Fifth Amendment to Credit Agreement dated as of April 17, 2020, amending the Credit Agreement among Graco Inc., the borrowing subsidiaries from time to time party thereto, the banks from time to time party thereto and U.S. Bank National Association, as administrative agent

THIS FIFTH AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Amendment”), is entered into as of April 17, 2020, with an effective date as of the Fifth Amendment Effective Date (as defined below), by and among GRACO INC. (the “Company”), the Banks (as defined in the Credit Agreement) signatory hereto and U.S. Bank National Association, as administrative agent for the Banks (in such capacity, the “Agent”). Capitalized terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the meaning given such terms in the Credit Agreement (as defined below).

WHEREAS, the Company, the Borrowing Subsidiaries party thereto from time to time, the Banks and the Agent are party to that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of May 23, 2011 (as amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified prior to the date hereof, the “Credit Agreement”);

WHEREAS, the Company has requested that certain modifications be made to the Credit Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Pledge Agreement; and

WHEREAS, the Banks party hereto have agreed to amend the Credit Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Pledge Agreement on the terms and conditions set forth herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree to amend the Credit Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Pledge Agreement as follows:

(a)the definition of “Senior Note Agreements” in Section 1.1 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety as follows:

“Senior Note Agreements” means (i) the Note Agreement, dated as of March 11, 2011, evidencing a $300,000,000 note facility, by and among the Company, The Prudential Life Insurance Company of America and certain other Senior Noteholders from time to time party thereto, (ii) the Master Note Agreement, dated as of January 29, 2020, setting forth certain terms with respect to a $200,000,000 note facility, by and among the Company, NYL Investors LLC and certain other Senior Noteholders from time to time party thereto, and (iii) one or more other Note Agreements executed from time to time by and among the Company and the Senior Noteholders party thereto, so long as the aggregate principal amount of the loans advanced under such Note Agreements does not exceed $75,000,000, in each case together with the agreements, documents and instruments delivered together therewith, and in each case as each of the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, or modified from time to time, or as the same may be refinanced or replaced from time to time.

(b)The Intercreditor Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety pursuant to Exhibit A hereto.

(c)The Pledge Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety pursuant to Exhibit B hereto.

SECTION 2.    Conditions of Effectiveness.    This Amendment shall become effective as of April 17, 2020 (the “Fifth Amendment Effective Date”) when, and only when:

(d)the Agent shall have received counterparts of this Amendment duly executed by the Company, the Required Banks and the Agent;

(e)the Agent shall have received a fully executed and effective copy of the Intercreditor Agreement, as amended and restated pursuant to Exhibit A hereto;

(f)the Agent shall have received a fully executed and effective copy of the Pledge Agreement, as amended and restated pursuant to Exhibit B hereto;

(g)all of the Agent’s accrued costs, fees and expenses through the date hereof shall be fully paid;

(h)the Senior Note Agreement to which The Prudential Life Insurance Company is a party shall have been amended in a manner satisfactory to the Agent; and

(i)the Agent shall have received fully executed and effective copies of the Senior Note Documents to which NYL Investors LLC is subject.

SECTION 3.    Representations and Warranties; No Default or Event of Default.    Each of the parties hereto represents and warrants that this Amendment and the Credit Agreement, as amended by this Amendment, constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of such party enforceable against such party in accordance with their terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and general equitable principles. This Amendment shall constitute a Loan Document. The Company agrees and confirms that no Default or Event of Default is or shall be outstanding immediately before and after giving effect to this Amendment.

SECTION 4.    Reaffirmation.    The Company hereby ratifies and reaffirms its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party and its pledge of stock or Ownership Interests of Foreign Subsidiaries under the Pledge Agreement.

SECTION 5.    Reference to and the Effect on the Credit Agreement.

(j)On and after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, each reference in the Credit Agreement to “this Agreement”, “hereunder”, “hereof”, “herein” or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement and each reference to the Credit Agreement in any certificate delivered in connection therewith, shall mean and be a reference to the Credit Agreement as amended hereby.

(k)Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that, except as specifically amended above, the Credit Agreement is hereby ratified and confirmed and shall continue to be in full force and effect and enforceable, except as such enforcement may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally and general equitable principles.

(l)The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment shall not operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of the Agent or the Banks, nor constitute a waiver of any provision of the Credit Agreement or any other documents, instruments and agreements executed and/or delivered in connection therewith.

SECTION 6.    Headings.    Section headings in this Amendment are included herein for convenience only and shall not constitute a part of this Amendment for any other purpose.

SECTION 7.    Execution in Counterparts.    This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument, and any of the parties hereto may execute this Amendment by signing any such counterpart. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Amendment by facsimile or by e-mail transmission of a PDF or similar copy shall be equally as effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart of this Amendment.

SECTION 8.    Governing Law.     The validity, construction and enforceability of this Amendment shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of Minnesota, without giving effect to conflict of laws principles thereof, but giving effect to federal laws of the United States applicable to national banks.

SECTION 9.    Expenses.    The Company agrees to pay on demand all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the Agent (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and expenses of outside counsel to the Agent) incurred in connection with the preparation, negotiation and execution of this Amendment and any other document required to be furnished herewith.

SECTION 10. Severability.    Any provision of this Amendment which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.

SECTION 11. Successors; Enforceability.    The terms and provisions of this Amendment shall be binding upon the Borrowers, the Agent and the Banks and their respective successors and assigns, and shall inure to the benefit of the Borrowers, the Agent and the Banks and the successors and assigns of the Agent and the Banks.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the day and year first above written.

This Amended and Restated Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement (this “Agreement”), dated as of April 17, 2020, is entered into by and among (i) U.S. Bank National Association, as the administrative agent under the below-defined Bank Credit Agreement (the “Bank Agent”), (ii) U.S. Bank National Association, as the collateral agent appointed pursuant to the terms and conditions hereof (the “Collateral Agent”), (iii) The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Gibraltar Life Insurance Co., Ltd., The Prudential Life Insurance Company, Ltd., and Zurich American Insurance Company (each, together with its successors and permitted assigns, and any other holder of any Prudential Senior Notes, a “Prudential Noteholder”, and collectively the “Prudential Noteholders”, and (iv) NYL Investors LLC (each, together with its successors and permitted assigns, and any other holder of any NY Life Senior Notes, a “NY Life Noteholder”, and collectively the “NY Life Noteholders”; the Prudential Noteholders and the NY Life Noteholders, together, the “Noteholders”, and each, a “Noteholder”).

