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Freedom Group, Inc.
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S-1
Oct 20, 8:13 PM ET
Freedom Group, Inc. S-1
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SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 Definitions
1.2 Uniform Commercial Code
1.3 Certain Matters of Construction
SECTION 2. COLLATERAL
2.1 Grant of Security Interest
2.2 Real Estate Collateral
2.3 Representations, Warranties and Covenants
2.3.1. Commercial Tort Claims
2.3.2. Chattel Paper, Instruments and Letter-of-Credit Rights
2.3.3. Pledged Shares
2.3.4. Deposit Accounts.
2.3.5. After-Acquired Intellectual Property
2.4 No Assumption of Liability
2.5 Further Assurances
SECTION 3. COLLATERAL ADMINISTRATION
3.1 Records and Schedules of Collateral
3.2 Taxes
3.3 Account Verification
3.4 Voting Rights; Dividends; Etc.
3.5 Insurance of Collateral and Mortgaged Property; Condemnation Proceeds
3.6 Protection of Collateral
3.7 Defense of Title to Collateral
3.8 Power of Attorney
SECTION 4. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
4.1 Organization and Qualification
4.2 Power and Authority
4.3 Enforceability and Validity and Perfection of Liens
4.4 Title to Properties; Priority of Liens
4.5 Intellectual Property
4.6 Governmental Approvals
4.7 Compliance with Laws
4.8 Compliance with Environmental Laws
4.9 Pledged Shares
4.10 Complete Disclosure
SECTION 5. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
5.1 Notices
5.2 ABL Agent
5.3 Compliance with Laws
SECTION 6. THE COLLATERAL AGENT
6.1 Duties of Agent
(a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Agent has received written notice thereof from the Company, the Trustee or any Additional Pari Passu Agent, the Agent shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Agreement and the Security Documents, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs, it being understood that the Agent shall have no obligation to exercise such rights request unless instructed in writing to do so by the Required Secured Parties.
(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) the duties of the Agent shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Agreement and the Agent need perform only those duties that are specifically set forth in this Agreement and the Security Documents and no others, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Security Documents against the Agent; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Agent may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Agent.
(c) The Agent may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) or (e) of this Section 6.1;
(ii) the Agent shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by an officer of the Agent, unless it is proved that the Agent was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(iii) the Agent shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 7
hereof or otherwise in accordance with the direction of the Required Secured Parties, or for the method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Agent, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Agent, under this Agreement or any Security Document.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Agreement or any provision of any Security Document that in any way relates to the Agent is subject to paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (e) and (f) of this Section 6.1.
(e) No provision of this Agreement or any Security Document shall require the Agent to expend or risk its own funds or incur any liability. The Agent shall be under no obligation to exercise any of its rights and powers under this Agreement or any Security Document at the request of any Secured Parties, unless such Secured Parties shall have offered to the Agent security and indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense.
(f) The Agent shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Agent may agree in writing with the Grantors. Money held in trust by the Agent need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
6.2 Rights of Agent
(a) The Agent may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting on any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person. The Agent need not investigate any fact or matter stated in any such document. The Agent shall not be obligated to communicate with or deal in any way with any Secured Party other than the Trustee or any Additional Pari Passu Agent. In determining (x) the amount of Obligations outstanding under the Indenture or any Additional Pari Passu Agreement or (y) whether the consent of any Secured Party to any amendment, waiver or other action under this Agreement or any other Security Document has been obtained, the Agent may conclusively rely on any statement by the Trustee or the applicable Additional Pari Passu Agent as to such matter.
(b) Before the Agent acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officers’ Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel or both. The Agent shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel. The Agent may consult with counsel of the Agent’s own choosing and the Agent shall be fully protected from liability in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance on the advice or opinion of such counsel or on any Opinion of Counsel.
(c) The Agent may act through its attorneys and agents and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any attorney or agent appointed with due care.
(d) The Agent shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith that it believes to be authorized or within the rights or powers conferred upon it by this Agreement or any Security Document. Any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate. Whenever in the
administration of this Agreement or any Security Document the Agent shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Agent (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate.
(e) Unless otherwise specifically provided in this Agreement or any Security Document, any demand, request, direction or notice from any Grantor shall be sufficient if signed by an Officer of such Grantor.
