EXHIBIT 10.14
CONFORMED COPY
INDEMNITY, SUBROGATION and CONTRIBUTION
AGREEMENT dated as of March 12, 1996, among SHARED
TECHNOLOGIES ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ COMMUNICATIONS CORP., a
Delaware corporation (the "Borrower"), each person
listed on Schedule I hereto (the "Guarantors") and
CREDIT SUISSE, a bank organized under the laws of
Switzerland, acting through its New York branch
("Credit Suisse"), as collateral agent (in such
capacity, the "Collateral Agent") for the Secured
Parties (as defined in the Credit Agreement referred
to below).
Reference is made to (a) the Credit Agreement dated as of
March 12, 1996 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, the "Credit Agreement"), among the Borrower, STFI, the lenders from time
to time party thereto (the "Lenders"), Credit Suisse, as administrative agent
(in such capacity, the "Administrative Agent") and as collateral agent (in such
capacity, the "Collateral Agent") for the Lenders, the fronting banks listed on
Schedule 2.20 (the "Fronting Banks"), and each of Citicorp USA, Inc. and
NationsBank, N.A., as documentation agent (individually and collectively in such
capacity, the "Documentation Agent") and (b) the Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement
dated as of March 12, 1996, among the Guarantors and the Collateral Agent (the
"Guarantee Agreement"). Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein
shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Credit Agreement.
The Lenders have agreed to make Loans to the Borrower, and the
Fronting Banks have agreed to issue Letters of Credit for the account of the
Borrower, pursuant to, and upon the terms and subject to the conditions
specified in, the Credit Agreement. The Guarantors have guaranteed such Loans
and the other Obligations (as defined in the Guarantee Agreement) of the
Borrower under the Credit Agreement pursuant to the Guarantee Agreement; certain
Guarantors have granted Liens on and security interests in certain of their
assets to secure such guarantees. The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans
and of the Fronting Banks to issue Letters of Credit are conditioned on, among
other things, the execution and delivery by the Borrower and the Guarantors of
an agreement in the form hereof.
Accordingly, the Borrower, each Guarantor and the Collateral
Agent agree as follows:
SECTION 1. Indemnity and Subrogation. In addition to all such
rights of indemnity and subrogation as the Guarantors may have under applicable
law (but subject to Section 3), the Borrower agrees that (a) in the event a
payment shall be made by any Guarantor under the Guarantee Agreement, the
Borrower shall indemnify such Guarantor for the full amount of such payment and
such Guarantor shall be subrogated to the rights of the person to whom such
payment shall have been made to the extent of such payment and (b) in the event
any assets of any Guarantor shall be sold pursuant to any Security Document to
satisfy a claim of any Secured Party, the Borrower shall indemnify such
Guarantor in an amount equal to the greater of the book value or the fair market
value of the assets so sold.
SECTION 2. Contribution and Subrogation. Each Guarantor (a
"Contributing Guarantor") agrees (subject to Section 3) that, in the event a
payment shall be made by any other Guarantor under the Guarantee Agreement or
assets of any other Guarantor shall be sold pursuant to any Security Document to
satisfy a claim of any Secured Party and such other Guarantor (the "Claiming
Guarantor") shall not have been fully indemnified by the Borrower as provided in
Section 1,
the Contributing Guarantor shall indemnify the Claiming Guarantor in an amount
equal to the amount of such payment or the greater of the book value or the fair
market value of such assets, as the case may be, in each case multiplied by a
fraction of which the numerator shall be the net worth of the Contributing
Guarantor on the date hereof and the denominator shall be the aggregate net
worth of all the Guarantors on the date hereof (or, in the case of any Guarantor
becoming a party hereto pursuant to Section 12, the date of the Supplement
hereto executed and delivered by such Guarantor). Any Contributing Guarantor
making any payment to a Claiming Guarantor pursuant to this Section 2 shall be
subrogated to the rights of such Claiming Guarantor under Section 1 to the
extent of such payment.
SECTION 3. Subordination. Notwithstanding any provision of
this Agreement to the contrary, all rights of the Guarantors under Sections 1
and 2 and all other rights of indemnity, contribution or subrogation under
applicable law or otherwise shall be fully subordinated to the indefeasible
payment in full in cash of the Obligations. No failure on the part of the
Borrower or any Guarantor to make the payments required by Sections 1 and 2 (or
any other payments required under applicable law or otherwise) shall in any
respect limit the obligations and liabilities of any Guarantor with respect to
its obligations hereunder, and each Guarantor shall remain liable for the full
amount of the obligations of such Guarantor hereunder.
SECTION 4. Termination. This Agreement shall survive and be in
full force and effect so long as any Obligation is outstanding and has not been
indefeasibly paid in full in cash, and so long as the L/C Exposure has not been
reduced to zero or any of the Commitments under the Credit Agreement have not
been terminated, and shall continue to be effective or be 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 Secured Party or any Guarantor
upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Borrower, any Guarantor or
otherwise.
