EX-10.62 4 a52669exv10w62.htm EXHIBIT 10.62 exv10w62
Exhibit 10.62
THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITY AGREEMENT
Dated May 18, 2009
From
The Grantors referred to herein
as Grantors
to
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,
as Administrative Agent

 


 

T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
             
Section       Page
 
           
Section 1.
  Grant of Security     2  
 
           
Section 2.
  Security for Obligations     6  
 
           
Section 3.
  Grantors Remain Liable     6  
 
           
Section 4.
  Delivery and Control of Security Collateral     6  
 
           
Section 5.
  Maintaining the Account Collateral     8  
 
           
Section 6.
  Investing of Amounts in the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account     9  
 
           
Section 7.
  Release of Amounts     9  
 
           
Section 8.
  Maintaining Electronic Chattel Paper, Transferable Records and Letter-of-Credit Rights and Giving Notice of Commercial Tort Claims     10  
 
           
Section 9.
  Representations and Warranties     10  
 
           
Section 10.
  Further Assurances     14  
 
           
Section 11.
  As to Equipment and Inventory     16  
 
           
Section 12.
  Insurance     16  
 
           
Section 13.
  Post-Closing Changes; Bailees; Collections on Assigned Agreements, Receivables and Related Contracts     17  
 
           
Section 14.
  As to Intellectual Property Collateral     18  
 
           
Section 15.
  Voting Rights; Dividends; Etc.     19  
 
           
Section 16.
  As to the Assigned Agreements     21  
 
           
Section 17.
  Payments Under the Assigned Agreements     21  
 
           
Section 18.
  As to Letter-of-Credit Rights     22  
 
           
Section 19.
  Transfers and Other Liens; Additional Shares     22  
 
           
Section 20.
  Administrative Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact     22  
 
           
Section 21.
  Administrative Agent May Perform     23  
 
           
Section 22.
  The Administrative Agent’s Duties     23  
 
           
Section 23.
  Remedies     23  

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Section       Page
 
Section 24.
  Indemnity and Expenses     25  
 
           
Section 25.
  Amendments; Waivers; Additional Grantors; Etc.     25  
 
           
Section 26.
  Notices, Etc.     26  
 
           
Section 27.
  Continuing Security Interest; Assignments under the Credit Agreement     26  
 
           
Section 28.
  Release; Termination     26  
 
           
Section 29.
  Execution in Counterparts     27  
 
           
Section 30.
  The Mortgages     27  
 
           
Section 31.
  Governing Law     27  
         
Schedules I
  -   Location, Chief Executive Office, Place Where Agreements Are Maintained, Type Of
Organization, Jurisdiction Of Organization And Organizational Identification Number
Schedule II
  -   Pledged Equity and Pledged Debt
Schedule III
  -   Assigned Agreements
Schedule IV
  -   Locations of Equipment and Inventory
Schedule V
  -   Changes in Name, Location, Etc.
Schedule VI
  -   Patents, Trademarks and Trade Names, Copyrights and IP Agreements
Schedule VII
  -   Account Collateral
Schedule VIII
  -   Intentionally Omitted
Schedule IX
  -   Commercial Tort Claims
Schedule X
  -   Letters of Credit
 
       
Exhibits
       
 
       
Exhibit A
  -   Form of Security Agreement Supplement
Exhibit B
  -   Form of Account Control Agreement
Exhibit C
  -   Form of Consent and Agreement
Exhibit D
  -   Form of Securities Account Control Agreement
Exhibit E
  -   Form of Commodity Account Control Agreement
Exhibit F
  -   Form of Intellectual Property Security Agreement
Exhibit G
  -   Form of Intellectual Property Security Agreement Supplement
Exhibit H
  -   Form of Consent to Assignment of Letter of Credit Rights
Exhibit I
  -   Form of Account Control Ratification
Exhibit J
  -   Form of ACH Account Control Agreement

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THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITY AGREEMENT
          THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITY AGREEMENT dated May 18, 2009 made by GRUBB & ELLIS COMPANY, a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), the other Persons listed on the signature pages hereof and the Additional Grantors (as defined in Section 25) (the Borrower, the Persons so listed and the Additional Grantors being, collectively, the “Grantors”), to DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as administrative agent (in such capacity, together with any successor administrative agent appointed pursuant to Article VII of the Credit Agreement (as hereinafter defined), the “Administrative Agent”) for the Secured Parties (as defined in the Credit Agreement).
          PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS.
          (1) The Borrower has entered into a Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of May 18, 2009 (said Agreement, as it may hereafter be amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, being the “Credit Agreement”) with the Lender Parties and the Administrative Agent (each as defined therein).
          (2) Pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Grantors are entering into this Agreement in order to grant to the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties a security interest in the Collateral (as hereinafter defined).
          (3) Each Grantor is the owner of the shares of stock or other Equity Interests (the “Initial Pledged Equity”) set forth opposite such Grantor’s name on and as otherwise described in Part I of Schedule II hereto and issued by the Persons named therein and of the indebtedness (the “Initial Pledged Debt”) set forth opposite such Grantor’s name on and as otherwise described in Part II of Schedule II hereto and issued by the obligors named therein.
          (4) The Borrower has security entitlements (the “Pledged Security Entitlements”) with respect to all the financial assets (the “Pledged Financial Assets”) credited from time to time to the Borrower’s accounts (the “Securities Accounts”), as described in Part III of Schedule VII hereto.
          (5) The Borrower has opened the Automated Clearing House deposit accounts (the “ACH Deposit Accounts”), as described in Part I of Schedule VII hereto, and the other deposit accounts (the “Other Deposit Accounts” and, together with the ACH Deposit Accounts, the “Deposit Accounts”), as described in Part II of Schedule VII hereto.
          (6) A Letter of Credit collateral deposit account has been opened with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, in the name of the Administrative Agent and under the sole control and dominion of the Administrative Agent (the “L/C Collateral Account”).
          (7) It is a condition precedent to the making of Advances and the issuance of Letters of Credit by the Lender Parties under the Credit Agreement and the entry into Secured Hedge Agreements by the Hedge Banks from time to time that the Grantors shall have granted the assignment and security interest and made the pledge and assignment contemplated by this Agreement.
          (8) Each Grantor will derive substantial direct and indirect benefit from the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents.
          (9) Terms defined in the Credit Agreement and not otherwise defined in this Agreement are used in this Agreement as defined in the Credit Agreement. Further, unless otherwise

 


 

defined in this Agreement or in the Credit Agreement, terms defined in Article 8 or 9 of the UCC (as defined below) and/or in the Federal Book Entry Regulations (as defined below) are used in this Agreement as such terms are defined in such Article 8 or 9 and/or the Federal Book Entry Regulations. “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect, from time to time, in the State of New York; provided that, if perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any security interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority. The term “Federal Book Entry Regulations” means (a) the federal regulations contained in Subpart B (“Treasury/Reserve Automated Debt Entry System (TRADES)”) governing book-entry securities consisting of U.S. Treasury bills, notes and bonds and Subpart D (“Additional Provisions”) of 31 C.F.R. Part 357, 31 C.F.R. § 357.2, § 357.10 through § 357.15 and § 357.40 through § 357.45 and (b) to the extent substantially identical to the federal regulations referred to in clause (a) above (as in effect from time to time), the federal regulations governing other book-entry securities.
          NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and in order to induce the Lender Parties to make Advances and issue Letters of Credit under the Credit Agreement and to induce the Hedge Banks to enter into Secured Hedge Agreements from time to time, each Grantor hereby agrees with the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties as follows:
          Section 1. Grant of Security. Each Grantor hereby grants to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in, such Grantor’s right, title and interest in and to the following, in each case, as to each type of property described below, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by such Grantor, wherever located, and whether now or hereafter existing or arising (collectively, the “Collateral”):
     (a) all equipment in all of its forms, including, without limitation, all machinery, tools, motor vehicles, vessels, aircraft, furniture and fixtures, and all parts thereof and all accessions thereto and all software related thereto, including, without limitation, software that is embedded in and is part of the equipment (any and all such property being the “Equipment”);
     (b) all inventory in all of its forms, including, without limitation, (i) all raw materials, work in process, finished goods and materials used or consumed in the manufacture, production, preparation or shipping thereof, (ii) goods in which such Grantor has an interest in mass or a joint or other interest or right of any kind (including, without limitation, goods in which such Grantor has an interest or right as consignee) and (iii) goods that are returned to or repossessed or stopped in transit by such Grantor), and all accessions thereto and products thereof and documents therefor, and all software related thereto, including, without limitation, software that is embedded in and is part of the inventory (any and all such property being the “Inventory”);
     (c) all accounts, chattel paper (including, without limitation, tangible chattel paper and electronic chattel paper), instruments (including, without limitation, promissory notes), deposit accounts, letter-of-credit rights, general intangibles (including, without limitation, payment intangibles) and other obligations of any kind, whether or not arising out of or in connection with the sale or lease of goods or the rendering of services and whether or not earned by performance, and all rights now or hereafter existing in and to all supporting obligations and in and to all security agreements, mortgages, Liens, leases, letters of credit and other contracts securing or otherwise relating to the foregoing property (any and all of such accounts, chattel paper, instruments, deposit accounts, letter-of-credit rights, general intangibles and other obligations, to the extent not referred to in clause (d), (e) or (f) below, being the “Receivables”,

