SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
QUARTERLY REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
FOR THE QUARTER ENDED JUNE 30, 1997 COMMISSION FILE NUMBER 1-5467
VALHI, INC.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
DELAWARE 87-0110150
(State or other jurisdiction of (IRS Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
5430 LBJ FREEWAY, SUITE 1700, DALLAS, TEXAS 75240-2697
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
REGISTRANT'S TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE: (972) 233-1700
INDICATE BY CHECK MARK WHETHER THE REGISTRANT (1) HAS FILED ALL REPORTS REQUIRED
TO BE FILED BY SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 DURING
THE PRECEDING 12 MONTHS AND (2) HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO SUCH FILING REQUIREMENTS FOR
THE PAST 90 DAYS.
YES X NO
NUMBER OF SHARES OF COMMON STOCK OUTSTANDING ON JULY 31, 1997: 114,568,214.
VALHI, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
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NUMBER
PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Financial Statements.
Consolidated Balance Sheets - December 31, 1996
and June 30, 1997 3-4
Consolidated Statements of Operations -
Three months and six months ended June 30, 1996
and 1997 5
Consolidated Statement of Stockholders' Equity -
Six months ended June 30, 1997 6
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows -
Six months ended June 30, 1996 and 1997 7-8
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 9-23
Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations. 24-33
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings. 34
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. 35
Item 6. Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K. 35-36
VALHI, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(IN THOUSANDS)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
ASSETS DECEMBER 31, JUNE 30,
1996 1997
<S> <C> <C>
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents $ 255,679 $ 394,616
Marketable securities 142,478 148,810
Accounts and other receivables 155,430 186,338
Refundable income taxes 9,414 4,037
Receivable from affiliates 13,931 16,126
Inventories 251,597 200,108
Prepaid expenses 7,537 6,574
Deferred income taxes 1,597 1,358
Total current assets 837,663 957,967
Other assets:
Marketable securities 51,328 188,313
Investment in and advances to
joint ventures 196,697 198,981
Loans and notes receivable 3,240 91,036
Mining properties 36,441 31,880
Prepaid pension cost 25,313 23,703
Goodwill 258,359 248,548
Deferred income taxes 223 222
Other 45,479 35,419
Total other assets 617,080 818,102
Property and equipment:
Land 37,538 18,275
Buildings 189,875 152,076
Equipment 610,545 506,242
Construction in progress 15,723 5,560
853,681 682,153
Less accumulated depreciation 163,442 116,481
Net property and equipment 690,239 565,672
$2,144,982 $2,341,741
</TABLE>
VALHI, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (CONTINUED)
(IN THOUSANDS)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY DECEMBER 31, JUNE 30,
1996 1997
<S>
Current liabilities: <C> <C>
Notes payable $ 38,732 $ 23,168
Current long-term debt 235,648 182,700
Accounts payable 75,307 54,758
Accrued liabilities 127,935 119,355
Payable to affiliates 47,387 15,501
Income taxes 8,148 8,919
Deferred income taxes 30,523 35,474
Total current liabilities 563,680 439,875
Noncurrent liabilities:
Long-term debt 844,468 1,057,585
Accrued pension cost 59,215 53,984
Accrued OPEB cost 56,257 53,539
Accrued environmental costs 109,908 131,977
Deferred income taxes 178,049 194,044
Other 29,237 27,740
Total noncurrent liabilities 1,277,134 1,518,869
Minority interest 249 249
Stockholders' equity:
Common stock 1,248 1,252
Additional paid-in capital 35,258 37,647
Retained earnings 282,766 285,717
Adjustments:
Marketable securities 65,105 149,414
Currency translation (6,210) (17,034)
Pension liabilities (3,160) (3,160)
Treasury stock (71,088) (71,088)
Total stockholders' equity 303,919 382,748
$2,144,982 $2,341,741
</TABLE>
Commitments and contingencies (Note 1)
VALHI, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
THREE MONTHS ENDED SIX MONTHS ENDED
JUNE 30,
1996* 1997 1996* 1997
<S>
Revenues and other income: <C> <C> <C> <C>
Net sales $284,890 $280,221 $546,541 $545,526
Other, net 12,502 23,276 25,044 39,977
297,392 303,497 571,585 585,503
Costs and expenses:
Cost of sales 212,247 212,264 399,538 417,031
Selling, general and 49,153 52,034 98,931 129,686
administrative
Interest 24,297 30,614 49,105 61,273
285,697 294,912 547,574 607,990
11,695 8,585 24,011 (22,487)
Equity in earnings (losses) of:
Waste Control Specialists (2,724) (2,418) (5,482)
(1,267)
Amalgamated Sugar Company 976 - 4,573 -
Income (loss) before income 11,404 5,861 26,166 (27,969)
taxes
Provision for income taxes 3,602 3,205 7,433 (7,493)
(benefit)
Minority interest 2,299 20 4,620 28
Income (loss) from continuing
operations 5,503 2,636 14,113 (20,504)
Discontinued operations 3,247 19,742 (11,051) 35,413
Extraordinary item -
Net income $ 8,750 $ 21,984 $ 3,062 $ 14,515
Earnings (loss) per common share:
Continuing operations $ .05 .02 $ .12 $ (.18)
Discontinued operations .03 .17 (.09) .31
Extraordinary item - - - -
Net income $ .08 $ .19 $ .03 $ .13
Cash dividends per share $ .05 $ .05 $ .10 $ .10
Weighted average common shares 114,639 115,012 114,604 114,902
outstanding
</TABLE>
*Reclassified.
VALHI, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 1997
(IN THOUSANDS)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
ADDITIONAL
COMMON PAID-IN RETAINED
STOCK CAPITAL EARNINGS
<S> <C> <C> <C>
Balance at December 31, $1,248 $35,258 $282,766
1996
Net income - - 14,515
Dividends - - (11,564)
Adjustments, net - - -
Other, net 4 2,389 -
Balance at June 30, 199 $1,252 $37,647 $285,717
</TABLE>
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
ADJUSTMENTS TOTAL
MARKETABLE CURRENCY PENSION TREASURY STOCKHOLDERS'
SECURITIES TRANSLATION LIABILITIES STOCK EQUITY
<C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Balance at December
31, 1996 $ 65,105 $ (6,210) $(3,160) $(71,088)$303,919
Net income - - - 14,515
Dividends - - - - (11,564)
Adjustments,
net 84,309 (10,824) - - 73,485
Other, net - - - - 2,393
Balance at June 30,
1997 $149,414 $(17,034) $(3,160) $(71,088)$382,748
</TABLE>
VALHI, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 1996 AND 1997
(IN THOUSANDS)
<TABLE><CAPTION>
1996* 1997
<S> <C> <C>
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net income $ 3,062 $ 14,515
Depreciation, depletion and amortization 32,345 31,482
Noncash interest expense 16,528 18,245
Change in accounting principle - 30,000
Deferred income taxes (6,177) (13,403)
Minority interest 4,620 28
Other, net (7,240) (7,391)
Equity in (earnings) losses of:
Discontinued operations 11,051 (35,413)
Waste Control Specialists 2,418 5,482
Amalgamated Sugar Company (4,573) -
52,034 43,545
Medite, net 12,595 (39,000)
Sybra, net 4,508 (1,078)
Amalgamated Sugar Company, net 21,388 -
Change in assets and liabilities:
Accounts and notes receivable (38,607) (41,392)
Inventories 9,888 30,055
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities (14,979) (1,971)
Other, net (11,757) 13,568
Net cash provided by operating 35,070 3,727
activities
Cash flows from investing activities:
Capital expenditures (33,027) (18,750)
Purchases of:
Marketable securities - (6,000)
Minority interest (16,971) -
Investment in Waste Control Specialists (10,000) (3,000)
Loans to affiliates:
Loans (7,400) (42,100)
Collections 10,400 18,100
Other loans and notes receivable:
Loans - (200,600)
Collections - 112,411
Pre-close dividend from Amalgamated Sugar - 11,518
Company
Medite, net (8,397) 34,733
Sybra, net (2,126) 53,929
Amalgamated Sugar Company, net (7,225) -
Other, net 1,839 6,417
Net cash used by investing activitie (72,907) (33,342)
</TABLE>
VALHI, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (CONTINUED)
SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 1996 AND 1997
(IN THOUSANDS)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
1996* 1997
<S> <C> <C>
Cash flows from financing activities:
Indebtedness:
Borrowings $ 92,712 $ 390,000
Principal payments (44,135) (221,682)
Deferred financing costs paid - (3,931)
Repayment of loan from affiliate - (7,244)
Valhi dividends paid (11,528) (11,564)
Distributions to minority interest (5,126) -
Medite, net (2,228) (9)
Sybra, net (2,329) 22,381
Amalgamated Sugar Company, net (14,624) -
Other, net 886 2,580
Net cash provided by financing 13,628 170,531
activities
Net change (24,209) 140,916
Currency translation (2,030) (1,979)
Cash and equivalents at beginning of period 170,908 255,679
Cash and equivalents at end of period $144,669 $ 394,616
Supplemental disclosures - cash paid for:
Interest, net of amounts capitalized $ 42,583 $ 43,860
Income taxes, net 17,066 33,098
</TABLE>
*Reclassified.