SECTION 5. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED
BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
SECTION 6. No Waiver; Amendment. (a) No failure on the part of
the Collateral Agent or any Guarantor to exercise, and no delay in exercising,
any right, power or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor
shall any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or remedy by the
Collateral Agent or any Guarantor preclude any other or further exercise thereof
or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy. All remedies hereunder are
cumulative and are not exclusive of any other remedies provided by law. None of
the Collateral Agent and the Guarantors shall be deemed to have waived any
rights hereunder unless such waiver shall be in writing and signed by such
parties.
(b) Neither this Agreement nor any provision hereof may be
waived, amended or modified except pursuant to a written agreement entered into
between the Borrower, the Guarantors and the Collateral Agent, with the prior
written consent of the Required Lenders (except as otherwise provided in the
Credit Agreement).
SECTION 7. Notices. All communications and notices hereunder
shall be in writing and given as provided in the Guarantee Agreement and
addressed as specified therein.
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SECTION 8. Binding Agreement; Assignments. Whenever in this
Agreement any of the parties hereto is referred to, such reference shall be
deemed to include the successors and assigns of such party; and all covenants,
promises and agreements by or on behalf of the parties that are contained in
this Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective
successors and assigns. Neither the Borrower nor any Guarantor may assign or
transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder (and any such attempted
assignment or transfer shall be void) without the prior written consent of the
Required Lenders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the time any Guarantor is
released from its obligations under the Guarantee Agreement in accordance with
such Guarantee Agreement and the Credit Agreement, such Guarantor will cease to
have any rights or obligations under this Agreement.
SECTION 9. Survival of Agreement; Severability. (a) All
covenants and agreements made by the Borrower and each Guarantor herein and in
the certificates or other instruments prepared or delivered in connection with
this Agreement or the other Loan Documents shall be considered to have been
relied upon by the Collateral Agent, the other Secured Parties and each
Guarantor and shall survive the making by the Lenders of the Loans and the
issuance of the Letters of Credit by the Fronting Banks, and shall continue in
full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any
Loans or any other fee or amount payable under the Credit Agreement or this
Agreement or under any of the other Loan Documents is outstanding and unpaid or
the L/C Exposure does not equal zero and as long as the Commitments have not
been terminated.
(b) In case any one or more of the provisions contained in
this Agreement should be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect,
no party hereto shall be required to comply with such provision for so long as
such provision is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, but the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained
herein shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. The parties shall
endeavor in good-faith negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or
unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which
comes as close as possible to that of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable
provisions.
SECTION 10. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in
counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each
of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together
shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement shall be effective with
respect to any Guarantor when a counterpart bearing the signature of such
Guarantor shall have been delivered to the Collateral Agent. Delivery of an
executed signature page to this Agreement by facsimile transmission shall be as
effective as delivery of a manually signed counterpart of this Agreement.
SECTION 11. Rules of Interpretation. The rules of
interpretation specified in Section 1.02 of the Credit Agreement shall be
applicable to this Agreement.
SECTION 12. Additional Guarantors. Pursuant to Section 5.11 of
the Credit Agreement, each Subsidiary of STFI, the Borrower or any Subsidiary
that was not in existence or not such a Subsidiary on the date of the Credit
Agreement is required to enter into the Guarantee Agreement as a Guarantor upon
becoming such a Subsidiary. Upon execution and delivery, after the date hereof,
by the Collateral Agent and such a Subsidiary of an instrument in the form of
Annex 1 hereto, such Subsidiary shall become a Guarantor hereunder with the same
force and effect as if originally named as a Guarantor hereunder. The execution
and delivery of any instrument adding an additional Guarantor as a party to this
Agreement shall not require the consent of any Guarantor
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hereunder. The rights and obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall remain
in full force and effect notwithstanding the addition of any new Guarantor as a
party to this Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be executed by their duly authorized officers as of the date first
appearing above.
SHARED TECHNOLOGIES ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
COMMUNICATIONS CORP.,
by
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Authorized Officer
MULTI-TENANT SERVICES, INC.,
by
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Authorized Officer
BOSTON TELECOMMUNICATIONS
GROUP, INC., d/b/a BOSTON
TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY,
by
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Authorized Officer
FINANCIAL PLACE COMMUNICATIONS
COMPANY,
by
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Authorized Officer of Shared
Technologies ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Inc., its
General Partner
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STI INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
by
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Authorized Officer
OFFICE TELEPHONE MANAGEMENT,
by
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Authorized Officer
VSI CORPORATION,
by
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Authorized Officer
CREDIT SUISSE, as Collateral Agent,
by
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇'▇▇▇▇▇
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇'▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Member of Senior Management
by
/s/ Will ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Name: Will ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Associate
SHARED TECHNOLOGIES INC.,
by
/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Authorized Officer
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SCHEDULE I
to the Indemnity Subrogation
and Contribution Agreement
GUARANTORS
Name Address
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Annex 1 to
the Indemnity, Subrogation and
Contribution Agreement
SUPPLEMENT NO. dated as of [ ], to the
Indemnity, Subrogation and Contribution Agreement
dated as of March 12, 1996 (as the same may be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time
to time, the "Indemnity, Subrogation and Contribution
Agreement"), among SHARED TECHNOLOGIES ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
COMMUNICATIONS CORP., a Delaware corporation (the
"Borrower") each Subsidiary of the Borrower listed on
Schedule I thereto (the "Guarantors"), and CREDIT
SUISSE, a bank organized under the laws of
Switzerland, acting through its New York branch
("Credit Suisse"), as collateral agent (the
"Collateral Agent") for the Secured Parties (as
defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below).