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and any and all such supporting obligations, security agreements, mortgages, Liens, leases, letters of credit and other contracts being the “Related Contracts”); provided however that the security interest granted under this Section 1(c) shall not attach to any of the Receivables or Related Contracts that by their terms, prohibit or require the consent of any Person (other than the Grantor) as a condition to the creation by such Grantor of a lien thereon, but only, in all cases, to the extent, and for so long as, such prohibition is not terminated or rendered unenforceable or otherwise deemed ineffective by the UCC or any other applicable law;
(d) the following (the “Security Collateral”):
     (i) the Initial Pledged Equity and the certificates, if any, representing the Initial Pledged Equity, and all dividends, distributions, return of capital, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of the Initial Pledged Equity and all subscription warrants, rights or options issued thereon or with respect thereto;
     (ii) the Initial Pledged Debt and the instruments, if any, evidencing the Initial Pledged Debt, and all interest, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of the Initial Pledged Debt;
     (iii) all additional shares of stock and other Equity Interests from time to time acquired by such Grantor in any manner (such shares and other Equity Interests, together with the Initial Pledged Equity, being the “Pledged Equity”), and the certificates, if any, representing such additional shares or other Equity Interests, and all dividends, distributions, return of capital, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of such shares or other Equity Interests and all subscription warrants, rights or options issued thereon or with respect thereto;
     (iv) all additional indebtedness from time to time owed to such Grantor (such indebtedness, together with the Initial Pledged Debt, being the “Pledged Debt”) and the instruments, if any, evidencing such indebtedness, and all interest, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of such indebtedness;
     (v) the Securities Accounts, all Pledged Security Entitlements with respect to all Pledged Financial Assets from time to time credited to the Securities Accounts, and all Pledged Financial Assets, and all dividends, distributions, return of capital, interest, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of such Pledged Security Entitlements or such Pledged Financial Assets and all subscription warrants, rights or options issued thereon or with respect thereto; and
     (vi) all other investment property (including, without limitation, all (A) securities, whether certificated or uncertificated, (B) security entitlements, (C) securities accounts, (D) commodity contracts and (E) commodity accounts) in which such Grantor has now, or acquires from time to time hereafter, any right, title or interest in any manner, and the certificates or instruments, if any, representing or evidencing such investment property, and all dividends, distributions, return of capital, interest, distributions, value, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise

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distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of such investment property and all subscription warrants, rights or options issued thereon or with respect thereto;
     (e) each of the Material Contracts to which such Grantor is now or may hereafter become a party, the IP Agreements (as hereinafter defined), and each Hedge Agreement to which such Grantor is now or may hereafter become a party, in each case as such agreements may be amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time (collectively, the “Assigned Agreements”), including, without limitation, (i) all rights of such Grantor to receive moneys due and to become due under or pursuant to the Assigned Agreements, (ii) all rights of such Grantor to receive proceeds of any insurance, indemnity, warranty or guaranty with respect to the Assigned Agreements, (iii) claims of such Grantor for damages arising out of or for breach of or default under the Assigned Agreements and (iv) the right of such Grantor to terminate the Assigned Agreements, to perform thereunder and to compel performance and otherwise exercise all remedies thereunder (all such Collateral being the “Agreement Collateral”); provided, however, that this Section 1(e) shall not apply to any Material Contract pursuant to the terms of which it would be a breach or default for Grantor to grant the security interest contemplated by this Section 1(e) or would require the consent of any Person (other than the Grantor) as a condition to the creation by the Grantor of a lien thereunder.
     (f) the following (collectively, the “Account Collateral”):
     (i) any collateral deposit account opened by the Borrower with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (or such other financial institution as the Administrative Agent may direct), in the name of the Administrative Agent and under the sole control and dominion of the Administrative Agent and subject to the terms of this Agreement (the “Collateral Account”), the L/C Collateral Account and the Deposit Accounts and all funds and financial assets from time to time credited thereto (including, without limitation, all Cash Equivalents), all interest, dividends, distributions, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of such funds and financial assets, and all certificates and instruments, if any, from time to time representing or evidencing the Collateral Account, the L/C Collateral Account and the Deposit Accounts;
     (ii) all promissory notes, certificates of deposit, deposit accounts, checks and other instruments from time to time delivered to or otherwise possessed by the Administrative Agent for or on behalf of such Grantor, including, without limitation, those delivered or possessed in substitution for or in addition to any or all of the then existing Account Collateral;
     (iii) all interest, dividends, distributions, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of the then existing Account Collateral; and
     (g) the following (collectively, the “Intellectual Property Collateral”):
     (i) all patents, patent applications, utility models and statutory invention registrations, all inventions claimed or disclosed therein and all improvements thereto (“Patents”);
     (ii) all trademarks, service marks, domain names, trade dress, logos, designs, slogans, trade names, business names, corporate names and other source identifiers,

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whether registered or unregistered (provided that no security interest shall be granted in United States intent-to-use trademark applications to the extent that, and solely during the period in which, the grant of a security interest therein would impair the validity or enforceability of such intent-to-use trademark applications under applicable federal law), together, in each case, with the goodwill symbolized thereby (“Trademarks”);
     (iii) all copyrights, including, without limitation, copyrights in Computer Software (as hereinafter defined), internet web sites and the content thereof, whether registered or unregistered (“Copyrights”);
     (iv) all computer software, programs and databases (including, without limitation, source code, object code and all related applications and data files), firmware and documentation and materials relating thereto, together with any and all maintenance rights, service rights, programming rights, hosting rights, test rights, improvement rights, renewal rights and indemnification rights and any substitutions, replacements, improvements, error corrections, updates and new versions of any of the foregoing (“Computer Software”);
     (v) all confidential and proprietary information, including, without limitation, know-how, trade secrets, manufacturing and production processes and techniques, inventions, research and development information, databases and data, including, without limitation, technical data, financial, marketing and business data, pricing and cost information, business and marketing plans and customer and supplier lists and information (collectively, “Trade Secrets”), and all other intellectual, industrial and intangible property of any type, including, without limitation, industrial designs and mask works;
     (vi) all registrations and applications for registration for any of the foregoing, including, without limitation, those registrations and applications for registration set forth in Schedule VI hereto (as such Schedule VI may be supplemented from time to time by supplements to this Agreement, each such supplement being substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto (an “IP Security Agreement Supplement”) executed by such Grantor to the Administrative Agent from time to time), together with all reissues, divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part, extensions, renewals and reexaminations thereof;
     (vii) all tangible embodiments of the foregoing, all rights in the foregoing provided by international treaties or conventions, all rights corresponding thereto throughout the world and all other rights of any kind whatsoever of such Grantor accruing thereunder or pertaining thereto;
     (viii) all agreements, permits, consents, orders and franchises relating to the license, development, use or disclosure of any of the foregoing to which such Grantor, now or hereafter, is a party or a beneficiary, including, without limitation, the agreements set forth in Schedule VI hereto (“IP Agreements”); and
     (ix) any and all claims for damages and injunctive relief for past, present and future infringement, dilution, misappropriation, violation, misuse or breach with respect to any of the foregoing, with the right, but not the obligation, to sue for and collect, or otherwise recover, such damages;

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     (h) all commercial tort claims described in Schedule IX hereto (collectively the “Commercial Tort Claims Collateral”);
     (i) all books and records (including, without limitation, customer lists, credit files, printouts and other computer output materials and records) of such Grantor pertaining to any of the Collateral; and
     (j) all proceeds of, collateral for, income, royalties and other payments now or hereafter due and payable with respect to, and supporting obligations relating to, any and all of the Collateral (including, without limitation, proceeds, collateral and supporting obligations that constitute property of the types described in clauses (a) through (i) of this Section 1 and this clause (j)) and, to the extent not otherwise included, all (A) payments under insurance (whether or not the Administrative Agent is the loss payee thereof), or any indemnity, warranty or guaranty, payable by reason of loss or damage to or otherwise with respect to any of the foregoing Collateral, (B) tort claims, including, without limitation, all commercial tort claims and (C) cash.
          Section 2. Security for Obligations. This Agreement secures, in the case of each Grantor, the payment of all Obligations of each Loan Party now or hereafter existing under the Loan Documents, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, and whether for principal, reimbursement obligations, interest, fees, premiums, penalties, indemnifications, contract causes of action, costs, expenses or otherwise (all such Obligations being the “Secured Obligations”).
          Section 3. Grantors Remain Liable. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, (a) each Grantor shall remain liable under the contracts and agreements included in such Grantor’s Collateral to the extent set forth therein to perform all of its duties and obligations thereunder to the same extent as if this Agreement had not been executed, (b) the exercise by the Administrative Agent of any of the rights hereunder shall not release any Grantor from any of its duties or obligations under the contracts and agreements included in the Collateral and (c) no Secured Party shall have any obligation or liability under the contracts and agreements included in the Collateral by reason of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, nor shall any Secured Party be obligated to perform any of the obligations or duties of any Grantor thereunder or to take any action to collect or enforce any claim for payment assigned hereunder.
          Section 4. Delivery and Control of Security Collateral. (a) All certificates or instruments representing or evidencing Security Collateral shall be delivered to and held by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto and shall be in suitable form for transfer by delivery, or shall be accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment in blank, all in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall have the right, at any time in its discretion and without notice to any Grantor, to transfer to or to register in the name of the Administrative Agent or any of its nominees any or all of the Security Collateral, subject only to the revocable rights specified in Section 15(a). For the better perfection of the Administrative Agent’s rights in and to the Security Collateral, each Grantor shall forthwith, upon the pledge hereunder of any Security Collateral in which it has any right, title or interest, cause such Security Collateral to be registered in the name of the Administrative Agent or such of its nominees as the Administrative Agent shall direct, subject only to the revocable rights specified in Section 15(a). In addition, the Administrative Agent shall have the right at any time to exchange certificates or instruments representing or evidencing Security Collateral for certificates or instruments of smaller or larger denominations. Also, the Administrative Agent shall have the right at any time to convert Security Collateral consisting of financial assets credited to the Securities Accounts to Security Collateral consisting of financial assets held directly by the Administrative Agent, and to convert Security Collateral consisting of financial assets held directly by the

