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of shall be outstanding (or have been cash collateral in an amount equal collateralized or otherwise subject to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment arrangements reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupAgent).
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Credit Agreement (Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.), Credit Agreement (Metavante Technologies, Inc.)
Guaranty. (a) Each The Guarantor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees the punctual payment when due, in lawful money of the United States of America, or in another currency as provided for in Section 3.2(a) of the Credit Agreement (the “Obligation Currency”), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of the Loans, L/C Obligations, and all other Obligations owing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender GroupLenders, the full Administrative Agent and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender GroupIssuing Banks, or any of them, for or in respect of under the Obligations or any part Credit Agreement, the Notes, and the other Credit Documents, including all renewals, extensions, modifications and refinancings thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereofowing, whether for principal, interest, fees, expenses or otherwise, and any and all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by the Lenders, the Issuing Banks or the Administrative Agent in enforcing any rights under this Guaranty or otherwise(collectively, shall cease to be so liablethe “Guaranteed Obligations”), each including without limitation, all interest which, but for the filing of a petition in bankruptcy, would accrue on any principal portion of the Guaranteed Obligations. Any and all payments by the Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty hereunder shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or made in the case Obligation Currency free and clear of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives without deduction for any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim counterclaim, or cross-claim of withholding so that, in each case, each Guaranteed Party will receive, after giving effect to any nature whatsoever with respect Taxes (other than Excluded Taxes), the full amount, in the Obligation Currency, that it would otherwise be entitled to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise receive with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations (but without duplication of amounts for Taxes already included in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) Guaranteed Obligations). The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in this is a guarantee of payment when due, and not of collection, and that this Guaranty may be enforced up to the nature or terms full amount of the Guaranteed Obligations or without proceeding against the Borrower, against any of security for the Loan DocumentsGuaranteed Obligations, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to guaranty covering any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupGuaranteed Obligations.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Holdings Guaranty Agreement (Transocean Ltd.), Holdings Guaranty Agreement (Transocean Ltd.)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby Guarantor, jointly and severally, irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees as a primary obligor and not merely as surety to the Creditors the full and prompt payment when due (whether at the stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise, as applicable) of all Obligations of the Borrowers and each Guarantor (other than such Guarantor’s own Obligations) (the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each party hereto understands, agrees and confirms that, if any or all of the Guaranteed Obligations becomes due and payable, subject to the expiration of any applicable grace or cure period expressly set forth in the Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent, Agent for the benefit of the Lender Group, Creditors may enforce this Guaranty up to the full amount of the Guaranteed Obligations against such Guarantor without proceeding against any other Guarantor (as defined in the Credit Agreement) or any Borrower, and prompt such Guarantor agrees to pay such Guaranteed Obligations to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and/or the other Creditors, on demand. Each Guarantor further agrees that the due and punctual payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty Borrower may be extended or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be releasedrenewed, in whole or in part, by without notice to or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound upon its guarantee hereunder notwithstanding any action such extension or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason renewal of any waiverObligation. This Guaranty is a guaranty of payment and not of collection.
(b) Additionally, omission of each Guarantor, jointly and severally, unconditionally, absolutely and irrevocably, guarantees the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason payment of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, and all Guaranteed Obligations whether or not such action due or failure to act varies or increases payable by any Borrower upon the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason occurrence in respect of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member Borrower of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing actsevents specified in Section 7(h) or (i) of the Credit Agreement, omissionsand unconditionally, thingsabsolutely and irrevocably, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Groupjointly and severally, promises to pay such Guaranteed Obligations to the Creditors, or any of themorder, may, without demand or notice following the occurrence in respect of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid Borrower of any of the Obligations events specified in Section 7(h) or (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%i) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Groupon demand.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Revolving Credit Agreement (CF Industries Holdings, Inc.), Revolving Credit Agreement (CF Industries Holdings, Inc.)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor Borrower hereby unconditionally and irrevocably, guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for Lender:
(i) the benefit of due and punctual payment in full (and not merely the Lender Group, collectibility) by the full and prompt payment other Borrowers of the Obligations, including any unpaid and accrued interest therein (including interest as provided thereon, in each case when due and payable, all according to the terms of this Agreement, accruing after the filing Notes and the other Financing Documents;
(ii) the due and punctual payment in full (and not merely the collectibility) by the other Borrowers of a petition initiating all other sums and charges which may at any Insolvency Proceedingstime be due and payable in accordance with this Agreement, whether the Notes or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes any of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim other Financing Documents;
(iii) the due and punctual performance by the other Borrowers of all of the other terms, covenants and conditions contained in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefromFinancing Documents; and
(iv) all the other Obligations of the other Borrowers.
(b) Regardless The obligations and liabilities of whether any proposed each Borrower as a guarantor or any other Person under this Section 2.3.8 shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Groupbe absolute and unconditional and joint and several, or any of them, for or in respect irrespective of the Obligations genuineness, validity, priority, regularity or any part thereofenforceability of this Agreement, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations Notes or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all Financing Documents or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing other circumstance which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of . Each Borrower in its capacity as a guarantor expressly agrees that the Lender Groupmay, in its sole and absolute discretion, without notice to or further assent of such Borrower and without in any way releasing, affecting or in any way impairing the joint and several obligations and liabilities of such Borrower as a guarantor hereunder:
(i) waive compliance with, or any of themdefaults under, or their failure grant any other indulgences under or with respect to proceed promptly any of the Financing Documents;
(ii) modify, amend, change or otherwise, or by reason terminate any provisions of any action taken of the Financing Documents;
(iii) grant extensions or omitted by renewals of or with respect to the Lender GroupCredit Facilities, the Notes or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.Financing Documents;
(fiv) The Lender Groupeffect any release, subordination, compromise or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or settlement in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance connection with this Agreement, any depositsof the Notes or any of the other Financing Documents;
(v) agree to the substitution, propertyexchange, balancesrelease or other disposition of the Collateral or any part thereof, credit accounts or moneys any other collateral for the Loan or to the subordination of any Guarantor lien or security interest therein;
(vi) make advances for the purpose of performing any term, provision or covenant contained in the possession of this Agreement, any member of the Lender Group Notes or under their respective control for any purpose. If of the other Financing Documents with respect to which the Borrowers shall then be in default;
(vii) make future advances pursuant to this Agreement or any of the other Financing Documents;
(viii) assign, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise transfer the Commitments, the Obligations, the Notes, any of the other Financing Documents or any interest therein, all as and to the extent that permitted by the provisions of this Agreement;
(ix) deal in all respects with the other Borrowers as if this Section 2.3.8 were not in effect;
(x) effect any Guarantor makes release, compromise or settlement with any payment to of the Administrative Agent other Borrowers, whether in their capacity as a Borrower or as a guarantor under this Section 2.3.8, or any other Person pursuant guarantor; and
(xi) provide debtor-in-possession financing or allow use of cash collateral in proceedings under the Bankruptcy Code, it being expressly agreed by all Borrowers that any such financing and/or use would be part of the Obligations.
(c) The obligations and liabilities of each Borrower, as guarantor under this Section 2.3.8, shall be primary, direct and immediate, shall not be subject to any counterclaim, recoupment, set off, reduction or in respect of this Guaranty, defense based upon any claim which such Guarantor that a Borrower may have against any one or more of the other Borrowers, the Lender, and/or any other guarantor and shall not be conditional or contingent upon pursuit or enforcement by the Lender of any remedies it may have against the Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate with respect to this Agreement, the Notes or any of the other Financing Documents, whether pursuant to the prior payment terms thereof or by operation of law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Lender shall not be required to make any demand upon any of the Borrowers, or to sell the Collateral or otherwise pursue, enforce or exhaust its remedies against the Borrowers or the Collateral either before, concurrently with or after pursuing or enforcing its rights and remedies hereunder. Any one or more successive or concurrent actions or proceedings may be brought against each Borrower under this Section 2.3.8, either in the same action, if any, brought against any one or more of the Borrowers or in separate actions or proceedings, as often as the Lender may deem expedient or advisable. Without limiting the foregoing, it is specifically understood that any modification, limitation or discharge of any of the liabilities or obligations of any one or more of the Borrowers, any other guarantor or any obligor under any of the Financing Documents, arising out of, or by virtue of, any bankruptcy, arrangement, reorganization or similar proceeding for relief of debtors under federal or state law initiated by or against any one or more of the Borrowers, in their respective capacities as borrowers and guarantors under this Section 2.3.8, or under any of the Financing Documents shall not modify, limit, lessen, reduce, impair, discharge, or otherwise affect the liability of each Borrower under this Section 2.3.8 in any manner whatsoever, and this Section 2.3.8 shall remain and continue in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, force and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group hereineffect. It is the intention intent and purpose of this Section 2.3.8 that each Guarantor Borrower shall and does hereby waive all rights and benefits which might accrue to any other guarantor by reason of any such proceeding, and the Administrative Agent Borrowers agree that each Guarantor’s they shall be liable for the full amount of the obligations hereunder shall beand liabilities under this Section 2.3.8, but not in excess regardless of, and irrespective to, any modification, limitation or discharge of the Maximum Guaranteed Amount liability of any one or more of the Borrowers, any other guarantor or any obligor under any of the Financing Documents, that may result from any such proceedings.
(d) Each Borrower, as herein defined)guarantor under this Section 2.3.8, hereby unconditionally, jointly and severally, irrevocably and expressly waives:
(i) presentment and demand for payment of the Obligations and protest of non-payment;
(ii) notice of acceptance of this Section 2.3.8 and of presentment, demand and protest thereof;
(iii) notice of any default hereunder or under the Notes or any of the other Financing Documents and notice of all indulgences;
(iv) notice of any increase in the amount of any portion of or all of the indebtedness guaranteed by this Section 2.3.8;
(v) demand for observance, performance or enforcement of any of the terms or provisions of this Section 2.3.8, the Notes or any of the other Financing Documents;
(vi) all errors and omissions in connection with the Lender's administration of all indebtedness guaranteed by this Section 2.3.8, except errors and omissions resulting from the Lender's gross negligence or willful misconduct;
(vii) any right or claim of right to cause a marshalling of the assets of any one or more of the other Borrowers;
(viii) any act or omission of the Lender which changes the scope of the risk as guarantor hereunder; and
(ix) all other notices and demands otherwise required by law which the Borrower may lawfully waive. The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” Within ten (10) days following any request of the Lender so to do, each Borrower will furnish the Lender and such other persons as the Lender may direct with a written certificate, duly acknowledged stating in detail whether or not any credits, offsets or defenses exist with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsSection 2.3.8.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Financing Agreement (Argan Inc), Financing and Security Agreement (Argan Inc)
Guaranty. (ai) The Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally and irrevocably, Guaranty to the Purchasers and their respective successors, indorsees, transferees and assigns, the prompt and complete payment and performance when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Obligations.
(ii) 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, including laws relating to the insolvency of debtors, fraudulent conveyance or transfer or laws affecting the rights of creditors generally (after giving effect to the right of contribution established in Section 2(b)).
(iii) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees agrees that the Obligations may at any time and from time to time exceed the Administrative Agent, for the benefit amount of the Lender Group, liability of such Guarantor hereunder without impairing the full Guaranty contained in this Section 2 or affecting the rights and prompt payment remedies of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefromPurchaser hereunder.
(biv) Regardless The Guaranty contained in this Section 2 shall remain in full force and effect until all the Obligations and the obligations of whether each Guarantor under the Guaranty contained in this Section 2 shall have been satisfied by indefeasible payment in full.
(v) No payment made by the Borrower, any proposed of the Guarantors, any other guarantor or any other Person shall become in or received or collected by the Purchasers from the Borrower, any of the Guarantors, any other way responsible to the Lender Group, guarantor or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations by virtue of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations set-off or any portion thereof, appropriation or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, application at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any in reduction of or in payment of the Obligations shall be deemed to modify, reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of any Guarantor hereunder which shall, notwithstanding any such payment (or other than any payment made by such Guarantor in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) respect of the Letter Obligations or any payment received or collected from such Guarantor in respect of Credit the Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of remain liable for the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and up to the extent that any maximum liability of such Guarantor makes any payment hereunder until the Obligations are indefeasibly paid in full.
(vi) Notwithstanding anything to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or contrary in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantordefaulted non-monetary Obligations the specific performance of which by the Guarantors is not reasonably possible, the Guarantors shall mean only be liable for making the maximum amount which could be paid by Purchasers whole on a monetary basis for the Borrower' failure to perform such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction Obligations in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to accordance with the insolvency of debtorsTransaction Documents.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Guaranty Agreement (Youngevity International, Inc.), Guaranty Agreement (Youngevity International, Inc.)
Guaranty. (a) Each Loan Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for its successors or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense assigns (other than the defense of payment in cash in fullthose that have delivered a separate Loan Guaranty) hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or permissible under the obligations laws of the Guarantors under this Guaranty country in which such Loan Guarantor is located or organized, to the obligations Lenders and the Agents (collectively, the “Guaranteed Parties”) the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of any other Person or party the Secured Obligations and all costs and expenses including, without limitation, all court costs and attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees (including Borrowersallocated costs of in-house counsel and paralegals) relating to this Guaranty and expenses paid or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other member of Agents and the Lender Group Lenders in endeavoring to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, the Borrower, any other Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of all or any part of the Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Secured Obligations, collectively the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each Loan Guarantor further agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed in whole or in part without notice to or further assent from it, and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any such extension or renewal. All terms of this Loan Guaranty apply to and may be enforced by or on behalf of any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of any Lender that extended any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations. If any payment by a Loan Guarantor or any discharge given by a Guaranteed Party (whether in respect of the obligations of such any Loan Guarantor pursuant or any security for those obligations or otherwise) is avoided or reduced as a result of insolvency or any similar event: (a) the liability of each Loan Guarantor shall continue as if the payment, discharge, avoidance or reduction had not occurred; and (b) each Guaranteed Party shall be entitled to this Guaranty; it being recover the purpose and intent value or amount of that security or payment from each Loan Guarantor, as if the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenantspayment, agreements and all liabilities and discharge, avoidance or reduction had not occurred. The obligations of each Loan Guarantor hereunder are absoluteunder this Article X will not be affected by an act, unconditional omission, matter or thing which, but for this Article X, would reduce, release or prejudice any of its obligations under this Article X (without limitation and irrevocable whether or not known to it or any Guaranteed Party) including: (a) any time, waiver or consent granted to, or composition with, any Loan Guarantor or other person; (b) the release of any other Loan Guarantor; (c) the taking, variation, compromise, exchange, renewal or release of, or refusal or neglect to perfect, take up or enforce, any rights against, or security over assets of, any Loan Guarantor or other person or any non-presentation or non-observance of any formality or other requirement in respect of any instrument or any failure to realize the full value of any security; (d) any incapacity or lack of power, authority or legal personality of or dissolution or change in the members or status of a Loan Guarantor or any other person; (e) any amendment, novation, supplement, extension (whether of maturity or otherwise) or restatement (in each case, however fundamental and of whatsoever nature) or replacement of a Loan Document or any other document or security; (f) any unenforceability, illegality or invalidity of any obligation of any person under any and all circumstancesLoan Document or any other document or security; or (g) any insolvency, bankruptcy, winding-up, liquidation, reorganization or other similar proceedings. Without limiting prejudice to the generality of the foregoingabove, each Loan Guarantor agrees expressly confirms, as permissible under applicable law, that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of it intends that this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder guarantee shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or extend from time to time when to any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor(however fundamental) variation, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid increase, extension or addition of or to any of the Obligations Loan Documents and/or any amount made available under any of the Loan Documents for the purposes of or in connection with any of the following: acquisitions of any nature; increasing working capital; enabling investor distributions to be made; carrying out restructurings; refinancing existing facilities; refinancing any other indebtedness; making facilities available to new Borrower; any other variation or extension of the purposes for which any such facility or amount might be made available from time to time; and any fees, costs and/or expenses associated with any of the foregoing. Each Loan Guarantor waives any right it may have of first requiring any Guaranteed Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) to proceed against or enforce any other rights or security or claim payment from any person before claiming from that Loan Guarantor under this Article X. This waiver applies irrespective of any law or any provision of a Loan Document to the contrary. This guarantee is in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral addition to and is not in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and any way prejudiced by any other guarantee or security now or subsequently held by any Guaranteed Party. This guarantee does not apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and liability to the extent that it would result in this guarantee constituting unlawful financial assistance within the meaning of any Guarantor makes any payment to equivalent and applicable provisions under the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full laws of the Obligations to the satisfaction jurisdiction of incorporation of the Lender Grouprelevant Loan Guarantor.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Credit Agreement (Office Depot Inc), Credit Agreement (Office Depot Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each The Guarantor hereby guarantees unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees, as primary obligor and not merely surety, to the Administrative Agent, for Beneficiaries the benefit prompt and complete payment by the Transferee when due of all payment obligations of the Lender GroupTransferee under the Operative Agreements without offset or deduction and the timely performance of all other obligations of the Transferee thereunder (such payment and other obligations, the full "Obligations"), and prompt payment the Guarantor further agrees to pay any and all expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) that may be paid or incurred by the Beneficiaries in enforcing any rights with respect to, or collecting, any or all of the ObligationsObligations and/or enforcing any rights with respect to, including or collecting against, the Guarantor under this Guaranty. The Guarantor will not exercise any interest therein (including interest as provided rights that it may now or hereafter acquire against Transferee that arise from the existence, payment, performance or enforcement of the Guarantor's Obligations under this Guaranty, the Transferred Interest or the Operative Agreements, including, without limitation, any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or indemnification and any right to participate in this Agreement, accruing after the filing any claim or remedy of a petition initiating any Insolvency ProceedingsBeneficiary against Transferee or any collateral, whether or not such interest accrues claim, remedy or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code right arises in equity or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)under contract, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by statute or common law, through an attorneyincluding, without limitation, the right to take or receive from Transferee, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-at-law, off or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Groupmanner, payment or any security on account of themsuch claim, for remedy or in respect right, unless and until all of the Obligations or any part thereof, have been performed in full and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether all other amounts payable under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or cash. If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) violation of the Letter preceding sentence at any time prior to the final payment in full in cash of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any Obligations and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way amounts payable under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities amount shall be held in trust for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage benefit of any security for Beneficiary and shall forthwith be paid to such Beneficiary to be credited and applied to the Obligations and accept all other amounts payable under this Guaranty, whether matured or make any compositions or arrangementsunmatured, and realize upon any security for in accordance with the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Operative Agreements, or to be held as collateral for any Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable amounts payable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiversthereafter arising.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Participation Agreement (Federal Express Corp), Participation Agreement (Federal Express Corp)
Guaranty. (a) Each U.S. Loan Guarantor (other than those that have delivered a separate Guaranty) hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as a joint primary obligor and several obligationnot merely as surety, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any guarantees to the Secured Parties, the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Secured Obligations and all right costs and expenses to assert any defense the extent required by Section 9.03, paid or incurred by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders in endeavoring to collect 112
(b) Each Canadian Loan Guarantor (other than those that have delivered a separate Guaranty) hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as a primary obligor and not merely as surety, absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the defense Secured Parties, the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of payment in cash in full, the Canadian Secured Obligations and all costs and expenses to the extent of its obligations hereunder, required by Section 9.03 paid or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other member of Agent, the Lender Group Issuing Bank and the Lenders in endeavoring to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities Canadian Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, any Canadian Borrower, any Canadian Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of all or any part of the Canadian Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Canadian Secured Obligations, collectively the “Canadian Guaranteed Obligations”); provided, however, that the definition of “Canadian Guaranteed Obligations” shall not create any guarantee by any Canadian Loan Guarantor of (or grant of security interest by any Canadian Loan Guarantor to support, as applicable) any Excluded Swap Obligations of such Canadian Loan Guarantor for purposes of determining any obligations of such any Canadian Loan Guarantor). Each Canadian Loan Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group further agrees that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law Canadian Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, renewed in whole or in partpart without notice to or further assent from it, by and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any action such extension or thing which might, but for this paragraph renewal. All terms of this Guaranty, Loan Guaranty apply to and may be deemed a legal enforced by or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason on behalf of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, domestic or any of them, foreign branch or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason Affiliate of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to that extended any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and Canadian Guaranteed Obligations. Notwithstanding anything contained in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and Agreement to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
contrary (g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorizedincluding, without notice to limitation, this Section 10.01), no Canadian Loan Party shall guarantee any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsU.S. Secured Obligations.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Subject to Section 10.1(b) hereof, each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agentabsolutely, for the benefit of the Lender Group, irrevocably and unconditionally Guaranties the full and prompt payment when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Borrower Obligations. The agreements of each Subsidiary Guarantor under this Article 10 constitute a Guaranty of payment, and the Lender shall not have any obligation to enforce any Loan Document or exercise any right or remedy with respect to any collateral security thereunder by any action, including making or perfecting any interest therein (including interest as provided in claim against any Person or any collateral security for any of the Borrower Obligations prior to being entitled to the benefits of this Agreement. The Lender may, accruing after at its option, proceed against the filing Subsidiary Guarantors, or any one or more of a petition initiating them, in the first instance, to enforce the Guarantor Obligations without first proceeding against the Borrower or any Insolvency Proceedingsother Person, whether and without first resorting to any other rights or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after remedies, as the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)Lender may deem advisable. In furtherance hereof, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented Lender is prevented by this Guaranty are collected by lawlaw from collecting or otherwise hindered from collecting or otherwise enforcing any Borrower Obligation in accordance with its terms, through an attorney-at-lawthe Lender shall be entitled to receive hereunder from the Subsidiary Guarantors after demand therefor, the sums that would have been otherwise due had such collection or under advice therefromenforcement not been prevented or hindered.