VALHI, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTE 1 - BASIS OF PRESENTATION:
The consolidated balance sheet of Valhi, Inc. and Subsidiaries
(collectively, the "Company") at December 31, 1996 has been condensed from the
Company's audited consolidated financial statements at that date. The
consolidated balance sheet at June 30, 1997 and the consolidated statements of
operations, cash flows and stockholders' equity for the interim periods ended
June 30, 1996 and 1997 have been prepared by the Company, without audit. In the
opinion of management, all adjustments necessary to present fairly the
consolidated financial position, results of operations and cash flows have been
made. The results of operations for the interim periods are not necessarily
indicative of the operating results for a full year or of future operations.
Certain information normally included in financial statements prepared in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles has been condensed or
omitted. The accompanying consolidated financial statements should be read in
conjunction with the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 1996 (the "1996 Annual Report"). Certain 1996 amounts have been
reclassified to conform to the 1997 presentation. See Notes 14 and 15.
The Company adopted the recognition requirements of Statement of Position
("SOP") No. 96-1, "Environmental Remediation Liabilities" in the first quarter
of 1997. The new rule, among other things, expands the types of costs that must
be considered in determining environmental remediation accruals. As a result of
adopting the new SOP, the Company recognized a noncash cumulative pre-tax charge
of $30 million ($19.5 million, or $.17 per share, net-of-tax) related to
environmental matters at 56%-owned NL Industries, Inc., which is comprised
primarily of estimated future undiscounted expenditures (principally legal and
professional fees) associated with managing and monitoring existing
environmental remediation sites. Previously, such expenditures were expensed as
incurred.
The extraordinary loss relates to the write-off of unamortized deferred
financing costs resulting from the early retirement of $27.6 million of Valcor's
Senior Notes in connection with the tender offer completed in April 1997. See
Note 11.
Commitments and contingencies are discussed in Notes 14 and 15,
"Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations," "Legal Proceedings" and the 1996 Annual Report.
Contran Corporation holds, directly or through subsidiaries, approximately
92% of Valhi's outstanding common stock.
NOTE 2 - BUSINESS SEGMENT INFORMATION:
OPERATIONS PRINCIPAL ENTITIES % OWNED
Chemicals NL Industries, Inc. 56%
Component products CompX International Inc. 100%
Waste management Waste Control Specialists 50%
NL's chemicals operations are conducted through its subsidiaries Kronos,
Inc. (titanium dioxide pigments or "TiO2") and Rheox, Inc. (specialty
chemicals). The Company's component products (CompX) subsidiary is owned by
Valcor, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Valhi. Each of NL (NYSE: NL) and
Valcor file periodic reports pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. The results of operations of Valcor's wholly-owned building products
subsidiary, conducted by Medite Corporation, and Valcor's wholly-owned fast food
subsidiary, conducted by Sybra, Inc., are presented as discontinued operations.
See Note 14. The refined sugar operations conducted by The Amalgamated Sugar
Company in 1996 are presented on the equity method. See Note 15.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
THREE MONTHS ENDED SIX MONTHS ENDED
JUNE 30, JUNE 30,
1996 1997 1996 1997
(IN MILLIONS) (IN MILLIONS)
<S> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Net sales:
Chemicals $263.2 $252.7 $503.6 $492.2
Component products 21.7 27.5 42.9 53.3
$284.9 $280.2 $546.5 $545.5
Operating income:
Chemicals $ 30.8 $ 23.9 $ 67.4 $ 37.4
Component products 5.0 6.9 9.4 13.2
35.8 30.8 76.8 50.6
General corporate items:
Securities earnings 2.4 16.6 5.1 31.3
Expenses, net (2.1) (8.2) (8.8) (43.1)
Interest expense (24.3) (30.6) (49.1) (61.3)
11.8 8.6 24.0 (22.5)
Equity in earnings (losses) of:
Waste Control Specialists (1.3) (2.8) (2.4) (5.5)
Amalagamated Sugar Company 1.0 - 4.6 -
Income (loss) before income $ 11.5 $ 5.8 $ 26.2 $(28.0)
taxes
</TABLE>
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30,
DEPRECIATION,
DEPLETION AND CAPITAL
AMORTIZATION EXPENDITURES
1996 1997 1996 1997
(IN MILLIONS)
<S> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Chemicals $30.6 $29.6 $31.3 $16.3
Component products 1.4 1.5 1.4 1.9
Other .3 .4 .3 .5
$32.3 $31.5 $33.0 $18.7
</TABLE>
NOTE 3 - EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE:
Earnings per share is based on the weighted average number of common shares
outstanding. Common stock equivalents are excluded from the computation because
they are either antidilutive or their dilutive effect is not material. The
Company will retroactively adopt Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
("SFAS") No. 128, "Earnings Per Share," effective December 31, 1997. Basic
earnings per share pursuant to SFAS No. 128 will be equivalent to earnings per
share presented herein, and diluted earnings per share pursuant to SFAS No. 128
is not expected to be materially different from basic earnings per share.
NOTE 4 - MARKETABLE SECURITIES:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
DECEMBER 31, JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN THOUSANDS)
<S> <C> <C>
Current asset (available-for-sale) -
Dresser Industries common stock $142,478 $148,810
Noncurrent assets (available-for-sale):
The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC $ 34,070 $163,311
Other securities 17,258 25,002
$ 51,328 $188,313
</TABLE>
At June 30, 1997, Valhi held 5.5 million shares of Dresser common stock with
a quoted market price of $37.25 per share, or an aggregate market value of
approximately $203 million (cost - $44 million). Valhi's LYONs are exchangeable
at any time, at the option of the LYONs holder, for such Dresser shares, and the
carrying value of the Dresser stock is limited to the accreted LYONs obligation.
See Note 11.
The Company's investment in The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC (cost - $34
million) is discussed in Note 15. The aggregate cost of other securities
(primarily common stocks) is approximately $22 million at June 30, 1997
(December 31, 1996 - $16 million).