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Administrative Agent to Security Collateral consisting of financial assets credited to the Securities Accounts.
          (b) With respect to any Security Collateral in which any Grantor has any right, title or interest and that constitutes an uncertificated security, such Grantor will cause the issuer thereof either (i) to register the Administrative Agent as the registered owner of such security or (ii) to agree in an authenticated record with such Grantor and the Administrative Agent that such issuer will comply with instructions with respect to such security originated by the Administrative Agent without further consent of such Grantor, such authenticated record to be in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. With respect to any Security Collateral in which any Grantor has any right, title or interest and that is not an uncertificated security, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, such Grantor will notify each such issuer of Pledged Equity that such Pledged Equity is subject to the security interest granted hereunder.
          (c) With respect to any Security Collateral in which any Grantor has any right, title or interest and that constitutes a security entitlement in which the Administrative Agent is not the entitlement holder, such Grantor will cause the securities intermediary with respect to such security entitlement either (i) to identify in its records the Administrative Agent as the entitlement holder of such security entitlement against such securities intermediary or (ii) to agree in an authenticated record with such Grantor and the Administrative Agent that such securities intermediary will comply with entitlement orders (that is, notifications communicated to such securities intermediary directing transfer or redemption of the financial asset to which such Grantor has a security entitlement) originated by the Administrative Agent without further consent of such Grantor, such authenticated record to be in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto or otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (such agreement being a “Securities Account Control Agreement”).
          (d) With respect to any Security Collateral in which any Grantor has any right, title or interest and that constitutes a commodity contract, such Grantor shall cause the commodity intermediary with respect to such commodity contract to agree in an authenticated record with such Grantor and the Administrative Agent that such commodity intermediary will apply any value distributed on account of such commodity contract as directed by the Administrative Agent without further consent of such Grantor, such authenticated record to be in substantially the form of Exhibit E hereto or otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (such agreement being a “Commodity Account Control Agreement”, and all such authenticated records, together with all Securities Account Control Agreements being, collectively, “Security Control Agreements”).
          (e) No Grantor will change or add any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary that maintains any securities account or commodity account in which any of the Collateral is credited or carried, or change or add any such securities account or commodity account, in each case without first complying with the above provisions of this Section 4 in order to perfect the security interest granted hereunder in such Collateral.
          (f) Upon the request of the Administrative Agent, such Grantor will notify each such issuer of Pledged Debt that such Pledged Debt is subject to the security interest granted hereunder.
          (g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, each Grantor shall not be required to comply with Section 1 and this Section 4 with respect to Initial Pledged Equity that is identified as “Pledged Joint Venture Investments” and “Pledged REIT Investments” so long as such Grantor promptly uses commercially reasonable efforts to seek all consents and other required approvals for the pledge of such Initial Pledged Equity and fail to obtain same. Upon receipt of such required approvals, such Grantor shall comply with Section 1 and this Section 4 with respect to such Initial

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Pledged Equity. If any Grantor fails to obtain any required approval within forty-five days from the date hereof, such Grantor shall provide a report to the Administrative Agent on the date that is forty-five days from the date hereof showing in reasonable detail the efforts undertaken by such Grantor to seek such approval.
          (h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, Grantor shall have the right to (i) modify the terms of and forgive the indebtedness of, the Initial Pledged Debt identified as “Promissory notes issued from time to time by various TIC and Master Lease Programs” and (ii) modify the terms of, including, but not limited to, extending the maturity date of, the Initial Pledged Debt issued by Grubb & Ellis Apartment REIT, Inc., in each case in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice without the consent of any Lender Party.
          Section 5. Maintaining the Account Collateral. So long as any Advance or any other Obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall remain unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall be outstanding, any Secured Hedge Agreement shall be in effect or any Lender Party shall have any Commitment:
     (a) Each Grantor will maintain all Account Collateral only with the Administrative Agent or with banks (the “Pledged Account Banks”) that have agreed, in a record authenticated by the Grantor, the Administrative Agent and the Pledged Account Banks, to (i) comply with instructions originated by the Administrative Agent directing the disposition of funds in the Account Collateral without the further consent of the Grantor and (ii) waive or subordinate in favor of the Administrative Agent all claims of the Pledged Account Banks (including, without limitation, claims by way of a security interest, lien or right of setoff or right of recoupment) to the Account Collateral, which authenticated record shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit J hereto for ACH Deposit Accounts or Exhibit B hereto for Other Deposit Accounts, or shall otherwise be in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (the “Account Control Agreement”).
     (b) Each Grantor will (i) immediately instruct each Person obligated at any time to make any payment to such Grantor for any reason (an “Obligor”) to make such payment to a Deposit Account and (ii) deposit in a Deposit Account or pay to the Administrative Agent for deposit in a Deposit Account, at the end of each Business Day, all proceeds of Collateral and all other cash of such Grantor.
     (c) Each Grantor agrees that it will not add any bank that maintains a deposit account for such Grantor or open any new deposit account with any then existing Pledged Account Bank unless (i) the Administrative Agent shall have received at least 10 days’ prior written notice of such additional bank or such new deposit account and (ii) the Administrative Agent shall have received, in the case of a bank or Pledged Account Bank that is not the Administrative Agent, an Account Control Agreement authenticated by such new bank and such Grantor, or a supplement to an existing Account Control Agreement with such then existing Pledged Account Bank, covering such new deposit account (and, upon the receipt by the Administrative Agent of such Account Control Agreement or supplement, Schedule VII hereto shall be automatically amended to include such Deposit Account). Each Grantor agrees that it will not terminate any bank as a Pledged Account Bank or terminate any Account Collateral.
     (d) Upon any termination by a Grantor of any Deposit Account by such Grantor, or any Pledged Account Bank with respect thereto, such Grantor will immediately (i) transfer all funds and property held in such terminated Deposit Account to another Deposit Account listed in Part II of Schedule VII and (ii) notify all Obligors that were making payments to such Deposit

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Account to make all future payments to another Deposit Account listed in Part II of Schedule VII hereto so that the Administrative Agent shall have a continuously perfected security interest in such Account Collateral, funds and property. Each Grantor agrees to terminate any or all Account Collateral and Account Control Agreements upon request by the Administrative Agent.
     (e) The Borrower may draw checks on, and otherwise withdraw amounts only from, the Deposit Accounts and in such amounts as may be required in the ordinary course of business (including, without limitation, to pay or prepay Debt outstanding under the Loan Documents).
     (f) The Administrative Agent shall have sole right to direct the disposition of funds with respect to the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account; and it shall be a term and condition of each of the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account, notwithstanding any term or condition to the contrary in any other agreement relating to the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account, as the case may be, that no amount (including, without limitation, interest on Cash Equivalents credited thereto) will be paid or released to or for the account of, or withdrawn by or for the account of, the Borrower or any other Person from the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account, as the case may be.
     (g) The Administrative Agent may, (i) at any time and without notice to, or consent from, the Grantor, transfer, or direct the transfer of, funds from the Account Collateral to satisfy the Grantor’s obligations under the Loan Documents if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) at any time after the Collateral Account has been opened and without notice to, or consent from, the Grantor, transfer, or direct the transfer of, funds from the Deposit Accounts to the Collateral Account.
          Section 6. Investing of Amounts in the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account. The Administrative Agent will, subject to the provisions of Sections 5, 7 and 23, at any time after the Collateral Account or L/C Collateral Account, as the case may be, has been opened, from time to time (a) invest, or direct the applicable Pledged Account Bank to invest, amounts received with respect to the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account in such Cash Equivalents credited to (A) the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account, respectively, as the Borrower may select and the Administrative Agent may approve or (B) in the case of Cash Equivalents consisting of Securities Collateral, a securities account in which the Administrative Agent is the securities intermediary or a securities account subject to a Securities Account Control Agreement, and (b) invest interest paid on the Cash Equivalents referred to in clause (a) above, and reinvest other proceeds of any such Cash Equivalents that may mature or be sold, in each case in such Cash Equivalents credited in the same manner. Interest and proceeds that are not invested or reinvested in Cash Equivalents as provided above shall be deposited and held in the relevant Collateral Account or L/C Collateral Account. In addition, the Administrative Agent shall have the right at any time to exchange, or direct the applicable Pledged Account Bank to exchange, such Cash Equivalents for similar Cash Equivalents of smaller or larger determinations, or for other Cash Equivalents, credited to the Collateral Account or the L/C Collateral Account, as the case may be.
          Section 7. Release of Amounts. So long as no Default under Section 6.01(a) or (f) of the Credit Agreement or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Administrative Agent will pay and release, or direct the applicable Pledged Account Bank to pay and release, to the Borrower or at its order or, at the request of the Borrower, to the Administrative Agent to be applied to the Obligations of the Borrower under the Loan Documents, in the case of the L/C Collateral Account, such amount, if any, as is then on deposit in the L/C Collateral Account to the extent permitted to be released under the terms of the Credit Agreement and, in the case of the Collateral Account, the amount, if any, by which the aggregate principal amount of the Cash Equivalents credited to the Collateral

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Account exceeds all amounts then due and payable under the Loan Documents together with all accrued and unpaid interest and fees under the Credit Agreement.
          Section 8. Maintaining Electronic Chattel Paper, Transferable Records and Letter-of-Credit Rights and Giving Notice of Commercial Tort Claims. So long as any Advance or any other Obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall remain unpaid, any Letter of Credit shall be outstanding, any Secured Hedge Agreement shall be in effect or any Lender Party shall have any Commitment:
     (a) Each Grantor will maintain all (i) electronic chattel paper so that the Administrative Agent has control of the electronic chattel paper in the manner specified in Section 9-105 of the UCC and (ii) all transferable records so that the Administrative Agent has control of the transferable records in the manner specified in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in the jurisdiction governing such transferable record (“UETA”);
     (b) Each Grantor will maintain all letter-of-credit rights assigned to the Administrative Agent, including, without limitation, all letter-of-credit rights associated with each letter of credit that is designated on Schedule X as constituting Collateral (each, a “Collateral L/C”), if any, so that the Administrative Agent has control of the letter-of-credit rights in the manner specified in Section 9-107 of the UCC; and
     (c) Each Grantor will immediately give notice to the Administrative Agent of any commercial tort claim that may arise in the future and will immediately execute or otherwise authenticate a supplement to this Agreement, and otherwise take all necessary action, to subject such commercial tort claim to the first priority security interest created under this Agreement.
          Section 9. Representations and Warranties. Each Grantor represents and warrants as follows:
     (a) Such Grantor’s exact legal name, as defined in Section 9-503(a) of the UCC, is correctly set forth in Schedule I hereto. Such Grantor has only the trade names, domain names and marks listed on Schedule VI hereto. Such Grantor is located (within the meaning of Section 9-307 of the UCC) and has its chief executive office and the office in which it maintains the original copies of each Assigned Agreement and Related Contract to which such Grantor is a party and all originals of all chattel paper that evidence Receivables of such Grantor, in the state or jurisdiction set forth in Schedule I hereto. The information set forth in Schedule I hereto with respect to such Grantor is true and accurate in all respects. Such Grantor has not previously changed its name, location, chief executive office, place where it maintains its agreements, type of organization, jurisdiction of organization or organizational identification number from those set forth in Schedule I hereto except as disclosed in Schedule V hereto.
     (b) All of the Equipment and Inventory of such Grantor are located at the places specified therefor in Schedule IV hereto, as such Schedule IV may be amended from time to time pursuant to Section 11(a). Within the 3 years preceding the execution of this Agreement, such Grantor has not previously changed the location of its Equipment and Inventory except as set forth in Schedule V hereto. All Security Collateral consisting of certificated securities and instruments have been delivered to the Administrative Agent. Original copies of each Assigned Agreement and all originals of all chattel paper that evidence Receivables have been delivered to the Administrative Agent, in each case to the extent that delivery thereof to the Administrative Agent is required under the Credit Agreement. None of the Receivables or Agreement Collateral

