General Security Agreement between Winkler Atlantic Holdings Limited and Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Central)
This agreement, dated June 23, 2009, is between Winkler Atlantic Holdings Limited (the Debtor) and Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Central) (the US Collateral Agent and Lender). The Debtor grants a security interest in all its present and future personal property to the Lender as collateral for guaranteeing the obligations of Mad Catz Inc. under a related loan agreement. The agreement outlines the types of collateral covered and the conditions under which the security interest is granted, ensuring the Lender can claim the assets if the guaranteed obligations are not met.
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(a) | all Accounts; | ||
(b) | all general intangibles, including all Intellectual Property; | ||
(c) | all goods, including Inventory and Equipment; | ||
(d) | all chattel paper (including all tangible and electronic chattel paper); | ||
(e) | all instruments (including all promissory notes); | ||
(f) | all documents; | ||
(g) | all deposit accounts; | ||
(h) | all letters of credit, bankers acceptances and similar instruments and including all letter-of-credit rights; | ||
(i) | all supporting obligations and all present and future liens, security interests, rights, remedies, title and interest in, to and in respect of Receivables and other Collateral, including (i) rights and remedies under or relating to guaranties, contracts of suretyship, letters of credit and credit and other insurance related to the Collateral, (ii) rights of stoppage in transit, replevin, repossession, reclamation and other rights and remedies of an unpaid vendor, lienor or secured party, (iii) goods described in invoices, documents, contracts or instruments with respect to, or otherwise representing or evidencing, Receivables or other Collateral, including returned, repossessed and reclaimed goods, and (iv) deposits by and property of account debtors or other persons securing the obligations of account debtors; | ||
(j) | all (i) investment property (including securities, whether certificated or uncertificated, securities accounts, security entitlements, commodity contracts or commodity accounts) and (ii) monies, credit balances, deposits and other property of Debtor now or hereafter held or received by or in transit to Lender, US Collateral Agent or its affiliates or at any other depository or other institution from or for the account of Debtor, whether for safekeeping, pledge, custody, transmission, collection or otherwise; |
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(k) | all commercial tort claims, including those identified in the Information Certificate; | ||
(l) | to the extent not otherwise described above, all Receivables; | ||
(m) | all Records; and | ||
(n) | all products and proceeds of the foregoing, in any form, including insurance proceeds and all claims against third parties for loss or damage to or destruction of or other involuntary conversion of any kind or nature of any or all of the other Collateral. |
(a) | Debtor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes US Collateral Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming US Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and Debtor as debtor, as US Collateral Agent may require, and including any other information with respect to Debtor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the UCC of such jurisdiction as US Collateral Agent may determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Debtor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming US Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and Debtor as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of US Collateral Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of US Collateral Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Debtor hereby authorizes US Collateral Agent to adopt on behalf of Debtor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming US Collateral Agent or its designee as the secured party and Debtor as debtor includes assets and properties of Debtor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by Debtor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral. In no event shall Debtor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming US Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and Debtor as debtor. |
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(b) | Debtor does not have any chattel paper (whether tangible or electronic) or instruments as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Debtor shall be entitled to or shall receive any chattel paper or instrument after the date hereof, Debtor shall promptly notify US Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of Debtor (including by any agent or representative), Debtor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to US Collateral Agent, all tangible chattel paper and instruments that Debtor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as US Collateral Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as US Collateral Agent may otherwise agree. At US Collateral Agents option, Debtor shall, or US Collateral Agent may at any time on behalf of Debtor, cause the original of any such instrument or chattel paper to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to US Collateral Agent with the following legend referring to chattel paper or instruments as applicable: This [chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Central) and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this [chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party. |
(c) | In the event that Debtor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic chattel paper or any transferable record (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction), Debtor shall promptly notify US Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon US Collateral Agents request, Debtor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as US Collateral Agent may reasonably request to give US Collateral Agent control of such electronic chattel paper under Section 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction. |
