FIFTH AMENDMENT TO LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

 

THIS FIFTH AMENDMENT TO LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT is made and entered into as of the _30th___ day of September, 2008, by and among ATRION CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, ATRION MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC,. an Alabama corporation, HALKEY-ROBERTS CORPORATION, a Florida corporation, QUEST MEDICAL, INC.,  a Texas corporation, ALATENN PIPELINE COMPANY, LLC, an Alabama  limited liability company, and ATRION LEASING COMPANY, LLC, an Alabama limited liability company (each a “Borrower” and collectively, the “Borrowers”) WACHOVIA BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States (the  "Lender")

 

 

Lender has heretofore established a Credit Facility for the Borrower’ benefit in the maximum principal sum of Twenty-Five Million Dollars ($25,000,000), which is evidenced and secured by the following:

 

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Loan and Security Agreement dated November 12, 1999, as amended by Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement dated as of December 26, 2001, by Second Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement dated November 7, 2003, by Third Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement dated September 1, 2005, and by Fourth Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement dated as of July 1, 2008 (as amended, the “Loan Agreement”), and

 

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Line of Credit Promissory Note dated November 12, 1999 in the original stated principal amount of $18,500,000 as amended by Note Extension Agreement dated August 31, 2001, by Second Amendment to Line of Credit Promissory Note dated December 26, 2001 (which such Second Amendment, among other things increased the principal balance of the Line of Credit Note to $25,000,000), by Third Amendment to Line of Credit Promissory Note dated November 7, 2003, by Fourth Amendment to Line of Credit Promissory Note dated September 1, 2005 and By Fifth Amendment to Line of Credit Promissory Note dated as of July 1, 2008 (as amended, the “Line of Credit Note”), evidencing the Line of Credit Loan portion of the Credit Facility.

 

One or more of the Borrowers maintain lockboxes, lockbox accounts and/or deposit accounts with the Lender and Borrowers and Lender wish to amend certain provisions of the Loan Agreement as hereinafter provided.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises, as set forth in the Recitals of Fact, and other good and valuable considerations, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, it is agreed by the parties as follows:

 

 

 

 

"Deposit Accounts” means any and all demand, time, savings, passbook, lockbox or other deposit account maintained by any Borrower with the Lender.

 

 

7.8. Right of Set-Off.  (a)  Lender’s Rights. In addition to and without limitation of, any rights of the Lender under applicable law, if any Borrower become insolvent, however evidenced, or any Event of Default occurs, any and all deposits (including all account balances, whether provisional or final and whether or not collected or available) and any other indebtedness at any time held or owing by Lender to or for the credit or account of the Borrowers may be off-set and applied toward the payment of the Loan Obligations owing to Lender.

 

(b)  Borrowers’ Rights.  In addition to and without limitation of, any rights of any Borrower under applicable law, if  (i) Lender becomes insolvent, (ii) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) initiates receivership of the Lender, or (iii) any Borrower is unable to withdraw its funds from any Deposit Account and no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and if at such time there are any Loan Obligations owing to the Lender, then any and all such amounts in the Deposit Accounts and any and all deposits (including all account balances, whether provisional or final and whether or not collected or available, and whether or not covered by FDIC insurance) and any other indebtedness at any time held or owing by Lender to  or for the credit or account of the Borrowers or any of them, shall be offset and applied toward the payment of the Loan Obligations to the extent thereof, subject to applicable banking laws and regulations.

 

 

 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Borrowers and Lender have caused this Amendment to be executed by their respective officers, duly authorized so to do, all on this the day and year first above written.