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is evidenced by a promissory note or other instrument that has not been delivered to the Administrative Agent.
     (c) Such Grantor is the legal and beneficial owner of the Collateral of such Grantor free and clear of any Lien, claim, option or right of others, except for the security interest created under this Agreement or permitted under the Credit Agreement. No effective financing statement or other instrument similar in effect covering all or any part of such Collateral or listing such Grantor or any trade name of such Grantor as debtor is on file in any recording office, except such as may have been filed in favor of the Administrative Agent relating to the Loan Documents or as otherwise permitted under the Credit Agreement.
     (d) Such Grantor has exclusive possession and control of the Equipment and Inventory other than Inventory stored at any leased premises or warehouse for which a landlord’s or warehouseman’s agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, is in effect and which leased premises or warehouse is so indicated by an asterisk on Schedule IV hereto, as such Schedule IV may be amended from time to time pursuant to Section 11(a). In the case of Equipment and Inventory located on leased premises or in warehouses, no lessor or warehouseman of any premises or warehouse upon or in which such Equipment or Inventory is located has (i) issued any warehouse receipt or other receipt in the nature of a warehouse receipt in respect of any Equipment or Inventory, (ii) issued any document for any of such Grantor’s Equipment or Inventory, (iii) received notification of any secured party’s interest (other than the security interest granted hereunder) in such Grantor’s Equipment or Inventory or (iv) any Lien, claim or charge (based on contract, statute or otherwise) on such Equipment and Inventory.
     (e) The Pledged Equity pledged by such Grantor hereunder has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and non-assessable. With respect to the Pledged Equity that is an uncertificated security, such Grantor has caused the issuer thereof either (i) to register the Administrative Agent as the registered owner of such security or (ii) to agree in an authenticated record with such Grantor and the Administrative Agent that such issuer will comply with instructions with respect to such security originated by the Administrative Agent without further consent of such Grantor. If such Grantor is an issuer of Pledged Equity, such Grantor confirms that it has received notice of such security interest. The Pledged Debt pledged by such Grantor hereunder has been duly authorized, authenticated or issued and delivered, is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the issuers thereof, is evidenced by one or more promissory notes (which notes have been delivered to the Administrative Agent) and is not in default.
     (f) The Initial Pledged Equity pledged by such Grantor constitutes the percentage of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the issuers thereof indicated on Schedule II hereto. The Initial Pledged Debt constitutes all of the outstanding indebtedness owed to such Grantor by the issuers thereof and is outstanding in the principal amount indicated on Schedule II hereto.
     (g) All of the investment property and all shares of stock or other Equity Interests, including without limitation equity ownership interests in tenant in common ownership vehicles and unconsolidated joint ventures holding real estate, owned by such Grantor and all Debt owed to such Grantor is listed on Schedule II hereto.
     (h) The Assigned Agreements to which such Grantor is a party, true and complete copies of which (other than the Hedge Agreements) have been furnished to each Secured Party, have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Grantor and, to such Grantor’s knowledge, by all other parties thereto, have not been amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, are in full force and effect and are binding upon and

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enforceable against such Grantor and, to such Grantor’s knowledge, against all other parties thereto in accordance with their terms. There exists no default under any Assigned Agreement to which such Grantor is a party by such Grantor or, to such Grantor’s knowledge, by any other party thereto.
     (i) Such Grantor has no deposit accounts, other than the Account Collateral listed on Schedule VII hereto, as such Schedule VII may be amended from time to time pursuant to Section 5(d), and legal, binding and enforceable Account Control Agreements are in effect for each deposit account that constitutes Account Collateral (other than Account Collateral consisting of deposit accounts maintained with the Administrative Agent). With respect to Account Control Agreements executed prior to December 2007, where the ownership of the account holder has changed or as requested by the Administrative Agent, legal, binding and enforceable account control ratifications, substantially in the form of Exhibit I hereto, or shall otherwise be in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (each, an “Account Control Ratification”) are in effect. Such Grantor has instructed all existing Obligors to make all payments to a Deposit Account.
     (j) Such Grantor is not a beneficiary or assignee under any letter of credit, other than the letters of credit described in Schedule X hereto, as such Schedule X may be amended from time to time, and legal, binding and enforceable Consents to Assignment of Letter of Credit Rights, in the form of the Consent to Assignment of Letter of Credit Rights attached hereto as Exhibit H, are in effect for each Collateral L/C. Such Grantor has instructed all issuers and nominated persons under any Collateral L/C in which the Grantor is the beneficiary or assignee to make all payments to a Deposit Account.
     (k) All filings and other actions (including, without limitation, (A) actions necessary to obtain control of Collateral as provided in Sections 9-104, 9-105, 9-106 and 9-107 of the UCC and Section 16 of UETA and (B) actions necessary to perfect the Administrative Agent’s security interest with respect to Collateral evidenced by a certificate of ownership) necessary to perfect the security interest in the Collateral of such Grantor created under this Agreement have been duly made or taken and are in full force and effect, and this Agreement creates in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a valid and, together with such filings and other actions, perfected first priority security interest in the Collateral of such Grantor, securing the payment of the Secured Obligations.
     (l) No authorization or approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory body or any other third party is required for (i) the grant by such Grantor of the security interest granted hereunder or for the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement by such Grantor, (ii) the perfection or maintenance of the security interest created hereunder (including the first priority nature of such security interest), except for the filing of financing and continuation statements under the UCC, the recordation of the Intellectual Property Security Agreements referred to in Section 14(f) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office and the actions described in Section 4 with respect to Security Collateral, or (iii) the exercise by the Administrative Agent of its voting or other rights provided for in this Agreement or the remedies in respect of the Collateral pursuant to this Agreement, except as may be required in connection with the disposition of any portion of the Security Collateral by laws affecting the offering and sale of securities generally.
     (m) The Inventory that has been produced or distributed by such Grantor has been produced in compliance with all requirements of applicable law, including, without limitation, the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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     (n) As to itself and its Intellectual Property Collateral:
     (i) The operation of such Grantor’s business as currently conducted or as contemplated to be conducted and the use of the Intellectual Property Collateral in connection therewith, to such Grantor’s knowledge, do not conflict with, infringe, misappropriate, dilute, misuse or otherwise violate the intellectual property rights of any third party.
     (ii) Such Grantor is the exclusive owner of all right, title and interest in and to the Intellectual Property Collateral, and is entitled to use all Intellectual Property Collateral subject only to the terms of the IP Agreements.
     (iii) The Intellectual Property Collateral set forth on Schedule VI hereto includes all of the patents, patent applications, domain names, trademark registrations and applications, copyright registrations and applications and IP Agreements owned by such Grantor.
     (iv) The Intellectual Property Collateral is subsisting and has not been adjudged invalid or unenforceable in whole or part, and to the best of such Grantor’s knowledge, is valid and enforceable. Such Grantor is not aware of any uses of any item of Intellectual Property Collateral that could be expected to lead to such item becoming invalid or unenforceable.
     (v) Such Grantor has made or performed all filings, recordings and other acts and has paid all required fees and taxes to maintain and protect its interest in each and every item of Intellectual Property Collateral in full force and effect throughout the world, and to protect and maintain its interest therein including, without limitation, recordations of any of its interests in the Patents and Trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in corresponding national and international patent offices, and recordation of any of its interests in the Copyrights with the U.S. Copyright Office and in corresponding national and international copyright offices. Such Grantor has used proper statutory notice in connection with its use of each patent, trademark and copyright in the Intellectual Property Collateral.
     (vi) No claim, action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding has been asserted or is pending or threatened in writing against such Grantor (i) based upon or challenging or seeking to deny or restrict the Grantor’s rights in or use of any of the Intellectual Property Collateral, (ii) alleging that the Grantor’s rights in or use of the Intellectual Property Collateral or that any services provided by, processes used by, or products manufactured or sold by, such Grantor infringe, misappropriate, dilute, misuse or otherwise violate any patent, trademark, copyright or any other proprietary right of any third party, or (iii) alleging that the Intellectual Property Collateral is being licensed or sublicensed in violation or contravention of the terms of any license or other agreement. To such Grantor’s knowledge, no Person is engaging in any activity that infringes, misappropriates, dilutes, misuses or otherwise violates the Intellectual Property Collateral or the Grantor’s rights in or use thereof. Except as set forth on Schedule VI hereto, such Grantor has not granted any license, release, covenant not to sue, non-assertion assurance, or other right to any Person with respect to any part of the Intellectual Property Collateral. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents will not result in the termination or impairment of any of the Intellectual Property Collateral.