NOTE 5 - INVENTORIES:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
DECEMBER 31, JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN THOUSANDS)
<S> <C> <C>
Raw materials:
Chemicals $ 43,284 $ 36,514
Component products 2,556 2,140
Building products 4,306 55
Fast food 1,406 -
51,552 38,709
In process products:
Chemicals 10,356 11,456
Component products 4,974 4,984
Building products 83 -
15,413 16,440
Finished products:
Chemicals 142,956 108,450
Component products 3,300 3,356
Building products 1,096 106
147,352 111,912
Supplies 37,280 33,047
$251,597 $200,108
</TABLE>
NOTE 6 - ACCRUED LIABILITIES:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
DECEMBER 31, JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN THOUSANDS)
<S> <C> <C>
Employee benefits $ 47,331 $ 37,222
Interest 11,157 10,583
Environmental costs 6,126 9,115
Plant closure costs 7,669 5,604
Miscellaneous taxes 5,262 5,599
Other 50,390 51,232
$127,935 $119,355
</TABLE>
NOTE 7 - ACCOUNTS WITH AFFILIATES:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
DECEMBER 31, JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN THOUSANDS)
<S> <C> <C>
Receivable from affiliates:
Demand loan to Contran $ - $16,000
Net dividend receivable from 11,518 -
Amalgamated
Other 2,413 126
$13,931 $16,126
Payable to affiliates:
Income taxes payable to Contran $29,633 $ 5,279
Demand loan from Contran 7,244 -
Tremont Corporation 3,529 3,157
Louisiana Pigment Company 6,677 7,129
Other, net 304 (64)
$47,387 $15,501
</TABLE>
NOTE 8 - LOANS AND NOTES RECEIVABLE:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
DECEMBER 31, JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN THOUSANDS)
<S> <C> <C>
Snake River Sugar Company $ - $80,000
Snake River Farms II - 6,689
Other 4,740 5,759
4,740 92,448
Less current portion 1,500 1,412
Noncurrent portion $3,240 $91,036
</TABLE>
Loans to Snake River Sugar Company and Snake River Farms II are discussed in
Note 15. At June 30, 1997, other loans and notes receivable include a $1.5
million loan to the other 50%-owner of Waste Control Specialists which is
collateralized by such owner's interest in Waste Control Specialists.
NOTE 9 - OTHER NONCURRENT ASSETS:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
DECEMBER 31, JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN THOUSANDS)
<S> <C> <C>
Investment in joint ventures:
TiO2 manufacturing joint venture $179,195 $175,688
Waste Control Specialists LLC 15,218 12,736
Other 2,284 2,557
196,697 190,981
Loan to Waste Control Specialists LLC - 8,000
$196,697 $198,981
Franchise fees and other intangible $ 19,215 $ 6,101
assets
Deferred financing costs 15,273 16,264
Property held for sale 4,681 7,457
Other 6,310 5,597
$ 45,479 $ 35,419
</TABLE>
In March 1997, the Company entered into an unsecured $10 million revolving
credit facility with Waste Control Specialists. Borrowings by Waste Control
Specialists bear interest at prime plus 1% and are due no later than December
31, 1998. Also in March 1997, Waste Control Specialists granted Valhi the
option to acquire an additional 5% ownership interest in Waste Control
Specialists for $2.5 million.
NOTE 10 - OTHER NONCURRENT LIABILITIES:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
DECEMBER 31, JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN THOUSANDS)
<S> <C> <C>
Insurance claims and expenses $ 13,380 $13,317
Employee benefits 12,050 11,022
Deferred income - 1,540
Other 3,807 1,861
$ 29,237 $27,740
</TABLE>
NOTE 11 - NOTES PAYABLE AND LONG-TERM DEBT:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
DECEMBER 31, JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN THOUSANDS)
<S> <C> <C>
Notes payable:
Kronos - non-U.S. bank credit
agreements $ 25,732 $ 23,168
(DM 40,000 and DM 40,000)
Valhi - bank revolver 13,000 $ -
$ 38,732 $ 23,168
Long-term debt:
Valhi: LYONs $ 142,478 148,810
Snake River Sugar Company - 250,000
Valcor Senior Notes 98,910 68,638
NL Industries:
Senior Secured Notes 250,000 250,000
Senior Secured Discount Notes 149,756 159,490
Deutsche mark bank credit facility
(DM 539,971 and DM 288,322) 347,362 166,996
Joint venture term loan 57,858 50,143
Rheox bank credit facility 14,659 140,000
Other 9,411 5,964
Total NL Industries 829,046 772,593
Other:
Medite term loan 3,727 -
Sybra bank credit agreements 1,081 -
Sybra capital leases 4,540 -
Other 334 244
9,682 244
1,080,116 1,240,285
Less current maturities 235,648 182,700
$ 844,468 $1,057,585
</TABLE>
Valhi's loans from Snake River Sugar Company are discussed in Note 15. In
January 1997, NL refinanced the Rheox bank term loan and used the net cash
proceeds, along with other available funds, to prepay a portion of the DM bank
credit facility. Medite's term loan was assumed by the purchaser of its Oregon
medium density fiberboard facility in February 1997. Sybra's bank indebtedness
was repaid and terminated in April 1997 immediately prior to Valcor's sale of
Sybra's common stock, and the purchaser of Sybra's common stock assumed Sybra's
capital lease obligations. See Note 14. In April 1997, the Company completed a
tender offer whereby Valcor purchased $27.6 million principal amount of Valcor
Senior Notes at par value, including $1.1 million held by Valhi. In August
1997, Valcor initiated (i) a consent solicitation to amend certain provisions of
the Valcor Senior Note Indenture and (ii) a tender offer to purchase the
remaining outstanding Valcor Senior Notes. See "Management's Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Liquidity and
Capital Resources."
Rheox has entered into interest rate collar agreements which effectively
set minimum and maximum U.S. LIBOR interest rates of 5.25% and 8%, respectively,
on $50 million principal amount of its variable-rate bank term loan through May
2001. The margin on such borrowings ranges from .75% to 1.75%, depending upon
the level of a certain Rheox financial ratio. Rheox is exposed to interest rate
risk in the event of nonperformance by the other parties to the agreements,
although Rheox does not anticipate nonperformance by such parties. At June 30,
1997, the estimated fair value of such agreements was estimated to be a $100,000
receivable. Such fair value represents the amount Rheox would receive if it
terminated the collar agreements at that date, and is based upon quotes obtained
from the counter party financial institutions.
NOTE 12 - OTHER INCOME:
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<CAPTION>
SIX MONTHS ENDED
JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN THOUSANDS)
<S> <C> <C>
Securities earnings:
Interest and dividends $ 5,037 $31,133
Securities transactions 122 166
5,159 31,299
Currency transactions, net 3,918 2,785
Technology fee income 5,674 -
Pension curtailment gain 4,791 -
Litigation settlement gain 2,756 -
Other, net 2,746 5,893
$25,044 $39,977
</TABLE>
NOTE 13 - PROVISION FOR INCOME TAXES ATTRIBUTABLE TO CONTINUING OPERATIONS:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
SIX MONTHS ENDED
JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN MILLIONS)
<S> <C> <C>
Expected tax expense (benefit) $ 9.2 $ (9.8)
Non-U.S. tax rates (2.0) (.5)
Incremental tax and rate differences on
equity in - (12.2)
earnings of non-tax group companies
U.S. state income taxes, net 1.1 1.4
Change in NL's deferred income tax
valuation allowance (1.1) 12.8
No tax benefit for goodwill amortization 1.5 1.6
Other, net (1.3) (.8)
$ 7.4 $ (7.5)
</TABLE>
NOTE 14 - DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS:
The components of discontinued operations are presented in the following
table.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
SIX MONTHS ENDED
JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN THOUSANDS)
<S> <C> <C>
Medite Corporation $(12,734) $15,667
Sybra, Inc. 1,683 19,746
$(11,051) $35,413
</TABLE>
Medite. In the fourth quarter of 1996, Medite Corporation sold its timber
and timberlands and its Irish medium density fiberboard ("MDF") subsidiary. In
February 1997 Medite sold its Oregon MDF facility for approximately $36 million
cash consideration (before fees and expenses) plus the assumption of
approximately $3.7 million of Medite indebtedness. Medite's two remaining
facilities have been closed, and Medite expects to complete the sale of such
facilities later in the year. Accordingly, the accompanying financial
statements present the results of operations of Medite's building products
business segment as discontinued operations for all periods presented.