WHEREAS, Graco Inc. (the “Company”), the institutions from time to time party thereto as lenders (the “Banks”), and the Bank Agent are parties to a Credit Agreement dated as of May 23, 2011 (as the same has been amended and as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Bank Credit Agreement”);

WHEREAS, the Company and the Prudential Noteholders are party to that certain Note Agreement, dated as of March 11, 2011 (as the same has been amended and as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Prudential Note Purchase Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company has issued or may issue certain senior notes from time to time (as the same have been or may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Prudential Senior Notes”);

WHEREAS, the Company and the NY Life Noteholders are party to that certain Master Note Agreement, dated as of January 29, 2020 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “NY Life Note Purchase Agreement”; together with the Prudential Note Purchase Agreement, the “Note Purchase Agreements”), pursuant to which the Company may from time to time issue certain senior notes (as the same have been or may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified form time to time, the “NY Life Senior Notes”; together with the Prudential Senior Notes, the “Senior Notes”);

WHEREAS, the Banks and the Noteholders (together with the Bank Agent, the “Creditors”) have provided or will provide the Company with various loans, extensions of credit and financial accommodations under the below-defined Senior Indebtedness Documents (collectively, the “Senior Indebtedness”);

WHEREAS, in order to make and continue making and extending such loans, extensions of credit and financial accommodations, the Creditors have required that the Company

and certain of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Grantors”) guaranty and/or secure the Obligations (as hereafter defined);

WHEREAS, the Creditors wish to appoint the Collateral Agent to hold all security interests and liens granted by the Grantors in respect of the Obligations; and

WHEREAS, the Creditors wish to agree upon certain matters in respect of the Senior Indebtedness, including, without limitation, payment priorities and the application of Collateral (as defined below) proceeds;

NOW, THEREFORE, for the above reasons, in consideration of the mutual covenants herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

1.    Definitions.

For the purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings specified with respect thereto below. Any plural term that is used herein in the singular shall be taken to mean each entity or item of the defined class and any singular term that is used herein in the plural shall be taken to mean all of the entities or items of the defined class, collectively.

“Affiliate” of any Person shall mean any other Person which directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such first Person. A Person shall be deemed to control a corporation or other entity if such Person possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such corporation or other entity, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

“Collateral” shall mean all property and assets, and interests in property and assets, upon or in which the Grantors have granted a lien or security interest to the Collateral Agent to secure all or any part of the Obligations.

“Collateral Agent Expenses” shall mean, without limitation, all costs and expenses incurred by the Collateral Agent in connection with the performance of its duties under this Agreement, including the realization upon or protection of the Collateral or enforcing or defending any lien upon or security interest in the Collateral or any other action taken in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, expenses incurred for legal counsel (including reasonable allocated costs of staff counsel) in connection with the foregoing, and any other costs, expenses or liabilities incurred by the Collateral Agent for which the Collateral Agent is entitled to be reimbursed or indemnified by any Grantor pursuant to this Agreement or any Collateral Document or by the Creditors pursuant to this Agreement.

“Collateral Documents” shall mean all agreements, documents and instruments (including, without limitation, all pledge agreements, security agreements, mortgages, collateral assignments, financing statements, and other perfection documents) entered into, delivered or authorized from time to time by any Grantor in favor of the Collateral Agent in respect of the Obligations or otherwise entered into, delivered or authorized from time to time by a Grantor to

secure all or any part of the Obligations, as each may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Enforcement” shall mean:

(a)    for the Bank Agent or any Bank to make demand for payment of or accelerate the time for payment prior to the scheduled payment date of any loan, extension of credit or other financial accommodation under the Bank Credit Agreement or any agreement, document or instrument delivered in connection therewith or to call for funding of cash collateral for any Letter of Credit prior to being presented with a draft drawn thereunder (or in the event the draft is a time draft, prior to its due date), in each case on account of an “Event of Default” under and as defined in the Bank Credit Agreement;

(b)    for any Noteholder to make demand for payment of or accelerate the time for payment prior to the scheduled payment date of any loan, extension of credit or other financial accommodation under its Note Purchase Agreement, its Senior Notes, or the agreements, documents and instruments delivered in connection therewith;

(c)    for the Bank Agent or any Bank to terminate its commitment to extend loans or other financial accommodations, including issuances of Letters of Credit, to the Company or any other Grantor prior to the final scheduled payment date for all Obligations thereunder or prior to the scheduled termination date for such commitment (as such scheduled termination date is in effect on the date hereof or, if later, such date to which any such scheduled termination date may hereafter be extended), in each case on account of an “Event of Default” under and as defined in the Bank Credit Agreement;

(d)    for the Bank Agent or any Bank to commence judicial enforcement of any rights or remedies under or with respect to the Obligations, the Bank Credit Agreement or any agreement, document or instrument delivered in connection therewith, or to set off against any balances held by the Bank Agent or such Bank for the account of any Grantor or any other property at any time held or owing by the Bank Agent or such Bank to or for the credit or account of any Grantor;

(e)    for any Noteholder to commence judicial enforcement of any rights or remedies under or with respect to the Obligations, its Note Purchase Agreement, its Senior Notes, or any agreement, document or instrument delivered in connection therewith, or, if applicable, to set off against or appropriate any balances held by such Noteholder for the account of any Grantor or any other property at any time held or owing by such Noteholder to or for the credit or account of any Grantor;

(f)    for the Collateral Agent to commence the judicial enforcement of any rights or remedies under any Collateral Document (other than an action solely for the purpose of establishing or defending the lien or security interest intended to be created by any Collateral Document upon or in any Collateral as against or from claims of third parties on or in such Collateral), to setoff against any balances held by it for the account of any Grantor or any other property at any time held or owing by it to or for the credit or for the account of any Grantor or to otherwise take

any action to realize upon the Collateral (provided, however, that “Enforcement” shall not include the Bank Agent’s charging of the Company’s deposit account for non-accelerated amounts due in the ordinary course pursuant to the Bank Credit Agreement); or

(g)    the commencement by, against or with respect to any Grantor of any proceeding under any bankruptcy, reorganization, compromise, arrangement, insolvency, readjustment of debt, dissolution or liquidation or similar law or for the appointment of a receiver for any Grantor or its assets.

“Event of Default” shall mean (i) an “Event of Default” under and as defined in the Bank Credit Agreement, (ii) an “Event of Default” under and as defined in either Note Purchase Agreement, or (iii) any event, occurrence or action (or any failure to take any of the foregoing) that permits or automatically results in the acceleration of the repayment of any amount of Obligations under a Senior Indebtedness Document.

“Insolvent Entity” shall mean any entity that has (i) become or is insolvent or has a parent company that has become or is insolvent or (ii) become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee or custodian appointed for it, or has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment or has a parent company that has become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee or custodian appointed for it, or has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment.

“L/C Interests” shall mean, with respect to any Bank, such Bank’s direct or participation interests in all unpaid reimbursement obligations with respect to Letters of Credit, and such Bank’s direct obligations or risk participations with respect to undrawn amounts of all outstanding Letters of Credit; provided, that the undrawn amounts of outstanding Letters of Credit shall be considered to have been reduced to the extent of any amount on deposit with the Collateral Agent at any time as provided in Section 5(b) hereof.

“Letters of Credit” shall mean all letters of credit issued under the Bank Credit Agreement.

“Obligation Share” shall mean, with respect to any Creditor at any time, a fraction (expressed as a percentage), the numerator of which is the amount of Obligations owing to such Creditor at such time, and the denominator of which is the aggregate amount of all Obligations owing to all of the Creditors at such time.

“Obligations” shall mean each and every monetary obligation owed by a Grantor to the Creditors and the Collateral Agent under the Senior Indebtedness Documents, including, without limitation, (1) the outstanding principal amount of, accrued and unpaid interest on, and any unpaid Yield-Maintenance Amount or other breakage or prepayment indemnification due with respect to Senior Indebtedness, (2) any unpaid reimbursement obligations with respect to any Letters of Credit, (3) any undrawn amounts of any outstanding Letters of Credit, and (4) any other unpaid amounts including amounts in respect of hedging obligations, foreign exchange obligations and

treasury and cash management obligations permitted under the Senior Indebtedness Documents, and fees, expenses, indemnifications, and reimbursements due from the Grantors under any of the Senior Indebtedness Documents; provided that the undrawn amounts of any outstanding Letters of Credit shall be considered to have been reduced to the extent of any amount on deposit with the Collateral Agent at any time as provided in Section 5(b) hereof. The term “Obligations” shall include all of the foregoing indebtedness, liabilities and obligations whether or not allowed as a claim in any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar proceeding.