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     (vii) With respect to each IP Agreement: (A) such IP Agreement is valid and binding and in full force and effect and represents the entire agreement between the respective parties thereto with respect to the subject matter thereof; (B) such IP Agreement will not cease to be valid and binding and in full force and effect on terms identical to those currently in effect as a result of the rights and interest granted herein, nor will the grant of such rights and interest constitute a breach or default under such IP Agreement or otherwise give any party thereto a right to terminate such IP Agreement; (C) such Grantor has not received any notice of termination or cancellation under such IP Agreement; (D) such Grantor has not received any notice of a breach or default under such IP Agreement, which breach or default has not been cured; (E) such Grantor has not granted to any other third party any rights, adverse or otherwise, under such IP Agreement; and (F) neither such Grantor nor any other party to such IP Agreement is in breach or default thereof in any material respect, and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a breach or default or permit termination, modification or acceleration under such IP Agreement.
     (viii) To the best of such Grantor’s knowledge, (A) none of the Trade Secrets of such Grantor has been used, divulged, disclosed or appropriated to the detriment of such Grantor for the benefit of any other Person other than such Grantor; (B) no employee, independent contractor or agent of such Grantor has misappropriated any trade secrets of any other Person in the course of the performance of his or her duties as an employee, independent contractor or agent of such Grantor; and (C) no employee, independent contractor or agent of such Grantor is in default or breach of any term of any employment agreement, non-disclosure agreement, assignment of inventions agreement or similar agreement or contract relating in any way to the protection, ownership, development, use or transfer of such Grantor’s Intellectual Property Collateral.
     (ix) No Grantor or Intellectual Property Collateral is subject to any outstanding consent, settlement, decree, order, injunction, judgment or ruling restricting the use of any Intellectual Property Collateral or that would impair the validity or enforceability of such Intellectual Property Collateral.
     (o) Such Grantor has no commercial tort claims (as defined in Section 9-102(13) of the UCC) other than those listed in Schedule IX hereto.
     (p) Such Grantor has no commodity contracts or commodity accounts.
     (q) Such Grantor has no security entitlements with respect to any financial assets other than Pledged Equity, Pledged Debt and entitlements credited to the Securities Accounts identified in Part III of Schedule VII and legal, binding and enforceable Securities Control Agreements are in effect for each Securities Account. With respect to Securities Control Agreements executed prior to December 2007, where the ownership of the account holder has changed or as requested by the Administrative Agent, legal, binding and enforceable Account Control Ratifications are in effect.
     (r) All of the Assigned Agreements are listed on Schedule III hereto.
          Section 10. Further Assurances. (a) Each Grantor agrees that from time to time, at the expense of such Grantor, such Grantor will promptly execute and deliver, or otherwise authenticate, all further instruments and documents, and take all further action that may be necessary or desirable, or that the Administrative Agent may request, in order to perfect and protect any pledge or security interest

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granted or purported to be granted by such Grantor hereunder or to enable the Administrative Agent to exercise and enforce its rights and remedies hereunder with respect to any Collateral of such Grantor. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Grantor will promptly with respect to Collateral of such Grantor: (i) mark conspicuously each document included in Inventory, each chattel paper included in Receivables, each Related Contract, each Assigned Agreement and, at the request of the Administrative Agent, each of its records pertaining to such Collateral with a legend, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, indicating that such document, chattel paper, Related Contract, Assigned Agreement or Collateral is subject to the security interest granted hereby; (ii) if any such Collateral shall be evidenced by a promissory note or other instrument or chattel paper, deliver and pledge to the Administrative Agent hereunder such note or instrument or chattel paper duly indorsed and accompanied by duly executed instruments of transfer or assignment, all in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; (iii) execute or authenticate and file such financing or continuation statements, or amendments thereto, and such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or desirable, or as the Administrative Agent may request, in order to perfect and preserve the security interest granted or purported to be granted by such Grantor hereunder; (iv) deliver and pledge to the Administrative Agent for benefit of the Secured Parties certificates representing Security Collateral that constitutes certificated securities, accompanied by undated stock or bond powers executed in blank; (v) take all action necessary to ensure that the Administrative Agent has control of Collateral consisting of deposit accounts, electronic chattel paper, investment property, letter-of-credit rights and transferable records as provided in Sections 9-104, 9-105, 9-106 and 9-107 of the UCC and in Section 16 of UETA; (vi) at the request of the Administrative Agent, take all action to ensure that the Administrative Agent’s security interest is noted on any certificate of ownership related to any Collateral evidenced by a certificate of ownership; (vii) at the request of the Administrative Agent, cause the Administrative Agent to be the beneficiary under Collateral L/Cs, with the exclusive right to make all draws under the Collateral L/Cs, and with all rights of a transferee under Section 5-114(e) of the UCC; and (viii) deliver to the Administrative Agent evidence that all other action that the Administrative Agent may deem reasonably necessary or desirable in order to perfect and protect the security interest created by such Grantor under this Agreement has been taken. From time to time upon request by the Administrative Agent, each Grantor will, at such Grantor’s expense, cause to be delivered to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, an opinion of counsel, from outside counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, as to such matters relating to the transactions contemplated hereby as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.
          (b) Each Grantor hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to file one or more financing or continuation statements, and amendments thereto, including, without limitation, one or more financing statements indicating that such financing statements cover all assets or all personal property (or words of similar effect) of such Grantor, in each case without the signature of such Grantor, and regardless of whether any particular asset described in such financing statements falls within the scope of the UCC or the granting clause of this Agreement. A photocopy or other reproduction of this Agreement or any financing statement covering the Collateral or any part thereof shall be sufficient as a financing statement where permitted by law. Each Grantor ratifies its authorization for the Administrative Agent to have filed such financing statements, continuation statements or amendments filed prior to the date hereof.
          (c) Each Grantor will furnish to the Administrative Agent from time to time statements and schedules further identifying and describing the Collateral of such Grantor and such other reports in connection with such Collateral as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, all in reasonable detail.

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          (d) Within two Business Days after the request of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall open the Collateral Account and the L/C Collateral Account with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, or such other financial institution as the Administrative Agent may direct.
          Section 11. As to Equipment and Inventory. (a) Each Grantor will keep the Equipment and Inventory of such Grantor (other than Inventory sold in the ordinary course of business) at the places therefor specified in Section 9(b) or at such other locations designated by the Grantor by written notice to the Administrative Agent within 10 days of the placement of any Equipment and Inventory at such other locations. Upon the giving of such notice, Schedule IV shall be automatically amended to add any new locations specified in the notice.
          (b) Each Grantor will cause the Equipment of such Grantor to be maintained and preserved in the same condition, repair and working order as when new, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and in accordance with any manufacturer’s manual, and will forthwith, or in the case of any loss or damage to any of such Equipment as soon as practicable after the occurrence thereof, make or cause to be made all repairs, replacements and other improvements in connection therewith that are necessary or desirable to such end. Each Grantor will promptly furnish to the Administrative Agent a statement respecting any loss or damage to any of the Equipment or Inventory of such Grantor.
          (c) Each Grantor will pay promptly when due all property and other taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon, and all claims (including, without limitation, claims for labor, materials and supplies) against, the Equipment and Inventory of such Grantor, except to the extent payment thereof is not required by Section 5.01(b) of the Credit Agreement. In producing its Inventory, each Grantor will comply with all requirements of applicable law, including, without limitation, the Fair Labor Standards Act.
          Section 12. Insurance. (a) Each Grantor will, at its own expense, maintain insurance with respect to the Equipment and Inventory of such Grantor in such amounts, against such risks, in such form and with such insurers, as shall be satisfactory to the Administrative Agent from time to time. Each policy of each Grantor for liability insurance shall provide for all losses to be paid on behalf of the Administrative Agent and such Grantor as their interests may appear, and each policy for property damage insurance shall provide for all losses (except for losses of less than $500,000 per occurrence) to be paid directly to the Administrative Agent. Each such policy shall in addition (i) name such Grantor and the Administrative Agent as insured parties thereunder (without any representation or warranty by or obligation upon the Administrative Agent) as their interests may appear, (ii) contain the agreement by the insurer that any loss thereunder shall be payable to the Administrative Agent notwithstanding any action, inaction or breach of representation or warranty by such Grantor, (iii) provide that there shall be no recourse against the Administrative Agent for payment of premiums or other amounts with respect thereto and (iv) provide that at least 10 days’ prior written notice of cancellation or of lapse shall be given to the Administrative Agent by the insurer. Each Grantor will, at the request of the Administrative Agent, duly execute and deliver instruments of assignment of such insurance policies to comply with the requirements of Section 11 and cause the insurers to acknowledge notice of such assignment.
          (b) Reimbursement under any liability insurance maintained by any Grantor pursuant to this Section 12 may be paid directly to the Person who shall have incurred liability covered by such insurance. In case of any loss involving damage to Equipment or Inventory when subsection (c) of this Section 12 is not applicable, the applicable Grantor will make or cause to be made the necessary repairs to or replacements of such Equipment or Inventory, and any proceeds of insurance properly received by or released to such Grantor shall be used by such Grantor, except as otherwise required hereunder or by the Credit Agreement, to pay or as reimbursement for the costs of such repairs or replacements.

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          (c) So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, all insurance payments received by the Administrative Agent in connection with any loss, damage or destruction of any Inventory or Equipment will be released by the Administrative Agent to the applicable Grantor for the repair, replacement or restoration thereof, subject to such terms and conditions with respect to the release thereof as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require. To the extent that (i) the amount of any such insurance payments exceeds the cost of any such repair, replacement or restoration, or (ii) such insurance payments are not otherwise required by the applicable Grantor to complete any such repair, replacement or restoration required hereunder, the Administrative Agent will not be required to release the amount thereof to such Grantor and may hold or continue to hold such amount in the Collateral Account as additional security for the Secured Obligations of such Grantor (except that the Administrative Agent will direct the applicable Pledged Account Bank to release to such Grantor any such amount if and to the extent that any prepayment of Obligations is required under the Credit Agreement in connection with the receipt of such amount and such prepayment has been made). Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default or the actual or constructive total loss (in excess of $500,000 per occurrence) of any Equipment or Inventory, all insurance payments in respect of such Equipment or Inventory shall be paid to the Administrative Agent and shall, in the Administrative Agent’s sole discretion, (i) be released to the applicable Grantor to be applied as set forth in the first sentence of this subsection (c) or (ii) be held as additional Collateral hereunder or applied as specified in Section 23(b).
          Section 13. Post-Closing Changes; Bailees; Collections on Assigned Agreements, Receivables and Related Contracts. (a) No Grantor will change its name, type of organization, jurisdiction of organization, organizational identification number or location from those set forth in Section 9(a) of this Agreement without first giving at least 30 days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and taking all action required by the Administrative Agent for the purpose of perfecting or protecting the security interest granted by this Agreement. No Grantor will change the location of the Equipment and Inventory or the place where it keeps the originals of the Assigned Agreements and Related Contracts to which such Grantor is a party and all originals of all chattel paper that evidence Receivables of such Grantor from the locations therefor specified in Sections 9(a) and 9(b) without first giving the Administrative Agent 30 days’ prior written notice of such change. No Grantor will become bound by a security agreement authenticated by another Person (determined as provided in Section 9-203(d) of the UCC) without giving the Administrative Agent 30 days’ prior written notice thereof and taking all action required by the Administrative Agent to ensure that the perfection and first priority nature of the Administrative Agent’s security interest in the Collateral will be maintained. Each Grantor will hold and preserve its records relating to the Collateral, including, without limitation, the Assigned Agreements and Related Contracts, and will permit representatives of the Administrative Agent at any time during normal business hours to inspect and make abstracts from such records and other documents. If the Grantor does not have an organizational identification number and later obtains one, it will forthwith notify the Administrative Agent of such organizational identification number.
          (b) If any Collateral of any Grantor is at any time in the possession or control of a warehouseman, bailee or agent, or if the Administrative Agent so requests such Grantor will (i) notify such warehouseman, bailee or agent of the security interest created hereunder, (ii) instruct such warehouseman, bailee or agent to hold all such Collateral solely for the Administrative Agent’s account subject only to the Administrative Agent’s instructions (which shall permit such Collateral to be removed by such Grantor in the ordinary course of business until the Administrative Agent notifies such warehouseman, bailee or agent that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing), (iii) use commercially reasonable efforts, to cause such warehouseman, bailee or agent to authenticate a record acknowledging that it holds possession of such Collateral for the Administrative Agent’s benefit and shall act solely on the instructions of the Administrative Agent without the further consent of the Grantor or any other Person, and (iv) make such authenticated record available to the Administrative Agent.