Medite's first quarter 1996 results include a pre-tax charge of $24 million
for the estimated costs of permanently closing its New Mexico MDF plant. Medite
also recognized a $13 million pre-tax charge in the fourth quarter of 1996 for
the estimated costs of permanently closing the stud lumber and veneer
facilities. Approximately $26 million of such charges represent non-cash costs,
most of which related to the net carrying value of property and equipment in
excess of estimated net realizable value. These non-cash costs were deemed
utilized upon adoption of the respective closure plans. Approximately $11
million of such charges represent workforce, environmental and other estimated
cash costs associated with the closure of the facilities, of which approximately
$5 million had been paid at June 30, 1997 ($3 million paid at December 31,
1996).
Condensed income statement data for Medite is presented below. The $24
million pre-tax New Mexico MDF plant closure charge is included in Medite's
operating income for 1996 because the decision to close the New Mexico MDF
facility occurred prior to the decision to permanently dispose of the entire
business segment. The gain on disposal in 1997 relates to the first quarter
sale of the Oregon MDF facility. Interest expense represents interest on
indebtedness of Medite and its subsidiaries.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
SIX MONTHS ENDED
JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN MILLIONS)
<S> <C> <C>
Operations of Medite:
Net sales $ 94.6 $20.5
Operating income (loss) $(16.9) $ 2.8
Interest expense and other, net (4.1) (.2)
Pre-tax income (loss) (21.0) 2.6
Income tax expense (benefit) (8.3) 1.0
(12.7) 1.6
Net gain on disposal:
Pre-tax gain - 22.3
Income tax expense - 8.2
- 14.1
$(12.7) $15.7
</TABLE>
Condensed balance sheets for Medite, included in the Company's consolidated
balance sheets, are presented below.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
DECEMBER 31, JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN MILLIONS)
<S> <C> <C>
Current assets $21.2 $13.1
Property and equipment, net 18.2 .4
Property held for sale and other assets 4.8 6.8
$44.2 $20.3
Current liabilities $17.6 $ 8.8
Long-term debt 3.7 .1
Deferred income taxes 1.6 3.7
Other liabilities 3.0 3.1
Stockholder's equity (*) 18.3 4.6
$44.2 $20.3
* Eliminated in consolidation.
</TABLE>
Condensed cash flow data for Medite (excluding dividends paid to and
intercompany loans with Valcor) is presented below.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
SIX MONTHS ENDED
JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN MILLIONS)
<S> <C> <C>
Cash flows from operating activities $12.6 $(39.0)
Cash flows from investing activities:
Capital expenditures (8.6) (.4)
Proceeds from disposal of assets - 35.1
Other, net .2 -
(8.4) 34.7
Cash flows from financing activities -
Indebtedness, net (2.2) -
$ 2.0 $ (4.3)
</TABLE>
Sybra. On April 30, 1997, the Company completed the disposition of its
fast food operations conducted by Sybra. The disposition was accomplished in
two separate, simultaneous transactions. The first transaction involved the
sale of certain restaurant real estate owned by Sybra for $45 million cash
consideration. Substantially all of the net-of-tax proceeds from this
transaction were distributed to Valcor. The second transaction involved
Valcor's sale of 100% of the common stock of Sybra for $14 million cash
consideration plus the repayment by the purchaser of approximately $23.8 million
of Sybra's intercompany indebtedness owed to Valcor. Under certain conditions,
the purchaser of Sybra's common stock is obligated to pay additional contingent
consideration of approximately $2 million to Valcor in the future. Accordingly,
the accompanying financial statements present the results of operations of
Sybra's fast food operations as discontinued operations for all periods
presented.
Condensed income statement data for Sybra through the date of disposal
is presented below. Interest expense represents interest on indebtedness of
Sybra. The gain on disposal includes both Sybra's sale of its restaurant real
estate and Valcor's sale of Sybra's common stock. The provision for income
taxes applicable to the pre-tax gain on disposal varies from the 35% federal
statutory rate due principally to the excess of tax basis over book basis of the
common stock of Sybra sold for which no deferred income tax benefit was
previously recognized.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
SIX MONTHS ENDED
JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN MILLIONS)
<S> <C> <C>
Operations of Sybra:
Net sales $59.6 $37.9
Operating income $ 4.0 $ 1.7
Interest expense and other, net (1.3) (.6)
Pre-tax income 2.7 1.1
Income tax expense 1.0 .5
1.7 .6
Net gain on disposal:
Pre-tax gain - 23.2
Income tax expense - 4.1
- 19.1
$ 1.7 $19.7
</TABLE>
A condensed balance sheet for Sybra at December 31, 1996, included in the
Company's consolidated balance sheet, are presented below.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
AMOUNT
(IN MILLIONS)
<S> <C>
Current assets $ 6.0
Intangible assets 16.0
Property and equipment, net 53.6
Other assets -
$75.6
Current liabilities $14.4
Long-term debt 4.7
Loan payable to Valcor (*) 20.0
Other liabilities 1.4
Stockholder's equity (*) 35.1
$75.6
</TABLE>
(*) Eliminated in consolidation
Condensed cash flow data for Sybra (excluding dividends paid to and
intercompany loans with Valcor, but including the net proceeds from Valcor's
sale of Sybra's common stock) is presented below.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
SIX MONTHS ENDED
JUNE 30,
1996 1997
(IN MILLIONS)
<S> <C> <C>
Cash flows from operating activities $ 4.5 $ (1.1)
Cash flows from investing activities:
Capital expenditures (2.2) (1.8)
Proceeds on disposal of assets - 55.3
Other, net .1 .4
(2.1) 53.9
Cash flows from financing activities -
Indebtedness, net
(2.3) 22.4
$ .1 $75.2
</TABLE>
NOTE 15 - TRANSFER OF CONTROL OF THE AMALGAMATED SUGAR COMPANY:
On January 3, 1997, the Company completed the transfer of control of the
refined sugar operations previously conducted by the Company's wholly-owned
subsidiary, The Amalgamated Sugar Company, to Snake River Sugar Company, an
Oregon agricultural cooperative formed by certain sugarbeet growers in
Amalgamated's areas of operations. Pursuant to the transaction, which by its
terms was to be effective December 31, 1996 for both financial reporting and
income tax purposes, Amalgamated contributed substantially all of its net assets
to the Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC, a limited liability company controlled by
Snake River, on a tax-deferred basis in exchange for a non-voting ownership
interest in the LLC.
Also as part of the transaction, Snake River made certain loans to Valhi
aggregating $250 million in January 1997. These loans bear interest at a
weighted average fixed interest rate of 9.4%, are collateralized by the
Company's interest in the LLC and are due in January 2027. Currently, these
loans are nonrecourse to Valhi. See Note 11. Under certain conditions, up to
$37.5 million of such loans may become recourse to Valhi.
In connection with the transaction, Valhi provided $180 million of loans to
Snake River in January 1997, of which $100 million was prepaid in May 1997 when
Snake River obtained $100 million of third-party term loan financing. Valhi's
remaining $80 million loan to Snake River is unsecured, is subordinate to Snake
River's third-party term loan and bears interest at a fixed rate of 10.99%
through 1998 and 12.99% for 1999 through 2010, with all principal due in 2010.
Snake River's third-party term loan allows Snake River to pay $400,000 to Valhi
for monthly installments for debt service on Valhi's loan to Snake River, and
also allows for an additional annual payment by Snake River to Valhi for debt
service based on Snake River's excess cash flow, as defined. Once Valhi has
received $30 million aggregate debt service payments from Snake River, Valhi is
required to pledge $5 million in cash equivalents or marketable securities to
collateralize Snake River's third-party term loan; such collateral will be
released by the lender once the outstanding principal balance of Snake River's
third-party term loan has been reduced to $50 million. Snake River's third-
party term lender has given Valhi the option to completely buy-out the third-
party term lender's position at any time for an amount equal to the then-
outstanding principal balance of the loan plus a prepayment penalty, as defined.
Also in connection with the transaction, Valhi provided a $12 million loan to
Snake River Farms II, a subsidiary of Snake River, in connection with the
transaction. This loan, as amended, bears interest at a fixed rate of 10%, is
due no later than January 2000, and is guaranteed by Snake River. See Note 8.