“Person” shall mean any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust or other entity.

“Principal Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any Creditor at any time, (i) if such Creditor is a Bank, the aggregate amount of such Bank’s commitments to extend revolving credit (including letters of credit) under the Bank Credit Agreement plus, to the extent any term loans have been extended, the principal amount of such term loans, or, if the Banks shall then have terminated their commitments to extend credit under the Bank Credit Agreement, the sum of (x) the outstanding principal amount of all of such Bank’s loans under the Bank Credit Agreement and (y) the outstanding face amount and/or principal amount of such Bank’s L/C Interests at such time, and (ii) if such Creditor is a Noteholder, the outstanding principal amount of such Creditor’s Senior Notes at such time.

“Pro Rata Share” shall mean, with respect to any Creditor at any time, a fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the amount of such Creditor’s Principal Exposure at such time, and the denominator of which is the aggregate amount of Principal Exposure of all of the Creditors of the same class (i.e. Banks, Prudential Noteholders or NY Life Noteholders, as applicable) at such time.

“Pro Rata Expenses Share” shall mean, with respect to any Creditor at any time, a fraction, expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the amount of such Creditor’s Principal Exposure at such time, and the denominator of which is the aggregate amount of Principal Exposure of all Creditors at such time.

“Qualified Creditor” shall mean any Creditor which is not an Affiliate of any Grantor.

“Required Creditors” shall mean, at any time, (i) Banks whose Pro Rata Shares represent greater than 50% of the aggregate Principal Exposure of all of the Banks, (ii) Prudential Noteholders whose Pro Rata Shares represent greater than 50% of the aggregate Principal Exposure of all of the Prudential Noteholders and (iii) NY Life Noteholders whose Pro Rata Shares represent greater than 50% of the aggregate Principal Exposure of all of the NY Life Noteholders; provided, however, that only Pro Rata Shares of Senior Indebtedness held by Qualified Creditors shall be included in this determination; provided, further, that if at any time Obligations owing to Banks, the Prudential Noteholders or the NY Life Noteholders, as the case may be, are less than both (A) $1,000,000, and (B) 10% of the aggregate Obligations (the Banks, the Prudential Noteholders or the NY Life Noteholders, as the case may be, a “Deminimis Group”), then the Required Creditors shall be determined without regard to clause (i) if the Deminimis Group is the Banks, clause (ii) if

the Deminimis Group is the Prudential Noteholders and clause (iii) if the Deminimis Group is the NY Life Noteholders.

“Senior Indebtedness Documents” shall mean the Senior Notes, the Bank Credit Agreement, the Note Purchase Agreements and the agreements, documents and instruments delivered in connection with any or all of the foregoing (as each may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time).

“Specified Provisions” shall mean any of the terms relating to (i) amounts or timing of payment of interest or fees, (ii) terms relating to required payments or prepayments of any Obligations, (iii) financial and negative covenants set forth in the Senior Indebtedness Documents (including paragraph 6 of the Prudential Note Purchase Agreement, paragraph 6 of the NY Life Note Purchase Agreement and Article IX of the Bank Credit Agreement), (iv) covenants relating to the operations of the Company or its subsidiaries, (v) Events of Default, and (vi) definitions as used in any of the foregoing.

“Yield-Maintenance Amount” shall mean the “Yield-Maintenance Amount” as defined in either Note Purchase Agreement.

2.    Appointment of Collateral Agent.

(a)    Appointment of Collateral Agent. Subject in all respects to the terms and provisions of this Agreement, the Bank Agent, for itself and on behalf of the Banks, and the Noteholders hereby appoint U.S. Bank National Association to act as collateral agent for the benefit of the Creditors (the “Collateral Agent”) with respect to the liens upon and the security interests in the Collateral and the rights and remedies granted under and pursuant to the Collateral Documents, and U.S. Bank National Association hereby accepts such appointment and agrees to act as such collateral agent. The agency created by this Section 2 shall in no way impair or affect any of the rights and powers of, or impart any duties or obligations upon, U.S. Bank National Association in its individual capacity as a lender or creditor under any Senior Indebtedness Document. To the extent legally necessary to enable the Collateral Agent to enforce or otherwise foreclose and realize upon any of the liens or security interests in the Collateral in any legal proceeding which the Collateral Agent either commences or joins as a party in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, each of the Creditors agrees to join as a party in such proceeding and take such action therein concurrently to enforce and obtain a judgment for the payment of the Obligations held by it.

(b)    Duties of Collateral Agent. Subject to the Collateral Agent having been directed to take such action in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, each Creditor hereby irrevocably authorizes the Collateral Agent to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of the Collateral Documents and any other instruments, documents and agreements referred to in the Collateral Documents and to exercise such powers under the Collateral Documents as are specifically delegated to the Collateral Agent by the terms of the Collateral Documents and such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Subject to the provisions of Section 11 of this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized to take all actions on behalf of the Creditors to enforce the rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent and the Creditors provided for in the Collateral Documents or by applicable law with respect to the liens upon and security

interests in the Collateral granted to secure the Obligations or the other rights and remedies granted to the Collateral Agent pursuant thereto, provided, however, that, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any Collateral Documents, (i) the Collateral Agent shall act solely at and in accordance with the written direction of the Required Creditors, (ii) the Collateral Agent shall not, without the written consent of all of the Qualified Creditors, release or terminate by affirmative action or consent any lien upon or security interest in any Collateral granted under any Collateral Documents (except (x) upon (1) dispositions of Collateral by a Grantor and (2) removal of the Material Subsidiary (as defined in the Bank Credit Agreement) designation of a Subsidiary (as defined in the Bank Credit Agreement), in each case as permitted in accordance with the terms of all of the Senior Indebtedness Documents and prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default, (y) upon disposition of such Collateral after an Event of Default pursuant to direction given under clause (i) of this Section 2(b) and (z) to the extent authorized under the provisions of the last sentence of Section 12.1 of the Bank Credit Agreement, paragraph 11V of the Prudential Note Purchase Agreement and paragraph 11V of the NY Life Note Purchase Agreement), and (iii) the Collateral Agent shall not accept any Obligations in whole or partial consideration for the disposition of any Collateral without the written consent of all of the Qualified Creditors. The Collateral Agent agrees to make such demands and give such notices under the Collateral Documents as may be requested by, and to take such action to enforce the Collateral Documents and to foreclose upon, collect and dispose of the Collateral or of the Collateral Documents as may be directed by, the Required Creditors; provided, however, that the Collateral Agent shall not be required to take any action that is contrary to law or the terms of the Collateral Documents or this Agreement. Once a direction to take any action has been given by the Required Creditors to the Collateral Agent, and subject to any other directions which may be given from time to time by the Required Creditors, decisions regarding the manner in which any such action is to be implemented and conducted (with the exception of any decision to settle, compromise or dismiss any legal proceeding, with or without prejudice) shall be made by the Collateral Agent, with the assistance and upon the advice of its counsel. Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding sentence, any decision to settle, compromise or dismiss any legal proceeding, with or without prejudice, which implements, approves or results in or has the effect of causing any release, change or occurrence, where such release, change or occurrence otherwise would require unanimous approval of all of the Qualified Creditors pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, also shall require the unanimous approval of all of the Qualified Creditors.