(b) Regardless Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the maximum aggregate amount of whether the obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder shall not, as of any proposed guarantor date of determination, exceed the lesser of (i) the greatest amount that is valid and enforceable against such Subsidiary Guarantor under principles of New Jersey State contract law, and (ii) the greatest amount that would not render such Subsidiary Guarantor’s liability hereunder subject to avoidance as a fraudulent transfer or conveyance under Section 548 of Title 11 of the United States Code or any applicable provisions of state law (collectively, the “Fraudulent Transfer Laws”), in each case after giving effect to all other Person shall become in liabilities of such Subsidiary Guarantor, contingent or otherwise, that are relevant under the Fraudulent Transfer Laws (specifically excluding, however, any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or liability (A) in respect of intercompany indebtedness to the Obligations Borrower or any part thereofaffiliate or subsidiary of the Borrower, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to extent that such intercompany indebtedness would be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral discharged in an amount equal to one hundred five percent the amount paid by such Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder, and (105%B) under any Guaranty of (1) senior unsecured indebtedness, or (2) indebtedness subordinated in right of payment to any Borrower Obligation, in either case that contains a limitation as to maximum liability similar to that set forth in this Section 10.1(b) and pursuant to which the liability of such Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder is included in the liabilities taken into account in determining such maximum liability) and after giving effect as assets to the value (as determined under the applicable provisions of the Fraudulent Transfer Laws) of any rights to subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or similar rights of such Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to applicable law or any agreement providing for an equitable allocation among such Subsidiary Guarantor and other affiliates or subsidiaries of the Letter Borrower of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedobligations arising under Guaranties by such parties.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Subsidiary Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it Obligations may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or and from time to time when any exceed the maximum aggregate amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder without impairing this Agreement or in affecting the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off rights and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member remedies of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Grouphereunder.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor The Guarantors hereby guarantees jointly and severally, irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally, guarantee the punctual and full payment when due, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of all Loans and all other Obligations owing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender GroupGuaranteed Parties, or any of them, for jointly or in respect of severally under the Obligations or any part Credit Agreement, the Notes and the other Credit Documents, including all renewals, extensions, modifications and refinancings thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereofowing, whether for principal, interest, fees, expenses or otherwise, and any and all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees actually incurred and expenses, whether suit be brought or not, including reasonable attorneys' fees, costs and expenses if appeal is taken) incurred by the Administrative Agent in enforcing any rights under this Guaranty or otherwise(collectively, shall cease the "Guaranteed Obligations"), including without limitation, all interest which, but for the filing of a petition in bankruptcy with respect to be so liablethe Borrower, each Guarantor hereby declares would accrue on any principal portion of the Guaranteed Obligations. Any and agrees that this Guaranty all payments by the Guarantors hereunder shall be a joint made free and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty clear of and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives without deduction for any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim counterclaim, or cross-claim of withholding so that, in each case, each Guaranteed Party will receive, after giving effect to any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or Taxes (as such term is defined in the obligations Credit Agreement, but excluding Taxes imposed on overall net income of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or Guaranteed Party to the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating same extent as excluded pursuant to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of Credit Agreement), the Guarantors under this Guaranty or full amount that it would otherwise be entitled to receive with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations (but without duplication of amounts for Taxes already included in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member Guaranteed Obligations). The Guarantors acknowledge and agree that this is a guarantee of payment when due, and not of collection, and that this Guaranty may be enforced up to the full amount of the Lender Group to collect Guaranteed Obligations without proceeding against the Obligations or any portion thereofBorrower, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of against any security for the Obligations and accept Guaranteed Obligations, against any other Guarantor or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to guaranty covering any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupGuaranteed Obligations.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Senior Secured Revolving Credit Agreement (Able Telcom Holding Corp)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor The Guarantors hereby guarantees jointly and severally, irrevocably and unconditionally, guarantee the punctual payment when due, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of all Loans and all other Obligations owing by Intermet to the Lenders or the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of under the Obligations or any part Credit Agreement, the Notes and the other Credit Documents, including, without limitation, all renewals, extensions, modifications and refinancings thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereofowing, whether for principal, interest, fees, expenses or otherwise, and any and all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees actually incurred) and expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent in enforcing any rights under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations (collectively, the "Guaranteed Obligations) and "), including without limitation, all interest which, but for the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelyfiling of a petition in bankruptcy with respect to Intermet, unconditionally and irrevocably waives would accrue on any principal portion of the Guaranteed Obligations. Any and all right to assert payments by the Guarantors hereunder shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim counterclaim, or cross-claim of withholding so that, in each case, each Guaranteed Party will receive, after giving effect to any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or Taxes (as such term is defined in the obligations Credit Agreement, but excluding Taxes imposed on overall net income of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or Guaranteed Party to the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating same extent as excluded pursuant to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of Credit Agreement), the Guarantors under this Guaranty or full amount that it would otherwise be entitled to receive with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations (but without duplication of amounts for Taxes already included in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member Guaranteed Obligations). The Guarantors acknowledge and agree that this is a guarantee of payment when due, and not of collection, and that this Guaranty may be enforced up to the full amount of the Lender Group to collect the Guaranteed Obligations or any portion thereofwithout proceeding against Intermet, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of against any security for the Obligations and accept Guaranteed Obligations, against any other Guarantor or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to guaranty covering any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupGuaranteed Obligations.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each To induce the DIP Lenders to make the DIP Loans, each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agentabsolutely, for the benefit of the Lender Groupunconditionally and irrevocably guarantees, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, the full and prompt punctual payment when due, whether at stated maturity or earlier, by reason of acceleration, mandatory prepayment or otherwise in accordance herewith or any other DIP Loan Document, of all the DIP Obligations, whether or not from time to time reduced or extinguished or hereafter increased or incurred, whether or not recovery may be or hereafter may become barred by any statute of limitations, whether or not enforceable as against the Borrowers, whether now or hereafter existing, and whether due or to become due, including any principal, interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, at the contract rate applicable upon default accrued or accruing after the filing commencement of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingsproceeding under the Bankruptcy Code, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this costs of collection. This Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefromconstitutes a guaranty of payment and not of collection.
(b) Regardless of whether Each Guarantor further agrees that, if (i) any proposed guarantor payment made by the Borrowers or any other Person shall become in person and applied to the DIP Obligations is at any time annulled, avoided, set aside, rescinded, invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential or otherwise required to be refunded or repaid, or (ii) the proceeds of Collateral are required to be returned by any Guarantied Party to the Borrowers, its estate, trustee, receiver or any other way responsible to the Lender Groupparty, including any Guarantor, under any bankruptcy law, equitable cause or any other Requirement of themLaw, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in fullthen, to the extent of its obligations hereundersuch payment or repayment, or a defense that any such Guarantor’s liability is limited hereunder (and any Lien or other Collateral securing such liability) shall be and remain in full force and effect, as provided in Section 3.1(g)fully as if such payment had never been made. If, prior to any of the foregoing, this Guaranty shall have been cancelled or surrendered (and if any Lien or other Collateral securing such Guarantor’s liability hereunder shall have been released or terminated by virtue of such cancellation or surrender), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty (and such Lien or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty other Collateral) shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and such prior cancellation or surrender shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or otherwise affect the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to of such payment (or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance Lien or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsCollateral securing such obligation).
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees In recognition of the direct and indirect benefits to be received by Guarantors from the proceeds of the Term Loans by virtue of the financial accommodations to be made to the Administrative Borrower, each of the Guarantors, jointly and severally, hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety the full and prompt payment when due, whether upon maturity, acceleration, or otherwise, of all of the Guarantied Obligations. If any or all of the Obligations constituting Guarantied Obligations becomes due and payable, each of the Guarantors, unconditionally and irrevocably, and without the need for demand, protest, or any other notice or formality, promises to pay such indebtedness to Agent, for the benefit of the Lender GroupSecured Parties, the full together with any and prompt payment of the Obligationsall reasonable, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and documented out-of-pocket expenses if the obligations represented that may be incurred by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor Agent or any other Person shall become Secured Party in any other way responsible to the Lender Groupdemanding, enforcing, or collecting any of them, the Guarantied Obligations (including the enforcement of any collateral for or in respect of the such Guarantied Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, collateral for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty). If claim is ever made upon Agent or any other Secured Party for repayment or recovery of any amount or amounts received in payment of or on account of any or all of the Guarantied Obligations and any of Agent or any other Secured Party repays all or part of said amount by reason of (i) any judgment, decree, or order of any court or administrative body having jurisdiction over such payee or any of its property, or (ii) any reasonable settlement or compromise of any such claim effected by such payee with any such claimant (including any Borrower or any Guarantor), then and in each such event, each of the Guarantors agrees that any such judgment, decree, order, settlement, or compromise shall be binding upon the Guarantors, notwithstanding any revocation (or purported revocation) of this Guaranty or other instrument evidencing any liability of any Grantor, and the Guarantors shall be and remain liable to the aforesaid payees hereunder for the amount so repaid or recovered to the same extent as if such amount had never originally been received by any such payee.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) The liability of each of the Guarantors hereunder is primary, absolute, and unconditional, and is independent of any security for or other guaranty of the Guarantied Obligations, whether executed by any other Guarantor or by any other Person, and the liability of each of the Guarantors hereunder shall not be affected or impaired by (i) any payment on, or in reduction of, any such other guaranty or undertaking, (ii) any dissolution, termination, or increase, decrease, or change in personnel by any Grantor, (iii) any payment made to Agent or any other Secured Party on account of the Guarantied Obligations which Agent or such other Secured Party repays to any Grantor pursuant to court order in any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium or other debtor relief proceeding (or any settlement or compromise of any claim made in such a proceeding relating to such payment), and each of the Guarantors waives any right to the deferral or modification of its obligations hereunder by reason of any such proceeding, or (iv) any action or inaction by Agent or any other Secured Party, or (v) any invalidity, irregularity, avoidability, or unenforceability of all or any part of the Guarantied Obligations or of any security therefor.
(d) This Guaranty includes all present and future Guarantied Obligations including any transactions continuing, compromising, extending, increasing, modifying, releasing, or renewing the Guarantied Obligations, changing the interest rate, payment terms, or other terms and conditions thereof, or creating new or additional Guarantied Obligations after prior Guarantied Obligations have been satisfied in whole or in part. To the maximum extent permitted by law, each Guarantor hereby waives any right to revoke this Guaranty as to future Guarantied Obligations. If such a revocation is effective notwithstanding the foregoing waiver, each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that (i) no such revocation shall be effective until written notice thereof has been received by Agent, (ii) no such revocation shall apply to any Guarantied Obligations in existence on the date of receipt by Agent of such written notice (including any subsequent continuation, extension, or renewal thereof, or change in the interest rate, payment terms, or other terms and conditions thereof), (iii) no such revocation shall apply to any Guarantied Obligations made or created after such date to the extent made or created pursuant to a legally binding commitment of any Secured Party in existence on the date of such revocation, (iv) no payment by any Guarantor, any Borrower, or from any other source, prior to the date of Agent’s receipt of written notice of such revocation shall reduce the maximum obligation of such Guarantor hereunder, and (v) any payment by a Borrower or from any source other than such Guarantor subsequent to the date of such revocation shall first be applied to that portion of the Guarantied Obligations as to which the revocation is effective and which are not, therefore, guarantied hereunder, and to the extent so applied shall not reduce the maximum obligation of such Guarantor hereunder. This Guaranty shall be binding upon each Guarantor, its successors and assigns and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) and its successors, transferees, or assigns.
(e) The guaranty by each of the Guarantors hereunder is a guaranty of payment and not of collection. The obligations of each of the Guarantors hereunder are independent of the obligations of any other Guarantor or Grantor or any other Person and a separate action or party actions may be brought and prosecuted against one or more of the Guarantors whether or not action is brought against any other Guarantor or Grantor or any other Person and whether or not any other Guarantor or Grantor or any other Person be joined in any such action or actions. Each of the Guarantors waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the benefit of any statute of limitations affecting its liability hereunder or the enforcement hereof. Any payment by any Grantor or other circumstance which operates to toll any statute of limitations as to any Grantor shall operate to toll the statute of limitations as to each of the Guarantors.
(f) Each of the Guarantors authorizes Agent and the other Secured Parties, without notice or demand, and without affecting or impairing its liability hereunder, from time to time to:
(i) change the manner, place, or terms of payment of, or change or extend the time of payment of, renew, increase, accelerate, or alter: (A) any of the Guarantied Obligations (including Borrowersany increase or decrease in the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest or fees thereon); or (B) relating to any security therefor or any liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof, and this Guaranty shall apply to the Guarantied Obligations as so changed, extended, renewed, or altered;
(ii) take and hold security for the payment of the Guarantied Obligations and sell, exchange, release, impair, surrender, realize upon, collect, settle, or otherwise deal with in any manner and in any order any property at any time pledged or mortgaged to secure the Obligations or any of the Guarantied Obligations (including any of the obligations of all or any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty Guaranty) incurred directly or otherwise with indirectly in respect to the Obligations in any action thereof or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent hereof, or any offset on account thereof;
(iii) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against any Grantor;
(iv) release or substitute any one or more endorsers, guarantors, any Grantor, or other member obligors;
(v) settle or compromise any of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations Guarantied Obligations, any security therefor, or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations liability (including any of those of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.) incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof or hereof, and may subordinate the payment of all or any part thereof to the payment of any liability (whether due or not) of any Grantor to its creditors;
(dvi) The Lender Groupapply any sums by whomever paid or however realized to any liability or liabilities of any Grantor to Agent or any other Secured Party regardless of what liability or liabilities of such Grantor remain unpaid;
(vii) consent to or waive any breach of, or any act, omission, or default under, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any of them, may from time the instruments or agreements referred to time, without exonerating herein or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem propertherein, or (ii) releaseotherwise amend, dischargemodify, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with supplement this Agreement, any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Groupother Loan Document, or any of themsuch other instruments or agreements; or
(viii) take any other action that could, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any under otherwise applicable principles of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantorlaw, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related rise to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety one or guarantormore of the Guarantors from all or part of its liabilities under this Guaranty.
(g) It is not necessary for Agent or any other Secured Party to inquire into the capacity or powers of any of the Guarantors or the officers, directors, partners or agents acting or purporting to act on their behalf, and any Guarantied Obligations made or created in reliance upon the professed exercise of such powers shall be Guaranteed hereunder.
(h) Each Guarantor jointly and severally guarantees that the Guarantied Obligations will be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, regardless of any law, regulation, or order now or hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the rights of any Secured Party with respect thereto. The obligations of each Guarantor under this Guaranty are independent of the Guarantied Obligations, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Guarantor to enforce such obligations, irrespective of whether any action is brought against any other Guarantor or whether any other Guarantor is joined in any such action or actions. The liability of each Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of, and each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any defense it may now or hereafter have in any way relating to, any or all of the following:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or any agreement or instrument relating thereto;
(ii) any change in the time, manner, or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Guarantied Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from any Loan Document, including any increase in the Guarantied Obligations resulting from the extension of additional credit;
(iii) any taking, exchange, release, or non-perfection of any Lien in and to any Collateral, or any taking, release, amendment, waiver of, or consent to departure from any other guaranty, for all or any of the Guarantied Obligations;
(iv) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense, or other right that any Guarantor may have at any time against any Person, including Agent or any other Secured Party;
(v) any defense, set-off, counterclaim, or claim, of any kind or nature, arising directly or indirectly from the present or future lack of perfection, sufficiency, validity, or enforceability of the Guarantied Obligations or any security therefor (other than to the extent arising from payment of the Guarantied Obligations, to the extent of such payment);
(vi) any right or defense arising by reason of any waiverclaim or defense based upon an election of remedies by any Secured Party including any defense based upon an impairment or elimination of such Guarantor’s rights of subrogation, omission reimbursement, contribution, or indemnity of such Guarantor against any other Grantor or any guarantors or sureties;
(vii) any change, restructuring, or termination of the Lender Groupcorporate, limited liability company, or partnership structure or existence of any of themGrantor; or
(viii) any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk a discharge of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, Grantor or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any surety (other than payment of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Guarantied Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Grouppayment).