The Company and Snake River share in distributions from the LLC up to an
aggregated $26.7 million per year, with a preferential 95% going to the Company.
In addition, the Company may, at its option, require the LLC to redeem the
Company's interest in the LLC beginning in 2010, and the LLC has the right to
redeem the Company's interest in the LLC beginning in 2027. The redemption
price is generally $250 million plus the amount of certain undistributed income
allocable to the Company. In the event the Company requires the LLC to redeem
the Company's interest in the LLC, Snake River has the right to call Valhi's
$250 million loans from Snake River, and under the terms of the LLC Company
Agreement Snake River would contribute to the LLC the cash received from calling
such loans to satisfy all or a substantial portion of the redemption price.
The LLC Company Agreement contains certain restrictive covenants intended
to protect the Company's interest in the LLC, including limitations on capital
expenditures and additional indebtedness of the LLC. The Company also has the
ability to temporarily take control of the LLC, via election of a majority of
the members of the LLC's Management Committee, in the event the Company's
cumulative "base distributions" from the LLC, as defined, become $10 million in
arrears and no default exists under Valhi's $250 million loans from Snake River.
Once any such arrearages have been paid, the Company ceases to have any
representation on the Management Committee. In addition, if Snake River's
third-party term loan has, by its terms, been placed into default, Valhi will be
able to exercise its ability to temporarily take control of the LLC only if
Valhi loans additional funds to Snake River in amounts up to the next three
years of debt service of Snake River's third-party term loan. Snake River will
pledge such funds to the third-party term lender to collateralize Snake River's
third-party term loan; such funds will be released by the third-party term
lender, and repaid to Valhi, when either (i) Snake River's third-party term loan
has been completely repaid or (ii) no default exists under the third-party term
loan and Valhi has relinquished its temporary control of the LLC.
Because the Company no longer controls the operations contributed to the
LLC, the Company ceased consolidating the net assets, results of operations and
cash flows of such business effective December 31, 1996. At December 31, 1996,
the Company reported the net assets contributed to the LLC at cost. Beginning
in 1997, the Company commenced reporting the cash distributions received from
the LLC (approximately $12.7 million in the first six months of 1997) as
dividend income. The amount of such future distributions is dependent upon,
among other things, the future performance of the LLC's operations. For
comparative purposes, Amalgamated's 1996 results of operations and cash flows
are reported by the equity method. Because the Company receives preferential
distributions from the LLC and has the right to require the LLC to redeem its
interest in the LLC for a fixed and determinable amount beginning at a fixed and
determinable date, the Company has classified its investment in the LLC as an
available-for-sale marketable security carried at estimated fair value at June
30, 1997. See Note 4. In determining the estimated fair value of the Company's
interest in the LLC, the Company considers, among other things, the outstanding
balance of the Company's loans to Snake River and the outstanding balance of the
Company's loans from Snake River.
Condensed income statement data for Amalgamated for the six months ended
June 30, 1996 is presented below.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
AMOUNT
(IN MILLIONS)
<S> <C>
Net sales:
Refined sugar $216.3
By-products and other 19.3
$235.6
Operating income:
FIFO basis $ 17.3
LIFO adjustment (4.7)
LIFO basis 12.6
Interest expense and other, net (5.2)
Pre-tax income 7.4
Income tax expense 2.8
Net income $ 4.6
</TABLE>
Condensed cash flow data for Amalgamated for the six months ended June 30,
1996 (excluding dividends paid to Valhi) is presented below.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
AMOUNT
(IN MILLIONS)
<S> <C>
Cash flows from operating activities:
Before changes in assets and liabilities $ 9.8
Changes in assets and liabilities 11.6
21.4
Cash flows from investing activities -
Capital expenditures (7.2)
Cash flows from financing activities -
Indebtedness, net (14.6)
$ (.4)
</TABLE>
MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF
OPERATIONS
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS:
The Company reported income from continuing operations of $2.6 million, or
$.02 per share, for the second quarter of 1997 compared to income of $5.5
million, or $.05 per share, in the second quarter of 1996. For the first six
months of 1997, the Company reported a loss from continuing operations of $20.5
million, or $.18 per share, compared to income of $14.1 million, or $.12 per
share, in the first six months of 1996. The 1997 year-to-date loss includes a
$30 million pre-tax charge ($19.5 million, or $.17 per share, net-of-tax)
related to adoption of a new accounting standard regarding accounting for NL
Industries's environmental remediation liabilities. See Note 1 to the
Consolidated Financial Statements. Also contributing to the lower level of
earnings in 1997 was lower average selling prices for TiO2 at NL. Discontinued
operations include both the results of operations of Medite Corporation and
Sybra, Inc., and in 1997 include (i) a first quarter after-tax gain on disposal
of $14 million ($22 million pre-tax) related to the sale of Medite's Oregon MDF
facility and (ii) a second quarter after-tax gain on disposal of $19 million
($23 million pre-tax) related to the disposition of Sybra's fast food
operations. See Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
The statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q relating to matters
that are not historical facts, including, but not limited to, statements found
in this "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations", are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks
and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual future results to differ
materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements include, but
are not limited to, future supply and demand for the Company's products
(including cyclicality thereof), general economic conditions, competitive
products and substitute products, customer and competitor strategies, the impact
of pricing and production decisions, environmental matters, government
regulations and possible changes therein, the ultimate resolution of pending
litigation and possible future litigation, completion of pending asset/business
unit dispositions and other risks and uncertainties as discussed in this
Quarterly Report and the 1996 Annual Report.
CHEMICALS
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
THREE MONTHS ENDED SIX MONTHS ENDED
JUNE 30, JUNE 30,
% %
1996 1997 CHANGE 1996 1997 CHANGE
(IN MILLIONS) (IN MILLIONS)
<S> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Net sales:
Kronos $228.3 $214.3 -6% $434.6 $418.7 -4%
Rheox 34.9 38.4 +10% 69.0 73.5 +7%
$263.2 $252.7 -4% $503.6 $492.2 -2%
Operating
income:
Kronos $ 20.6 $ 12.1 -41% $ 45.1 $ 15.9 -65%
Rheox 10.2 11.8 +15% 22.3 21.5 -4%
$ 30.8 $ 23.9 -23% $ 67.4 $ 37.4 -45%
</TABLE>
Kronos' operating income in the second quarter and first six months of 1997
decreased from the comparable periods in 1996 due to lower average TiO2 selling
prices, partially offset by higher production and sales volumes. Kronos'
average TiO2 selling prices were 8% and 12% lower in the second quarter and
first six months of 1997, respectively, compared with the same periods in 1996.
However, Kronos' operating income in the second quarter of 1997 increased $8.3
million compared to the first quarter of 1997, as Kronos' average TiO2 selling
prices for the second quarter of 1997 were 3% higher than the first quarter of
1997. Selling prices at the end of the second quarter of 1997 were 1% higher
than the average for the quarter. Kronos achieved record second quarter sales
volumes, reflecting continued strong TiO2 demand, as second quarter and first
six month volumes increased 9% and 14%, respectively, from the year-earlier
periods, with higher volumes worldwide. Kronos' operating income in the second
quarter of 1997 includes a $2.7 million gain related to the sale of certain
surplus assets.
NL currently expects further increases in its TiO2 selling prices during
the second half of the year. However, NL expects its calendar 1997 TiO2
operating income to be below that of 1996, primarily because of expected lower
average selling prices for all of 1997 compared to 1996. While NL currently
expects its full-year 1997 TiO2 sales volumes will be higher than the full-year
1996 volumes, TiO2 sales volumes in the last half of 1997 are currently expected
to be lower than the first half of 1997.
Excluding a $2.7 million first quarter 1996 gain related to the reduction
of certain U.S. employee pension benefits, Rheox's sales and operating income
increased in 1997 compared to 1996 due to higher sales volumes and slightly
higher selling prices.