(c)    Requesting Instructions. The Collateral Agent may at any time request directions from the Creditors as to any course of action or other matter relating to the performance of its duties under this Agreement and the Collateral Documents, and the Creditors shall respond to such request in a reasonably prompt manner.

(d)    Emergency Actions. If the Collateral Agent has asked the Required Creditors for instructions following the receipt of any notice of an Event of Default and if the Required Creditors have not responded to such request within 30 days, the Collateral Agent shall be authorized to take such actions with regard to such Event of Default which the Collateral Agent, in good faith, believes to be reasonably required to protect the Collateral from damage or destruction; provided, however, that once instructions have been received from the Required Creditors, the actions of the Collateral Agent shall be governed thereby and the Collateral Agent shall not take any further action which would be contrary to such instructions.

(e)    Collateral Document Amendments. Except as provided in Section 2(b)(ii) of this Agreement, an amendment, supplement, modification, restatement or waiver of any provision of any Collateral Document, any consent to any departure by any Grantor from any such provision, or the execution or acceptance by the Collateral Agent of any Collateral Document not in effect on the date of this Agreement shall be effective if, and only if, consented to in writing by the Required Creditors (with the understanding that the Collateral Documents that are identified in Exhibit A hereto are hereby approved by the Required Creditors); provided, however, that, (i) no such amendment, supplement, modification, restatement, waiver, consent or such Collateral Document not in effect on the date of this Agreement which imposes any additional responsibilities upon the Collateral Agent shall be effective without the written consent of the Collateral Agent, and (ii) no such amendment, supplement, modification, waiver or consent shall release any Collateral from the lien or security interest created by any Collateral Document not subject to the exception in Section 2(b)(ii) of this Agreement or narrow the scope of the property or assets in which a lien or security interest is granted pursuant to any Collateral Document or change the description of the obligations secured thereby without the written consent of all Qualified Creditors.

(f)    Administrative Actions. The Collateral Agent shall have the right to take such actions under this Agreement and under the Collateral Documents, not inconsistent with the instructions of the Required Creditors or the terms of the Collateral Documents and this Agreement, as the Collateral Agent deems necessary or appropriate to perfect or continue the perfection of the liens on the Collateral for the benefit of the Creditors.

(g)    Collateral Agent Acting Through Others. The Collateral Agent may perform any of its duties under this Agreement and the Collateral Documents by or through attorneys (which attorneys may be the same attorneys who represent any Creditor), agents or other persons reasonably deemed appropriate by the Collateral Agent. In addition, the Collateral Agent may act in good faith reliance upon the opinion or advice of attorneys selected by the Collateral Agent. In all cases the Collateral Agent may pay reasonable fees and expenses of all such attorneys, agents or other persons as may be employed in connection with the performance of its duties under this Agreement and the Collateral Documents.

(h)    Resignation of Collateral Agent.

(i)    The Collateral Agent (A) may resign at any time upon notice to the Creditors, and (B) may be removed at any time upon the written request of the Required Creditors sent to the Collateral Agent and the other Creditors. For the purposes of any determination of Required Creditors under this Section 2(h)(i), the Pro Rata Share of any Insolvent Entity shall be disregarded.

(ii)    If the Collateral Agent shall resign or be removed, the Required Creditors shall have the right to select a replacement Collateral Agent by notice to the Collateral Agent and the other Creditors.

(iii)    Upon any replacement of the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Agent shall assign all of the liens upon and security interests in all Collateral under the Collateral Documents, and all right, title and interest of the Collateral Agent under all the Collateral

Documents, to the replacement Collateral Agent, without recourse to the Collateral Agent or any Creditor and at the expense of the Company.

(iv)    No resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent shall become effective until a replacement Collateral Agent shall have been selected as provided in this Agreement and shall have assumed in writing the obligations of the Collateral Agent under this Agreement and under the Collateral Documents. In the event that a replacement Collateral Agent shall not have been selected as provided in this Agreement or shall not have assumed such obligations within 90 days after the resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent, then the Collateral Agent may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a replacement Collateral Agent.

(v)    Any replacement Collateral Agent shall be a bank, trust company, or insurance company having capital, surplus and undivided profits of at least $250,000,000.

(i)    Indemnification of Collateral Agent. Each Grantor, by its consent to this Agreement, hereby agrees to indemnify and hold the Collateral Agent, its officers, directors, employees and agents (including, but not limited to, any attorneys acting at the direction or on behalf of the Collateral Agent) harmless against any and all costs, claims, damages, penalties, liabilities, losses and expenses (including, but not limited to, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees) which may be incurred by or asserted against the Collateral Agent or any such officers, directors, employees and agents by reason of its status as agent under this Agreement or which pertain, whether directly or indirectly, to this Agreement, the Collateral Documents, or to any action or failure to act of the Collateral Agent as agent hereunder, except to the extent any such action or failure to act by the Collateral Agent constitutes gross negligence, willful misconduct or a breach of this Agreement. The obligations of the Grantor under this Section 2(i) shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

(j)    Liability of Collateral Agent. In the absence of gross negligence, willful misconduct or a breach of this Agreement, the Collateral Agent will not be liable to any Creditor for any action or failure to act or any error of judgment, negligence, mistake or oversight on its part or on the part of any of its officers, directors, employees or agents. To the extent not paid by any Grantor, each Creditor hereby severally, and not jointly, agrees to indemnify and hold the Collateral Agent and each of its officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, “Indemnitees”) harmless from and against any and all liabilities, costs, claims, damages, penalties, losses and actions of any kind or nature whatsoever (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for any Indemnitee) incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of or in relation to this Agreement or the Collateral Documents or its status as agent under this Agreement or any action taken or omitted to be taken by any Indemnitee pursuant to and in accordance with any of the Collateral Documents and this Agreement, except to the extent arising from the gross negligence, willful misconduct or breach of this Agreement, with each Creditor being liable only for its Pro Rata Expenses Share of any such indemnification liability. The obligations of the Creditors under this Section 2(j) shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