(d) | Debtor does not have any deposit accounts as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. Debtor shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any deposit account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) US Collateral Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of Debtor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity acceptable to US Collateral Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom Debtor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to US Collateral Agent, and (iii) on or before the opening of such deposit account, Debtor shall as US Collateral Agent may specify either (A) deliver to US Collateral Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such deposit account duly authorized, executed and delivered by Debtor and the bank at which such deposit account is opened and maintained or |
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(B) arrange for US Collateral Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the deposit account on terms and conditions acceptable to US Collateral Agent. The terms of this subsection (d) shall not apply to deposit accounts specifically and exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of Debtors salaried employees. |
(e) | Debtor does not own or hold, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any investment property, as of the date hereof, or have any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the date hereof, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate. |
(f) | Debtor is not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, bankers acceptance or similar instrument as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Debtor |
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shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, bankers acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, Debtor shall promptly notify US Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Debtor shall immediately, as US Collateral Agent may specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to US Collateral Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, bankers acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance satisfactory to US Collateral Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to US Collateral Agent by Debtor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to US Collateral Agent or as US Collateral Agent may otherwise direct or (ii) cause US Collateral Agent to become, at Debtors expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, bankers acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be). | |||
(g) | Debtor has no commercial tort claims as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that Debtor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims, Debtor shall promptly notify US Collateral Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by Debtor to US Collateral Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by Debtor to US Collateral Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to US Collateral Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of US Collateral Agent provided in Section 2.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by Debtor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, US Collateral Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming US Collateral Agent or its designee as secured party and Debtor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, Debtor shall promptly upon US Collateral Agents request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to US Collateral Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as US Collateral Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim. | ||
(h) | Debtor does not have any goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the date hereof, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for goods located in the United States in transit to a location of Debtor permitted herein in the ordinary course of business of Debtor in the possession of the carrier transporting such goods. In the event that any goods, documents of title or other Collateral are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Debtor shall promptly notify US Collateral Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon US Collateral |
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Agents request, Debtor shall deliver to US Collateral Agent a Collateral Access Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by such person and Debtor. | |||
(i) | Debtor shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Lender or US Collateral Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Lender and US Collateral Agent to enforce, the security interest of US Collateral Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing, financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that Debtors signature thereon is required therefor, (ii) causing US Collateral Agents name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of US Collateral Agent to enforce, the security interest of US Collateral Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of US Collateral Agent to enforce, the security interest of US Collateral Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the consents and approvals of any governmental authority or third party including any consent of any licensor, lessor or other person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by any earlier versions of the UCC or by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction. |
(a) | Debtor shall enter into its register of charges such particulars regarding the charge created by this Agreement as are specified in Section 162 of the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 (as the same may be amended from time to time) or any similar provision in any statute pursuant to which Debtor is incorporated or existing from time to time and submit a copy of such revised register of charges to its registered agent in the British Virgin Islands to keep at its registered office in the British Virgin Islands; and | ||
(b) | Debtor agrees that it shall not grant a charge over its assets and properties ranking equally or in priority to the charge hereunder granted in favour of Agent. |