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor Loan Party hereby jointly and severally and unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Administrative Agentpunctual payment when due and payable (whether at stated maturity, for the benefit on demand, by acceleration or otherwise), of all Obligations of the Lender GroupBorrowersLoan Parties, the full and prompt payment of the Obligationsnow or hereafter existing under any Loan Document, including any whether for principal, interest therein (including including, without limitation, all interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing that accrues after the filing commencement of a petition initiating any Insolvency ProceedingsProceeding with respect to any Borrower,Loan Party, whether or not a claim for post-filing interest is allowed in such interest accrues Insolvency Proceeding), Letter of Credit Obligations, fees, commissions, expense reimbursements, indemnifications or is recoverable against Borrowers after otherwise, and whether accruing before or subsequent to the filing commencement of such petition for purposes any Insolvency Proceeding with respect to any BorrowerLoan Party (notwithstanding the operation of the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the United States Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceedingCode), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented due performance and observance by this Guaranty are collected the BorrowersLoan Parties of their other Obligations now or hereafter existing in respect of the Loan Documents (such Obligations, to the extent not paid or performed by lawthe BorrowersLoan Parties, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrombeing the ”Guaranteed Obligations”).
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees Guarantor’s liability shall extend to all amounts that until each and every one constitute part of the covenants applicable Guaranteed Obligations and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performedwould be owed by the BorrowersLoan Parties to the Agents, the Lenders, the Bank Product Providers and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by the L/C Issuer under any action or thing which might, Loan Document but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether fact that they are unenforceable or not such action or failure allowable due to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects existence of an Insolvency Proceeding involving the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, BorrowersLoan Parties. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing actsforegoing, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers Guaranteed Obligations shall not have timely paid include any of Excluded Hedge Liabilities. In no event shall the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys obligation of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean exceed the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in could guarantee under any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsDebtor Relief Law.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby agrees that it is liable for, and, as a primary obligor and not merely as surety, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to Creditors, the Administrative Agentprompt payment when due, for the benefit whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Lender GroupSCP Obligations (as defined below) and all costs and expenses, the full including, without limitation, all court costs and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees (including allocated costs of in-house counsel and paralegals) and expenses if the obligations represented paid or incurred by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become Creditor in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group endeavoring to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities SCP Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, Borrower, any Guarantor or any other guarantor of all or any part of the SCP Obligations (such costs and obligations expenses, together with the SCP Obligations, collectively the “Guaranteed Obligations”; provided, however, that the definition of “Guaranteed Obligations” shall not create any guarantee by any Guarantor of (or grant of security interest by any Guarantor to support, as applicable) any Excluded Swap Obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent for purposes of determining any obligations of the Guarantors and the Lender Group Guarantors). Each Guarantor further agrees that the covenantsGuaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed in whole or in part without notice to or further assent from it, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any and all circumstancessuch extension or renewal. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements All terms of this Guaranty is fully performedapply to and may be enforced by any Creditor or by or on behalf of any Lending Installation of any Creditor that extended any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations. As used herein, “SCP Obligations” means all unpaid principal of and without possibility accrued and unpaid interest on the loans under the SCP Loan Facility (including pursuant to the SCP Loan Agreement), all accrued and unpaid fees and all Creditor Expenses, reimbursements, indemnities and other obligations and indebtedness (including interest and fees accruing during the pendency of recourseany bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), obligations and liabilities of Borrower to any Creditor or any indemnified party, individually or collectively, existing on the date hereof or arising thereafter, direct or indirect, joint or several, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, secured or unsecured, arising by contract, operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be releasedarising or incurred under this Guaranty, in whole the SCP Loan Agreement or the SCP Loan Facility or in partrespect of any of the loans made or reimbursement or other obligations incurred thereunder. Each Guarantor acknowledges that, by without limiting the scope of the foregoing or any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph other provision of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantorincluding any provisions in the paragraph below captioned “Payments Generally,” the term “Guaranteed Obligations” includes, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or but is not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented limited to, any loss that any Creditor may incur with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations on account of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements prohibitions or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or limitations that may exist from time to time when any amount shall under the laws or regulations of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (“SAFE”) or other regulatory authorities in the Peoples Republic of China (“PRC”) including with respect to the conversion into Renminbi (“RMB”) of U.S. dollars that may be due and payable hereunder paid by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid Guarantor to any Creditor to satisfy any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not under this Guaranty. This Guaranty is secured by all of the Collateral as more fully provided in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean Security Agreement and the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating applicable Loan Documents and subject to the insolvency of debtorsterms and conditions therein.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, Guarantors unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the full due and prompt punctual payment and performance by the Borrower of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) . Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to further agrees that the Obligations in any action may be extended or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be releasedrenewed, in whole or in part, by any action without notice to or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not further assent from such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or suretyGuarantor, and such Guarantor will remain bound upon this guaranty notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any of the Obligations. The obligations of the Guarantors under this Article VII shall be joint and several.
(b) Each of the Guarantors waives presentation to, demand for payment from and protest to the Borrower or any other Guarantor, and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment. The obligations of the Guarantors under this Article VII shall not be affected by (i) the failure of the Agents or any Lender to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Borrower or any other Guarantor under the provisions of any Loan Document or otherwise; (ii) any extension or renewal of any Loan Document; (iii) any rescission, waiver, compromise, acceleration, amendment or modification of any of the terms or provisions of any Loan Document; (iv) the release, exchange, waiver or foreclosure of any security held by the Agents or any Lender for the Obligations; (v) the failure of the Agents or any Lender to exercise any right or remedy against any other Guarantor; or (vi) the release or substitution of any Guarantor.
(c) Each of the Guarantors further agrees that its guaranty of the Obligations constitutes a guaranty of payment when due and not just of collection, and waives any right to require that any resort be had by the Agents or any Lender to (i) any security held for payment of the Obligations, (ii) any balance of any deposit, account or credit on the books of the Agents or any Lender in favor of the Borrower or any other Guarantor, or (iii) any other Guarantor or any other Person.
(d) Each of the Guarantors hereby expressly waives any defense that it might have based on a failure to remain informed of the financial condition of the Borrower and surrenders of any other Guarantor and any circumstances affecting the ability of the Borrower to perform under the Loan Documents.
(e) Each Guarantor's guaranty of the Obligations shall not be affected by the genuineness, validity, regularity or enforceability of the Obligations or any other instrument evidencing any Obligations, or by the existence, validity, enforceability, perfection or extent of any collateral therefore or by any other circumstance relating to the Obligations that might otherwise constitute a defense to its liability hereunderguaranty. Neither the Agents nor any Lender makes any representation or warranty in respect to any such circumstances, or shall have any right of counterclaim duty or offset of responsibility whatsoever to any nature or description which it may have or may exist based uponGuarantor, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any in respect of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiversmanagement and maintenance of the Obligations.
(f) The Lender GroupSubject to the provisions of Section 6.01, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be the Obligations becoming due and payable hereunder (by any Guarantormaturity, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (acceleration or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligationsotherwise), set-off the Agents and appropriate and apply Lenders shall be entitled to any portion immediate payment of such Obligations by the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to Guarantors upon written demand by the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant Managing Lender, without further application to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full order of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupBankruptcy Court.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Debtor in Possession Credit and Guaranty Agreement (Key3media Group Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each The Guarantor hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Administrative Agentpunctual payment when due, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including whether at scheduled maturity or on any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing date of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingsrequired prepayment or by acceleration, whether demand or not such interest accrues otherwise, of all Obligations of each other Loan Party now or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or hereafter existing under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations Loan Documents (collectively, the “Secured Documents”) (including, without limitation, any extensions, modifications, substitutions, amendments or renewals of any part thereofor all of the foregoing Obligations), whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, and regardless whether for principal, interest, premium, fees, indemnities, contract causes of whether action, costs, expenses or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to otherwise (such Obligations being the Lender Group“Guaranteed Obligations”), or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives pay any and all right to assert any defense expenses (other than the defense including, without limitation, fees and expenses of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowerscounsel) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other member Secured Party in enforcing any rights under this Guaranty or any other Secured Document, to the extent reimbursable under Section 10.04 of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretionCredit Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Guarantor’s liability shall extend to all amounts that constitute part of the Guaranteed Obligations and would be owed by any other Loan Party to any Secured Party under or in respect of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security Secured Documents but for the Obligations and accept fact that they are unenforceable or make any compositions not allowable due to the existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in similar proceeding involving such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedientother Loan Party.
(eb) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performedThe Guarantor, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph its acceptance of this Guaranty, be deemed the Administrative Agent and each other Secured Party, hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such Persons that this Guaranty and the Obligations of the Guarantor hereunder not constitute a legal fraudulent transfer or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason conveyance for purposes of any waiverDebtor Relief Law (as hereinafter defined), omission the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar foreign, federal or state law to the extent applicable to this Guaranty and the Obligations of the Lender GroupGuarantor hereunder. To effectuate the foregoing intention, or any of themthe Administrative Agent, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases other Secured Parties and the risk of, or affects Guarantor hereby irrevocably agree that the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member Obligations of the Lender Group, on Guarantor under this Guaranty at any time shall be limited to the other hand, maximum amount as will result in the Obligations of the Guarantor under this Guaranty not constituting a fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
(c) The Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably agrees that in the event any payment shall be required to be made to any Secured Party under this Guaranty or the Subsidiary Guaranty or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense guaranty with respect to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Guaranteed Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations)Guarantor will contribute, set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the maximum extent that any Guarantor makes any payment permitted by applicable law, such amounts to each other guarantor so as to maximize the aggregate amount paid to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to Secured Parties under or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupSecured Documents.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Second Lien Holdings Guaranty (Syniverse Holdings Inc)
Guaranty. Each Borrower and each Guarantor, other than Subsidiaries that are Excluded Subsidiaries, severally, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees (athe undertaking by each Borrower and each Guarantor under this Article VIII being the “Guaranty”) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agentpunctual payment when due, whether at scheduled maturity or at a date fixed for the benefit prepayment or by acceleration, demand or otherwise, all Cash Management Obligations of the Lender Group, Loan Parties and the full and prompt payment other Restricted Subsidiaries of the Borrowers, all Obligations under Secured Hedge Agreements but excluding all Excluded Swap Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing and all other Obligations of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes each of the Bankruptcy Code other Loan Parties and each Restricted Subsidiary now or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or hereafter existing under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, any extensions, modifications, substitutions, amendments or renewals of any or all of the foregoing Obligations), whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, and whether for principal, interest, premium, fees, indemnification payments, contract causes of action, costs, expenses or otherwise (such Obligations being the “Guaranteed Obligations”); provided, that, endorsements of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business are not Guaranteed Obligations for purposes of the foregoing Section 8.01; and provided, further, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (a) any Borrower that is a Foreign Subsidiary shall not guarantee the Obligations of D▇▇▇, any other Loan Party or any part thereofother Restricted Subsidiary other than the Obligations of any other Borrower that is a Foreign Subsidiary, and regardless (b) any Borrower that is a Foreign Subsidiary shall guarantee the Obligations of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible other Borrower that is a Foreign Subsidiary only to the Lender Groupextent such guarantee could not reasonably be expected to result in a material adverse tax consequence to Dana or one of its Subsidiaries (as determined in good faith by D▇▇▇), or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelyany Guarantees by Foreign Subsidiaries shall be subject to any applicable general mandatory statutory limitations, unconditionally fraudulent preference, “thin capitalization” rules, exchange control restrictions, corporate benefit, financial assistance and irrevocably waives customary guarantee limitation language to be agreed by the Administrative Agent and D▇▇▇ in respect of the relevant jurisdiction and (d) any Guarantees by domestic Loan Parties of the Obligations of any Borrower that is a Foreign Subsidiary shall only be required to the extent such guarantee could not reasonably be expected to result in a material adverse tax consequence to Dana or one of its Subsidiaries (as determined in good faith by D▇▇▇), and agrees to pay any and all right to assert any defense expenses (other than the defense including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowerscounsel) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or other Secured Parties solely in enforcing any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors rights under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees Borrower’s and each Guarantor’s respective liability shall extend to all amounts that until each and every one constitute part of the covenants Guaranteed Obligations and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether would be owed by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, other Loan Parties or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment Restricted Subsidiary to the Administrative Agent or any of the other Person pursuant to Secured Parties under or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate the Loan Documents but for the fact that they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the prior payment in full existence of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation a bankruptcy, reorganization or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or similar proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or such other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsLoan Party.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby Guarantor, jointly and severally, irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees as a primary obligor and not merely as surety to the Bank Creditors the full and punctual payment when due (whether at the stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise, as applicable) of all Obligations of the Borrowers and each Guarantor (other than such Guarantor’s own Obligations, the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each party hereto understands, agrees and confirms that, if any or all of the Guaranteed Obligations becomes due and payable, subject to the expiration of any applicable grace or cure period expressly set forth in the Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent, Agent for the benefit of the Lender Group, Bank Creditors may enforce this Guaranty up to the full amount of the Guaranteed Obligations against such Guarantor without proceeding against any other Guarantor (as defined in the Credit Agreement) or any Borrower, and prompt such G▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ agrees to pay such Guaranteed Obligations to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and/or the other Bank Creditors to whom Guaranteed Obligations are owed on demand. Each Guarantor further agrees that the due and punctual payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty Borrower may be extended or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be releasedrenewed, in whole or in part, by without notice to or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound upon its guarantee hereunder notwithstanding any action such extension or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason renewal of any waiverObligation. This Guaranty is a guaranty of payment and not of collection.
(b) Additionally, omission of each Guarantor, jointly and severally, unconditionally, absolutely and irrevocably, guarantees the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason payment of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, and all Guaranteed Obligations whether or not such action due or failure to act varies or increases payable by any Borrower upon the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason occurrence in respect of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member Borrower of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing actsevents specified in Section 7(h) or (i) of the Credit Agreement, omissionsand unconditionally, thingsabsolutely and irrevocably, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Groupjointly and severally, promises to pay such Guaranteed Obligations to the Bank Creditors, or any of themorder, may, without demand or notice following the occurrence in respect of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid Borrower of any of the Obligations events specified in Section 7(h) or (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%i) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Groupon demand.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. Each Guarantor hereby jointly and severally, absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably
(a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt punctual payment when due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all Obligations of the Borrower and each other Obligor now or hereafter existing under the Credit Agreement, the Notes any Letter of Credit and each other Loan Document to which the Borrower or such other Obligor is or may become a party (or, in the case of Letters of Credit, is or may become the account party), whether for principal, interest, Reimbursement Obligations, including any interest therein fees, expenses or otherwise (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after all such amounts which would become due but for the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes operation of the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the United States Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceedingCode, 11 U.S.C. Section 362(a), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by lawoperation of Sections 502(b) and 506(b) of the United States Bankruptcy Code, through an attorney-at-law11 U.S.C. Section 502(b) and Section 506(b)), or under advice therefrom.and
(b) Regardless indemnifies and holds harmless each Lender Party and each holder of whether a Note for any proposed guarantor and all costs and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees and expenses) incurred by such Lender Party or such holder, as the case may be, in enforcing any rights under this Guaranty; provided, however, that each Guarantor shall be liable under this Guaranty only for the maximum amount of such liability that can be hereby incurred without rendering this Guaranty, as it relates to such Guarantor, voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, and not for any greater amount. This Guaranty constitutes a guaranty of payment when due and not of collection, and each Guarantor specifically agrees that it shall not be necessary or required that any Lender Party or any holder of any Note exercise any right, assert any claim or demand or enforce any remedy whatsoever against the Borrower or any other Person shall become in Obligor (or any other way responsible Person) before or as a condition to the Lender Group, or any obligations of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each such Guarantor hereby declares hereunder. Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that this Guaranty each obligation hereunder shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case obligation of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, Guarantors (including both the full New Guarantors and prompt the Original Guarantors) unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the due and punctual payment and performance of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) . Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to further agrees that the Obligations in any action may be extended or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be releasedrenewed, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from it, and it will remain bound upon this Guaranty notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Obligation.
(b) Each of the Guarantors waives presentation to, demand for payment from and protest to the Borrower or any other Guarantor of any of the Obligations, and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment. The Obligations of the Guarantors hereunder shall not be affected by (i) the failure of the Agent or any action Bank to assert any claim or thing which might, but for this paragraph demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Borrower or any other Guarantor under the provisions of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal Agreement or equitable discharge of a surety any other agreement or guarantor, otherwise; (ii) any extension or by reason renewal of any provision hereof or thereof; (iii) any rescission, waiver, omission compromise, acceleration, amendment or modification of any of the Lender Groupterms or provisions of any Loan Document or any other agreement; (iv) the release, exchange, waiver or foreclosure of any security held by the Agent or any Bank for the Obligations or any of them; (v) the failure of the Agent or any Bank to exercise any right or remedy against any other guarantor of the Obligations; or (vi) the release or substitution of any Guarantor.
(c) Each of the Guarantors further agrees that this Guaranty constitutes a guaranty of performance and of payment when due and not just of collection, and waives any right to require that any resort be had by the Agent or any Bank to any security held for payment of the Obligations or to any balance of any deposit, account or credit on the books of a Bank in favor of the Borrower or any other Guarantor, or their failure to proceed promptly any other Person.
(d) Each of the Guarantors hereby expressly assumes all responsibilities to remain informed of the financial condition of the Borrower and each other Guarantor and any circumstances affecting the ability of the Borrower to perform under this Agreement. Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the Loans contemplated by this Agreement and that the Banks required as a condition to entering into this Agreement, and in order to secure the prompt and complete payment, observance and performance of the Obligations, that each Guarantor shall make this Guaranty.
(e) Each of the Guarantors' guaranty shall not be affected by the genuineness, validity, regularity or otherwiseenforceability of the Obligations, the Notes or any other instrument evidencing any Obligations, or by reason the existence, validity, enforceability, perfection, or extent of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor collateral therefor or by reason any other circumstance relating to the Obligations which might otherwise constitute a defense to this Guaranty. The Agent makes no representation or warranty in respect of any further dealings between any Borrower, on such circumstances and has no duty or responsibility whatsoever to the one hand, and any member Guarantors in respect of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, management and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any maintenance of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Groupcollateral.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, Guarantors unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the full due and prompt punctual payment and performance by the Borrower of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) . Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to further agrees that the Obligations in any action may be extended or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be releasedrenewed, in whole or in part, without notice to or further assent from it, and it will remain bound upon this guaranty notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any of the Obligations. The Obligations of the Guarantors shall be joint and several.