(k)    No Reliance on Collateral Agent. Neither the Collateral Agent nor any of its officers, directors, employees or agents (including, but not limited to, any attorneys acting at the direction or on behalf of the Collateral Agent) shall be deemed to have made any representations or warranties, express or implied, with respect to, nor shall the Collateral Agent or any such officer, director, employee or agent be liable to any Creditor or responsible for (i) any warranties or recitals made by any Grantor in the Collateral Documents or any other agreement, certificate, instrument or document executed by any Grantor in connection with the Collateral Documents, (ii) the due or proper execution or authorization of this Agreement or any Collateral Documents by any party other than the Collateral Agent, or the effectiveness, enforceability, validity, genuineness or collectability as against any Grantor of any Collateral Document or any other agreement, certificate, instrument or document executed by any Grantor in connection with any Collateral Document, (iii) the present or future solvency or financial worth of any Grantor, or (iv) the value, condition, existence or ownership of any of the Collateral or the perfection of any lien upon or security interest in the Collateral (whether now or hereafter held or granted) or the sufficiency of any action, filing, notice or other procedure taken or to be taken to perfect, attach or vest any lien or security interest in the Collateral. Except as may be required by Section 2(b) of this Agreement, the Collateral Agent shall not be required, either initially or on a continuing basis, to (A) make any inquiry, investigation, evaluation or appraisal respecting, or enforce performance by any Grantor of, any of the covenants, agreements or obligations of any Grantor under any Collateral Document, or (B) undertake any other actions (other than actions expressly required to be taken by it under this Agreement). Nothing in any of the Collateral Documents, expressed or implied, is intended to or shall be so construed as to impose upon the Collateral Agent any obligations, duties or responsibilities except as set forth in this Agreement and in the Collateral Documents. The Collateral Agent shall be protected in acting upon any notice, request, consent, certificate, order, affidavit, letter, telegram, telecopy or other paper or document given to it by any person reasonably and in good faith believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed or sent by such person. The Collateral Agent shall have no duty to inquire as to the performance or observance of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of any of the Senior Indebtedness Documents. Except upon the direction of the Required Creditors pursuant to Section 2(b) of this Agreement, the Collateral Agent shall not be required to inspect the properties or books and records of any Grantor for any purpose, including to determine compliance by any Grantor with its covenants respecting the perfection of security interests.

3.    Lien Priorities. The parties to this Agreement expressly agree that the security interests and liens granted to the Collateral Agent shall secure the Obligations on a pari passu basis for the benefit of the Creditors and that, notwithstanding the relative priority or the time of grant, creation, attachment or perfection under applicable law of any security interests and liens, if any, of the Creditors upon or in any of the Collateral to secure any Obligations, whether such security interests and liens are now existing or hereafter acquired or arising and whether such security interests and liens are in or upon now existing or hereafter arising Collateral, such security interests and liens shall be first and prior security interests and liens (subject to security interests and liens permitted by the Senior Indebtedness Documents) in favor of the Collateral Agent to secure all of the Obligations on a pari passu basis for the benefit of the Creditors.

4.    Certain Notices. Each of the Collateral Agent and each Creditor agrees to use its best efforts to give to the others (a) copies of any notice of the occurrence or existence of an

Event of Default sent to any Grantor, simultaneously with the sending of such notice to such Grantor, (b) notice of the occurrence or existence of an Event of Default of which such party has knowledge, promptly after obtaining knowledge thereof, (c) notice of the refusal of any Bank to make any loan or extension of credit pursuant to the terms of any Senior Indebtedness Document, promptly after such refusal, and (d) notice of an Enforcement by such party (excluding an Enforcement approved by the Required Creditors as required by this Agreement), prior to commencing such Enforcement, but the failure to give any of the foregoing notices shall not affect the validity of such notice of an Event of Default given to a Grantor or create a cause of action against or cause a forfeiture of any rights of the party failing to give such notice or create any claim or right on behalf of any third party. The Collateral Agent agrees to deliver to each Creditor a copy of each notice or other communication received by it under any Collateral Document as soon as practicable after receipt of such notice or communication and a copy of any Collateral Document executed after the date of this Agreement as soon as practicable after the execution thereof.

5.    Distribution of Proceeds of Collateral and Payments and Collections After Enforcement.

(a)    On and after the occurrence of an Event of Default (unless such Event of Default has been waived pursuant to the terms of the Bank Credit Agreement with the consent of the holders of a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Senior Notes issued under each Note Purchase Agreement (in the case of an Event of Default under the Bank Credit Agreement) or waived pursuant to the terms of the applicable Note Purchase Agreement with the consent of the Required Lenders as defined in the Bank Credit Agreement (in the case of an Event of Default under a Note Purchase Agreement) and the holders of a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Senior Notes issued under the other Note Purchase Agreement), all proceeds of Collateral held or received by the Collateral Agent or any Creditor and any other collections or payments received, directly or indirectly, by the Collateral Agent or any Creditor on or with respect to any Obligations (including, without limitation, any amount of any balances held by the Collateral Agent or any Creditor for the account of any Grantor or any other property held or owing by it to or for the credit or for the account of any Grantor setoff or appropriated by it, any payment under any guaranty constituting a Senior Indebtedness Document, any payment in an insolvency or reorganization proceeding and the proceeds from any sale of any Obligations or any interest therein to any Grantor or any Affiliate of any Grantor, but excluding, except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b) of this Section 5, amounts on deposit in the Special Cash Collateral Account provided for in paragraph (b) of this Section 5) shall be delivered to the Collateral Agent and distributed as follows:

(i)    First, to the Collateral Agent in the amount of any unpaid Collateral Agent Expenses;

(ii)    Next, to the extent proceeds remain, to the Creditors in the amount of any unreimbursed amounts paid by the Creditors to any Indemnitee pursuant to Section 2(j) of this Agreement, pro rata in proportion to the respective unreimbursed amounts thereof paid by each Creditor; and

(iii)    Next, to the extent proceeds remain, to each Creditor an amount equal to its Obligation Share of such proceeds in respect of Obligations owing to it under the Senior Indebtedness Documents.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any collections or payments received by any Creditor on or after the occurrence of an Event of Default but prior to the date of the occurrence of an Enforcement, (1) such collections and payments shall be subject to the distribution provisions of clauses (i) through (iii), above, only to the extent that the principal amount of the Obligations owed to such Creditor on the date of such Enforcement is less than the principal amount of the Obligations owed to such Creditor on the date of such Event of Default, and (2) the amount of any such collections and payments subject to the distribution provisions of clause (i) through (iii) above, in accordance with clause (1) shall not be so distributed until the date of the occurrence of such Enforcement. For the purposes of the preceding sentence, any collection or payment received by the Bank Agent on behalf of the Banks shall be considered to have been received by the Banks, and applied to pay the Obligations owed to the Banks, to which such payment or collection relates whether or not distributed by the Bank Agent to the Banks.

After the Obligations have been finally paid in full in cash, the balance of proceeds of the Collateral, if any, shall be paid to any Grantor or as otherwise required by law.

(b)    Any payment pursuant to clause (a)(iii) above with respect to undrawn amounts of outstanding Letters of Credit shall be paid to the Collateral Agent for deposit in an account (the “Special Cash Collateral Account”) to be held as collateral for the Obligations and disposed of as provided herein. On each date after the occurrence of an Enforcement on which a payment is made to a beneficiary pursuant to a draw on a Letter of Credit, the Collateral Agent shall distribute from the Special Cash Collateral Account for application to the payment of the reimbursement obligation due to the Banks with respect to such draw an amount equal to the product of (1) the amount then on deposit in the Special Cash Collateral Account, and (2) a fraction, the numerator of which is the amount of such draw and the denominator of which is the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit immediately prior to such draw. On each date after the occurrence of an Enforcement on which a reduction in the undrawn amount of any outstanding Letter of Credit occurs other than on account of a payment made to a beneficiary pursuant to a draw on a Letter of Credit, then the Collateral Agent shall distribute from the Special Cash Collateral Account an amount equal to the product of (1) the amount then on deposit in the Special Cash Collateral Account and (2) a fraction the numerator of which is the amount of such reduction and the denominator of which is the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit immediately prior to such reduction, which amount shall be distributed as provided in clauses (a)(i) through (iii) above. At such time as the undrawn amount of outstanding Letters of Credit is reduced to zero, any amount remaining in the Special Cash Collateral Account, after the distribution therefrom as provided above, shall be distributed as provided in clauses (a)(i) through (iii) above.