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          (c) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection (c), each Grantor will continue to collect, at its own expense, all amounts due or to become due such Grantor under the Assigned Agreements, Receivables and Related Contracts. In connection with such collections, such Grantor may take (and, at the Administrative Agent’s direction, will take) such action as such Grantor or the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or advisable to enforce collection of the Assigned Agreements, Receivables and Related Contracts; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent shall have the right at any time, upon written notice to such Grantor of its intention to do so, to notify the Obligors under any Assigned Agreements, Receivables and Related Contracts of the assignment of such Assigned Agreements, Receivables and Related Contracts to the Administrative Agent and to direct such Obligors to make payment of all amounts due or to become due to such Grantor thereunder directly to the Administrative Agent and, upon such notification and at the expense of such Grantor, to enforce collection of any such Assigned Agreements, Receivables and Related Contracts, to adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment thereof, in the same manner and to the same extent as such Grantor might have done, and to otherwise exercise all rights with respect to such Assigned Agreements, Receivables and Related Contracts, including, without limitation, those set forth set forth in Section 9-607 of the UCC. After receipt by any Grantor of the notice from the Administrative Agent referred to in the proviso to the preceding sentence, (i) all amounts and proceeds (including, without limitation, instruments) received by such Grantor in respect of the Assigned Agreements, Receivables and Related Contracts of such Grantor shall be received in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent hereunder, shall be segregated from other funds of such Grantor and shall be forthwith, but in no event prior to the date on which the Collateral Account has been opened, paid over to the Administrative Agent in the same form as so received (with any necessary indorsement) to be deposited in the Collateral Account and either (A) released to such Grantor on the terms set forth in Section 7 so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or (B) if any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, applied as provided in Section 23(b) and (ii) such Grantor will not adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment of any Receivable or amount due on any Assigned Agreement or Related Contract, release wholly or partly any Obligor thereof, or allow any credit or discount thereon. No Grantor will permit or consent to the subordination of its right to payment under any of the Assigned Agreements, Receivables and Related Contracts to any other indebtedness or obligations of the Obligor thereof.
          Section 14. As to Intellectual Property Collateral. (a) With respect to each item of its Intellectual Property Collateral, each Grantor agrees to take, at its expense, all necessary steps, including, without limitation, in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office and any other governmental authority, to (i) maintain the validity and enforceability of such Intellectual Property Collateral and maintain such Intellectual Property Collateral in full force and effect, and (ii) pursue the registration and maintenance of each patent, trademark, or copyright registration or application, now or hereafter included in such Intellectual Property Collateral of such Grantor, including, without limitation, the payment of required fees and taxes, the filing of responses to office actions issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office or other governmental authorities, the filing of applications for renewal or extension, the filing of affidavits under Sections 8 and 15 of the U.S. Trademark Act, the filing of divisional, continuation, continuation-in-part, reissue and renewal applications or extensions, the payment of maintenance fees and the participation in interference, reexamination, opposition, cancellation, infringement and misappropriation proceedings. No Grantor shall, without the written consent of the Administrative Agent, discontinue use of or otherwise abandon any Intellectual Property Collateral, or abandon any right to file an application for patent, trademark, or copyright, unless such Grantor shall have previously determined that such use or the pursuit or maintenance of such Intellectual Property Collateral is no longer desirable in the conduct of such Grantor’s business and that the loss thereof would not be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, in which case, such Grantor will give prompt notice of any such abandonment to the Administrative Agent.

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          (b) Each Grantor agrees promptly to notify the Administrative Agent if such Grantor becomes aware (i) that any item of the Intellectual Property Collateral may have become abandoned, placed in the public domain, invalid or unenforceable, or of any adverse determination or development regarding such Grantor’s ownership of any of the Intellectual Property Collateral or its right to register the same or to keep and maintain and enforce the same, or (ii) of any adverse determination or the institution of any proceeding (including, without limitation, the institution of any proceeding in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or any court) regarding any item of the Intellectual Property Collateral.
          (c) In the event that any Grantor becomes aware that any item of the Intellectual Property Collateral is being infringed or misappropriated by a third party, such Grantor shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and shall take such actions, at its expense, as such Grantor or the Administrative Agent deems reasonable and appropriate under the circumstances to protect or enforce such Intellectual Property Collateral, including, without limitation, suing for infringement or misappropriation and for an injunction against such infringement or misappropriation.
          (d) Each Grantor shall use proper statutory notice in connection with its use of each item of its Intellectual Property Collateral. No Grantor shall do or permit any act or knowingly omit to do any act whereby any of its Intellectual Property Collateral may lapse or become invalid or unenforceable or placed in the public domain.
          (e) Each Grantor shall take all steps which it or the Administrative Agent deems reasonable and appropriate under the circumstances to preserve and protect each item of its Intellectual Property Collateral, including, without limitation, maintaining the quality of any and all products or services used or provided in connection with any of the Trademarks, consistent with the quality of the products and services as of the date hereof, and taking all steps necessary to ensure that all licensed users of any of the Trademarks use such consistent standards of quality.
          (f) With respect to its Intellectual Property Collateral, each Grantor agrees to execute or otherwise authenticate an agreement, in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit F hereto or otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (an “Intellectual Property Security Agreement”), for recording the security interest granted hereunder to the Administrative Agent in such Intellectual Property Collateral with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office and any other governmental authorities necessary to perfect the security interest hereunder in such Intellectual Property Collateral.
          (g) Each Grantor agrees that should it obtain an ownership interest in any item of the type set forth in Section 1(g) that is not on the date hereof a part of the Intellectual Property Collateral (“After-Acquired Intellectual Property”) (i) the provisions of this Agreement shall automatically apply thereto, and (ii) any such After-Acquired Intellectual Property and, in the case of trademarks, the goodwill symbolized thereby, shall automatically become part of the Intellectual Property Collateral subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement with respect thereto. Each Grantor shall give prompt written notice to the Administrative Agent identifying the After-Acquired Intellectual Property, and such Grantor shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent with such written notice, or otherwise authenticate, an agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto or otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (an “IP Security Agreement Supplement”) covering such After-Acquired Intellectual Property which IP Security Agreement Supplement shall be recorded with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office and any other governmental authorities necessary to perfect the security interest hereunder in such After-Acquired Intellectual Property.
          Section 15. Voting Rights; Dividends; Etc. (a) So long as no Default under Section 6.01(a) or (f) of the Credit Agreement or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing:

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     (i) Each Grantor shall be entitled to exercise any and all voting and other consensual rights pertaining to the Security Collateral of such Grantor or any part thereof for any purpose other than originate Entitlement Orders (as defined in any Securities Account Control Agreement) with respect to the Securities Account or the Commodity Account; provided however, that such Grantor will not exercise or refrain from exercising any such right if such action would have a material adverse effect on the value of the Security Collateral or any part thereof.
     (ii) Each Grantor shall be entitled to receive and retain any and all dividends, interest and other distributions paid in respect of the Security Collateral of such Grantor if and to the extent that the payment thereof is not otherwise prohibited by the terms of the Loan Documents; provided, however, that any and all
     (A) dividends, interest and other distributions paid or payable other than in cash in respect of, and instruments and other property received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of, or in exchange for, any Security Collateral,
     (B) dividends and other distributions paid or payable in cash in respect of any Security Collateral in connection with a partial or total liquidation or dissolution or in connection with a reduction of capital, capital surplus or paid-in-surplus and
     (C) cash paid, payable or otherwise distributed in respect of principal of, or in redemption of, or in exchange for, any Security Collateral
shall be, and shall be forthwith delivered to the Administrative Agent to hold as, Security Collateral and shall, if received by such Grantor, be received in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, be segregated from the other property or funds of such Grantor and be forthwith delivered to the Administrative Agent as Security Collateral in the same form as so received (with any necessary indorsement).
     (iii) The Administrative Agent will execute and deliver (or cause to be executed and delivered) to each Grantor all such proxies and other instruments as such Grantor may reasonably request for the purpose of enabling such Grantor to exercise the voting and other rights that it is entitled to exercise pursuant to paragraph (i) above and to receive the dividends or interest payments that it is authorized to receive and retain pursuant to paragraph (ii) above.
          (b) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default under Section 6.01(a) or (f) of the Credit Agreement or an Event of Default:
     (i) All rights of each Grantor (x) to exercise or refrain from exercising the voting and other consensual rights that it would otherwise be entitled to exercise pursuant to Section 15(a)(i) shall, upon notice to such Grantor by the Administrative Agent, cease and (y) to receive the dividends, interest and other distributions that it would otherwise be authorized to receive and retain pursuant to Section 15(a)(ii) shall automatically cease, and all such rights shall thereupon become vested in the Administrative Agent, which shall thereupon have the sole right to exercise or refrain from exercising such voting and other consensual rights and to receive and hold as Security Collateral such dividends, interest and other distributions.
     (ii) All dividends, interest and other distributions that are received by any Grantor contrary to the provisions of paragraph (i) of this Section 15(b) shall be received in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, shall be segregated from other funds of such Grantor and