(b) Each of the Guarantors waives presentation to, demand for payment from and protest to the Borrower or any other Guarantor, and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment. The Obligations of the Guarantors hereunder shall not be affected by (i) the failure of the Agent or a Bank to assert any action claim or thing which might, but for this paragraph demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Borrower or any other Guarantor under the provisions of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal Agreement or equitable discharge of a surety any other Loan Document or guarantor, otherwise; (ii) any extension or by reason renewal of any provision hereof or thereof; (iii) any rescission, waiver, omission compromise, acceleration, amendment or modification of any of the Lender Groupterms or provisions of any of the Loan Documents; (iv) the release, exchange, waiver or foreclosure of any security held by the Agent for the Obligations or any of them; (v) the failure of the Agent or a Bank to exercise any right or remedy against any other Guarantor; or (vi) the release or substitution of any Guarantor or any other Guarantor.
(c) Each of the Guarantors further agrees that this guaranty constitutes a guaranty of performance and of payment when due and not just of collection, and waives any right to require that any resort be had by the Agent or a Bank to any security held for payment of the Obligations or to any balance of any deposit, account or credit on the books of the Agent or a Bank in favor of the Borrower or any other Guarantor, or their to any other Person.
(d) Each of the Guarantors hereby waives any defense that it might have based on a failure to proceed promptly remain informed of the financial condition of the Borrower and of any other Guarantor and any circumstances affecting the ability of the Borrower to perform under this Agreement.
(e) Each Guarantor's guaranty shall not be affected by the genuineness, validity, regularity or otherwiseenforceability of the Obligations or any other instrument evidencing any Obligations, or by reason the existence, validity, enforceability, perfection, or extent of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor collateral therefor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on other circumstance relating to the one hand, and any member Obligations which might otherwise constitute a defense to this Guaranty. Neither of the Lender GroupAgent, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, nor any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements Banks makes any representation or waiverswarranty in respect to any such circumstances or shall have any duty or responsibility whatsoever to any Guarantor in respect of the management and maintenance of the Obligations.
(f) The Lender GroupSubject to the provisions of Section 7.01, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be the Obligations becoming due and payable hereunder (by any Guarantoracceleration or otherwise), if Borrowers the Banks shall not have timely paid any be entitled to immediate payment of such xliii Obligations by the Guarantors upon written demand by the Agent, without further application to or order of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupBankruptcy Court.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender GroupGuarantors hereby unconditionally guarantees, jointly with the other Guarantors and severally, the full and prompt punctual payment and performance when due (whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise) of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to timeincluding, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guarantylimitation, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem properprincipal of and interest on each Loan made to the Borrower pursuant to the Credit Agreement, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor obligations of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender GroupBorrower to reimburse LC Disbursements (“Reimbursement Obligations”), or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any all obligations of the provisions, terms, Borrower or conditions any other Subsidiary owing to any Lender or any affiliate of any Lender under any Swap Agreement or Banking Services Agreement and (iv) all other amounts payable by the Borrower or any Subsidiary under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate but in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoingany such case, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or other than any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Excluded Swap Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or being referred to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application collectively as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in “Guaranteed Obligations” and the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence holders from time to time of the Guaranteed Obligations being referred to collectively as the “Holders of Guaranteed Obligations”). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in excess this Guaranty, the definition of “Guaranteed Obligations” shall not create or include any guarantee by any Loan Party of (or grant of security interest by any Loan Party to support, as applicable) any Excluded Swap Obligations of such Loan Party for purposes of determining any obligations of any Loan Party. Upon (x) the failure by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, as applicable, to pay punctually any such amount or perform such obligation, and (y) such failure continuing beyond any applicable grace or notice and cure period, each of the Guarantors agrees that it shall forthwith on demand pay such amount committed to or outstanding on perform such obligation at the date place and in the manner specified in the Credit Agreement, any applicable Swap Agreement, any applicable Banking Services Agreement or the relevant Loan Document, as the case may be. Each of the Guarantors hereby agrees that this Guaranty is hereby authorizedan absolute, without notice to any Guarantor, irrevocable and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights unconditional guaranty of the Lender Group herein. It payment and is the intention not a guaranty of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorscollection.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor (other than those that have delivered a separate Loan Guaranty) hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as a joint primary obligor and several obligationnot merely as surety, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any guarantees to the Secured Parties, the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Secured Obligations and all right costs and expenses to assert any defense (other than which the defense of payment in cash in fullSecured Parties are entitled to reimbursement under Section 9.03, to the extent of its obligations hereunderincluding, without limitation, all court costs and reasonable attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees and expenses paid or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other member of Agent, the Lender Group Issuing Banks and the Lenders in endeavoring to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, the Borrower, any Guarantor or any other guarantor of all or any part of the Secured Obligations to the extent reimbursable under Section 9.03 (such costs and obligations expenses, together with the Secured Obligations, collectively the “Guaranteed Obligations”); provided, however, that the definition of “Guaranteed Obligations” shall not create any guarantee by any Guarantor of (or grant of security interest by any Guarantor to support, as applicable) any Excluded Swap Obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent for purposes of the Guarantors and the Lender Group determining any obligations of any Guarantor. Each Guarantor further agrees that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, renewed in whole or in partpart without notice to or further assent from it, by and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any action such extension or thing which might, but for this paragraph renewal. All terms of this Guaranty, Loan Guaranty apply to and may be deemed a legal enforced by or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason on behalf of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, domestic or any of them, foreign branch or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason Affiliate of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to that extended any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purposeGuaranteed Obligations. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this This Loan Guaranty is a continuing guarantee and shall remain in effect until the Maturity Date. Each Guarantor hereby authorized, without notice irrevocably waives any right to revoke this Loan Guaranty as to future transactions giving rise to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsObligations.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any guarantees the due and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of punctual payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought and performance by the Administrative Agent or Foreign Subsidiaries under any other member Letters of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities Credit issued for the account thereof (collectively the "Guaranteed Obligations"). The Borrowers further agree that ---------------------- the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be releasedrenewed, in whole or in part, without notice to or further assent from them, and they will remain bound upon this guaranty notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any of the Guaranteed Obligations.
(b) Each of the Borrowers waives presentation to, demand for payment from and protest to the Foreign Subsidiaries or the Borrowers, and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment. The Obligations of the Borrowers, as guarantors of the Guaranteed Obligations hereunder, shall not be affected by (i) the failure of the Administrative Agent or a Lender to assert any action claim or thing which might, but for this paragraph demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Foreign Subsidiaries or the Borrowers under the provisions of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal Agreement or equitable discharge of a surety any other Loan Document or guarantor, otherwise; (ii) any extension or by reason renewal of any provision hereof or thereof; (iii) any rescission, waiver, omission compromise, acceleration, amendment or modification of any of the Lender Groupterms or provisions of any of the Loan Documents; (iv) the release, exchange, waiver or foreclosure of any security held by the Administrative Agent for the Guaranteed Obligations or any of them; (v) the failure of the Administrative Agent or a Lender to exercise any right or remedy against any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations; or (vi) the release or substitution of any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations.
(c) The Borrowers further agree that this guaranty constitutes a guaranty of performance and of payment when due and not just of collection, and waives any right to require that any resort be had by the Administrative Agent or a Lender to any security held for payment of the Guaranteed Obligations or to any balance of any deposit, account or credit on the books of the Administrative Agent or a Lender in favor of any Foreign Subsidiary or the Borrowers, or their to any other Person.
(d) The Borrowers hereby waive any defense that they might have based on a failure to proceed promptly remain informed of the financial condition of the Foreign Subsidiaries and any of the other Borrowers and any circumstances affecting the ability of the Foreign Subsidiaries or otherwisethe Borrowers to perform under this Agreement.
(e) The Borrowers' guaranty shall not be affected by the genuineness, validity, regularity or enforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other instrument evidencing any Obligations, or by reason the existence, validity, enforceability, perfection, or extent of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor collateral therefor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any circumstance relating to the Guaranteed Obligations which might otherwise constitute a defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, this guaranty. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements Lenders makes any representation or waiverswarranty in respect to any such circumstances or shall have any duty or responsibility whatsoever to the Borrowers in respect of the management and maintenance of the Guaranteed Obligations.
(f) The Lender GroupSubject to the provisions of Section 7.1, or upon any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be the ----------- Guaranteed Obligations becoming due and payable hereunder (by any Guarantoracceleration or otherwise), if the Lenders shall be entitled to immediate payment of such Guaranteed Obligations by the Borrowers shall not have timely paid any upon written demand by the Administrative Agent, without further application to or order of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupBankruptcy Court.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Revolving Credit, Term Loan and Guaranty Agreement (Federal Mogul Corp)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor In recognition of the direct and indirect benefits to be received by Guarantors from the proceeds of the Term Loan and by virtue of the financial accommodations to be made to Borrowers, each of the Guarantors, jointly and severally, hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety the full and prompt payment when due, whether upon maturity, acceleration, or otherwise, of all of the Guarantied Obligations. If any or all of the Obligations becomes due and payable, each of the Guarantors, unconditionally and irrevocably, and without the need for demand, protest, or any other notice or formality, promises to the Administrative pay such indebtedness to Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full together with any and prompt payment all expenses (including Lender Group Expenses) that may be incurred by Agent or any member of the ObligationsLender Group in demanding, including enforcing, or collecting any interest therein of the Guarantied Obligations (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing enforcement of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not collateral for such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, collateral for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty). If a claim is ever made upon Agent or any member of the Lender Group for repayment or recovery of any amount or amounts received in payment of or on account of any or all of the Obligations and any of Agent or any member of the Lender Group repays all or part of said amount by reason of (i) any judgment, decree, or order of any court or administrative body having jurisdiction over such payee or any of its property, or (ii) any settlement or compromise of any such claim effected by such payee with any such claimant (including any Borrower or any Guarantor), then and in each such event, each of the Guarantors agrees that any such judgment, decree, order, settlement, or compromise shall be binding upon the Guarantors, notwithstanding any revocation (or purported revocation) of this Guaranty or other instrument evidencing any liability of any Grantor, and the Guarantors shall be and remain liable to the aforesaid payees hereunder for the amount so repaid or recovered to the same extent as if such amount had never originally been received by any such payee.
(b) Additionally, each of the Guarantors unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the payment of any and all of the Obligations to Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, whether or not due or payable by any Loan Party upon the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 8.4 or 8.5 of the Credit Agreement, and irrevocably and unconditionally promises to pay such indebtedness to Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, without the requirement of demand, protest, or any other notice or other formality, in lawful money of the United States.
(c) The liability of each of the Guarantors hereunder is primary, absolute, and unconditional, and is independent of any security for or other guaranty of the Obligations, whether executed by any other Guarantor or by any other Person, and the liability of each of the Guarantors hereunder shall not be affected or impaired by (i) any payment on, or in reduction of, any such other guaranty or undertaking, (ii) any dissolution, termination, or increase, decrease, or change in personnel by any Grantor, (iii) any payment made to Agent or any member of the Lender Group on account of the Obligations which Agent, or such member of the Lender Group repays to any Grantor pursuant to court order in any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium or other debtor relief proceeding (or any settlement or compromise of any claim made in such a proceeding relating to such payment), and each of the Guarantors waives any right to the deferral or modification of its obligations hereunder by reason of any such proceeding, or (iv) any action or inaction by Agent or any member of the Lender Group, or (v) any invalidity, irregularity, avoidability, or unenforceability of all or any part of the Obligations or of any security therefor.
(d) This Guaranty includes all present and future Guarantied Obligations including any under transactions continuing, compromising, extending, increasing, modifying, releasing, or renewing the Guarantied Obligations, changing the interest rate, payment terms, or other terms and conditions thereof, or creating new or additional Guarantied Obligations after prior Guarantied Obligations have been satisfied in whole or in part. To the maximum extent permitted by law, each Guarantor hereby waives any right to revoke this Guaranty as to future Guarantied Obligations. If such a revocation is effective notwithstanding the foregoing waiver, each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that (i) no such revocation shall be effective until written notice thereof has been received by Agent, (ii) no such revocation shall apply to any Guarantied Obligations in existence on the date of receipt by Agent of such written notice (including any subsequent continuation, extension, or renewal thereof, or change in the interest rate, payment terms, or other terms and conditions thereof), (iii) no such revocation shall apply to any Guarantied Obligations made or created after such date to the extent made or created pursuant to a legally binding commitment of any member of the Lender Group in existence on the date of such revocation, (iv) no payment by any Guarantor, any Borrower, or from any other source, prior to the date of Agent’s receipt of written notice of such revocation shall reduce the maximum obligation of such Guarantor hereunder, and (v) any payment by any Borrower or from any source other than such Guarantor subsequent to the date of such revocation shall first be applied to that portion of the Guarantied Obligations as to which the revocation is effective and which are not, therefore, guarantied hereunder, and to the extent so applied shall not reduce the maximum obligation of such Guarantor hereunder. This Guaranty shall be binding upon each Guarantor, its successors and assigns and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by Agent (for the benefit of the Lender Group) and its successors, transferees, or assigns.
(e) The guaranty by each of the Guarantors hereunder is a guaranty of payment and not of collection. The obligations of each of the Guarantors hereunder are independent of the obligations of any other Guarantor or Grantor or any other Person and a separate action or party actions may be brought and prosecuted against one or more of the Guarantors whether or not action is brought against any other Guarantor or Grantor or any other Person and whether or not any other Guarantor or Grantor or any other Person be joined in any such action or actions. Each of the Guarantors waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the benefit of any statute of limitations affecting its liability hereunder or the enforcement hereof. Any payment by any Grantor or other circumstance which operates to toll any statute of limitations as to any Grantor shall operate to toll the statute of limitations as to each of the Guarantors.
(f) Each of the Guarantors authorizes Agent and the members of the Lender Group without notice or demand, and without affecting or impairing its liability hereunder, from time to time to:
(i) change the manner, place, or terms of payment of, or change or extend the time of payment of, renew, increase, accelerate, or alter: (A) any of the Obligations (including Borrowersany increase or decrease in the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest or fees thereon); or (B) relating to any security therefor or any liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof, and this Guaranty shall apply to the Obligations as so changed, extended, renewed, or altered;
(ii) take and hold security for the payment of the Obligations and sell, exchange, release, impair, surrender, realize upon, collect, settle, or otherwise deal with in any manner and in any order any property at any time pledged or mortgaged to secure the Obligations or any of the Guarantied Obligations (including any of the obligations of all or any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty Guaranty) incurred directly or otherwise with indirectly in respect to the Obligations in any action thereof or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent hereof, or any offset on account thereof;
(iii) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against any Grantor;
(iv) release or substitute any one or more endorsers, guarantors, any Grantor, or other member obligors;
(v) settle or compromise any of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations Obligations, any security therefor, or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations liability (including any of those of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.) incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof or hereof, and may subordinate the payment of all or any part thereof to the payment of any liability (whether due or not) of any Grantor to its creditors;
(dvi) The apply any sums by whomever paid or however realized to any liability or liabilities of any Grantor to Agent or any member of the Lender GroupGroup regardless of what liability or liabilities of such Grantor remain unpaid;
(vii) consent to or waive any breach of, or any act, omission, or default under, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any of them, may from time the instruments or agreements referred to time, without exonerating herein or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem propertherein, or (ii) releaseotherwise amend, dischargemodify, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with supplement this Agreement, any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Groupother Loan Document, or any of themsuch other instruments or agreements; or
(viii) take any other action that could, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any under otherwise applicable principles of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantorlaw, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related rise to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety one or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission more of the Lender Group, Guarantors from all or any part of them, its liabilities under this Guaranty.
(g) It is not necessary for Agent or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on Group to inquire into the other hand, capacity or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right powers of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing actsGuarantors or the officers, omissionsdirectors, thingspartners or agents acting or purporting to act on their behalf, agreements and any Obligations made or waiverscreated in reliance upon the professed exercise of such powers shall be Guarantied hereunder.
(fh) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall Each Guarantor jointly and severally guarantees that the Guarantied Obligations will be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect strictly in accordance with this Agreementthe terms of the Loan Documents, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys regardless of any Guarantor law, regulation, or order now or hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the possession rights of any member of the Lender Group with respect thereto. The obligations of each Guarantor under this Guaranty are independent of the Guarantied Obligations, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Guarantor to enforce such obligations, irrespective of whether any action is brought against any other Guarantor or whether any other Guarantor is joined in any such action or actions. The liability of each Guarantor under their respective control for this Guaranty shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of, and each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any purpose. If defense it may now or hereafter have in any way relating to, any or all of the following:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or any agreement or instrument relating thereto;
(ii) any change in the time, manner, or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Guarantied Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from any Loan Document, including any increase in the Guarantied Obligations resulting from the extension of additional credit;
(iii) any taking, exchange, release, or non-perfection of any Lien in and to any Collateral, or any taking, release, amendment, waiver of, or consent to departure from any other guaranty, for all or any of the extent Guarantied Obligations;
(iv) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense, or other right that any Guarantor makes may have at any payment to the Administrative time against any Person, including Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction member of the Lender Group.;
(gv) The creation any defense, set-off, counterclaim, or existence claim, of any kind or nature, arising directly or indirectly from time to time the present or future lack of Obligations in excess perfection, sufficiency, validity, or enforceability of the amount committed to Guarantied Obligations or outstanding on the date any security therefor;
(vi) any right or defense arising by reason of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair claim or affect this Guaranty or the rights defense based upon an election of remedies by any member of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention including any defense based upon an impairment or elimination of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each such Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall berights of subrogation, but not in excess reimbursement, contribution, or indemnity of such Guarantor against any other Grantor or any guarantors or sureties;
(vii) any change, restructuring, or termination of the corporate, limited liability company, or partnership structure or existence of any Grantor; or
(viii) any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void Grantor or voidable as would otherwise be held any other guarantor or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorssurety.
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Guaranty. (a) Each The Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agentabsolutely and unconditionally, for the benefit and jointly and severally, guarantees, as a guaranty of payment and performance and not merely as a guaranty of collection, prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, upon acceleration, demand or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment Foreign Obligor Obligations of the Obligationseach Designated Borrower, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreementall renewals, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingsextensions, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)amendments, plus reasonable refinancings and other modifications thereof and all costs, attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought incurred by the Administrative Agent and any other Secured Party in connection with the collection or enforcement thereof, and whether recovery upon such indebtedness and liabilities may be or hereafter become unenforceable or shall be an allowed or disallowed claim under any proceeding or case commenced by or against the Guarantor or any Designated Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code (Title 11, United States Code), any successor statute or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereofliquidation, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Groupconservatorship, or any of thembankruptcy, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities assignment for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem properbenefit of creditors, or (ii) releasemoratorium, dischargerearrangement, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcyreceivership, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or similar debtor relief laws of the United States or other similar laws applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally (collectively, “Debtor Relief Laws”), and including interest that accrues after the commencement by or against any Loan Party of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws (collectively, the “Guaranteed Obligations”). The Administrative Agent’s and the other Secured Parties’ books and records showing the amount of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be admissible in evidence in any action or proceeding, and shall be binding upon the Guarantor and conclusive for the purpose of establishing the amount of the Guaranteed Obligations, absent demonstrable error. This Guaranty shall not be affected by the genuineness, validity, regularity or enforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or any instrument or agreement evidencing any Guaranteed Obligations, or by the existence, validity, enforceability, perfection, non-perfection or extent of any collateral therefor, or by any fact or circumstance relating to the insolvency Guaranteed Obligations which might otherwise constitute a defense to the obligations of debtorsthe Guarantor under this Guaranty, and the Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any defenses it may now have or hereafter acquire in any way relating to any or all of the foregoing. Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder at any time shall be limited to an aggregate amount equal to the largest amount that would not render its obligations hereunder subject to avoidance as a fraudulent transfer or conveyance under Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code (Title 11, United States Code) or any comparable provisions of any similar federal or state law.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, Guarantors unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the full due and prompt punctual payment and performance by Borrower of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes . Each of the Bankruptcy Code Guarantors further agrees that the Obligations may be extended or is an allowed claim renewed, in such proceeding)whole or in part, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees without notice to or further assent from it, and expenses if it will remain bound upon this guaranty notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any of the Obligations. The obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefromof the Guarantors shall be joint and several.