(c)    Any re-allocations of any payments or distributions initially made or received on any Obligations due to payments and transfers among the Creditors and the Collateral Agent under this Section 5 shall be deemed to reduce the Obligations of any Creditor receiving any such

payment or other transfer under this Section 5 and shall be deemed to restore and reinstate the Obligations of any Creditor making any such payment or other transfer under this Section 5, in each case by the amount of such payment and other transfer; provided that if for any reason such restoration and reinstatement shall not be binding against the Company or any other Grantor, then the Creditors and the Collateral Agent agree to take such actions as shall have the effect of placing them in the same relative positions as they would have been if such restoration and reinstatement had been binding against the Company and the other Grantors.

6.    Certain Credit Extensions and Amendments to Agreements by the Creditors; Actions Related to Collateral; Other Liens, Security Interests and Guaranties.

(a)    The Bank Agent, on its behalf and on behalf of the Banks, agrees that, without the prior written consent of Noteholders holding a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Senior Notes under each Note Purchase Agreement, it will not (i) amend, modify, supplement or restate, or waive (A) any Specified Provision if the effect of such amendment, modification, supplement, restatement, or waiver causes any Specified Provision to become more restrictive with respect to the Company or any subsidiary thereof or (B) any other provision of the Bank Credit Agreement or any agreement, document or instrument delivered in connection therewith, if any Grantor makes any payment or gives any other financial accommodation (other than reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses and customary amendment fees) in connection therewith, (ii) except for any guarantees securing all of the Obligations constituting Senior Indebtedness Documents, retain or obtain the primary or secondary obligations of any other obligor or obligors with respect to all or any part of the Obligations evidenced by the Bank Credit Agreement and the agreements, documents and instruments delivered in connection therewith or (iii) from and after the institution of any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding involving any Grantor, as respects the Collateral enter into any agreement with any Grantor with respect to post-petition usage of cash collateral, post-petition financing arrangements or adequate protection.

(b)    

(i) Each Prudential Noteholder under the Prudential Note Purchase Agreement agrees that, without the prior written consent of Banks holding a majority of the outstanding principal amount of Obligations under and undrawn commitments to extend credit under the Bank Credit Agreement and without the prior written consent of NY Life Noteholders holding a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Senior Notes under the NY Life Note Purchase Agreement, it will not (i) amend, modify, supplement, restate, or waive (A) any Specified Provision if the effect of such amendment, modification, supplement, restatement or waiver causes any Specified Provision to become more restrictive with respect to the Company or any subsidiary of the Company or (B) any other provision of the Prudential Note Purchase Agreement or Prudential Senior Notes if any Grantor makes any payment or gives any other financial accommodation (other than reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses and customary amendment fees) in connection therewith, (ii) except for any guarantees securing all of the Obligations constituting Senior Indebtedness Documents, retain or obtain the primary or secondary obligations of any other obligor or obligors with respect to all or any part of the Obligations evidenced by the Prudential Note Purchase Agreement and the Prudential Senior Notes or (iii) from and after the institution of any bankruptcy

or insolvency proceeding involving any Grantor, as respects the Collateral enter into any agreement with any Grantor with respect to post-petition usage of cash collateral, post-petition financing arrangements or adequate protection.

(ii) Each NY Life Noteholder under the NY Life Note Purchase Agreement agrees that, without the prior written consent of Banks holding a majority of the outstanding principal amount of Obligations under and undrawn commitments to extend credit under the Bank Credit Agreement and without the prior written consent of Prudential Noteholders holding a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Senior Notes under the Prudential Note Purchase Agreement, it will not (i) amend, modify, supplement, restate, or waive (A) any Specified Provision if the effect of such amendment, modification, supplement, restatement or waiver causes any Specified Provision to become more restrictive with respect to the Company or any subsidiary of the Company or (B) any other provision of the NY Life Note Purchase Agreement or NY Life Senior Notes if any Grantor makes any payment or gives any other financial accommodation (other than reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses and customary amendment fees) in connection therewith, (ii) except for any guarantees securing all of the Obligations constituting Senior Indebtedness Documents, retain or obtain the primary or secondary obligations of any other obligor or obligors with respect to all or any part of the Obligations evidenced by the NY Life Note Purchase Agreement and the NY Life Senior Notes or (iii) from and after the institution of any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding involving any Grantor, as respects the Collateral enter into any agreement with any Grantor with respect to post-petition usage of cash collateral, post-petition financing arrangements or adequate protection.

(c)    Each Creditor agrees that it will have recourse to the Collateral only through the Collateral Agent, that it shall have no independent recourse to the Collateral and that it shall refrain from exercising any rights or remedies under the Collateral Documents which have or may have arisen or which may arise as a result of an Event of Default or an acceleration of the maturities of the Obligations, except that, upon the direction of the Required Creditors, any Creditor may set off any amount of any balances held by it for the account of any Grantor or any other property held or owing by it to or for the credit or for the account of any Grantor, provided that the amount set off is delivered to the Collateral Agent for application pursuant to Section 5 of this Agreement. Without such direction, no Creditor shall set off any such amount. For the purposes of determining whether such direction to setoff has been given, any Creditor which has not voted in favor of or against such setoff within three business days of receiving notice from another Creditor of its intent to setoff will be deemed to have voted in favor of such setoff. For the purposes of perfection any setoff rights which may be available under applicable law, any balances held by the Collateral Agent or any Creditor for the account of any Grantor or any other property held or owing by the Collateral Agent or any Creditor to or for the credit or account of any Grantor shall be deemed to be held as agent for all Creditors.

(d)    No Creditor shall take or receive a security interest in or a lien upon any of the property or assets of any Grantor as security for the payment of any Obligations other than liens and security interests granted to the Collateral Agent in the Collateral pursuant to the Collateral Documents. The existence of a common law lien on deposit accounts shall not be prohibited by

the provisions of this paragraph (d) provided that any realization on such lien and the application of the proceeds thereof shall be subject to the provisions of this Agreement.

(e)    Nothing contained in this Agreement shall (i) prevent any Creditor from imposing a default rate of interest in accordance with any Senior Indebtedness Document or prevent a Creditor from raising any defenses in any action in which it has been made a party defendant or has been joined as a third party, except that the Collateral Agent may direct and control any defense directly relating to the Collateral or any one or more of the Collateral Documents as directed by the Required Creditors, which shall be governed by the provisions of this Agreement, or (ii) affect or impair the right any Creditor may have under the terms and conditions governing the Obligations to accelerate and demand repayment of such Obligations. Subject only to the express limitations set forth in this Agreement, each Creditor retains the right to freely exercise its rights and remedies as a general creditor of the Grantors in accordance with applicable law and agreements with the Grantors, including without limitation the right to file a lawsuit and obtain a judgment therein against the Grantors and to enforce such judgment against any assets of the Grantors other than the Collateral.

(e)    Subject to the provisions set forth in this Agreement, each Creditor and its affiliates may (without having to account therefor to any Creditor) own, sell, acquire and hold equity and debt securities of the Grantors and lend money to and generally engage in any kind of business with the Grantors (as if, in the case of U.S. Bank National Association, it was not acting as Collateral Agent), and, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the Creditors and their affiliates may accept dividends, interest, principal payments, fees and other consideration from the Grantors for services in connection with this Agreement or otherwise without having to account for the same to the other Creditors, provided that any such amounts which constitute Obligations are provided for in the applicable Senior Indebtedness Documents.

