Priority and Liens At all times prior to the Exit Facility Conversion Date, (a) Each Grantor hereby covenants, represents and warrants that upon entry of each DIP Order, the Obligations of such Grantor hereunder and under the other Loan Documents: (i) pursuant to section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code and subject to the Carve-Out, shall at all times constitute an allowed Superpriority Claim (excluding any avoidance activity under the Bankruptcy Code (but including the proceeds therefrom)); (ii) pursuant to section 364(c)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code and subject to the Carve-Out, shall at all times be secured by first priority, valid, binding, enforceable and perfected security interests in, and Liens upon, all unencumbered tangible and intangible property of such Grantor, including any such property that is subject to valid and perfected Liens in existence on the Petition Date, which Liens are thereafter released or otherwise extinguished in connection with the satisfaction of the obligations secured by such Liens (excluding any avoidance actions under the Bankruptcy Code (but including the proceeds therefrom)). (iii) pursuant to section 364(c)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code and subject to the Carve-Out, shall at all times be secured by junior, valid, binding, enforceable and perfected security interests in, and Liens upon, all (A) property of each of the Loan Parties’ estates that, on the Petition Date, was subject to a valid and perfected Lien (other than the Liens securing the Prepetition Indebtedness) or becomes subject to a valid Lien perfected (but not granted) after the Petition Date to the extent such post-Petition Date perfection in respect of prepetition claims is expressly permitted under the Bankruptcy Code (the “Permitted Prior Liens”), (B) property of each of the Grantors’ estates that is subject to valid rights of setoff, and (C) property of each of the Grantors’ estates that is subject to such other Liens as are expressly permitted under Sections 6.02(c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i) or (o) of the Credit Agreement (such Liens described in this clause (C), along with the Permitted Prior Liens, the “DIP Permitted Liens”); provided that the Liens granted under the Loan Documents shall not be subject or subordinate to (1) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Loan Documents or the DIP Orders, any DIP Permitted Lien or security interest that is avoided and preserved for the benefit of the Grantors and their estates, (2) except as provided in the DIP Orders and the Loan Documents, any Liens arising after the Petition Date including, any Liens or security interests granted in favor of any federal, state municipal or other governmental unit, commission, board or court for any liability of the Grantors; or (3) any intercompany or affiliate Liens of the Grantors; and (iv) pursuant to section 364(d)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code and subject only to the Carve-Out and clause (iii) above, shall at all times be secured by first priority, priming, valid, binding, enforceable and perfected security interests in, and Liens upon, all the Prepetition Collateral. (b) The Secured Parties’ Liens and Superpriority Claims as described herein and Section 2.26(a) of the Credit Agreement shall have priority over any claims arising under section 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code, and shall be subject and subordinate only to (i) the Carve-Out and (ii) to the extent provided in the Term Loan/Revolving Facility Intercreditor Agreement, the Liens securing the Obligations under and as defined in the Revolving Facility Credit Agreement in respect of the Revolving Facility First Lien Collateral. Except as set forth herein or in the Term Loan/Revolving Facility Intercreditor Agreement, no other claim having a priority superior to or pari passu with that granted to Secured Parties by the Interim Order and Final Order, whichever is then in effect, shall be granted or approved while any Obligations under this Agreement remain outstanding. (c) Except for the Carve-Out, no costs or expenses of administration shall be imposed against Administrative Agent, Lenders, any other Secured Party or any of the Collateral under sections 105 or 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code, or otherwise, and each of the Grantors hereby waives for itself and on behalf of its estate in bankruptcy, any and all rights under sections 105 or 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code, or otherwise, to assert or impose or seek to assert or impose, any such costs or expenses of administration against Administrative Agent, the Lenders or any other Secured Party. (d) Except for the Carve-Out, the Superpriority Claims shall at all times be senior to the rights of each Grantor, any chapter 11 trustee and, subject to section 726 of the Bankruptcy Code, any chapter 7 trustee, or any other creditor (including, without limitation, post-petition counterparties and other post-petition creditors) in the Chapter 11 Cases or any subsequent proceedings under the Bankruptcy Code, including, without limitation, any chapter 7 cases (if any of the Grantor’s cases are converted to cases under chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code). (e) Notwithstanding any failure on the part of any Grantor or the Collateral Agent or the Lenders to perfect, maintain, protect or enforce the Liens and security interests in the Collateral granted hereunder, the Interim Order and the Final Order (when entered) shall automatically, and without further action by any Person, perfect such Liens and security interests against the Collateral (if and to the extent perfection may be achieved by the entry of the DIP Financing Orders).
Priority Hiring If the Contract Amount is over $200,000 and this Agreement is for services (other than Consulting Services), this section is applicable. Contractor shall give priority consideration in filling vacancies in positions funded by this Agreement to qualified recipients of aid under Welfare and Institutions Code section 11200 in accordance with PCC 10353.
Priority If the Managing Underwriter or Underwriters of any proposed Underwritten Offering of Common Units included in an Underwritten Offering involving Included Registrable Securities advises the Partnership that the total amount of Common Units that the Selling Holders and any other Persons intend to include in such offering exceeds the number that can be sold in such offering without being likely to have an adverse effect on the price, timing or distribution of the Common Units offered or the market for the Common Units, then the Common Units to be included in such Underwritten Offering shall include the number of Registrable Securities that such Managing Underwriter or Underwriters advises the Partnership can be sold without having such adverse effect, with such number to be allocated (i) first, to the Partnership and (ii) second, pro rata among the Selling Holders who have requested participation in such Underwritten Offering and any other holder of securities of the Partnership having rights of registration that are neither expressly senior nor subordinated to the Registrable Securities (the “Parity Securities”). The pro rata allocations for each Selling Holder who has requested participation in such Underwritten Offering shall be the product of (a) the aggregate number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold in such Underwritten Offering multiplied by (b) the fraction derived by dividing (x) the number of Registrable Securities owned on the Closing Date by such Selling Holder by (y) the aggregate number of Registrable Securities owned on the Closing Date by all Selling Holders plus the aggregate number of Parity Securities owned on the Closing Date by all holders of Parity Securities that are participating in the Underwritten Offering.