(b) Regardless Each of whether any proposed guarantor the Guarantors waives presentation to, demand for payment from and protest to Borrower or any other Person Guarantor, and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment. The Obligations of the Guarantors hereunder shall become in not be affected by (i) the failure of the Agent to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against Borrower or any other way responsible to Guarantor under the Lender Group, provisions of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise; (ii) any extension or renewal of themany provision hereof or thereof; (iii) any rescission, for waiver, compromise, acceleration, amendment or in respect modification of any of the Obligations terms or any part thereof, and regardless provisions of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of themthe Loan Documents; (iv) the release, exchange, waiver or foreclosure of any security held by Agent for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty of them; (v) the failure of Agent to exercise any right or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each remedy against any other Guarantor; or (vi) the release or substitution of any Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedany other Company.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under further agrees that this Guaranty guaranty constitutes a guaranty of performance and of payment when due and not just of collection, and waives any right to require that any resort be had by Agent to any security held for payment of the Obligations or the obligations to any balance of any other Person deposit, account or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or credit on the obligations books of any Agent in favor of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent Borrower or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereofGuarantor, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guarantyother Person.
(d) The Lender Group, or Each of the Guarantors hereby waives any defense that it might have based on a failure to remain informed of them, may from time the financial condition of Borrower and of any other Guarantor and any circumstances affecting the ability of Borrower to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way perform under this GuarantyAgreement.
(e) Each Guarantor's guaranty shall not be affected by the genuineness, (i) take such further validity, regularity or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor enforceability of the Obligations or any security other instrument evidencing any Obligations, or securities by the existence, validity, enforceability, perfection, or extent of any collateral therefor or by any part thereof now other circumstance relating to the Obligations which might otherwise constitute a defense to this guaranty. Agent makes no representation or hereafter held warranty in respect to any such circumstances or shall have any duty or responsibility whatsoever to any Guarantor in respect of the management and maintenance of the Obligations.
(f) Upon the Obligations becoming due and payable (by acceleration or otherwise), Agent shall be entitled to immediate payment of such Obligations by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any Guarantors upon written demand by Agent.
17.2 The obligations of the provisionsGuarantors hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, termslimitation, impairment or conditions termination for any reason, including, without limitation, any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to any defense or set-off, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the Loan Documentsinvalidity, all as they may consider expedient illegality or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretionunenforceability of the Obligations. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole discharged or in part, by any action impaired or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted otherwise affected by the Lender Group, failure of Agent to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other handremedy under this Agreement, or any other guarantor agreement, by any waiver or suretymodification of any provision thereof, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders by any defense to its liability hereunderdefault, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the Obligations, or by any right of counterclaim other act or offset of thing or omission or delay to do any nature other act or description thing which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, might in any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon manner or to any Guarantorextent vary the risk of the Guarantors or would otherwise operate as a discharge of the Guarantors as a matter of law, at unless and until the Obligations are paid in full.
17.3 Upon payment by any time Guarantor of any sums to Agent hereunder, all rights of such Guarantor against Borrower, arising as a result thereof by way of right of subrogation or from time otherwise, shall in all respects be subordinate and junior in right of payment to time when the prior final and indefeasible payment in full of all the Obligations. If any amount shall be due paid to such Guarantor for the account of Borrower, such amount shall be held in trust for the benefit of Agent, and payable hereunder by any Guarantorshall forthwith be paid to Agent to be credited and applied to the Obligations, if Borrowers whether matured or unmatured.
17.4 Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, (i) in no event shall not have timely paid any the amount of the Obligations liability Guarantors hereunder exceed the maximum amount that (or in after giving effect to the incurring of the obligations hereunder and to any rights to contribution of Guarantors, as the case may be, from other affiliates of Letter Borrower) would not render the rights to payment of Credit ObligationsAgent hereunder void, secured through delivery voidable or avoidable under any applicable fraudulent transfer law and (ii) to the extent of cash collateral in an amount equal a conflict between the terms of this Agreement and the Canadian Guarantee, except with respect to one hundred five percent (105%) Section 17 of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect terms of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof Agreement shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Groupgovern.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Loan Guarantor and any of its successors or assigns (other than those that have delivered a separate Loan Guaranty) hereby guarantees agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees, to the Administrative Agent, for extent permissible under the benefit laws of the Lender Groupcountry in which such Loan Guarantor is located or organized, to the Lenders, the full Agents and the Issuing Banks (collectively, the “Guaranteed Parties”) the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Secured Obligations (excluding with respect to any Loan Guarantor, any Excluded Swap Obligations of such Loan Guarantor) and all costs and expenses including, without limitation, all court costs and attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees (including allocated costs of in-house counsel and paralegals) and expenses paid or incurred by the Agents, the Issuing Banks and the Lenders in endeavoring to collect all or any part of the Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, any Borrower, any other Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of all or any part of the Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Secured Obligations, including collectively the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each Loan Guarantor further agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed in whole or in part without notice to or further assent from it, and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any interest therein (including interest as provided in such extension or renewal. All terms of this Agreement, accruing after the filing Loan Guaranty apply to and may be enforced by or on behalf of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether domestic or not such interest accrues foreign branch or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing Affiliate of such petition for purposes any Lender that extended any portion of the Bankruptcy Code Guaranteed Obligations. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing to the contrary, in no event shall the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed hereunder by any UK Loan Party or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)Canadian Loan Party include the Secured Obligations of any US Loan Party, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorneyNon-atLoan Party Banking Services Obligations or the Non-law, or under advice therefromLoan Party Secured Swap Obligations.
(b) Regardless of whether If any proposed guarantor payment by a Loan Guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or discharge given by a Guaranteed Party (whether in respect of the Obligations obligations of any Loan Guarantor or any part thereof, and regardless security for those obligations or otherwise) is avoided or reduced as a result of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, insolvency or any similar event: (a) the liability of themeach Loan Guarantor shall continue as if the payment, for the Obligations discharge, avoidance or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, reduction had not occurred; and (b) each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty Guaranteed Party shall be a joint and several obligationentitled to recover the value or amount of that security or payment from each Loan Guarantor, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until as if the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (payment, discharge, avoidance or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedreduction had not occurred.
(c) Each To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the obligations of each Loan Guarantor absolutelyunder this Article X will not be affected by an act, unconditionally and irrevocably waives omission, matter or thing which, but for this Article X, would reduce, release or prejudice any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunderunder this Article X (without limitation and whether or not known to it or any Guaranteed Party) including: (a) any time, waiver or consent granted to, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g))composition with, set-off, counterclaim any Loan Guarantor or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or other person; (b) the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations release of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent Loan Guarantor or any other member person under the terms of any composition or arrangement with any creditor of any UK Group Member; (c) the Lender Group taking, variation, compromise, exchange, renewal or release of, or refusal or neglect to collect the Obligations perfect, take up or enforce, any rights against, or security over assets of, any Loan Guarantor or other person or any portion thereof, non-presentation or to enforce the obligations non-observance of any formality or other requirement in respect of any instrument or any failure to realize the Guarantors full value of any security; (d) any incapacity or lack of power, authority or legal personality of or dissolution or change in the members or status of an Loan Guarantor or any other person; (e) any amendment, novation, supplement, extension (whether of maturity or otherwise) or restatement (in each case, however fundamental and of whatsoever nature) or replacement of a Loan Document or any other document or security; (f) any unenforceability, illegality or invalidity of any obligation of any person under this Guarantyany Loan Document or any other document or security; or (g) any insolvency or similar proceedings.
(d) The Lender GroupWithout prejudice to the generality of the above, each Loan Guarantor expressly confirms, as permissible under applicable law, that it intends that this guarantee shall extend from time to time to any (however fundamental) variation, increase, extension or addition of or to any of them, may the Loan Documents and/or any amount made available under any of the Loan Documents for the purposes of or in connection with any of the following: acquisitions of any nature; increasing working capital; enabling investor distributions to be made; carrying out restructurings; refinancing or replacing existing facilities; refinancing any other indebtedness; making facilities available to new borrowers; any other variation or extension of the purposes for which any such facility or amount might be made available from time to time; and any fees, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal costs and/or expenses associated with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Loan Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have of first requiring any Guaranteed Party (or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed any trustee or agent on its behalf) to have consented to, proceed against or enforce any other rights or security or claim payment from any person before claiming from that Loan Guarantor under this Article X. This waiver applies irrespective of any law or any provision of a Loan Document to the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiverscontrary.
(f) The Lender Group, or This Loan Guaranty is in addition to and is not in any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder way prejudiced by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid other guarantee or security now or subsequently held by any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupGuaranteed Party.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor The Guarantors hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, jointly and severally unconditionally and irrevocably guarantee the full and prompt payment of when due, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of, and the performance of, (a) the Obligations, including whether now or hereafter existing and whether for principal, interest, fees, expenses or otherwise, (b) all Secured Obligations owed to any interest therein Guarantied Party under a Swap Contract, each a “Guarantied Swap Contract”), (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating c) all Cash Management Obligations owed to any Insolvency Proceedings, whether Lender or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing any Affiliate of such petition for purposes of Lender (provided that at the Bankruptcy Code time such Cash Management Obligation arose such Lender is or is an allowed claim in such proceedingwas a party to the Existing Credit Agreement or Restated Credit Agreement), plus (d) any and all out-of-pocket expenses (including, without limitation, expenses and reasonable attorneys’ counsel fees and expenses if of the obligations represented Administrative Agent and the other Guarantied Parties) incurred by any of the Guarantied Parties in enforcing any rights under this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender GroupLoan Document, or any of them, for or and (e) all present and future amounts in respect of the foregoing that would become due but for the operation of any provision of Debtor Relief Laws, and all present and future accrued and unpaid interest, including, without limitation, all post-petition interest if any Loan Party voluntarily or involuntarily becomes subject to any Debtor Relief Laws (the items set forth in clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) being herein referred to as the “Guarantied Obligations”). Upon failure of the Borrower to pay any of the Guarantied Obligations when due after the giving by the Administrative Agent and/or the Guarantied Parties of any notice and the expiration of any applicable cure period in each case provided for in the Restated Credit Agreement, the other Forms of Amended and Restated Guaranty Loan Documents, any Guarantied Swap Contract or any part thereofCash Management Document (whether at stated maturity, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty by acceleration or otherwise), shall cease the Guarantors hereby further jointly and severally agree to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until promptly pay the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in same after the case Guarantors’ receipt of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) notice from the Administrative Agent of the Letter Borrower’s failure to pay the same, without any other demand or notice whatsoever, including without limitation, any notice having been given to any Guarantor of Credit Obligations) and either the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than acceptance by the defense Guarantied Parties of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty creation or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations incurrence of any of the Guarantors under this Guarantied Obligations. This Guaranty or otherwise with respect is an absolute guaranty of payment and performance of the Guarantied Obligations and not a guaranty of collection, meaning that it is not necessary for the Guarantied Parties, in order to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought enforce payment by the Administrative Agent Guarantors, first or contemporaneously to accelerate payment of any other member of the Lender Group Guarantied Obligations, to collect the Obligations institute suit or exhaust any portion thereofrights against any Loan Party, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Grouprights against any collateral. Notwithstanding anything herein or in any other Loan Document, any Guarantied Swap Contract or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and Cash Management Document to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guarantycontrary, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state corporate or Federal other entity Law, or any state or federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganizationreorganization or other Law affecting the rights of creditors generally, moratoriumif, as a result of applicable Law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, including Section 548 of Bankruptcy Code or any applicable provisions of comparable state Law (collectively, “Fraudulent Transfer Laws”), the obligations of any Guarantor under this Section 1 would otherwise, after giving effect to (a) all other similar laws relating liabilities of such Guarantor, contingent or otherwise, that are relevant under such Fraudulent Transfer Laws (specifically excluding, however, any liabilities of such Guarantor in respect of intercompany Debt to the insolvency Borrower to the extent that such Debt would be discharged in an amount equal to the amount paid by such Guarantor hereunder) and (b) to the value as assets of debtorssuch Guarantor (as determined under the applicable provisions of such Fraudulent Transfer Laws) of any rights of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or similar rights held by such Guarantor pursuant to (i) applicable requirements of Law, (ii) Section 10 hereof or (iii) any other contractual obligations providing for an equitable allocation among such Guarantor and other Subsidiaries or Affiliates of the Borrower of obligations arising under this Guaranty or other guaranties of the Guarantied Obligations by such parties, be held or determined to be void, invalid or unenforceable, or subordinated to the claims of any other creditors, on account of the amount of its liability under this Section 1, then the amount of such liability shall, without any further action by such Guarantor, any Guarantied Party, the Administrative Agent or any other Person, be automatically limited and reduced to the highest amount that is valid and enforceable and not subordinated to the claims of other creditors as determined in such action or proceeding.
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Guaranty. A. From the Effective Date, Guarantor continually, absolutely, irrevocably, and unconditionally guarantees the full, faithful, and timely payment and performance by Tenant of all of Tenant’s obligations (aincluding the timely payment of all amounts that Tenant may at any time owe) Each under or arising out of the Lease, or any extensions, renewals, or modifications of the Lease, including payment and performance of all obligations of Tenant which may survive the expiration or termination of the Lease. The provisions contained in this Section 1 are collectively referred to herein as the “Guaranty”.
B. Guarantor authorizes Landlord, without notice or demand and without affecting Guarantor’s liability under the Guaranty, to:
(1) consent or agree to any extensions, accelerations, or other changes in the time for any payment provided for in the Lease, or consent or agree to any other alteration of any covenant, term, or condition of the Lease in any respect, and to consent to any assignment, subletting, or reassignment of the Lease;
(2) take and hold security for any payment provided for in the Lease or for the performance of any covenant, term, or condition of the Lease, or exchange, waive, or release any security and Guarantor hereby guarantees waives any right to require Landlord to proceed against or exhaust any security including any rights under California Civil Code Sections 2899 and 3433;
(3) apply any security and direct the Administrative Agentorder or manner of its sale as Landlord may determine. Notwithstanding any termination, renewal, extension or holding over of the Lease, or any demand for performance, or other enforcement of Guarantors obligations under the Guaranty, the Guaranty shall continue until all of the covenants and obligations on the part of Tenant to be performed have been fully and completely performed by Tenant, and Guarantor shall not be released of any obligation or liability under the Guaranty so long as there is any claim against Tenant arising out of the Lease that has not been satisfied or performed by Tenant or waived in writing for the express benefit of Guarantor; and
(4) renew, modify, amend or extend the Lender GroupLease, The Guarantor waives its rights under California Civil Code Section 2819.
C. The obligations of Guarantor under the full and prompt payment Guaranty are independent of the Obligationsobligations of Tenant. Landlord may, including any interest therein (including interest as provided at Landlord’s option, proceed immediately and directly against Guarantor, jointly or severally, in this Agreement, accruing after order to enforce the filing performance of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingsthe obligations of Tenant under the Lease. A separate action may be brought and prosecuted against Guarantor, whether or not such interest accrues any action is first or is recoverable subsequently brought against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-lawTenant, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not Tenant is joined in any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Groupaction, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to and Guarantor may be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations joined in any action or proceeding brought commenced by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereofLandlord against Tenant arising out of, in connection with, or to enforce based upon the obligations Lease. The liability of any of Guarantor under the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole Guaranty shall be primary and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be releasednecessary for Landlord, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure order to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the enforce its rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based uponupon the default by Tenant, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or first give Guarantor notice of any kind upon Tenant’s default or to any Guarantor, at any time institute suit or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (pursue or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have exhaust its legal remedies against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupTenant.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to Lender Party the Administrative Agentfull, for the benefit prompt and complete payment when due of the Guaranteed Obligations.
(b) All sums payable to Lender GroupParty under this Guaranty shall be payable on demand and without reduction for any offset, the full claim, counterclaim or defense.
(c) Guarantor hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and prompt payment save harmless Lender Party from and against any and all costs, losses, liabilities, claims, causes of the Obligationsaction, expenses and damages, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented disbursements, which Lender Party may suffer or which otherwise may arise by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless reason of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible Borrower’s failure to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of pay any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty Guaranteed Obligations when due, irrespective of whether such costs, losses, liabilities, claims, causes of action, expenses or otherwise with respect damages are incurred by Lender Party prior or subsequent to (i) Lender Party’s declaring the Obligations in any action Principal, interest and other sums evidenced or proceeding brought secured by the Administrative Agent Loan Documents to be due and payable, (ii) the commencement or any other member completion of foreclosure of the Lender Group to collect Collateral or (iii) the Obligations conveyance of all or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this GuarantyCollateral in-lieu of foreclosure.