A. Reference is made to (a) the Credit Agreement dated as of
March 12, 1996 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, the "Credit Agreement"), among the Borrower, STFI, the lenders from time
to time party thereto (the "Lenders"), Credit Suisse, as administrative agent
(in such capacity, the "Administrative Agent") and as collateral agent (in such
capacity, the "Collateral Agent") for the Lenders, the fronting banks listed on
Schedule 2.20 (the "Fronting Banks"), and each of Citicorp USA, Inc. and
NationsBank, N.A., as documentation agent (individually and collectively in such
capacity, the "Documentation Agent") and (b) the Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement
dated as of March 12, 1996, among the Guarantors and the Collateral Agent (the
"Guarantee Agreement").
B. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined
herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Indemnity,
Subrogation and Contribution Agreement and the Credit Agreement.
C. The Borrower and the Guarantors have entered into the
Indemnity, Subrogation and Contribution Agreement in order to induce the Lenders
to make Loans and the Fronting Banks to issue Letters of Credit. Pursuant to
Section 5.11 of the Credit Agreement, each Subsidiary of STFI, the Borrower or
any Subsidiary that was not in existence or not such a Subsidiary on the date of
the Credit Agreement is required to enter into the Guarantee Agreement as a
Guarantor upon becoming a Subsidiary. Section 12 of the Indemnity, Subrogation
and Contribution Agreement provides that additional Subsidiaries of the Borrower
may become Guarantors under the Indemnity, Subrogation and Contribution
Agreement by execution and delivery of an instrument in the form of this
Supplement. The undersigned Subsidiary of the Borrower (the "New Guarantor") is
executing this Supplement in accordance with the requirements of the Credit
Agreement to become a Guarantor under the Indemnity, Subrogation and
Contribution Agreement in order to induce the Lenders to make additional Loans
and the Fronting Banks to issue additional Letters of Credit and as
consideration for Loans previously made and Letters of Credit previously issued.
Accordingly, the Collateral Agent and the New Guarantor agree
as follows:
SECTION 1. In accordance with Section 12 of the Indemnity,
Subrogation and Contribution Agreement, the New Guarantor by its signature below
becomes a Guarantor under the Indemnity, Subrogation and Contribution Agreement
with the same force and effect as if originally named therein as a Guarantor and
the New Guarantor hereby agrees to all the terms and provisions of the
Indemnity, Subrogation and Contribution Agreement applicable to it as a
Guarantor thereunder. Each reference to a "Guarantor" in the Indemnity,
Subrogation and Contribution Agreement shall be
deemed to include the New Guarantor. The Indemnity, Subrogation and Contribution
Agreement is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
SECTION 2. The New Guarantor represents and warrants to the
Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties that this Supplement has been
duly authorized, executed and delivered by it and constitutes its legal, valid
and binding obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms.
SECTION 3. This Supplement may be executed in counterparts
(and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall
constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a
single contract. This Supplement shall become effective when the Collateral
Agent shall have received counterparts of this Supplement that, when taken
together, bear the signatures of the New Guarantor and the Collateral Agent.
Delivery of an executed signature page to this Supplement by facsimile
transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually signed counterpart
of this Supplement.
SECTION 4. Except as expressly supplemented hereby, the
Indemnity, Subrogation and Contribution Agreement shall remain in full force and
effect.
SECTION 5. THIS SUPPLEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
SECTION 6. In case any one or more of the provisions contained
in this Supplement should be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any
respect, neither party hereto shall be required to comply with such provision
for so long as such provision is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable,
but the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions
contained herein and in the Indemnity, Subrogation and Contribution Agreement
shall not in any way be affected or impaired. The parties hereto shall endeavor
in good-faith negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable
provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as
possible to that of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.
SECTION 7. All communications and notices hereunder shall be
in writing and given as provided in Section 7 of the Indemnity, Subrogation and
Contribution Agreement. All communications and notices hereunder to the New
Guarantor shall be given to it at the address set forth under its signature.
SECTION 8. The New Guarantor agrees to reimburse the
Collateral Agent for its reasonable out-of-pocket expenses in connection with
this Supplement, including the reasonable fees, other charges and disbursements
of counsel for the Collateral Agent.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the New Guarantor and the Collateral Agent
have duly executed this Supplement to the Indemnity, Subrogation and
Contribution Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
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[Name Of New Guarantor],
by
Name:
Title:
Address:
CREDIT SUISSE, as Collateral
Agent,
by
Name:
Title:
by
Name:
Title:
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SCHEDULE I
to Supplement No.___ to the Indemnity
Subrogation and Contribution Agreement
GUARANTORS
Name Address