7.    Accounting; Adjustments.

(a)    The Collateral Agent and each Creditor agrees to render an accounting to any of the others of the amounts of the outstanding Obligations, receipts of payments from the Grantors or from the Collateral and of other items relevant to the provisions of this Agreement upon the reasonable request from one of the others as soon as reasonably practicable after such request, giving effect to the application of payments and collections as hereinbefore provided in this Agreement.

(b)    Each party hereto agrees that to the extent any payment of any Obligations made to it hereunder is in excess of the amount due to be paid to it hereunder, or in the event any payment of any Obligations made to any party hereto is subsequently invalidated, declared fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be paid to a trustee, receiver, or any other party under any bankruptcy act, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause (“Avoided Payments”), then it shall pay to the other parties hereto (or in the case of Avoided Payments the other parties shall pay to it) such amounts so that, after giving effect to the payments hereunder by all parties, the amounts received by all parties are not in excess of the amounts to be paid to them hereunder as though any payment so invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be repaid had not been made.

8.    Notices. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, any notice required or desired to be served, given or delivered hereunder shall be in writing, and shall be deemed to have been validly served, given or delivered three (3) business days after deposit in the United States mails, with proper postage prepaid, one business day after delivery to a courier for next day delivery, upon delivery by courier or upon transmission by telecopy or similar electronic medium (provided that a copy of any such notice sent by such transmission is also sent by one of the other means provided hereunder within one day after the date sent by such transmission) to the addresses set forth below the signatures hereto, with a copy to any person or persons set forth below such signature shown as to receive a copy, or to such other address as any party designates to the others in the manner herein prescribed. Any party giving notice to any other party hereunder shall also give copies of such notice to all other parties. Any notice delivered to the Bank Agent shall be deemed to be delivered to all of the Banks.

9.    Contesting Liens or Security Interests; No Partitioning or Marshaling of Collateral; Contesting Obligations.

(a)    No Creditor shall contest the validity, perfection, priority or enforceability of or seek to avoid, have declared fraudulent or have put aside any lien or security interest granted to the Collateral Agent and each party hereby agrees to cooperate in the defense of any action contesting the validity, perfection, priority or enforceability of such liens or security interests. Each party shall also use its best efforts to notify the other parties of any change in the location of any of the Collateral or the business operations of any Grantor or of any change in law which would make it necessary or advisable to file additional financing statements in another location as against any Grantor with respect to the liens and security interests intended to be created by the Collateral Documents, but the failure to do so shall not create a cause of action against the party failing to give such notice or create any claim or right on behalf of any other party to this Agreement and any third party.

(b)    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or in any Collateral Document, no Creditor shall have the right to have any of the Collateral, or any security interest or other property being held as security for all or any part of the Obligations by the Collateral Agent, partitioned, or to file a complaint or institute any proceeding at law or in equity to have any of the Collateral or any such security interest or other property partitioned, each Creditor hereby waives any such right. The Collateral Agent and each Creditor hereby waive any and all rights to have the Collateral, or any part thereof, marshaled upon any foreclosure of any of the liens or security interests securing the Obligations.

(c)    Neither the Collateral Agent nor any Creditor shall contest the validity or enforceability of or seek to avoid, have declared fraudulent or have set aside any Obligations (including, without limitation, any guaranty thereof). In the event any Obligations are invalidated, avoided, declared fraudulent or set aside for the benefit of any Grantor, the Collateral Agent and the Creditors agree that such Obligations shall nevertheless be considered to be outstanding for all purposes of this Agreement.

10.    No Additional Rights for Grantors Hereunder. Each Grantor, by its consent hereto, acknowledges that it shall have no rights under this Agreement. If the Collateral

Agent or any Creditor shall violate the terms of this Agreement, each Grantor agrees, by its consent hereto, that it shall not use such violation as a defense to any enforcement by any such party against such Grantor nor assert such violation as a counterclaim or basis for setoff or recoupment against any such party.

11.    Bankruptcy Proceedings. Nothing contained herein shall limit or restrict the independent right of any Creditor to initiate an action or actions in any bankruptcy, reorganization, compromise, arrangement, insolvency, readjustment of debt, dissolution or liquidation or similar proceeding in its individual capacity and to appear or be heard on any matter before the bankruptcy or other applicable court in any such proceeding, including, without limitation, with respect to any question concerning the post-petition usage of Collateral and post-petition financing arrangements, provided such initiating Creditor provides all other Creditors prior notice of the initiation of any such action. The Collateral Agent is not entitled to initiate such actions on behalf of any Creditor or to appear and be heard on any matter before the bankruptcy or other applicable court in any such proceeding as the representative of any Creditor. The Collateral Agent is not authorized in any such proceeding to enter into any agreement for, or give any authorization or consent with respect to, the post-petition usage of Collateral, unless such agreement, authorization or consent has been approved in writing by the Required Creditors. This Agreement shall survive the commencement of any such bankruptcy, reorganization, compromise, arrangement, insolvency, readjustment of debt, dissolution or liquidation or similar proceeding.

12.    Independent Credit Investigation. Neither the Collateral Agent nor any Creditor, nor any of its respective directors, officers, agents or employees, shall be responsible to any of the others for the solvency or financial condition of any Grantor or the ability of any Grantor to repay any of the Obligations, or for the value, sufficiency, existence or ownership of any of the Collateral, the perfection or vesting of any lien or security interest, or the statements of any Grantor, oral or written, or for the validity, sufficiency or enforceability of any of the Obligations, any Senior Indebtedness Document, any Collateral Documents, any document or agreement executed or delivered in connection with or pursuant to any of the foregoing, or the liens or security interests granted by the Grantors in connection therewith. Each of the Collateral Agent and each Creditor has entered into its respective financial agreements with the Grantors based upon its own independent investigation, and makes no warranty or representation to the other, nor does it rely upon any representation by any of the others, with respect to the matters identified or referred to in this Section.

13.    Supervision of Obligations. Except to the extent otherwise expressly provided herein, each Creditor shall be entitled to manage, supervise, amend and modify (including, without limitation, an amendment to increase the amount of such Obligations or waive an Event of Default) the obligations of the Grantors to it in accordance with applicable law and such Creditor’s practices in effect from time to time without regard to the existence of any other Creditor.

14.    Turnover of Collateral. If any Creditor acquires custody, control or possession of any Collateral or any proceeds thereof other than pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, such Creditor shall promptly cause such Collateral or the proceeds of such Collateral to be delivered to or put in the custody, possession or control of the Collateral Agent for disposition and distribution in accordance with the provisions of Section 5 of this Agreement. Until such time

as such Creditor shall have complied with the provisions of the immediately preceding sentence, such Creditor shall be deemed to hold such Collateral and the proceeds thereof in trust for the parties entitled thereto under this Agreement.

15.    Options to Purchase.

(a)    After the occurrence of a Purchase Option Trigger Event (as defined below), each Bank shall have the option to purchase all (but not less than all) of the outstanding Obligations owed to the Noteholders under each Note Purchase Agreement at a purchase price equal to 100% of the amount of such Obligations on the date of purchase (including all interest thereon to the date of purchase), plus an amount equal to the Yield-Maintenance Amount which would be payable under the applicable Note Purchase Agreement if the Senior Notes issued thereunder were prepaid pursuant to the optional prepayment provisions of the applicable Note Purchase Agreement on such date of purchase.