Priority of Liens (a) Notwithstanding (i) the date, time, method, manner, or order of grant, attachment, or perfection of any Liens granted to the ABL Collateral Agent or the ABL Secured Parties in respect of all or any portion of the Common Collateral or of any Liens granted to any New First Lien Collateral Agent or any New First Lien Secured Parties in respect of all or any portion of the Common Collateral, and regardless of how any such Lien was acquired (whether by grant, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise), (ii) the order or time of filing or recordation of any document or instrument for perfecting the Liens in favor of the ABL Collateral Agent or any New First Lien Collateral Agent (or the ABL Secured Parties or any of the New First Lien Secured Parties) on any Common Collateral, (iii) any provision of the Uniform Commercial Code, the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable law, or of any of the ABL Documents or any of the New First Lien Documents, or (iv) whether the ABL Collateral Agent or any New First Lien Collateral Agent, in each case, either directly or through agents, holds possession of, or has control over, all or any part of the Common Collateral, the ABL Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the ABL Secured Parties, and the New First Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the New First Lien Secured Parties, hereby agree that: (1) any Lien in respect of all or any portion of the Common Collateral now or hereafter held by or on behalf of the New First Lien Collateral Agent or the New First Lien Secured Parties that secures all or any portion of the New First Lien Obligations shall in all respects be junior and subordinate to all Liens granted to the ABL Collateral Agent and the ABL Secured Parties on the Common Collateral; and (2) any Lien in respect of all or any portion of the Common Collateral now or hereafter held by or on behalf of the ABL Collateral Agent or any ABL Secured Party that secures all or any portion of the ABL Obligations shall in all respects be senior and prior to all Liens granted to the New First Lien Collateral Agent or the New First Lien Secured Parties on the Common Collateral. The New First Lien Collateral Agent, for and on behalf of itself and each New First Lien Secured Party, expressly agrees that any Lien purported to be granted on any Common Collateral as security for the ABL Obligations shall be deemed to be and shall be deemed to remain senior in all respects and prior to all Liens on the Common Collateral securing any New First Lien Obligations for all purposes regardless of whether the Lien purported to be granted is found to be improperly granted, improperly perfected, preferential, a fraudulent conveyance or legally or otherwise deficient in any manner. (b) The ABL Collateral Agent, for and on behalf of itself and the ABL Secured Parties, acknowledges and agrees that, concurrently herewith, the New First Lien Collateral Agent, for the benefit of itself and the New First Lien Secured Parties, has been granted Liens upon all of the Common Collateral in which the ABL Collateral Agent has been granted Liens and the ABL Collateral Agent hereby consents thereto. The subordination of Liens by the New First Lien Collateral Agent in favor of the ABL Collateral Agent as set forth herein shall not be deemed to subordinate the respective Liens of the New First Lien Collateral Agent or the New First Lien Secured Parties to Liens securing any other Obligations other than the ABL Obligations (subject to the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement and any Additional General Intercreditor Agreement).
Perfection and Priority The security interest granted pursuant to this Agreement constitutes a valid and continuing perfected security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties in all Collateral subject, for the following Collateral, to the occurrence of the following: (i) in the case of all Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by filing a financing statement under the UCC, the completion of the filings specified on Schedule 2 (which, in the case of all filings referred to on such schedule, have been duly authorized by each Grantor and delivered to the Collateral Agent in completed form), (ii) with respect to any deposit account, the execution of a Control Agreement, (iii) in the case of all Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents for which UCC filings are insufficient, all appropriate filings having been made with the Applicable IP Office, (iv) in the case of letter-of-credit rights that are not supporting obligations of Collateral, the execution of a Contractual Obligation granting control to the Collateral Agent over such letter-of-credit rights, and (v) in the case of electronic chattel paper, the completion of all steps necessary to grant control to the Collateral Agent over such electronic chattel paper. Such security interest shall be prior to all other Liens on the Collateral except for Customary Permitted Liens having priority over the Collateral Agent’s Lien by operation of law or permitted pursuant to clause (c), (e) or (j) of the definition of “Customary Permitted Liens” in the Credit Agreement or subsection 8.2(c), 8.2(d), 8.2(e), 8.2(f) or 8.2(h) of the Credit Agreement upon (i) in the case of all Pledged Certificated Stock, Pledged Debt Instruments and Pledged Investment Property, the delivery thereof to the Collateral Agent of such Pledged Certificated Stock, Pledged Debt Instruments and Pledged Investment Property consisting of instruments and certificates, in each case properly endorsed for transfer to the Collateral Agent or in blank, (ii) in the case of all Pledged Investment Property not in certificated form, the execution of a Control Agreement with respect to such investment property, and (iii) in the case of all other instruments and tangible chattel paper that are not Pledged Certificated Stock, Pledged Debt Instruments or Pledged Investment Property, the delivery to the Collateral Agent of such instruments and tangible chattel paper. Except as set forth in this Section 4.2, all actions by each Grantor necessary to perfect the Lien granted hereunder on the Collateral have been duly taken.