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(a) | At any time an Event of Default exists or has occurred and is continuing, Lender and US Collateral Agent shall have all rights and remedies provided in this Agreement, the other Financing Agreements, the UCC and other applicable law, all of which rights and remedies may be exercised without notice to or consent by Debtor, Borrower or any Obligor, except as such notice or consent is expressly provided for hereunder or required by applicable law. All rights, remedies and powers granted to Lender and US Collateral Agent hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements, the UCC or other applicable law, are cumulative, not exclusive and enforceable, in Lenders or US Collateral Agents discretion, alternatively, successively, or concurrently on any one or more occasions, and shall include, without limitation, the right to apply to a court of equity for an injunction to restrain a breach or threatened breach by Debtor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements. Lender or US Collateral Agent may, at any time or times, proceed directly against Debtor, Borrower or any Obligor to collect the Guaranteed Obligations (except under or in connection with any Swap Agreement) without prior recourse to any Obligor, Borrower or any of the Collateral. | ||
(b) | Without limiting the foregoing, at any time an Event of Default exists or has occurred and is continuing, Lender and US Collateral Agent may, in their discretion and, without limitation: |
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(c) | Lender or US Collateral Agent may, at any time or times that an Event of Default exists or has occurred and is continuing, enforce Debtors rights against any account debtor, secondary obligor or other obligor in respect of any of the Accounts or other Receivables. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Lender or US Collateral Agent may at such time or times: |
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(d) | To the extent that applicable law imposes duties on Lender or US Collateral Agent to exercise remedies in a commercially reasonable manner (which duties cannot be waived under such law), Debtor acknowledges and agrees that it is not commercially unreasonable for Lender or US Collateral Agent: |
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(e) | For the purpose of enabling Lender or US Collateral Agent to exercise the rights and remedies hereunder, Debtor hereby grants to Lender and US Collateral Agent, to the extent assignable, an irrevocable, non-exclusive license (exercisable without payment of royalty or other compensation to Debtor) to use, assign, license or sublicense any of the trademarks, service-marks, trade names, business names, trade styles, designs, logos and other source of business identifiers and other Intellectual Property and general intangibles now owned or hereafter acquired by Debtor, wherever the same maybe located, including in such license reasonable access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer programs used for the compilation or printout thereof. | ||
(f) | Lender may apply the cash proceeds of Collateral actually received by Lender or US Collateral Agent from any sale, lease, foreclosure or other disposition of the Collateral to payment of the Guaranteed Obligations, in whole or in part and in such order as Lender may elect, whether or not then due (except under or in connection with any Swap Agreement). Debtor shall remain liable to Lender and US Collateral Agent for the payment of any deficiency with interest at the highest rate provided for in the Third Amended and Restated Loan Agreement and all costs and expenses of collection or enforcement, including attorneys fees and legal expenses. |
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SECTION 6. | JURY TRIAL WAIVER; OTHER WAIVERS AND CONSENTS; GOVERNING LAW |
(a) | The validity, interpretation and enforcement of this Agreement and any dispute arising out of the relationship between the parties hereto, whether in contract, tort, equity or otherwise, shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of Illinois but excluding any principles of conflicts of law or other rule of law that would cause the application of the law of any jurisdiction other than the laws of the State of Illinois. | ||
(b) | Debtor, Lender and US Collateral Agent irrevocably consent and submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, whichever Lender or US Collateral Agent may elect, and waive any objection based on venue or forum non conveniens with respect to any action instituted therein arising under this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements or in any way connected with or related or incidental to the dealings of the parties hereto in respect of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements or the transactions related hereto or thereto, in each case whether now existing or hereafter arising, and whether in contract, tort, equity or otherwise, and agree that any dispute with respect to any such matters shall be heard only in the courts described above (except that Lender and US Collateral Agent shall have the right to bring any action or proceeding against Debtor or its property in the courts of any other jurisdiction which they deem necessary or appropriate in order to realize on the Collateral or to otherwise enforce their rights against Debtor or its property). | ||
(c) | Debtor hereby waives personal service of any and all process upon it and consents that all such service of process may be made by certified mail (return receipt requested) directed to its address set forth below and service so made shall be deemed to be completed five (5) days after the same shall have been so deposited in the U.S. mails, or, at Lenders or US Collateral Agents option, by service upon Debtor in any other manner provided under the rules of any such courts. Within thirty (30) days after such service, Debtor shall appear in answer to such process, failing which Debtor shall be deemed in default and judgment may be entered by Lender or US Collateral Agent against Debtor for the amount of the claim and other relief requested. | ||