(b)    After the occurrence of a Purchase Option Trigger Event, each Noteholder under a Note Purchase Agreement shall have the option to purchase all (but not less than all) of the outstanding Obligations owed to the Banks at a purchase price equal to 100% of the amount thereof on the date of purchase (including all interest thereon to the date of purchase) and all (but not less than all) of the outstanding Obligations owed to the Noteholders under the other Note Purchase Agreement at a purchase price equal to 100% of the amount of such Obligations on the date of purchase (including all interest thereon to the date of purchase), plus an amount equal to the Yield-Maintenance Amount which would be payable under such other Note Purchase Agreement if the Senior Notes issued thereunder were prepaid pursuant to the optional prepayment provisions of the applicable Note Purchase Agreement on such date of purchase.

(c)    Any Creditor desiring to exercise its option to purchase under this Section 15 may do so by giving notice to the Creditors whose Obligations are to be purchased. The closing of the purchase and sale shall take place on the fifth business day after such notice is given. At the closing, the buyer will pay the sellers the purchase price of the Obligations being purchased except that, with respect to the purchase of exposures in respect of outstanding but undrawn Letters of Credit, the purchase shall be a risk participation therein payable at the same time as the related Letters of Credit are drawn. Payment of such purchase price shall be made in the same manner as specified in the applicable Senior Indebtedness Documents. Any notice of exercise of any such option to purchase shall be irrevocable. In the event more than one notice of exercise of an option to purchase under this Section 15 is given, only the notice first given shall be effective and the other notices given shall be ineffective.

(d)    For the purposes of this Section 15, a “Purchase Option Trigger Event” shall occur when (i) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) any Creditor has notified the Collateral Agent and each other Creditor of its desire to direct the Collateral Agent to take action hereunder, and (iii) within 60 days after the notice specified in clause (ii), the Required Creditors shall not have authorized the Collateral Agent to take such action and the Creditor giving such notice shall not have withdrawn such notice by notice given to the Collateral Agent and the other Creditors.

16.    Amendment. This Agreement and the provisions hereof may be amended, modified or waived only by a writing signed by the Collateral Agent, the Bank Agent, on its behalf and on behalf of the Banks, and each of the Noteholders.

17.    Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the respective successors and assigns of each of the parties hereto, including subsequent holders of the Obligations and persons subsequently becoming parties to the Senior Indebtedness Documents as Creditors; provided that (a) neither the Collateral Agent nor any Creditor shall assign or transfer any interest in any Obligations or permit such person to become such a party to the applicable Senior Indebtedness Documents unless such transfer or assignment is made subject to this Agreement and such transferee, assignee or person assumes the obligations of the transferor or assignor or the obligations of a Creditor, as the case may be, hereunder from and after the time of such transfer or assignment or the time such person becomes a party to the applicable Senior Indebtedness Documents, as the case may be, and (b) the appointment of any replacement Collateral Agent shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2 of this Agreement.

18.    Limitation Relative to Other Agreements. Nothing contained in this Agreement is intended to impair (a) as between the Noteholders and the Grantors, the rights of the Noteholders and the obligations of the Grantors under their respective Note Purchase Agreements and Senior Notes, or (b) as between the Bank Agent, the Banks and the Grantors, the rights of the Bank Agent and the Banks and the obligations of the Grantors under the Bank Credit Agreement and the agreements, documents and instruments delivered in connection therewith.

19.    Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts and by each party on a separate counterpart, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be an original, but all of which together shall constitute but one and the same instrument. In proving this Agreement, it shall not be necessary to produce or account for more than one such counterpart signed by the party against whom enforcement is sought. Any facsimile or .pdf copy of a signature hereto shall have the same effect as the original thereof.

20.    Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED AS TO VALIDITY, INTERPRETATIONS, ENFORCEABILITY AND EFFECT BY THE INTERNAL LAWS (AS OPPOSED TO CONFLICT OF LAWS PROVISIONS) OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

21.    Confirmations and Agreements.

(i)    The Bank Agent confirms that the Banks have approved this Agreement as of the date hereof. The Company confirms that each Noteholder party to a Note Purchase Agreement as of the date hereof appears in the signature pages hereto.

(ii)    Each party subject hereto agrees that it will not, and will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause its agents, employees, officers, directors, shareholders, partners, and its representatives associated with or acting on its behalf (collectively, the “Representatives”), and its sub-contractors, if any, not to, directly or indirectly through a third-party intermediary, in connection with this Agreement and the transactions resulting herefrom, offer, pay, promise to pay,

or authorize the giving of money or anything of value to any Government Official (as defined below) for the purpose of inducing such Government Official to use his or her influence or position with the government or instrumentality thereof to affect or influence any act or decision of such government or instrumentality, in order to assist in obtaining or retaining business for, directing business to, or securing an improper advantage for such party.

(b)    Each party subject hereto will, and will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause its Representatives and sub-contractors, if any, to maintain books and records that accurately reflect any payment of money or thing of value to a Government Official, directly or indirectly, in connection with any matter relating to this Agreement.

(c)    The term “Government Official” includes any employee, agent or representative of a non-US government, and any non-US political party, party official or candidate. Government Official may also include royalty, non-US legislators, representatives of non-US state-owned enterprises, employees of public international organizations (including but not limited to the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, World Bank and other international agencies and organizations), and employees and officers of foreign embassies or trade organizations having offices in the US, regardless of rank or position, and any individuals acting on behalf of a Government Official.

(d)    On any date on which the Obligations or any other amounts need to be determined, the Collateral Agent shall use the rate of exchange specified in Section 5.8 of the Bank Credit Agreement to determine the U.S. Dollar equivalent of any foreign currency (if any) in which such Obligations or other amounts are denominated, and such U.S. Dollar equivalent shall be used for purposes of determining that portion of the Obligations or such other amounts denominated in the applicable foreign currencies on such date.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first written above.

Amended and Restated Pledge Agreement, dated as of April 17, 2020, made by Graco Inc.

Each of the undersigned, a Grantor described in the Amended and Restated Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement set forth above, acknowledges and, to the extent required, consents to the terms and conditions of the Amended and Restated Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement. Each of the undersigned Grantors does hereby further acknowledge and agree to its agreements under Sections 2(i), 5(c) and 10 of the Amended and Restated Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement and acknowledges and agrees that it is not a third-party beneficiary of, nor has any rights under, the Amended and Restated Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement. Each of the undersigned confirms that the signatories to this Acknowledgment of and Consent and Agreement to Amended and Restated Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement constitute all of the Grantors in existence as of the date hereof.

This Acknowledgment of and Consent and Agreement to Amended and Restated Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement and any amendment hereof may be executed in several counterparts and by each party on a separate counterpart, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be an original, but all of which together shall constitute but one of the same instrument. In proving this Acknowledgment of and Consent and Agreement to Amended and Restated Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement it shall not be necessary to produce or account for more than one such counterpart signed by the party against whom enforcement is sought.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each party below has caused this Acknowledgment of and Consent and Agreement to Amended and Restated Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement to be executed by its duly authorized officer as of April __, 2020.