(d) The Lender GroupGuarantor agrees that no portion of any sums applied (other than sums received from Guarantor in full or partial satisfaction of its obligations hereunder), or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take reduction of the Debt shall be deemed to have been applied in reduction of the Guaranteed Obligations until such further or other security or securities for time as the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem properDebt has been paid in full, or (ii) releaseGuarantor shall have made the full payment required hereunder, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor it being the intention hereof that the Guaranteed Obligations shall be the last portion of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedientDebt to be deemed satisfied.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in Lender Party may pursue all remedies available at law and equity, including seeking specific performance or an injunction, to enforce the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiversDirection Letter.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Loan Guarantor that is a U.S. Loan Party (other than those that have delivered a separate Obligation Guaranty) hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as a joint primary obligor and several obligationnot merely as surety, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any guarantees to the Secured Parties, the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Secured Obligations and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in fullcosts and expenses, to the extent of its obligations hereunderincluding, without limitation, all court costs and reasonable attorneys' and paralegals' fees and expenses paid or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other member of Agent, the Lender Group Issuing Bank and the Lenders in endeavoring to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, any Borrower, any Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of all or any part of the Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Secured Obligations, collectively the "Guaranteed Obligations"; provided, however, that the definition of "Guaranteed Obligations" shall not create any guarantee by any Loan Guarantor of (or grant of security interest by any Loan Guarantor to support, as applicable) any Excluded Swap Obligations of such Loan Guarantor for purposes of determining any obligations of such any Loan Guarantor) and (b) each Loan Guarantor pursuant to this that is not a U.S. Loan Party (other than those that have delivered a separate Obligation Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor ) hereby agrees that until each it is jointly and every one of severally liable for, and, as a primary obligor and not merely as surety, absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performedSecured Parties, and without possibility of recoursethe prompt payment when due, whether by operation of law at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Guaranteed Obligations, but only to the extent such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not Guaranteed Obligations are attributable to a Foreign Subsidiary of the Company. Each Loan Guarantor further agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may be released, extended or renewed in whole or in partpart without notice to or further assent from it, by and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any action such extension or thing which might, but for this paragraph renewal. All terms of this Guaranty, Loan Guaranty apply to and may be deemed a legal enforced by or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason on behalf of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, domestic or any of them, foreign branch or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason Affiliate of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to that extended any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupGuaranteed Obligations.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees In recognition of the direct and indirect benefits to be received by the Subsidiary Guarantors from the proceeds of the Advances and by virtue of the financial accommodations to be made to the Administrative AgentBorrower, for the benefit each of the Lender GroupSubsidiary Guarantors, jointly and severally, hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees (this “Guaranty”) as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingswhen due, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)upon maturity, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by lawacceleration, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) all of the Letter of Credit ObligationsSecured Obligations plus any interest accruing on any unpaid amounts owing by such Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder (such interest to accrue at the rate set forth in Section 2.2(d)) and from the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelydate a demand is made for payment thereunder, unconditionally and irrevocably waives plus any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment fees, costs and expenses in cash in full, to the extent of protecting or enforcing its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise rights and remedies with respect to the Guaranty, including, without limitation, attorney’s fees and fees, costs and expenses of litigation (the “Guarantied Obligations”). If any or all of the Secured Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by constituting Guarantied Obligations becomes due and payable, each of the Administrative Agent Subsidiary Guarantors, unconditionally and irrevocably, and without the need for demand, protest, or any other member of notice or formality, promises to pay such indebtedness to the Lender Group to collect that may be incurred by the Obligations or any portion thereofLender in demanding, enforcing, or to enforce the obligations of collecting any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
Guarantied Obligations. If claim is ever made upon the Lender for repayment or recovery of any amount or amounts received in payment of or on account of any or all of the Guarantied Obligations and the Lender repays all or part of said amount by reason of (di) The Lender Groupany judgment, decree, or order of any court or administrative body having jurisdiction over such payee or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem properits property, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon any settlement or otherwise deal with or fail to deal compromise of any such claim effected by such payee with any Guarantor such claimant (including the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor), then and in each such event, each of the Obligations or Subsidiary Guarantors agrees that any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Groupsuch judgment, decree, order, settlement, or compromise shall be binding upon the Subsidiary Guarantors, notwithstanding any of them, revocation (or (iiipurported revocation) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performedor other instrument evidencing any liability of any Obligor, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law the Subsidiary Guarantors shall be and remain liable to the aforesaid payees hereunder for the amount so repaid or otherwise, recovered to the same extent as if such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, amount had never originally been received by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiverspayee.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Administrative Agentpunctual payment and performance, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingswhen due, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)at stated maturity, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty acceleration or otherwise, shall cease of all DIP Obligations (including all Banking Services Obligations and obligations of any of the Loan Parties owing to be so liableSwap Counterparties under any Hedging Arrangements), each Guarantor hereby declares whether absolute or contingent and agrees whether for principal, interest (including, without limitation, interest that this Guaranty shall be but for the existence of a joint and several obligationbankruptcy, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid reorganization or similar proceeding would accrue), fees, amounts owing in full in cash (or in the case respect of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal amounts required to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelybe provided as collateral, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in fullindemnities, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty expenses or otherwise with respect to (collectively, the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e“Guaranteed Obligations”), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees Guarantor's liability shall extend to all amounts that until each and every one constitute part of the covenants Guaranteed Obligations and agreements would be owed by the Borrower or any Loan Party to the DIP Agent, the Issuing Lender or any Lender under the Loan Documents and by the Borrower or any Loan Party to the Swap Counterparty but for the fact that they are unenforceable or not allowable due to insolvency or the existence of this Guaranty is fully performeda bankruptcy, and without possibility of recoursereorganization or similar proceeding involving the Borrower or any Loan Party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder the Guaranteed Obligations shall not be released, in whole or in part, by include any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiversExcluded Swap Obligations.
(fb) The Lender GroupIn order to provide for just and equitable contribution among the Guarantors, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount the Guarantors agree that in the event a payment shall be due and payable hereunder made on any date under this Guaranty by any Guarantor (the “Funding Guarantor”), if Borrowers each other Guarantor (each a "Contributing Guarantor") shall not have timely paid any of indemnify the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral Funding Guarantor in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) the amount of such payment, in each case multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which shall be the net worth of the Letter Contributing Guarantor as of Credit Obligationssuch date and the denominator of which shall be the aggregate net worth of all the Contributing Guarantors together with the net worth of the Funding Guarantor as of such date. Any Contributing Guarantor making any payment to a Funding Guarantor pursuant to this Section 9.1(b) shall be subrogated to the rights of such Funding Guarantor to the extent of such payment.
(c) Anything contained in this Guaranty to the contrary notwithstanding, the obligations of each Guarantor under this Guaranty on any date shall be limited to a maximum aggregate amount equal to the largest amount that would not, on such date, render its obligations hereunder subject to avoidance as a fraudulent transfer or conveyance under Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States or any applicable provisions of comparable laws relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, or reorganization, or relief of debtors (collectively, the “Fraudulent Transfer Laws”), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and but only to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or Fraudulent Transfer Law has been found in respect a final non-appealable judgment of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be applicable to such obligations as of such date, in each case:
(i) after giving effect to all liabilities of such Guarantor, contingent or otherwise, that are relevant under the Fraudulent Transfer Laws, but specifically excluding:
(A) any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance liabilities of such Guarantor in respect of intercompany indebtedness to the Borrower or other similar laws relating affiliates of the Borrower to the insolvency extent that such indebtedness would be discharged in an amount equal to the amount paid by such Guarantor hereunder;
(B) any liabilities of debtorssuch Guarantor under this Guaranty; and
(C) any liabilities of such Guarantor under each of its other guaranties of and joint and several co-borrowings of Debt, in each case entered into on the date this Guaranty becomes effective, which contain a limitation as to maximum amount substantially similar to that set forth in this Section 9.1(c) (each such other guaranty and joint and several co-borrowing entered into on the date this Guaranty becomes effective, a “Competing Guaranty”) to the extent such Guarantor's liabilities under such Competing Guaranty exceed an amount equal to (1) the aggregate principal amount of such Guarantor's obligations under such Competing Guaranty (notwithstanding the operation of that limitation contained in such Competing Guaranty that is substantially similar to this Section 9.1(c)), multiplied by (2) a fraction (i) the numerator of which is the aggregate principal amount of such Guarantor's obligations under such Competing Guaranty (notwithstanding the operation of that limitation contained in such Competing Guaranty that is substantially similar to this Section 9.1(c)), and (ii) the denominator of which is the sum of (x) the aggregate principal amount of the obligations of such Guarantor under all other Competing Guaranties (notwithstanding the operation of those limitations contained in such other Competing Guaranties that are substantially similar to this Section 9.1(c)), (y) the aggregate principal amount of the obligations of such Guarantor under this Guaranty (notwithstanding the operation of this Section 9.1(c)), and (z) the aggregate principal amount of the obligations of such Guarantor under such Competing Guaranty (notwithstanding the operation of that limitation contained in such Competing Guaranty that is substantially similar to this Section 9.1(c)); and
(ii) after giving effect as assets to the value (as determined under the applicable provisions of the Fraudulent Transfer Laws) of any rights to subrogation, reimbursement, indemnification or contribution of such Guarantor pursuant to applicable law or pursuant to the terms of any agreement (including any such right of contribution under Section 9.1(b)).
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Sources: Debtor in Possession Credit Agreement (Extraction Oil & Gas, Inc.)
Guaranty. (a) Each The Guarantor hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the punctual payment when due, whether at scheduled maturity or on any date of a required prepayment or by acceleration, demand or otherwise, of all Obligations of MTH, MTMHD, MTBV, MTAG, MTF, MTL, MTGH, MTHBV, MTUK, any additional Revolving Borrower which becomes a party hereto pursuant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full Section 2.16 and prompt payment of the Obligationseach Subsidiary Swingline Borrower, including any interest therein additional Subsidiary Swingline Borrower which becomes a party hereto pursuant to Section 2.14 (including interest as provided in this Agreementcollectively, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether “Designated Borrowers”) now or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or hereafter existing under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, any extensions, modifications, substitutions, amendments or renewals of any or all of the foregoing Obligations of the Designated Borrowers), whether direct or any part thereofindirect, absolute or contingent, and regardless whether for principal, interest, premiums, fees, indemnities, contract causes of whether action, costs, expenses or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to otherwise (such Obligations being the Lender Group“Guaranteed Obligations”), or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives pay any and all right to assert any defense expenses (other than the defense of payment in cash in fullincluding, to the extent of its obligations hereunderwithout limitation, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including BorrowersAttorney Costs) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations in enforcing any rights under this Guaranty or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretionDocument. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or the Guarantor’s liability shall extend to all amounts that constitute part of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Guaranteed Obligations and accept would be owed by any Designated Borrower to any Lender under or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any respect of the Loan DocumentsDocuments but for the fact that they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable similar proceeding under any and all circumstancesDebtor Relief Law involving such Designated Borrower. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each The Guarantor further agrees that until each if payment in respect of any Guaranteed Obligation shall be due in a currency other than Dollars and/or at a place of payment other than in the United States and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performedif, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk adoption of, or affects change in, any law or regulation, disruption of currency or foreign exchange markets, war or civil disturbance or other event, payment of such Guaranteed Obligation in such currency or at such place of payment shall be impossible, then, at the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member election of the Lender GroupAdministrative Agent, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and Guarantor shall make payment of such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist Guaranteed Obligation in Dollars (based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of upon the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or applicable Spot Rate in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding effect on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or payment) and/or at the rights appropriate United States address of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor Administrative Agent, and, as a separate and independent obligation, shall indemnify the Administrative Agent Agent, each L/C Issuer and each Lender (or its Affiliate) against any losses or reasonable out-of-pocket expenses that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder it shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (sustain as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by a result of such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsalternative payment.
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Sources: Credit Agreement (Mettler Toledo International Inc/)
Guaranty. Each Loan Guarantor (aother than those that have delivered a separate Guaranty) Each Guarantor hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for, and absolutely and unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Administrative AgentLender, for the benefit prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Lender GroupSecured Obligations and all costs and expenses including, the full without limitation, all court costs and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees (including allocated costs of in-house counsel and paralegals) and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, paid or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held incurred by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related endeavoring to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge collect all or any part of the liabilities and obligations Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, the Borrower, any Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent all or any part of the Guarantors Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Lender Group Secured Obligations, collectively the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each Loan Guarantor further agrees that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, renewed in whole or in partpart without notice to or further assent from it, by and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any action such extension or thing which might, but for this paragraph renewal. All terms of this Guaranty, Loan Guaranty apply to and may be deemed a legal enforced by or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason on behalf of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, domestic or any of them, foreign branch or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason Affiliate of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to that extended any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteedGuaranteed Obligations. For the avoidance of doubt, and in such order no Foreign Subsidiary of application as the Administrative Agent may from time Borrower shall be required to time elect in accordance with become a Loan Guarantor under this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts a “Grantor” under the Security Agreement or moneys a “Maker” under the Notes and no Foreign Subsidiary of any a Loan Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate required to become a Loan Guarantor under this Agreement or a “Grantor” under the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupSecurity Agreement.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Loan Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally and irrevocably, as a primary obligor and not only a surety, guaranties to Lender Groupand its successors, endorsees, transferees and assigns, the full prompt and prompt complete payment and performance by Borrowers when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Borrower Obligations (other than those Obligations constituting Excluded Hedging Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor Anything herein or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible Loan Document to the Lender Groupcontrary notwithstanding, or any the maximum liability of them, for or each Loan Guarantor hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall in respect of no event exceed the Obligations or any part thereof, amount which can be guaranteed by such Loan Guarantor under applicable federal and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible state laws relating to the Lender Group, or any insolvency of them, for debtors (after giving effect to the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid right of contribution established in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedSection 15.2).
(c) Each Loan Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally agrees that the Secured Obligations may at any time and irrevocably waives any and all right from time to assert any defense (other than time exceed the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations amount of the Guarantors under liability of such Loan Guarantor hereunder without impairing the guaranty contained in this Guaranty Section 15 or affecting the obligations rights and remedies of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guarantyhereunder.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor guaranty contained in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor Section 15 shall remain in full force and effect until all of the Secured Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive shall have been Paid in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedientFull.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or No payment made by any Borrower, any of the Loan DocumentsGuarantors, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, other Person or received or collected by Lender from any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented toBorrower, any of the foregoing actsLoan Guarantors, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, any other guarantor or any of them, may, without demand or notice other Person by virtue of any kind upon action or to proceeding or any Guarantor, set-off or appropriation or application at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any in reduction of or in payment of the Obligations shall be deemed to modify, reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of any Loan Guarantor hereunder which shall, notwithstanding any such payment (or other than any payment made by such Loan Guarantor in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) respect of the Letter Secured Obligations or any payment received or collected from such Loan Guarantor in respect of Credit the Secured Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of remain liable for the Secured Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and up to the extent that any maximum liability of such Loan Guarantor makes any payment to hereunder until the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or Secured Obligations are Paid in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupFull.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Loan and Security Agreement (Kingsway Financial Services Inc)
Guaranty. (a) [Each Guarantor hereby of the][The] undersigned hereby, unconditionally and irrevocably, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment when due, whether by acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of (a) all Obligations of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Foreign Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including the reasonable fees and charges of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, one counsel for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares Administrative Agent and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowerslocal counsel reasonably deemed appropriate by such counsel) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought incurred by the Administrative Agent during the existence of an Event of Default in enforcing this Guaranty or any other member of applicable Loan Document against [such][the] undersigned (all such obligations, collectively, the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, “Liabilities”); provided that (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor liability of [each of] the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings undersigned hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure limited to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor of the Liabilities that [such][the] undersigned may guaranty without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in with respect to [such][the] undersigned under any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratoriumfraudulent conveyance, fraudulent conveyance transfer or similar law and (ii) the Liabilities, as to [any of] the undersigned, shall not include any Excluded Swap Obligations. 9 Note to Draft: Borrower Counsel to complete exhibit [Each of the][The] undersigned, to the extent that it is a Qualified ECP Guarantor, hereby [jointly and severally], absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to provide funds or other similar laws relating support to each Specified Loan Party that is a Foreign Borrower with respect to such Swap Obligation as may be needed by such Specified Loan Party from time to time to honor all of its obligations under the Loan Documents in respect of such Swap Obligation (but, in each case, only up to the insolvency maximum amount of debtorssuch liability that can be hereby incurred without rendering such Qualified ECP Guarantor’s obligations and undertakings under this Section 2 voidable under any applicable fraudulent transfer or conveyance act, and not for any greater amount). Unless such Qualified ECP Guarantor is released in accordance with Section 9 hereunder, the obligations and undertakings of each Qualified ECP Guarantor under this Section shall remain in full force and effect until the Obligations have been Paid in Full (as defined below). Each Loan Party intends this Section to constitute, and this Section shall be deemed to constitute, a guarantee of the obligations of, and a “keepwell, support or other agreement” for the benefit of, each other Loan Party for all purposes of the Commodity Exchange Act.
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Sources: Credit Agreement (Middleby Corp)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender GroupCorporate Guarantors, the full jointly, severally and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, guarantees to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or Agent and the obligations of Lenders the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole due and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangementspunctual payment by, and realize upon any security for performance of, the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Guaranteed Obligations (including interest accruing on and after the filing of any novation), shall discharge all petition in bankruptcy or any part of reorganization of the liabilities and obligations of obligor whether or not post-filing interest is allowed in such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent proceeding). Each of the Corporate Guarantors and the Lender Group further agrees that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law Obligations may be extended or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be releasedrenewed, in whole or in part, by without notice or further assent from it (except as may be otherwise required herein), and it will remain bound upon this Guaranty notwithstanding any action extension or thing which mightrenewal of any Obligation.
(b) Each of the Corporate Guarantors waives presentation to, but demand for this paragraph of this Guarantypayment from and protest to, be deemed a legal as the case may be, the Borrower or equitable discharge of a surety any Corporate Guarantor or any other guarantor, or by reason and also waives notice of any waiverprotest for nonpayment, omission notice of acceleration and notice of intent to accelerate. The obligations of the Lender Group, Corporate Guarantors hereunder shall not be affected by (i) the failure of the Agent or any of them, Lender to assert any claim or their failure demand or to proceed promptly enforce any right or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by remedy against the Lender Group, Borrower or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other handCorporate Guarantor, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, under the provisions of this Agreement or any right of counterclaim other agreement or offset otherwise; (ii) any extension or renewal of any nature provision hereof or description which it may have thereof; (iii) any rescission, waiver, compromise, acceleration, amendment or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, modification of any of the foregoing actsterms or provisions of this Agreement, omissionsthe Notes or of any other agreement; (iv) the release, thingsexchange, agreements waiver or waivers.
foreclosure of any security held by the Agent (ffor the benefit of the Lenders) The Lender Group, for the Obligations or any of them, may, without demand ; (v) the failure of the Agent or notice any Lender to exercise any right or remedy against any other guarantor of the Obligations; or (vi) the release or substitution of any kind upon Corporate Guarantor or any other guarantor.
(c) Each of the Corporate Guarantors further agrees that this Guaranty is a continuing guaranty and constitutes a guaranty of performance and of payment when due and not just of collection, and waives any right to require that any resort be had by the Agent to any security held for payment of the Obligations or to any Guarantorbalance of any deposit, at account or credit on the books of the Agent in favor of the Borrower, any time other Corporate Guarantor or from time to time when any amount other Person.
(d) Each of the Corporate Guarantors hereby expressly assumes all responsibilities to remain informed of the financial condition of the Borrower, the Corporate Guarantors and any other guarantors and any circumstances affecting the Collateral, or the Pledged Securities or the ability of the Borrower to perform under this Agreement.
(e) Each Corporate Guarantors' Guaranty hereunder shall not be due and payable hereunder affected by the genuineness, validity, regularity or enforceability of the Obligations, the Notes or any other instrument evidencing any Obligations, or by the existence, validity, enforceability, perfection, or extent of any collateral therefor or by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid other circumstance relating to the Obligations which might otherwise constitute a defense to this Guaranty. Neither the Agent nor any Lender makes any representation or warranty in respect to any such circumstances and nor has any duty or responsibility whatsoever to any Corporate Guarantor in respect to the management and maintenance of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of Collateral or the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsPledged Securities.