A significant amount of NL's sales generated from its non-U.S. operations
are denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, primarily major
European currencies and the Canadian dollar, and fluctuations in the value of
the U.S. dollar relative to such other currencies decreased the dollar value of
sales in the first six months of 1997 by approximately $22 million compared to
the same period in 1996. In addition, a portion of NL's sales generated from
its non-U.S. operations are denominated in the U.S. dollar, and exchange rate
fluctuations do not impact the reported amount of net sales. However, exchange
rate fluctuations resulted in an increase in the U.S. dollar value of the
operating margins of such net sales because labor and other production costs are
generally denominated in the foreign local currency. Consequently, fluctuations
in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to other currencies increased NL's
operating income in the first six months of 1997 compared with the same period
in 1996.
The Company's purchase accounting adjustments made in conjunction with the
acquisitions of its interest in NL result in additional depreciation, depletion
and amortization expense beyond amounts separately reported by NL. Such
additional non-cash expenses reduce chemicals operating income, as reported by
Valhi, by approximately $20 million annually as compared to amounts separately
reported by NL.
COMPONENT PRODUCTS
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
THREE MONTHS ENDED SIX MONTHS ENDED
JUNE 30, % JUNE 30, %
1996 1997 CHANGE 1996 1997 CHANGE
(IN MILLIONS) (IN MILLIONS)
<S> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Net sales $21.7 $27.5 +26% $42.9 $53.3 +24%
Operating 5.0 6.9 +38% 9.4 13.2 +40%
income
</TABLE>
Sales, operating income and margins increased in 1997 due primarily to
increased volumes in all three major product lines (ergonomic workstations,
drawer slides and locks). Relative changes in product mix also favorably
impacted comparisons, as 1996 sales included a relatively higher volume of
lower-margin products, including those resulting from an August 1995 business
acquisition. Lock sales were also aided by certain price increases instituted
at the beginning of 1997, which helped to partially offset increases in certain
raw material costs (primarily zinc and copper).
WASTE MANAGEMENT
Waste Control Specialists LLC, formed in November 1995, was constructing
its West Texas facility during 1995 and 1996. Waste Control Specialists
reported a loss of $5.5 million during the first six months of 1997 compared to
a loss of $2.4 million in the same period in 1996. The Company received its
first wastes for disposal in February 1997, and net sales in the first six
months of 1997 were approximately $1 million. Waste Control's loss was higher in
the first six months of 1997 as compared to the first six months of 1996 due
principally to start-up expenses associated with the West Texas facility, as
well as larger expenditures in conjunction with the pursuit of permits for the
treatment, storage and disposal of low-level and mixed radioactive wastes.
The Texas Department of Health has issued a draft license to Waste Control
Specialists covering the treatment and storage (but not disposal) of low-level
and mixed radioactive wastes. A public comment period on the draft license has
expired, and in August 1997 an administrative judge will decide if any of the
five groups opposing issuance of the license has proper standing. Should
standing be granted to one or more opposing parties, hearings would be
conducted. If standing is not granted, the license is currently expected to be
issued shortly thereafter. While Waste Control Specialists currently believes
the license will be granted, there can be no assurance that any such license
will be issued by the Texas Department of Health.
OTHER
EQUITY IN EARNINGS OF AMALGAMATED. See Note 15 to the Consolidated
Financial Statements.
General corporate items. Securities earnings increased in 1997 due to
distributions received from The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC, which are
reported as dividend income, as well as a higher level of funds available for
investment, including interest income earned on debt financing Valhi provided to
Snake River Sugar Company and Snake River Farms II in early 1997 and funds
generated from the Medite and Sybra dispositions. See Notes 14 and 15 to the
Consolidated Financial Statements. General corporate expenses in the first
quarter of 1997 include NL's $30 million pre-tax charge related to adoption of a
new accounting standard regarding environmental remediation liabilities. See
Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. Net general corporate expenses
in the second quarter of 1996 include a $2.8 million gain related to the
settlement of certain litigation in which NL was a plaintiff, and in the second
quarter of 1997 include $1.5 million of expenses related to the Amalgamated
Sugar Company LLC/Snake River Sugar Company transactions.
Interest expense. Interest expense increased due primarily to Valhi's $250
million in loans from Snake River Sugar Company. See Note 15 to the
Consolidated Financial Statements. At June 30, 1997, approximately $877 million
of consolidated indebtedness, principally publicly-traded debt and Valhi's loans
from Snake River Sugar Company, bears interest at fixed rates averaging 10.7%.
The weighted average interest rate on about $386 million of outstanding variable
rate borrowings at June 30, 1997 was 6.7%, compared to 5.3% at December 31, 1996
and 6.4% at year-end 1995. The weighted average interest rate on outstanding
variable rate borrowings increased from December 31, 1996 to June 30, 1997 due
primarily to NL's January 1997 refinancing of certain indebtedness discussed
below, in which NL refinanced Rheox's term loan and used the net cash proceeds,
along with other available funds, to prepay a portion of Kronos' DM credit
facility. The overall interest rate on the Rheox term loan is higher than the
overall interest rate on the DM credit facility, and the DM LIBOR interest rate
margin on outstanding borrowings under the DM credit facility was increased in
conjunction with the January 1997 prepayment.
Minority interest. Minority interest in earnings in 1996 consisted
principally of NL dividends paid to stockholders other than Valhi. NL's Board of
Directors suspended quarterly dividends in the fourth quarter of 1996.
Provision for income taxes. Income tax rates vary by jurisdiction (country
and/or state), and relative changes in the geographic mix of the Company's pre-
tax earnings can result in fluctuations in the effective income tax rate. As
discussed in Note 15 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, The Amalgamated
Sugar Company's results of operations in 1996 are presented on the equity
method. Amalgamated is a member of the consolidated U.S. tax group of which
Valhi and Contran are members, and consequently the Company did not provide any
incremental income taxes related to such earnings. Certain subsidiaries,
including NL, are not members of the consolidated U.S. tax group and the Company
does provide incremental income taxes on such earnings. Both of these factors
impact the Company's overall effective tax rate. See Note 13 to the
Consolidated Financial Statements.
Extraordinary item. See Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
Discontinued operations. See Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial
Statements.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES:
Cash flows from operating activities. Cash flows from operating activities
attributable to continuing operations before changes in assets and liabilities
declined from $52 million in the first six months of 1996 to $44 million in the
first six months of 1997 primarily due to lower operating results at NL.
Changes in assets and liabilities generally result from the timing of
production, sales, purchases and income tax payments.
Cash flows from investing and financing activities. Capital expenditures
attributable to continuing operations in calendar 1997 are expected to decline
to approximately $42 million from $70 million in calendar 1996 due to lower
planned spending by NL.
During the first six months of 1997, Valhi (i) loaned $180 million to Snake
River Sugar Company and $12.1 million to Snake River Farms II, (ii) collected
$105.4 million principal amount on such loans, (iii) received an $11.5 million
pre-closing dividend from Amalgamated, (iv) contributed the remaining $3 million
capital contribution to Waste Control Specialists, (v) loaned $8 million to
Waste Control Specialists pursuant to a $10 million revolving facility due
December 1998 and (vi) purchased $6 million of certain marketable securities.
Net borrowings in 1997 include $250 million borrowed from Snake River Sugar
Company and the impact of NL's refinancing of its Rheox term loan and prepayment
of a portion of the DM credit facility as discussed below. At June 30, 1997,
unused credit available under existing credit facilities approximated $121
million.