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shall be forthwith paid over to the Administrative Agent as Security Collateral in the same form as so received (with any necessary indorsement).
     (iii) The Administrative Agent shall be authorized to send to each Securities Intermediary or Commodity Intermediary as defined in and under any Security Control Agreement a Notice of Exclusive Control as defined in and under such Security Control Agreement.
     Section 16. As to the Assigned Agreements. (a) Each Grantor will at its expense:
     (i) perform and observe all terms and provisions of the Assigned Agreements to be performed or observed by it, maintain the Assigned Agreements to which it is a party in full force and effect, enforce the Assigned Agreements to which it is a party in accordance with the terms thereof and take all such action to such end as may be requested from time to time by the Administrative Agent; and
     (ii) furnish to the Administrative Agent promptly upon receipt thereof copies of all notices, requests and other documents received by such Grantor under or pursuant to the Assigned Agreements to which it is a party, and from time to time (A) furnish to the Administrative Agent such information and reports regarding the Assigned Agreements and such other Collateral of such Grantor as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request and (B) upon request of the Administrative Agent make to each other party to any Assigned Agreement to which it is a party such demands and requests for information and reports or for action as such Grantor is entitled to make thereunder.
          (b) Each Grantor agrees that it will not, except to the extent otherwise permitted under the Credit Agreement:
     (i) cancel or terminate any Assigned Agreement to which it is a party or consent to or accept any cancellation or termination thereof;
     (ii) amend, amend and restate, supplement or otherwise modify any such Assigned Agreement or give any consent, waiver or approval thereunder;
     (iii) waive any default under or breach of any such Assigned Agreement; or
     (iv) take any other action in connection with any such Assigned Agreement that would impair the value of the interests or rights of such Grantor thereunder or that would impair the interests or rights of any Secured Party.
          (c) Each Grantor hereby consents on its behalf and on behalf of its Subsidiaries to the assignment and pledge to the Administrative Agent for benefit of the Secured Parties of each Assigned Agreement to which it is a party by any other Grantor hereunder.
          Section 17. Payments Under the Assigned Agreements. (a) Each Grantor agrees, and has effectively so instructed each other party to each Assigned Agreement to which it is a party, that all payments due or to become due under or in connection with such Assigned Agreement will be made directly to a Deposit Account.
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Section 6.01(a) or (f) of the Credit Agreement or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or (ii) if any Default under Section 6.01(a) or (f) of the Credit Agreement or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, applied as provided in Section 23(b).
          Section 18. As to Letter-of-Credit Rights. (a) Each Grantor, by granting a security interest in its Receivables consisting of letter-of-credit rights to the Administrative Agent, intends to (and hereby does) assign to the Administrative Agent its rights (including its contingent rights) to the proceeds of all Related Contracts consisting of letters of credit of which it is or hereafter becomes a beneficiary or assignee. Each Grantor will promptly cause the issuer of each Collateral L/C and each nominated person (if any) with respect thereto to consent to such assignment of the proceeds thereof in substantially the form of the Consent to Assignment of Letter of Credit Rights attached hereto as Exhibit H or otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and deliver written evidence of such consent to the Administrative Agent.
          (b) Upon the occurrence of a Default under Section 6.01(a) or (f) of the Credit Agreement or Event of Default, each Grantor will, promptly upon request by the Administrative Agent, (i) notify (and such Grantor hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to notify) the issuer and each nominated person with respect to each of the Related Contracts consisting of Collateral L/Cs and any payments due or to become due in respect thereof are to be made directly to the Administrative Agent or its designee and (ii) arrange for the Administrative Agent to become the transferee beneficiary of the Collateral L/Cs.
          Section 19. Transfers and Other Liens; Additional Shares. (a) Each Grantor agrees that it will not (i) sell, assign or otherwise dispose of, or grant any option with respect to, any of the Collateral, other than sales, assignments and other dispositions of Collateral, and options relating to Collateral, permitted under the terms of the Credit Agreement, or (ii) create or suffer to exist any Lien upon or with respect to any of the Collateral of such Grantor except for the pledge, assignment and security interest created under this Agreement and Permitted Liens.
          (b) In the case where a subsidiary of a Loan Party is the issuer of Pledged Equity each Grantor agrees that it will (i) cause each issuer of the Pledged Equity pledged by such Grantor not to issue any Equity Interests or other securities in addition to or in substitution for the Pledged Equity issued by such issuer, except to such Grantor, and (ii) pledge hereunder, immediately upon its acquisition (directly or indirectly) thereof, any and all additional Equity Interests or other securities.
          Section 20. Administrative Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact . Each Grantor hereby irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent such Grantor’s attorney-in-fact, with full authority in the place and stead of such Grantor and in the name of such Grantor or otherwise, from time to time, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default, in the Administrative Agent’s discretion, to take any action and to execute any instrument that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, including, without limitation:
     (a) to obtain and adjust insurance required to be paid to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 12,
     (b) to ask for, demand, collect, sue for, recover, compromise, receive and give acquittance and receipts for moneys due and to become due under or in respect of any of the Collateral,
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     (d) to file any claims or take any action or institute any proceedings that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or desirable for the collection of any of the Collateral or otherwise to enforce compliance with the terms and conditions of any Assigned Agreement or the rights of the Administrative Agent with respect to any of the Collateral.
          Section 21. Administrative Agent May Perform. If any Grantor fails to perform any agreement contained herein, the Administrative Agent may, but without any obligation to do so and without notice, itself perform, or cause performance of, such agreement, and the expenses of the Administrative Agent incurred in connection therewith shall be payable by such Grantor under Section 24.
          Section 22. The Administrative Agent’s Duties. (a) The powers conferred on the Administrative Agent hereunder are solely to protect the Secured Parties’ interest in the Collateral and shall not impose any duty upon it to exercise any such powers. Except for the safe custody of any Collateral in its possession and the accounting for moneys actually received by it hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall have no duty as to any Collateral, as to ascertaining or taking action with respect to calls, conversions, exchanges, maturities, tenders or other matters relative to any Collateral, whether or not any Secured Party has or is deemed to have knowledge of such matters, or as to the taking of any necessary steps to preserve rights against any parties or any other rights pertaining to any Collateral. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody and preservation of any Collateral in its possession if such Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to that which it accords its own property.
          (b) Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Administrative Agent may from time to time, when the Administrative Agent deems it to be necessary, appoint one or more subagents (each a “Subagent”) for the Administrative Agent hereunder with respect to all or any part of the Collateral. In the event that the Administrative Agent so appoints any Subagent with respect to any Collateral, (i) the assignment and pledge of such Collateral and the security interest granted in such Collateral by each Grantor hereunder shall be deemed for purposes of this Security Agreement to have been made to such Subagent, in addition to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, as security for the Secured Obligations of such Grantor, (ii) such Subagent shall automatically be vested, in addition to the Administrative Agent, with all rights, powers, privileges, interests and remedies of the Administrative Agent hereunder with respect to such Collateral, and (iii) the term “Administrative Agent,” when used herein in relation to any rights, powers, privileges, interests and remedies of the Administrative Agent with respect to such Collateral, shall include such Subagent; provided, however, that no such Subagent shall be authorized to take any action with respect to any such Collateral unless and except to the extent expressly authorized in writing by the Administrative Agent.
          Section 23. Remedies. If any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing:
     (a) The Administrative Agent may exercise in respect of the Collateral, in addition to other rights and remedies provided for herein or otherwise available to it, all the rights and remedies of a secured party upon default under the UCC (whether or not the UCC applies to the affected Collateral) and also may: (i) require each Grantor to, and each Grantor hereby agrees that it will at its expense and upon request of the Administrative Agent forthwith, assemble all or part of the Collateral as directed by the Administrative Agent and make it available to the Administrative Agent at a place and time to be designated by the Administrative Agent that is reasonably convenient to both parties; (ii) without notice except as specified below, sell the Collateral or any part thereof in one or more parcels at public or private sale, at any of the Administrative Agent’s offices or elsewhere, for cash, on credit or for future delivery, and upon

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such other terms as the Administrative Agent may deem commercially reasonable; (iii) occupy any premises owned or leased by any of the Grantors where the Collateral or any part thereof is assembled or located for a reasonable period in order to effectuate its rights and remedies hereunder or under law, without obligation to such Grantor in respect of such occupation; and (iv) exercise any and all rights and remedies of any of the Grantors under or in connection with the Collateral, or otherwise in respect of the Collateral, including, without limitation, (A) any and all rights of such Grantor to demand or otherwise require payment of any amount under, or performance of any provision of, the Assigned Agreements, the Receivables, the Related Contracts and the other Collateral, (B) withdraw, or cause or direct the withdrawal, of all funds with respect to the Account Collateral and (C) exercise all other rights and remedies with respect to the Assigned Agreements, the Receivables, the Related Contracts and the other Collateral, including, without limitation, those set forth in Section 9-607 of the UCC. Each Grantor agrees that, to the extent notice of sale shall be required by law, at least ten days’ notice to such Grantor of the time and place of any public sale or the time after which any private sale is to be made shall constitute reasonable notification. The Administrative Agent shall not be obligated to make any sale of Collateral regardless of notice of sale having been given. The Administrative Agent may adjourn any public or private sale from time to time by announcement at the time and place fixed therefor, and such sale may, without further notice, be made at the time and place to which it was so adjourned.
     (b) Any cash held by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent and all cash proceeds received by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent in respect of any sale of, collection from, or other realization upon all or any part of the Collateral may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for, and/or then or at any time thereafter applied (after payment of any amounts payable to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 24) in whole or in part by the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties against, all or any part of the Secured Obligations, in the following manner:
     (i) first, paid to the Administrative Agent for any amounts then owing to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.04 of the Credit Agreement or otherwise under the Loan Documents; and
     (ii) second, ratably (A) paid to the Lender Parties and the Hedge Banks, respectively, for any amounts then owing to them, in their capacities as such, under the Loan Documents ratably in accordance with such respective amounts then owing to such Lender Parties and the Hedge Banks, provided that, for purposes of this Section 23, the amount owing to any such Hedge Bank pursuant to any Secured Hedge Agreement to which it is a party (other than any amount therefore accrued and unpaid) shall be deemed to be equal to the Agreement Value therefor and (B) deposited as Collateral in the L/C Collateral Account up to an amount equal to 100% of the aggregate Available Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit, provided that in the event that any such Letter of Credit is drawn, the Administrative Agent shall pay to the Issuing Bank that issued such Letter of Credit the amount held in the L/C Collateral Account in respect of such Letter of Credit, provided further that, to the extent that any such Letter of Credit shall expire or terminate undrawn and as a result thereof the amount of the Collateral in the L/C Collateral Account shall exceed 100% of the aggregate Available Amount of all then outstanding Letters of Credit, such excess amount of such Collateral shall be applied in accordance with the remaining order of priority set out in this Section 23(b).