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Sources: Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement (Actava Group Inc)
Guaranty. In consideration of the entry into an Amendment to Asset Sale Agreement (a"Agreement") Each Guarantor effective August 20, 1997, by Developed Technology Resources, Inc., a Minnesota corporation (the "Seller") Gate Technologies Ltd., a United Kingdom corporation (the "Buyer"), the undersigned, ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ("Guarantor") hereby guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, Seller the full and prompt payment when due, of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest amount owing to Seller in the Amended Agreement as follows: The balance of the fixed payments of $480,000 as provided in this Schedule 2.2 of the Amended Agreement. Guarantor shall reimburse the Seller for all costs and expenses, accruing after including reasonable attorneys fees, incurred by or on behalf of the filing Seller in enforcing the obligations of a petition initiating any Insolvency ProceedingsGuarantor hereunder. Guarantor waives all notices and consents which may be otherwise necessary, whether by statute, rule of law or not such interest accrues or otherwise, to preserve the Seller's rights and remedies against the Guarantor hereunder. This is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes a continuing guaranty of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect payment of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible Buyer to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, Seller and shall cease continue to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding in force until all obligations of Buyer to the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly Seller are paid in full in cash (full. Any dispute or in the case claim arising out of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty validity, interpretation, enforceability or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph breach of this Guaranty, which is not settled by agreement between the parties, will be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantorsettled by binding arbitration in London, or by reason of any waiverEngland, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member rules of the Lender Group or under their respective control for London Court of Arbitration then in effect, and judgment upon any purposeaward rendered in such arbitration may be entered in any court having competent jurisdiction. If The prevailing party in such arbitration, in addition to all other relief provided, shall be entitled to an award against the losing party of its costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees, incurred in such arbitration, and the losing party shall also bear all fees and expenses of arbitration. In the event that there is no party that has prevailed on substantially all issues, such legal expenses and expenses of arbitration shall be allocated between the parties as the arbitrator deems appropriate. This Guaranty shall be construed as to both validity and performance and governed by and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Minnesota, without giving effect to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect choice of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Grouplaw principles.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Asset Sale Agreement (Developed Technology Resource Inc)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor In order to induce the Agent and the Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to extend credit hereunder, and in recognition of the direct benefits to be received by the Borrower from the proceeds of the Loans, the Guarantors hereby guarantees agree with the Guaranteed Creditors as follows: the Guarantors hereby and unconditionally and irrevocably guarantee to the Administrative AgentGuaranteed Creditors, for the benefit of the Lender Groupas primary obligor and not merely as surety, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingswhen due, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)upon maturity, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty acceleration or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares of any and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) all of the Letter Guaranteed Obligations to the Guaranteed Creditors. If any or all of Credit Obligations) the Guaranteed Obligations becomes due and payable hereunder, the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelyGuarantors, unconditionally and irrevocably waives irrevocably, promise to pay such indebtedness to the Agent and/or the other Guaranteed Creditors, or order, on demand, together with any and all right to assert reasonable documented out-of-pocket expenses which may be incurred by the Agent and the other Guaranteed Creditors in collecting any defense (other than of the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, Guaranteed Obligations. If claim is ever made upon any Guaranteed Creditor for repayment or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim recovery of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty amount or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty amounts received in payment or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations on account of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of and any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
aforesaid payees repays all or part of said amount by reason of (di) The Lender Groupany judgment, decree or order of any court or administrative body having jurisdiction over such payee or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, its property or (ii) release, discharge, abandon any settlement or otherwise deal with or fail to deal compromise of any such claim effected by such payee with any Guarantor of such claimant (including the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(eBorrower), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, then and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of event the Guarantors and agree that any such judgment, decree, order, settlement or compromise shall be binding upon the Lender Group that the covenantsGuarantors, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under notwithstanding any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements revocation of this Guaranty is fully performedor other instrument evidencing any liability of the Borrower, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law the Guarantors shall be and remain liable to the aforesaid payees hereunder for the amount so repaid or otherwise, recovered to the same extent as if such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, amount had never originally been received by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiverspayee.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Senior Secured, Super Priority Debtor in Possession Credit Agreement (Trico Marine Services Inc)
Guaranty. (a) In order to induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to extend credit hereunder, and in recognition of the direct benefits to be received by the Borrower from the proceeds of the Loans, each of Holdings, Trico Shipping and Intermediate Holdco hereby agrees with the Guaranteed Creditors as follows: Each Guarantor of Holdings, Trico Shipping and Intermediate Holdco hereby and unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Administrative AgentGuaranteed Creditors, for the benefit of the Lender Groupas primary obligor and not merely as surety, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingswhen due, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)upon maturity, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty acceleration or otherwise, shall cease of any and all of the Guaranteed Obligations to be so liablethe Guaranteed Creditors. If any or all of the Guaranteed Obligations becomes due and payable hereunder, each Guarantor hereby declares of Holdings, Trico Shipping and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelyIntermediate Holdco, unconditionally and irrevocably waives irrevocably, promises to pay such indebtedness to the Administrative Agent and/or the other Guaranteed Creditors, or order, on demand, together with any and all right to assert reasonable documented out-of-pocket expenses which may be incurred by the Administrative Agent and the other Guaranteed Creditors in collecting any defense (other than of the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, Guaranteed Obligations. If a claim is ever made upon any Guaranteed Creditor for repayment or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim recovery of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty amount or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty amounts received in payment or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations on account of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of and any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
aforesaid payees repays all or part of said amount by reason of (di) The Lender Groupany judgment, decree or order of any court or administrative body having jurisdiction over such payee or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, its property or (ii) release, discharge, abandon any settlement or otherwise deal with or fail to deal compromise of any such claim effected by such payee with any Guarantor of such claimant (including the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(eBorrower), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, then and in such mannerevent, each of Holdings, Trico Shipping and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and Intermediate Holdco agrees that no change in any such judgment, decree, order, settlement or compromise shall be binding upon Holdings, Trico Shipping or Intermediate Holdco, as the nature or terms of the Obligations or case may be, notwithstanding any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements revocation of this Guaranty is fully performedor other instrument evidencing any liability of the Borrower, and without possibility of recourseHoldings, whether by operation of law Trico Shipping or otherwiseIntermediate Holdco, as the case may be, shall be and remain liable to the aforesaid payees hereunder for the amount so repaid or recovered to the same extent as if such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, amount had never originally been received by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiverspayee.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby of the Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally and irrevocably, guarantees to the Administrative Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lender GroupSecured Creditors, and to the Secured Creditors, the full prompt and prompt complete payment and performance when due and payable (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of all Secured Obligations of the ObligationsBorrower, including any interest therein (including interest as each other Credit Party and each other Subsidiary of the Borrower; provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article II, the Borrower shall not guaranty Secured Obligations directly incurred by it (as opposed to Secured Obligations incurred by another Credit Party or Subsidiary of the Borrower and guaranteed by the Borrower hereunder).
(b) Each Guarantor and each Secured Creditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of this Agreement, accruing after ) hereby confirms that it is its intention that the filing of guaranty made by the Guarantors not constitute a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether fraudulent transfer or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition conveyance for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)Code, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act or any similar Federal or state law. To effectuate the foregoing intention, each Guarantor and each Secured Creditor (by its acceptance of the benefits of this Agreement) hereby irrevocably agrees that the Secured Obligations guaranteed by such Guarantor shall be limited to such amount as will, after giving effect to such maximum amount and all other Person shall become in any (contingent or otherwise) liabilities of such Guarantor (other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or than such liabilities in respect of intercompany Indebtedness among or between the Obligations or Borrower and/or its Subsidiaries, which liabilities should be reduced to $0 before any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible reduction to the Lender Groupliabilities as contemplated by this clause (b)) that are relevant under such laws, not constitute a fraudulent transfer or any conveyance for purposes of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedsuch laws.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally agrees that the Secured Obligations guaranteed by it hereunder may at any time and irrevocably waives any and all right from time to assert any defense (other than time exceed the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations amount of the Guarantors under liability of such Guarantor hereunder without impairing the guaranty contained in this Guaranty Article II or affecting the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any rights and remedies of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Collateral Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this GuarantySecured Creditor hereunder.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held No payment made by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, Subsidiary Guarantors or any other Person or received or collected by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Creditor from the Borrower, any of them, may, without demand the Subsidiary Guarantors or notice any other Person by virtue of any kind upon action or to proceeding or any Guarantor, set-off or appropriation or application at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid in reduction of or payment of any of the Secured Obligations shall be deemed to modify, reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of any Guarantor hereunder which shall, notwithstanding any such payment (other than any payment made by such Guarantor in cash in respect of the Secured Obligations or any payment received or collected from such Guarantor in cash in respect of any of the Secured Obligations), remain liable for the Secured Obligations guaranteed by it hereunder up to the maximum liability of such Guarantor hereunder until (but subject to Section 2.04 in the case of Letter following clause (i)) the earlier to occur of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery (i) the Termination Date or (ii) the release of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may Guarantor from time to time elect this Agreement in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys the express provisions of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender GroupSection 7.13(b).
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Credit Agreement (Semtech Corp)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby For value received and in consideration for and as an inducement to landlord making the within Lease with Tenant, the undersigned, on behalf of him or herself, his or her legal representatives, heirs, successors and assigns, jointly and severally, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to the Administrative AgentLandlord, for the benefit of the Lender GroupLandlord's successors and assigns, the full performance and prompt payment observance of all the Obligationsprovisions therein provided to be performed and observed by Tenant, including the rules and regulations, without requiring any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreementnotice of non-payment, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorneynon-at-lawperformance, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Groupnon-observance, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Groupproof, or any notice, or demand, whereby to charge the undersigned therefore, all of them, for which the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares undersigned expressly waives and agrees that the validity of this Guaranty shall be a joint agreement and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty undersigned guarantor hereunder shall of be terminated, affected or impaired by reason of the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations assertion by Landlord against Tenant of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty rights or otherwise with respect remedies reserved to Landlord pursuant to the Obligations provisions of the within Lease. The undersigned further agrees that this guaranty shall remain and continue in full force and effect as to any renewal, modification or extension of this Lease. As a further inducement to Landlord to make this Lease and in consideration thereof, Landlord and the undersigned agree that, in any action or proceeding brought by either Landlord or the Administrative Agent or undersigned against the other on any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantormatters whatsoever arising out of, or by reason of any waiver, omission virtue of the Lender Groupterms of this lease or of this guaranty, or Landlord and the undersigned shall, and do hereby, absolutely and unconditionally waive trial by jury. In the event Landlord incurs any expenses in the enforcement of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of themthis guaranty, whether legal action be instituted or not such action or failure not, the undersigned agrees to act varies or increases be liable for same (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees) and to pay same promptly on demand by Landlord. The undersigned acknowledges receipt of a complete copy of the risk ofLease with all exhibits and other attachments, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one handif any, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other this guaranty. Said guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall only be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an responsible for a monetary amount equal to one hundred five percent six (105%6) of months' rent at the Letter of Credit Obligations)highest level called for under the lease together with any costs, set-off interest, attorneys fees and appropriate and apply court costs incurred by Landlord or its agents to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Groupenforce said guaranty.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees In order to induce the Administrative Agent, for the benefit Collateral Agent and the Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to extend credit hereunder and in recognition of the Lender Groupdirect benefits to be received by Holdings from the proceeds of the Loans, Holdings hereby agrees with the Guaranteed Creditors as follows: Holdings hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees as primary obligor and not merely as surety the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingswhen due, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)upon maturity, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty acceleration or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares of any and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) all of the Letter Guaranteed Obligations of Credit Obligations) the Borrower to the Guaranteed Creditors. If any or all of the Guaranteed Obligations of the Borrower to the Guaranteed Creditors becomes due and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelypayable hereunder, Holdings, unconditionally and irrevocably waives irrevocably, promises to pay such indebtedness to the Administrative Agent and/or the other Guaranteed Creditors, or order, on demand, together with any and all right to assert expenses which may be incurred by the Administrative Agent and the other Guaranteed Creditors in collecting any defense (other than of the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, Guaranteed Obligations. If claim is ever made upon any Guaranteed Creditor for repayment or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim recovery of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty amount or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty amounts received in payment or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations on account of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of and any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
aforesaid payees repays all or part of said amount by reason of (di) The Lender Groupany judgment, decree or order of any court or administrative body having jurisdiction over such payee or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, its property or (ii) release, discharge, abandon any settlement or otherwise deal with or fail to deal compromise of any such claim effected by such payee with any Guarantor of such claimant (including the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(eBorrower), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, then and in such mannerevent Holdings agrees that any such judgment, decree, order, settlement or compromise shall be binding upon Holdings, notwithstanding any revocation of this Holdings Guaranty or other instrument evidencing any liability of the Borrower, and with Holdings shall be and remain liable to the aforesaid payees hereunder for the amount so repaid or without notice, all recovered to the same extent as if such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, amount had never originally been received by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiverspayee.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Sources: Short Term Credit Agreement (CURO Group Holdings Corp.)
Guaranty. (a) Each The Guarantor hereby guarantees (jointly and severally with any other "Guarantor" under the Credit Agreement) to the Administrative AgentAgent and the Lenders (collectively, for the benefit of the Lender Group, "FINANCE PARTIES") the full and prompt punctual payment when due (whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), and in manner specified under the Credit Documents, of all of the Obligations. This Guaranty is an absolute, unconditional and continuing guaranty of the full and punctual payment and not of their collectibility only and is in no way conditioned upon any other means of obtaining their payment. Should the Borrower default in the payment of any of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes obligations of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees Guarantor hereunder shall become immediately due and expenses if payable to the Finance Parties. The obligations represented by of the Guarantor under this Guaranty (the "GUARANTOR OBLIGATIONS") are collected by lawindependent of the Obligations, through an attorney-at-lawand a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against the Guarantor to enforce this Guaranty, irrespective of whether any action is brought against the Borrower or under advice therefromany other guarantor of the Obligations or whether the Borrower or any such guarantor is joined in any such action or actions.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed The Guarantor further agrees, as the principal obligor and not as a guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible only, to pay to the Lender GroupFinance Parties, on demand, all costs and expenses (including court costs and reasonable legal expenses) incurred or any expended by the Finance Parties in connection with the enforcement of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminatedGuaranty.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders agrees to indemnify each Finance Party on demand against any defense to its loss or liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder suffered by any Guarantor, such Finance Party if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (is or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligationsbecomes, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations)unenforceable, set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts invalid or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Groupillegal.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees In order to induce the Administrative Agent, for the benefit Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to extend credit hereunder, and to induce the Other Creditors to enter into Interest Rate Protection Agreements, and in recognition of the Lender Groupdirect benefits to be received by the Corporate Guarantor from the proceeds of the Loans, the Corporate Guarantor hereby agrees with the Secured Creditors as follows: the Corporate Guarantor hereby and unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Secured Creditors the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedingswhen due, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding)upon maturity, plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty acceleration or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares of any and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) all of the Letter Secured Obligations to the Secured Creditors. This is a guaranty of Credit Obligations) payment and not of collection. If any or all of the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelySecured Obligations becomes due and payable hereunder, the Corporate Guarantor, unconditionally and irrevocably waives irrevocably, promises to pay such indebtedness to the Administrative Agent and/or the other Secured Creditors, or order, on demand, together with any and all right to assert expenses which may be incurred by the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Creditors in collecting any defense (other than of the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, Secured Obligations. If a claim is ever made upon any Secured Creditor for repayment or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim recovery of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty amount or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty amounts received in payment or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations on account of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Secured Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or to enforce the obligations of and any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
aforesaid payees repays all or part of said amount by reason of (di) The Lender Groupany judgment, decree or order of any court or administrative body having jurisdiction over such payee or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, its property or (ii) release, discharge, abandon any settlement or otherwise deal with or fail to deal compromise of any such claim effected by such payee with any Guarantor of such claimant (including the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(eBorrower), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, then and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in event the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Corporate Guarantor agrees that until each and every one any such judgment, decree, order, settlement or compromise shall be binding upon the Corporate Guarantor, notwithstanding any revocation of this Corporate Guaranty or other instrument evidencing any liability of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performedBorrower, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law the Corporate Guarantor shall be and remain liable to the aforesaid payees hereunder for the amount so repaid or otherwise, recovered to the same extent as if such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, amount had never originally been received by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiverspayee.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreement, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.
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Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby Subject to the provisions of Section 2(b), each of the Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally and irrevocably, guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lender GroupSecured Creditors and their respective successors, endorsees, transferees and assigns, the full prompt and prompt complete payment and performance by the Borrower when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor Anything herein or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible Loan Document to the Lender Groupcontrary notwithstanding, or any the maximum liability of them, for or each Guarantor hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall in respect of no event exceed the Obligations or any part thereof, amount that can be guaranteed by such Guarantor under applicable federal and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible state laws relating to the Lender Group, or any insolvency of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminateddebtors.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives further agrees to pay any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party reasonable expenses (including Borrowersall reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) relating to this Guaranty that may be paid or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other member Secured Creditor in enforcing or obtaining advice of counsel in respect of any rights with respect to, or collecting, any or all of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or and/or enforcing any portion thereofrights with respect to, or to enforce the obligations of any of the Guarantors collecting against, such Guarantor under this Guaranty. This Guaranty shall remain in full force and effect until the Obligations are paid in full, the Commitments are terminated, the Letters of Credit are terminated or expired and the Acceptances are matured, notwithstanding that from time to time prior thereto the Borrower may be free from any Obligations.
(d) The Lender Group, or Each Guarantor agrees that the Obligations may at any of them, may time and from time to time, time exceed the amount of the liability of such Guarantor hereunder without exonerating impairing this Guaranty or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for affecting the Obligations rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedientSecured Creditor hereunder.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in No payment or payments made by the nature or terms of the Obligations or Borrower, any of the Loan DocumentsGuarantors, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, other Person or received or collected by the Administrative Agent or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented toSecured Creditor from the Borrower, any of the foregoing actsGuarantors, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, any other guarantor or any of them, may, without demand or notice other Person by virtue of any kind upon action or to proceeding or any Guarantor, set-off or appropriation or application at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any in reduction of or in payment of the Obligations (shall be deemed to modify, reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of any Guarantor hereunder, which shall, notwithstanding any such payment or payments other than payments made by such Guarantor in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion respect of the Obligations hereby guaranteedor payments received or collected from such Guarantor in respect of the Obligations, remain liable for the Obligations up to the maximum liability of such Guarantor hereunder until the Obligations are paid in full, the Commitments are terminated, no Letters of Credit remain outstanding and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may no Acceptance remain unmatured.