(f) The Agent shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or any Security Document at the request or direction of any of the Secured Parties unless such Secured Parties shall have offered to the Agent security and indemnity satisfactory to the Agent against the costs, expenses and liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.
(g) The Agent shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or documents, but the Agent, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Agent shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine during normal business hours the books, records and premises of any Grantor, personally or by agent or attorney at the sole cost of the Grantors, and shall incur no liability or additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation.
(h) The rights, privileges, protections and benefits given to the Agent, including, without limitation, its rights to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Agent in each of its capacities hereunder, and to each agent, custodian and other Persons employed to act hereunder or under any Security Document.
(i) The Agent may request that the Company deliver an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Agreement or any other Security Document, which Officers’ Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an Officers’ Certificate, including any person specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded.
(j) The permissive right of the Agent to take or refrain from taking any actions enumerated in this Agreement or any Security Document shall not be construed as a duty.
(k) In the event that the Agent (in such capacity or in any other capacity hereunder or under any Security Document) is unable to decide between alternative courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this Agreement or any Security Document, or in the event that the Agent is unsure as to the application of any provision of this Agreement or any Security Document, or believes any such provision is ambiguous as to its application, or is, or appears to be, in conflict with any other applicable provision, or in the event that this Agreement or any Security Document permits any determination by or the exercise of discretion on the part
of the Agent or is silent or is incomplete as to the course of action that the Agent is required to take with respect to a particular set of facts, the Agent shall promptly give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Noteholders requesting instruction as to the course of action to be adopted, and to the extent the Agent acts in good faith in accordance with any written instructions received from a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, the Agent shall not be liable on account of such action to any Person. If the Agent shall not have received appropriate instruction within 10 days of such notice (or such shorter period as reasonably may be specified in such notice or as may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Noteholders and the Agent shall have no liability to any Person for such action or inaction.
6.3 Individual Rights of Agent
6.4 Agent’s Disclaimer
6.5 Replacement of Agent
6.6 Successor Agent by Merger, Etc.
6.7 Eligibility
6.8 Agent’s Application for Instructions from the Company
6.9 Co-Agent; Separate Agent
SECTION 7. REMEDIAL PROVISIONS
7.1 General
7.2 License
7.3 [Reserved]
7.4 Remedies Cumulative; No Waiver
7.4.1. Cumulative Rights
7.4.2. Waivers
SECTION 8. MISCELLANEOUS
8.1 Notices
8.2 Indemnity
8.3 Reimbursement Obligations
8.4 Successors and Assigns
8.5 Changes in Writing
8.6 GOVERNING LAW
8.7 Consent to Forum
8.7.1. Forum
8.7.2. Waivers by Grantors
8.9 Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations
8.10 Additional Grantors
8.11 Intercreditor Matters
8.12 Release of Liens
(a) This Agreement, the security interest in the Collateral, the pledge of the Pledged Shares and all other security interests granted hereby shall terminate and be released (i) in full upon the Discharge of Obligations, (ii) with respect to any Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligation, upon repayment of such Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligation which entitles the Grantor to obtain a release of the Liens securing such Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligation and (iii) in whole or in part (1) as to the Obligations under the Indenture, as provided in the Indenture and (2) as to the Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations under any Additional Pari Passu Agreement, as provided in such Additional Pari Passu Agreement.
(b) In addition the security interest in the Collateral, the pledge of the Pledged Shares and all other security interests granted hereby shall be released as provided in the
Indenture with respect to liens securing the Notes and Additional Notes and each Additional Pari Passu Agreement with respect to liens securing Permitted Additional Pari Passu Obligations.
(c) In connection with any termination or release pursuant to paragraph (a) or (b) above, the Agent shall promptly execute and deliver to any Grantor, at such Grantor’s expense, all Uniform Commercial Code termination statements and similar documents that such Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination or release. Any execution and delivery of documents pursuant to this Section 8.12 shall be without recourse to or representation or warranty by the Agent or any other Secured Party. Without limiting the provisions of Section 6.1(e), the Company shall reimburse the Agent upon demand for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses, including the fees, charges and expenses of counsel, incurred by it in connection with any action contemplated by this Section 8.12.