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Any surplus of such cash or cash proceeds held by or on the behalf of the Administrative Agent and remaining after payment in full of all the Secured Obligations shall be paid over to the applicable Grantor or to whomsoever may be lawfully entitled to receive such surplus.
     (c) All payments received by any Grantor under or in connection with any Assigned Agreement or otherwise in respect of the Collateral shall be received in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, shall be segregated from other funds of such Grantor and shall be forthwith paid over to the Administrative Agent in the same form as so received (with any necessary indorsement).
     (d) The Administrative Agent may, without notice to any Grantor except as required by law and at any time or from time to time, charge, set-off and otherwise apply all or any part of the Secured Obligations against any funds held with respect to the Account Collateral or in any other deposit account.
     (e) In the event of any sale or other disposition of any of the Intellectual Property Collateral of any Grantor, the goodwill symbolized by any Trademarks subject to such sale or other disposition shall be included therein, and such Grantor shall supply to the Administrative Agent or its designee such Grantor’s know-how and expertise, and documents and things relating to any Intellectual Property Collateral subject to such sale or other disposition, and such Grantor’s customer lists and other records and documents relating to such Intellectual Property Collateral and to the manufacture, distribution, advertising and sale of products and services of such Grantor.
          Section 24. Indemnity and Expenses. (a) Each Grantor agrees to indemnify, defend and save and hold harmless each Secured Party and each of their Affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents and advisors (each, an “Indemnified Party”) from and against, and shall pay on demand, any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) that may be incurred by or asserted or awarded against any Indemnified Party, in each case arising out of or in connection with or resulting from this Agreement (including, without limitation, enforcement of this Agreement), except to the extent such claim, damage, loss, liability or expense is found in a final, non- appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Indemnified Party’s gross negligence or willful misconduct.
          (b) Each Grantor will upon demand pay to the Administrative Agent the amount of any and all reasonable expenses, including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and expenses of its counsel and of any experts and agents, that the Administrative Agent may incur in connection with (i) the administration of this Agreement, (ii) the custody, preservation, use or operation of, or the sale of, collection from or other realization upon, any of the Collateral of such Grantor, (iii) the exercise or enforcement of any of the rights of the Administrative Agent or the other Secured Parties hereunder or (iv) the failure by such Grantor to perform or observe any of the provisions hereof.
          Section 25. Amendments; Waivers; Additional Grantors; Etc. (a) No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, and no consent to any departure by any Grantor herefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given. No failure on the part of the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party to exercise, and no delay in exercising any right hereunder, shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right.

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          (b) Upon the execution and delivery, or authentication, by any Person of a security agreement supplement in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto (each a “Security Agreement Supplement”), (i) such Person shall be referred to as an “Additional Grantor” and shall be and become a Grantor hereunder, and each reference in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to “Grantor” shall also mean and be a reference to such Additional Grantor, and each reference in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to “Collateral” shall also mean and be a reference to the Collateral of such Additional Grantor, and (ii) the supplemental schedules I-X attached to each Security Agreement Supplement shall be incorporated into and become a part of and supplement Schedules I-X, respectively, hereto, and the Administrative Agent may attach such supplemental schedules to such Schedules; and each reference to such Schedules shall mean and be a reference to such Schedules as supplemented pursuant to each Security Agreement Supplement.
          Section 26. Notices, Etc. All notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be either (i) in writing (including telegraphic, telecopier or telex communication) and mailed, telegraphed, telecopied, telexed or otherwise delivered or (ii) by electronic mail (if electronic mail addresses are designated as provided below) confirmed immediately in writing, in the case of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, addressed to it at its address specified in the Credit Agreement and, in the case of each Grantor other than the Borrower, addressed to it at its address specified in the Credit Agreement or on the signature page to the Security Agreement Supplement pursuant to which it became a party hereto; or, as to any party, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other parties. All such notices and other communications shall, when mailed, telegraphed, telecopied, telexed, sent by electronic mail or otherwise, be effective when deposited in the mails, delivered to the telegraph company, telecopied, confirmed by telex answerback, sent by electronic mail and confirmed in writing, or otherwise delivered (or confirmed by a signed receipt), respectively, addressed as aforesaid; except that notices and other communications to the Administrative Agent shall not be effective until received by the Administrative Agent. Delivery by telecopier of an executed counterpart of any amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or of any Security Agreement Supplement or Schedule hereto shall be effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart thereof.
          Section 27. Continuing Security Interest; Assignments under the Credit Agreement. This Agreement shall create a continuing security interest in the Collateral and shall (a) remain in full force and effect until the latest of (i) the payment in full in cash of the Secured Obligations, (ii) the Termination Date and (iii) the termination or expiration of all Letters of Credit and all Secured Hedge Agreements, (b) be binding upon each Grantor, its successors and assigns and (c) inure, together with the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent hereunder, to the benefit of the Secured Parties and their respective successors, transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing clause (c), any Lender Party may assign or otherwise transfer all or any portion of its rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement (including, without limitation, all or any portion of its Commitments, the Advances owing to it and the Note or Notes, if any, held by it) to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to such Lender Party herein or otherwise, in each case as provided in Section 8.07 of the Credit Agreement.
          Section 28. Release; Termination. (a) Upon any sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of any item of Collateral of any Grantor in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents (other than sales of Inventory in the ordinary course of business), the Administrative Agent will, at such Grantor’s expense, execute and deliver to such Grantor such documents as such Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence the release of such item of Collateral from the assignment and security interest granted hereby; provided, however, that (i) at the time of such request and such release no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (ii) such Grantor shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent, at least ten Business Days prior to the date of the proposed release, a written request for release describing

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the item of Collateral and the terms of the sale, lease, transfer or other disposition in reasonable detail, including, without limitation, the price thereof and any expenses in connection therewith, together with a form of release for execution by the Administrative Agent and a certificate of such Grantor to the effect that the transaction is in compliance with the Loan Documents and as to such other matters as the Administrative Agent may request and (iii) the proceeds of any such sale, lease, transfer or other disposition required to be applied, or any payment to be made in connection therewith, in accordance with Section 2.06 of the Credit Agreement shall, to the extent so required, be paid or made to, or in accordance with the instructions of, the Administrative Agent when and as required under Section 2.06 of the Credit Agreement.
          (b) Upon the latest of (i) the payment in full in cash of the Secured Obligations, (ii) the Termination Date and (iii) the termination or expiration of all Letters of Credit and all Secured Hedge Agreements, the pledge and security interest granted hereby shall terminate and all rights to the Collateral shall revert to the applicable Grantor. Upon any such termination, the Administrative Agent will, at the applicable Grantor’s expense, execute and deliver to such Grantor such documents as such Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination.
          Section 29. Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement by telecopier shall be effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart of this Agreement.
          Section 30. The Mortgages. In the event that any of the Collateral hereunder is also subject to a valid and enforceable Lien under the terms of any Mortgage and the terms of such Mortgage are inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, then with respect to such Collateral, the terms of such Mortgage shall be controlling in the case of fixtures and real estate leases, letting and licenses of, and contracts and agreements relating to the lease of, real property, and the terms of this Agreement shall be controlling in the case of all other Collateral.
          Section 31. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Grantor has caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by its officer thereunto duly authorized as of the date first above written.
             
    GRUBB & ELLIS COMPANY    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: EVP & CFO    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS AFFILIATES, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS OF ARIZONA, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS CONSULTING SERVICES COMPANY    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTIES, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    

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    GRUBB & ELLIS OF MICHIGAN, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS MORTGAGE GROUP, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS OF NEVADA, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS NEW YORK, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS ADVISERS OF CALIFORNIA, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
   
 
      Name: Richard W. Pehlke    
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    HSM INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
   
 
      Name: Richard W. Pehlke    
 
      Title: CFO    

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    WM. A. WHITE/GRUBB & ELLIS INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    LANDAUER HOSPITALITY INTERNATIONAL, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    LANDAUER SECURITIES, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS MANAGEMENT SERVICES OF MICHIGAN, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS EUROPE, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    NNN REALTY ADVISORS, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Michael J. Rispoli    
 
     
 
Name: Michael J. Rispoli
   
 
      Title: CFO    

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    GRUBB & ELLIS REALTY INVESTORS, LLC    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Michael J. Rispoli    
 
     
 
Name: Michael J. Rispoli
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    TRIPLE NET PROPERTIES REALTY, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Michael J. Rispoli    
 
     
 
Name: Michael J. Rispoli
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS RESIDENTIAL MANAGEMENT, INC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Michael J. Rispoli    
 
     
 
Name: Michael J. Rispoli
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GERA PROPERTY ACQUISITION LLC    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GERA 6400 SHAFER LLC    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
   
 
      Name: Richard W. Pehlke    
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GERA ABRAMS CENTRE LLC    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Richard W. Pehlke    
 
     
 
Name: Richard W. Pehlke
   
 
      Title: CFO    

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    GRUBB & ELLIS ALESCO GLOBAL ADVISORS, LLC    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Joseph Welsh    
 
     
 
Name: Joseph Welsh
   
 
      Title: Chief Financial Officer    
 
           
    NNN/ROC APARTMENT HOLDINGS, LLC    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Michael J. Rispoli    
 
     
 
Name: Michael J. Rispoli
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS HOUSING, LLC    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Michael J. Rispoli    
 
     
 
Name: Michael J. Rispoli
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS APARTMENT REIT ADVISOR, LLC    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Stanley J. Olander, Jr.    
 
     
 
Name: Stanley J. Olander, Jr.
   
 
      Title: CEO and President    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS HEALTHCARE REIT ADVISOR, LLC    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Jeffrey T. Hanson    
 
     
 
Name: Jeffrey T. Hanson
   
 
      Title: CEO    
 
           
    GRUBB & ELLIS HEALTHCARE REIT II ADVISOR, LLC    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Jeffrey T. Hanson    
 
     
 
Name: Jeffrey T. Hanson
   
 
      Title: CEO    

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    NNN ROCKY MOUNTAIN EXCHANGE, LLC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Michael J. Rispoli    
 
     
 
Name: Michael J. Rispoli
   
 
      Title: CFO    
 
           
    NNN 200 GALLERIA MEMBER, LLC.    
 
           
 
  By   /s/ Michael J. Rispoli    
 
     
 
Name: Michael J. Rispoli
   
 
      Title: CFO    

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