(f) Each Guarantor agrees that whenever, at any time, or from time to time elect in accordance with this Agreementtime, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes it shall make any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect Secured Creditor on account of this Guarantyits liability hereunder, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations in excess of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and it will notify the Administrative Agent in writing that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering payment is made under this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsfor such purpose.
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Sources: Guaranty (E&s Holdings Corp)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor hereby guarantees To induce the Guaranteed Party to the Administrative Agententer into that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, for the benefit dated as of the Lender Groupdate hereof (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this “Merger Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding”), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees by and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by lawamong Guaranteed Party, through an attorney-at-lawApex Merger Sub, or under advice therefrom.
Inc., a Delaware corporation (b“Merger Sub”) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Groupand Apex Intermediate Holdco, or any of themInc., for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liablea Delaware corporation (“Parent”), each Guarantor Sponsor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably waives guarantees to the Guaranteed Party, as primary obligors and not merely sureties, severally (and not jointly or jointly and severally), subject to the Cap (as defined below), the due and punctual payment, performance and discharge when required of its percentage (such percentage for each Sponsor as set forth opposite such Sponsor’s name on Schedule A hereto, its “Maximum Sponsor Percentage”) of all payment obligations of Parent pursuant to Section 8.5(a) or (c) of the Merger Agreement following the termination of the Merger Agreement (the “Obligations”); provided that in no event shall any Sponsor’s aggregate liability under this Guaranty exceed an amount equal to such Sponsor’s Maximum Sponsor Percentage of $100,000,000.00 (such amount, the “Cap”). Notwithstanding anything in this Guaranty, the Merger Agreement or any other agreement to the contrary, the Guaranteed Party hereby agrees that the liability of each Sponsor hereunder shall be several (and not joint or joint and several) based upon its respective Maximum Sponsor Percentage of the Cap, and in no event shall any Sponsor be required to pay any amount to the Guaranteed Party or any Affiliate thereof under, in respect of, or in connection with this Guaranty in excess of such Sponsor’s Maximum Sponsor Percentage of the Cap. The parties hereto agree that this Guaranty may not be enforced without giving effect to the Cap and the immediately preceding sentence. The Guaranteed Party may, in its sole discretion, take any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, actions available hereunder or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party (including Borrowers) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group to collect the Obligations or any portion thereof, or applicable Law to enforce the Sponsor’s obligations hereunder in respect of any such Obligations, subject to the terms and conditions of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Group, or any of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality In furtherance of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, Guaranteed Party may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantorin its sole discretion, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage of any security bring and prosecute a separate action against each Sponsor for the Obligations and accept or make any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.
(e) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature or terms of the Obligations or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations full amount of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such GuarantorSponsor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiver, omission of the Lender Group, or any of them, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwise, or by reason of any action taken or omitted by the Lender Group, or any of them, whether or not such action or failure to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one hand, and any member of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waivers.
(f) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any Maximum Sponsor Percentage of the Obligations (or in subject to the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit ObligationsCap), set-off and appropriate and apply to regardless of whether action is brought against Parent or whether Parent is joined in any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteedsuch action or actions. The Guaranteed Party agrees that it, its equityholders, and in such order of application as their respective Affiliates shall not assert any claim hereunder or under the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect in accordance with this Merger Agreement, any depositsdirectly or indirectly, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys of any Guarantor in that the possession of any member of the Lender Group or under their respective control Sponsors are liable for any purpose. If and to the extent that any Guarantor makes any payment to the Administrative Agent or any other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior payment in full of the Obligations to the satisfaction of the Lender Group.
(g) The creation or existence from time to time of Obligations an aggregate amount in excess of the Cap or that any individual Sponsor is liable for an amount committed in excess of such Sponsor’s Maximum Sponsor Percentage of the Cap, except that the Company may assert a claim for specific performance of the Equity Commitment Letter to or outstanding on the extent permitted by Section 5 of the Equity Commitment Letter delivered to the Company by the Sponsors as of the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to any Guarantor, and shall hereof (the “Equity Commitment Letter”) (it being understood that in no way impair or affect event shall the Company be permitted to both enforce the Equity Commitment Letter and receive payment under this Guaranty or the rights Guaranty). All payments hereunder shall be made in lawful money of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall be, but not United States in excess of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void or voidable as would otherwise be held or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorsimmediately available funds.
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Sources: Limited Guaranty (Agiliti, Inc. \De)
Guaranty. (a) Each Guarantor In recognition of the direct and indirect benefits to be received by Guarantors from the proceeds of the Loans, the issuance of the Letters of Credit, and the entering into of the Bank Product Agreements and by virtue of the financial accommodations to be made to Borrowers, each of the Guarantors, jointly and severally, hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety the full and prompt payment when due, whether upon maturity, acceleration, or otherwise, of all of the Guarantied Obligations (and in the case of any Borrower, the Guarantied Obligations of the other Borrowers). If any or all of the Obligations constituting Guarantied Obligations becomes due and payable, each of the Guarantors, unconditionally and irrevocably, and without the need for demand, protest, or any other notice or formality, promises to the Administrative pay such indebtedness to Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group, the full and prompt payment of the Obligations, including any interest therein (including interest as provided in this Agreement, accruing after the filing of a petition initiating any Insolvency Proceedings, whether or not such interest accrues or is recoverable against Borrowers after the filing of such petition for purposes of the Bankruptcy Code or is an allowed claim in such proceeding), plus reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses if the obligations represented by this Guaranty are collected by law, through an attorney-at-law, or under advice therefrom.
(b) Regardless of whether any proposed guarantor or any other Person shall become in any other way responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for or in respect of the Obligations or any part thereof, and regardless of whether or not any Person now or hereafter responsible to the Lender Group, or any of them, for the Obligations or any part thereof, whether under this Guaranty or otherwise, shall cease to be so liable, each Guarantor hereby declares and agrees that this Guaranty shall be a joint and several obligation, shall be a continuing guaranty and shall be operative and binding until the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations) Group and the Revolving Loan Commitment shall have been terminated.
(c) Each Guarantor absolutelyBank Product Providers, unconditionally and irrevocably waives together with any and all right to assert any defense (other than the defense of payment in cash in full, to the extent of its obligations hereunder, or a defense that such Guarantor’s liability is limited as provided in Section 3.1(g)), set-off, counterclaim or cross-claim of any nature whatsoever with respect to this Guaranty or the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or the obligations of any other Person or party expenses (including BorrowersLender Group Expenses) relating to this Guaranty or the obligations of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty or otherwise with respect to the Obligations in any action or proceeding brought that may be incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other member of the Lender Group or any Bank Product Provider in demanding, enforcing, or collecting any of the Guarantied Obligations (including the enforcement of any collateral for such Guarantied Obligations or any collateral for the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty). If claim is ever made upon Agent or any other member of the Lender Group or any Bank Product Provider for repayment or recovery of any amount or amounts received in payment of or on account of any or all of the Guarantied Obligations and any of Agent or any other member of the Lender Group or any Bank Product Provider repays all or part of said amount by reason of (i) any judgment, decree, or order of any court or administrative body having jurisdiction over such payee or any of its property, or (ii) any settlement or compromise of any such claim effected by such payee with any such claimant (including any Borrower or any Guarantor), then and in each such event, each of the Guarantors agrees that any such judgment, decree, order, settlement, or compromise shall be binding upon the Guarantors, notwithstanding any revocation (or purported revocation) of this Guaranty or other instrument evidencing any liability of any Grantor, and the Guarantors shall be and remain liable to collect the aforesaid payees hereunder for the amount so repaid or recovered to the same extent as if such amount had never originally been received by any such payee.
(b) Additionally, each of the Guarantors unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees the payment of any and all of the Guarantied Obligations to Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group and the Bank Product Providers, whether or not due or payable by any Loan Party upon the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 8.4 or 8.5 of the Credit Agreement, and irrevocably and unconditionally promises to pay such Guarantied Obligations to Agent, for the benefit of the Lender Group and the Bank Product Providers, without the requirement of demand, protest, or any other notice or other formality, in lawful money of the United States.
(c) The liability of each of the Guarantors hereunder is primary, absolute, and unconditional, and is independent of any security for or other guaranty of the Guarantied Obligations, whether executed by any other Guarantor or by any other Person, and the liability of each of the Guarantors hereunder shall not be affected or impaired by (i) any payment on, or in reduction of, any such other guaranty or undertaking (other than payment in full of the Guarantied Obligations or any partial payment thereof made in accordance with the Loan Documents), (ii) any dissolution, termination, or increase, decrease, or change in personnel by any Grantor, (iii) any payment made to Agent, any other member of the Lender Group, or any Bank Product Provider on account of the Obligations which Agent, such other member of the Lender Group, or such Bank Product Provider repays to any Grantor pursuant to court order in any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium or other debtor relief proceeding (or any settlement or compromise of any claim made in such a proceeding relating to such payment), and each of the Guarantors waives any right to the deferral or modification of its obligations hereunder by reason of any such proceeding, (iv) any action or inaction by Agent, any other member of the Lender Group, or any Bank Product Provider or (v) any invalidity, irregularity, avoidability, or unenforceability of all or any part of the Obligations or of any security therefor.
(d) This Guaranty includes all present and future Guarantied Obligations including any under transactions continuing, compromising, extending, increasing, modifying, releasing, or renewing the Guarantied Obligations, changing the interest rate, payment terms, or other terms and conditions thereof, or creating new or additional Guarantied Obligations after prior Guarantied Obligations have been satisfied in whole or in part. To the maximum extent permitted by law, each Guarantor hereby waives any right to revoke this Guaranty as to future Guarantied Obligations. If such a revocation is effective notwithstanding the foregoing waiver, each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that (i) no such revocation shall be effective until written notice thereof has been received by Agent, (ii) no such revocation shall apply to any Guarantied Obligations in existence on the date of receipt by Agent of such written notice (including any subsequent continuation, extension, or renewal thereof, or change in the interest rate, payment terms, or other terms and conditions thereof), (iii) no such revocation shall apply to any Guarantied Obligations made or created after such date to the extent made or created pursuant to a legally binding commitment of any member of the Lender Group or any Bank Product Provider in existence on the date of such revocation, (iv) no payment by any Guarantor, any Borrower, or from any other source, prior to the date of Agent’s receipt of written notice of such revocation shall reduce the maximum obligation of such Guarantor hereunder, and (v) any payment by any Borrower or from any source other than such Guarantor subsequent to the date of such revocation shall first be applied to that portion of the Guarantied Obligations as to which the revocation is effective and which are not, therefore, guaranteed hereunder, and to the extent so applied shall not reduce the maximum obligation of such Guarantor hereunder. This Guaranty shall be binding upon each Guarantor, its successors and assigns and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by Agent (for the benefit of the Lender Group and the Bank Product Providers) and its successors, transferees, or assigns.
(e) The guaranty by each of the Guarantors hereunder is a guaranty of payment and not of collection. The obligations of each of the Guarantors hereunder are independent of the obligations of any other Guarantor or Grantor or any other Person and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against one or more of the Guarantors whether or not action is brought against any other Guarantor or Grantor or any other Person and whether or not any other Guarantor or Grantor or any other Person be joined in any such action or actions. Each of the Guarantors waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the benefit of any statute of limitations affecting its liability hereunder or the enforcement hereof. Any payment by any Grantor or other circumstance which operates to toll any statute of limitations as to any Grantor shall operate to toll the statute of limitations as to each of the Guarantors.
(f) Each of the Guarantors authorizes Agent, the other members of the Lender Group, and the Bank Product Providers without notice or demand (other than any notice expressly required to be provided hereunder or under any other Loan Document), and without affecting or impairing its liability hereunder, from time to time to:
(i) change the manner, place, or terms of payment of, or change or extend the time of payment of, renew, increase, accelerate, or alter: (A) any of the Obligations (including any increase or decrease in the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest or fees thereon), or (B) any security therefor or any liability incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof, and this Guaranty shall apply to the Obligations as so changed, extended, renewed, or altered;
(ii) take and hold security for the payment of the Obligations and sell, exchange, release, impair, surrender, realize upon, collect, settle, or otherwise deal with in any manner and in any order any property at any time pledged or mortgaged to secure the Obligations or any portion thereofof the Guarantied Obligations (including any of the obligations of all or any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty) incurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof or hereof, or to enforce any offset on account thereof;
(iii) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against any Grantor;
(iv) release or substitute any one or more endorsers, guarantors, any Grantor, or other obligors;
(v) settle or compromise any of the obligations Obligations, any security therefor, or any liability (including any of those of any of the Guarantors under this Guaranty.
(d) The Lender Groupincurred directly or indirectly in respect thereof or hereof, or any and may subordinate the payment of them, may from time to time, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor in any way under this Guaranty, (i) take such further or other security or securities for the Obligations all or any part thereof as they may deem proper, or (ii) release, discharge, abandon or otherwise deal with or fail to deal with any Guarantor of the Obligations or any security or securities therefor or any part thereof now or hereafter held by the Lender Group, or any of them, or (iii) amend, modify, extend, accelerate or waive in any manner any of the provisions, terms, or conditions of the Loan Documents, all as they may consider expedient or appropriate in their sole and absolute discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, or of Section 3.1(e), it is understood that the Lender Group, or any of them, may, without exonerating or releasing any Guarantor, give up, modify or abstain from perfecting or taking advantage payment of any security for the Obligations and accept liability (whether due or make not) of any compositions or arrangements, and realize upon any security for the Obligations when, and in such manner, and with or without notice, all as such Person may deem expedient.Grantor to its creditors;
(evi) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that no change in the nature apply any sums by whomever paid or terms of the Obligations however realized to any liability or any of the Loan Documents, or other agreements, instruments or contracts evidencing, related to or attendant with the Obligations (including any novation), shall discharge all or any part of the liabilities and obligations of such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty; it being the purpose and intent of the Guarantors and the Lender Group that the covenants, agreements and all liabilities and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are absolute, unconditional and irrevocable under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Guarantor agrees that until each and every one of the covenants and agreements of this Guaranty is fully performed, and without possibility of recourse, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Guarantor’s undertakings hereunder shall not be released, in whole or in part, by any action or thing which might, but for this paragraph of this Guaranty, be deemed a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor, or by reason of any waiverGrantor to Agent, omission any other member of the Lender Group, or any Bank Product Provider regardless of themwhat liability or liabilities of such Grantor remain unpaid;
(vii) consent to or waive any breach of, or their failure to proceed promptly or otherwiseany act, omission, or by reason default under, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, any Bank Product Agreement, or any of the instruments or agreements referred to herein or therein, or otherwise amend, modify, or supplement this Agreement, any other Loan Document, any Bank Product Agreement, or any of such other instruments or agreements; or
(viii) take any other action taken that could, under otherwise applicable principles of law, give rise to a legal or omitted by equitable discharge of one or more of the Guarantors from all or part of its liabilities under this Guaranty (other than a defense of payment in full of the Guarantied Obligations).
(g) It is not necessary for Agent, any other member of the Lender Group, or any Bank Product Provider to inquire into the capacity or powers of themany of the Guarantors or the officers, whether directors, partners or not such action agents acting or failure purporting to act varies or increases the risk of, or affects the rights or remedies of, such Guarantor or by reason of any further dealings between any Borrower, on the one handtheir behalf, and any member Obligations made or created in reliance upon the professed exercise of the Lender Group, on the other hand, or any other guarantor or surety, and such Guarantor hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its liability hereunder, or any right of counterclaim or offset of any nature or description which it may have or may exist based upon, and powers shall be deemed to have consented to, any of the foregoing acts, omissions, things, agreements or waiversguaranteed hereunder.
(fh) The Lender Group, or any of them, may, without demand or notice of any kind upon or to any Guarantor, at any time or from time to time when any amount shall Each Guarantor jointly and severally guarantees that the Guarantied Obligations will be due and payable hereunder by any Guarantor, if Borrowers shall not have timely paid any of the Obligations (or in the case of Letter of Credit Obligations, secured through delivery of cash collateral in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the Letter of Credit Obligations), set-off and appropriate and apply to any portion of the Obligations hereby guaranteed, and in such order of application as the Administrative Agent may from time to time elect strictly in accordance with this Agreementthe terms of the Loan Documents, any deposits, property, balances, credit accounts or moneys regardless of any Guarantor law, regulation, or order now or hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the possession rights of any member of the Lender Group or any Bank Product Provider with respect thereto. The obligations of each Guarantor under their respective control for this Guaranty are independent of the Guarantied Obligations, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Guarantor to enforce such obligations, irrespective of whether any purposeaction is brought against any other Guarantor or whether any other Guarantor is joined in any such action or actions. If The liability of each Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be irrevocable, absolute and unconditional irrespective of, and each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any defense it may now or hereafter have in any way relating to, any or all of the following:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or any agreement or instrument relating thereto;
(ii) any change in the time, manner, or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Guarantied Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from any Loan Document, including any increase in the Guarantied Obligations resulting from the extension of additional credit;
(iii) any taking, exchange, release, or non-perfection of any Lien in and to any Collateral, or any taking, release, amendment, waiver, supplement, restatements, extension, novation, renewal, replacements, or continuation of, or consent to departure from any other guaranty, for all or any of the extent Guarantied Obligations;
(iv) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense, or other right that any Guarantor makes may have at any payment to time against any Person, including Agent, any other member of the Administrative Agent Lender Group, or any Bank Product Provider (other Person pursuant to or in respect of this Guaranty, any claim which such Guarantor may have against Borrowers by reason thereof shall be subject and subordinate to the prior than payment in full of the Obligations to Guarantied Obligations);
(v) any defense, set-off, counterclaim, or claim, of any kind or nature, arising directly or indirectly from the satisfaction present or future lack of perfection, sufficiency, validity, or enforceability of the Lender Group.Guarantied Obligations or any security therefor;
(gvi) The creation any right or existence from time to time defense arising by reason of Obligations in excess any claim or defense based upon an election of the amount committed to or outstanding on the date of this Guaranty is hereby authorized, without notice to remedies by any Guarantor, and shall in no way impair or affect this Guaranty or the rights member of the Lender Group herein. It is the intention or any Bank Product Provider including any defense based upon an impairment or elimination of each Guarantor and the Administrative Agent that each such Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall berights of subrogation, but not in excess reimbursement, contribution, or indemnity of such Guarantor against any Grantor or any other guarantors or sureties;
(vii) any change, restructuring, or termination of the corporate, limited liability company, or partnership structure or existence of any Grantor; or
(viii) any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, the Maximum Guaranteed Amount (as herein defined). The “Maximum Guaranteed Amount” with respect to any Guarantor, shall mean the maximum amount which could be paid by such Guarantor without rendering this Guaranty void Grantor or voidable as would otherwise be held any other guarantor or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in any action or proceeding involving any state or Federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to the insolvency of debtorssurety.
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Sources: Guaranty and Security Agreement (CPI Card Group Inc.)