Cash flows from discontinued operations. Condensed cash flow data for
Medite and Sybra are included in Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial
Statements. Under the terms of Internal Revenue Code and similar state
regulations regarding the timing of estimated tax payments, Valcor was not
required to pay income taxes related to Medite's 1996 sales of its timber and
timberlands and Irish MDF subsidiary until the first quarter of 1997, at which
time such payment (approximately $39 million) was shown as a reduction in cash
flows from operating activities even though the pre-tax proceeds from
disposition of such assets were shown as part of cash flows from investing
activities in the fourth quarter of 1996. Similarly, cash income taxes related
to Medite's February 1997 sale of the Oregon MDF facility are also shown as a
reduction in cash flows from operating activities in 1997, and cash income taxes
of approximately $4 million related to the April 1997 disposition of Sybra's
fast food operations are not required to be paid until later in 1997.
Other. At June 30, 1997, assets held for sale, recorded at estimated net
realizable value, consist principally of land, building and equipment from
Medite's former veneer facility and land from Medite's stud lumber facility and
another former Medite facility closed before 1996. The salvageable property and
equipment from the stud facility, included in assets held for sale at December
31, 1996, were sold during the first quarter of 1997 for an amount approximating
previously-estimated net realizable value.
NL Industries. Demand, supply and pricing within the TiO2 industry is
cyclical, and changes in industry economic conditions can significantly impact
NL's earnings and operating cash flows. Declining TiO2 prices unfavorably
impacted NL's operating income and cash flows from operations comparisons in
1997 with 1996. NL generated $19 million in cash flows from operating
activities before changes in assets and liabilities in the first six months of
1997, down from $43 million in the first six months of 1996. Aggregate relative
changes in NL's inventories, receivables and payables, excluding the effect of
foreign currency translation, used $49 million of net cash in the first six
months of 1996 compared to a $5 million use of net cash in the first six months
of 1997.
Average TiO2 selling prices began a downward trend in the last half of
1995, and TiO2 prices continued to decline throughout 1996 and the first quarter
of 1997. While NL's average TiO2 prices began to increase during the second
quarter of 1997, NL's average TiO2 selling price in calendar 1997 is expected to
be lower than the calendar 1996 average. No assurance can be given that price
trends will conform to NL's expectations and future cash flows will be adversely
affected should price trends be lower than NL's expectations. In order to
improve its near-term liquidity, NL refinanced Rheox's term loan in January
1997, obtaining a net $125 million of new long-term financing, and used the net
cash proceeds, along with other available funds, to prepay a portion of the DM
credit facility. In addition, NL and its lenders modified certain financial
covenants of the DM credit facility, and NL guaranteed the facility. As a
result of the refinancing and prepayment, NL's aggregate scheduled debt payments
for 1997 and 1998 decreased by $103 million ($64 million in 1997 and $39 million
in 1998), and NL's total debt was reduced by $28 million.
Certain of NL's U.S. and non-U.S. income tax returns, including Germany,
are being examined and tax authorities have or may propose tax deficiencies. NL
has previously reached an agreement with the German tax authorities, and paid
certain tax deficiencies of approximately DM 44 million ($28 million when paid),
including interest, which resolved certain significant tax contingencies for
years through 1990. Certain other significant German tax contingencies remain
outstanding and will continue to be litigated. NL has received certain tax
assessments aggregating DM 130 million ($75 million), including interest, for
the years through 1996 and expects to receive tax assessments for an additional
DM 20 million ($12 million) related to these remaining tax contingencies. No
payments of income tax or interest deficiencies related to these assessments
will be required until the litigation is resolved, which NL anticipates may take
approximately two to five years. Although NL believes that it will ultimately
prevail in the litigation, NL has granted a DM 100 million ($58 million at June
30, 1997) lien on its Nordenham, Germany TiO2 plant in favor of the German tax
authorities. No assurance can be given that this litigation will be resolved in
NL's favor in view of the inherent uncertainties involved in court proceedings.
NL believes that it has adequately provided accruals for additional income taxes
and related interest expense which may ultimately result from all such
examinations and believes that the ultimate disposition of such examinations
should not have a material adverse effect on its consolidated financial
position, results of operations or liquidity.
NL has been named as a defendant, PRP, or both, in a number of legal
proceedings associated with environmental matters, including waste disposal
sites, mining locations and facilities currently or previously owned, operated
or used by NL, certain of which are on the U.S. EPA's Superfund National
Priorities List or similar state lists. On a quarterly basis, NL evaluates the
potential range of its liability at sites where it has been named as a PRP or
defendant. NL believes it has provided adequate accruals ($138 million at June
30, 1997) for reasonably estimable costs of such matters, but NL's ultimate
liability may be affected by a number of factors, including changes in remedial
alternatives and costs and the allocation of such costs among PRPs. See Note 1
to the Consolidated Financial Statements. It is not possible to estimate the
range of costs for certain sites. The upper end of the range of reasonably
possible costs to NL for sites for which it is possible to estimate costs is
approximately $185 million. NL's estimates of such liabilities have not been
discounted to present value, and NL has not recognized any potential insurance
recoveries. No assurance can be given that actual costs will not exceed accrued
amounts or the upper end of the range for sites for which estimates have been
made and no assurance can be given that costs will not be incurred with respect
to sites as to which no estimate presently can be made. NL is also a defendant
in a number of legal proceedings seeking damages for personal injury and
property damage arising out of the sale of lead pigments and lead-based paints.
NL has not accrued any amounts for the pending lead pigment and lead-based paint
litigation. There is no assurance that NL will not incur future liability in
respect of this pending litigation in view of the inherent uncertainties
involved in court and jury rulings and proceedings in pending and possible
future cases. However, based on, among other things, the results of such
litigation to date, NL believes that the pending lead pigment and lead-based
paint litigation is without merit. Liability that may result, if any, cannot
reasonably be estimated. In addition, various legislation and administrative
regulations have, from time to time, been enacted or proposed that seek to
impose various obligations on present and former manufacturers of lead pigment
and lead-based paint with respect to asserted health concerns associated with
the use of such products and to effectively overturn court decisions in which NL
and other pigment manufacturers have been successful. NL currently believes the
disposition of all claims and disputes, individually or in the aggregate, should
not have a material adverse effect on its consolidated financial position,
results of operations or liquidity. There can be no assurance that additional
matters of these types will not arise in the future.
NL periodically evaluates its liquidity requirements, alternative uses of
capital, capital needs and availability of resources in view of, among other
things, its debt service and capital expenditure requirements and estimated
future operating cash flows. As a result of this process, NL has in the past
and may in the future seek to reduce, refinance, repurchase or restructure
indebtedness, raise additional capital, issue additional securities, modify its
dividend policy, restructure ownership interests, sell interests in subsidiaries
or other assets, or take a combination of such steps or other steps to manage
its liquidity and capital resources. In the normal course of its business, NL
may review opportunities for the acquisition, divestiture, joint venture or
other business combinations in the chemicals industry. In the event of any
future acquisition, NL may consider using its available cash, issuing its equity
securities or increasing its indebtedness to the extent permitted by the
agreements governing NL's existing debt. In this regard, the Indentures
governing NL's publicly-traded debt contain provisions which limit the ability
of NL and its subsidiaries to incur additional indebtedness or hold
noncontrolling interests in business units.
Other. Condensed cash flow data for Medite and Sybra is presented in
Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. Condensed cash flow data for
Amalgamated in 1996 is presented in Note 15 to the Consolidated Financial
Statements.
General corporate. Valhi's operations are conducted principally through
subsidiaries and affiliates (NL Industries, Valcor and Waste Control
Specialists). Valcor is an intermediate parent company with continuing
operations conducted through CompX. Accordingly, Valhi's and Valcor's long-term
ability to meet their respective parent company level corporate obligations are
dependent in large measure on the receipt of dividends or other distributions
from their respective subsidiaries. NL, which paid dividends in the first three
quarters of 1996, suspended its dividend in the fourth quarter. Suspension of
NL's dividend is not expected to materially adversely impact Valhi's financial
position or liquidity. Various credit agreements to which subsidiaries are
parties contain customary limitations on the payment of dividends, typically a
percentage of net income or cash flow; however, such restrictions have not
significantly impacted Valhi's or Valcor's ability to service their respective
parent company level obligations. Neither Valhi nor Valcor has guaranteed any
indebtedness of their respective subsidiaries.