(d) | DEBTOR HEREBY WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION (1) ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER FINANCING AGREEMENTS OR (2) IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH OR RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THE DEALINGS OF DEBTOR, LENDER AND US COLLATERAL AGENT IN RESPECT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER FINANCING AGREEMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED |
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HERETO OR THERETO IN EACH CASE WHETHER NOW EXISTING OR HEREAFTER ARISING, AND WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, EQUITY OR OTHERWISE. DEBTOR HEREBY AGREES AND CONSENTS THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE DECIDED BY COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY AND THAT DEBTOR, LENDER OR US COLLATERAL AGENT MAY FILE AN ORIGINAL COUNTERPART OF A COPY OF THIS AGREEMENT WITH ANY COURT AS WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF THE CONSENT OF DEBTOR, LENDER AND US COLLATERAL AGENT TO THE WAIVER OF THEIR RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY. | |||
(e) | Lender and US Collateral Agent shall not have any liability to Debtor (whether in tort, contract, equity or otherwise) for losses suffered by Debtor in connection with, arising out of, or in any way related to the transactions or relationships contemplated by this Agreement, or any act, omission or event occurring in connection herewith, unless it is determined by a final and non-appealable judgment or court order binding on Lender and US Collateral Agent that the losses were the result of acts or omissions of Lender and US Collateral Agent constituting gross negligence or willful misconduct. In any such litigation, each of Lender and US Collateral Agent shall be entitled to the benefit of the rebuttable presumption that it acted in good faith and with the exercise of ordinary care in the performance by it of the terms of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements. |
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(a) | All terms used herein which are defined in Article 1 or Article 9 of the UCC shall have the meanings given therein unless otherwise defined in this Agreement. | ||
(b) | Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Third Amended and Restated Loan Agreement. | ||
(c) | All references to the plural herein shall also mean the singular and to the singular shall also mean the plural unless the context otherwise requires. | ||
(d) | All references to Debtor, Lender, US Collateral Agent, Borrower, Secured Parties and Indemnified Parties herein, or to any other person herein, shall include their respective successors and assigns. | ||
(e) | The words hereof, herein, hereunder, this Agreement and words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not any particular provision of this Agreement and as this Agreement now exists or may hereafter be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced. |
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(f) | The word including when used in this Agreement shall mean including, without limitation. | ||
(g) | All references to the term good faith used herein when applicable to Lender or US Collateral Agent shall mean, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in the UCC, honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. Debtor shall have the burden of proving any lack of good faith on the part of Lender or US Collateral Agent alleged by Debtor at any time. | ||
(h) | An Event of Default shall exist or continue or be continuing until such Event of Default is waived in accordance with Section 6.3 or is cured in a manner satisfactory to Lender and US Collateral Agent, if such Event of Default is capable of being cured as determined by Lender and US Collateral Agent. | ||
(i) | In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word from means from and including, the words to and until each mean to but excluding and the word through means to and including. | ||
(j) | Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, (i) references herein to any agreement, document or instrument shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, modifications, supplements, extensions, renewals, restatements or replacements with respect thereto, but only to the extent the same are not prohibited by the terms hereof or of any other Financing Agreement, and (ii) references to any statute or regulation are to be construed as including all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, recodifying, supplementing or interpreting the statute or regulation. | ||
(k) | The captions and headings of this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement. | ||
(l) | This Agreement and other Financing Agreements may use several different limitations, tests or measurements to regulate the same or similar matters. All such limitations, tests and measurements are cumulative and shall each be performed in accordance with their terms. | ||
(m) | This Agreement and the other Financing Agreements are the result of negotiations among and have been reviewed by counsel to Lender and US Collateral Agent and the other parties, and are the products of all parties. Accordingly, this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements shall not be construed against Lender and US Collateral Agent merely because of Lenders and US Collateral Agents involvement in their preparation. |
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If to Debtor: | 7480 Mission Valley Road, Suite 101 | |
San Diego, California | ||
92108 | ||
Attention: Whitney Peterson | ||
Telephone No.: (619)  ###-###-#### | ||
Telecopy No.: (619)  ###-###-#### | ||
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PO Box 92 | ||
Road Town Tortola | ||
British Virgin Islands | ||
VG 1110 | ||
Attention: Colette Corea Saunders | ||
Telephone No.: 284 ###-###-#### | ||
Telecopy No.: 284 ###-###-#### | ||
If to Lender and US Collateral Agent: | Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Central) | |
150 South Wacker Drive, Suite 2200 | ||
Chicago, Illinois 60606-4401 | ||
Attention: Portfolio Manager | ||
Telephone No.: 312 ###-###-#### | ||
Telecopy No.: 312 ###-###-#### |
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WINKLER ATLANTIC HOLDINGS LIMITED | ||||
By: | /s/ Darren Richardson | |||
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By: | /s/ Stewart Halpern | |||
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