Valhi's LYONs do not require current cash debt service. At June 30, 1997,
Valhi held 5.5 million shares of Dresser common stock, which shares are held in
escrow for the benefit of holders of the LYONs. The LYONs are exchangeable at
any time, at the option of the holder, for the Dresser shares owned by Valhi.
Exchanges of LYONs for Dresser stock would result in the Company reporting
income related to the disposition of the Dresser stock for both financial
reporting and income tax purposes, although no cash proceeds would be generated
by such exchanges. Valhi's potential cash income tax liability that would have
been triggered at June 30, 1997 assuming exchanges of all of the outstanding
LYONs for Dresser stock at such date was approximately $39 million. Valhi
continues to receive regular quarterly Dresser dividends (recently increased
from $.17 per share to $.19 per share beginning in September 1997) on the
escrowed shares. In addition, the Company is required, at the option of the
holder, to purchase the LYONs in October 1997 at the accreted value of
approximately $405 per $1,000 principal amount at maturity (approximately $153
million at such date). Such redemption price may be paid, at the option of
Valhi, in cash, Dresser common stock, or a combination thereof. At June 30,
1997, the LYONs had an accreted value equivalent to approximately $27.25 per
Dresser share, and the market price of the Dresser common stock was $37.25 per
share. As long as the value of the underlying Dresser shares exceeds the
accreted value of the LYONS, the Company does not expect a significant number of
LYON holders to seek redemption. Because the LYONS are redeemable at the option
of the LYON holder in October 1997, the LYONS are classified as a current
liability and the Dresser shares are classified as a current asset at both
December 31, 1996 and June 30, 1997.
The after-tax proceeds from the dispositions of Medite and Sybra, net of
repayments of their respective U.S. bank debt, are available for Valcor's
general corporate purposes, subject to compliance with certain covenants
contained in the Valcor Senior Note Indenture. Also under the terms of the
Indenture, Valcor is required to tender for a portion of the Senior Notes, at
par, to the extent that a specified amount of these proceeds is not used to
either permanently paydown senior indebtedness of Valcor or its subsidiaries or
invest in related businesses, as specified in the Indenture, within one year of
disposition. While Valcor was not yet required to execute a tender offer
related to Medite's asset dispositions, in March 1997 Valcor initiated a tender
offer to purchase up to $86.7 million principal amount of Senior Notes on a pro-
rata basis, at par value, in satisfaction of the covenant contained in the
Indenture related to the Medite asset dispositions. Pursuant to its terms, the
tender offer expired in April 1997, and Valcor purchased $27.6 million principal
amount of Senior Notes which had been properly tendered, including $1.1 million
of Senior Notes held by Valhi. In addition, during the first quarter of 1997,
Valcor also purchased $3.8 million of Senior Notes in open market transactions
prior to the tender offer. To the extent that the net proceeds from the
disposition of Sybra's fast food operations are not used as provided by the
Indenture, a portion of the Notes could be subject to a future tender offer.
On August 6, 1997, Valcor initiated a consent solicitation to amend certain
provisions of the Valcor Senior Note Indenture which, if successfully completed,
would remove restrictions that currently limit the ability of Valcor and its
subsidiaries to, among other things, incur debt, pay dividends, create liens and
enter into transactions or co-invest with affiliates. The proposed amendments
to the Indenture require the consent from holders representing at least a
majority of the $68.6 million principal amount of Senior Notes currently
outstanding. If the consent solicitation is successfully completed, Valcor will
pay to all holders who validly consent on or prior to August 27, 1997 a cash
consent fee of $10 per $1,000 principal amount of Senior Notes. The consent
solicitation also includes a concurrent offer by Valcor to purchase the Senior
Notes of all holders who validly tender on or prior to September 4, 1997 at a
cash purchase price of $1,040 per $1,000 principal amount. Holders who tender
their Senior Notes are generally obligated to consent to the proposed amendments
to the Indenture, but holders may consent to the proposed amendments without
tendering their Senior Notes. However, Valcor's obligation to purchase the
Senior Notes is contingent upon the successful completion of the consent
solicitation.
Valhi received approximately $73 million cash in early 1997 at the transfer
of control of its refined sugar operations to Snake River Sugar Company,
including a net $11.5 million pre-closing dividend received from Amalgamated.
As part of the transaction, Snake River made certain loans to Valhi aggregating
$250 million in January 1997. Snake River's sources of funds for its loans to
Valhi, as well as for the $14 million it contributed to The Amalgamated Sugar
Company LLC for its voting interest in the LLC, included cash capital
contributions by the grower members of Snake River and $192 million in debt
financing provided by Valhi in January 1997, of which $100 million was prepaid
in May 1997 when Snake River obtained $100 million of third-party term loan
financing. See Note 15 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. Valhi
currently expects that distributions received from the LLC, which are dependent
in part upon the future operations of the LLC, will exceed its debt service
requirements under its $250 million loans from Snake River. The cash proceeds
to Valhi from the transfer of control of Amalgamated's operations to Snake
River, including amounts to be collected in the future from Valhi's remaining
loans to Snake River, are and will be available for Valhi's general corporate
purposes.
Redemption of the Company's interest in the LLC, as discussed in Note 15 to
the Consolidated Financial Statements, would result in the Company reporting
income related to the disposition of its LLC interest for both financial
reporting and income tax purposes, although the net cash proceeds that would be
generated from such a disposition would likely be less than the specified
redemption price due to Snake River's ability to simultaneously call its $250
million loans to Valhi. As a result, such net cash proceeds generated by
redemption of the Company's interest in the LLC could be less than the income
taxes that would become payable as a result of the disposition.
In March 1997, the Company entered into a $10 million revolving credit
facility with Waste Control Specialists. Borrowings by Waste Control
Specialists ($8 million outstanding at June 30, 1997) bear interest at prime
plus 1% and are due no later than December 31, 1998.
The Company routinely compares its liquidity requirements and alternative
uses of capital against the estimated future cash flows to be received from its
subsidiaries, and the estimated sales value of those units. As a result of this
process, the Company has in the past and may in the future seek to raise
additional capital, refinance or restructure indebtedness, repurchase
indebtedness in the market or otherwise, modify its dividend policy, consider
the sale of interests in subsidiaries, affiliates, business units, marketable
securities or other assets, or take a combination of such steps or other steps,
to increase liquidity, reduce indebtedness and fund future activities. Such
activities have in the past and may in the future involve related companies.
The Company routinely evaluates acquisitions of interests in, or
combinations with, companies, including related companies, perceived by
management to be undervalued in the marketplace. These companies may or may not
be engaged in businesses related to the Company's current businesses. The
Company intends to consider such acquisition activities in the future and, in
connection with this activity, may consider issuing additional equity securities
and increasing the indebtedness of the Company, its subsidiaries and related
companies. From time to time, the Company and related entities also evaluate
the restructuring of ownership interests among their respective subsidiaries and
related companies. In this regard, the Indentures governing the publicly-traded
debt of NL and Valcor contain provisions which limit the ability of NL, Valcor
and their respective subsidiaries to incur additional indebtedness or hold
noncontrolling interests in business units.
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
Reference is made to the 1996 Annual Report and prior 1997 quarterly
periodic reports for descriptions of certain legal proceedings.
In June 1997, the Delaware Supreme Court en banc reversed and remanded to
the lower court for further proceedings the previously-announced trial court
ruling in favor of the defendants in Kahn v. Tremont Corporation, et al.
Discovery has been stayed in the previously-reported Medite Corporation v.
Public Services Company of New Mexico pending oral arguments at a hearing
scheduled for August 1997 on motions for partial summary judgment and summary
judgment filed by the plaintiff and defendant, respectively.
Trial is currently scheduled to begin in September 1997 in the previously-
reported Midgard Corporation v. Medite of New Mexico, Inc., et al.
Gould Inc. v. NL Industries, Inc. ("Gould Superfund Site"), (No. 91-1091).
In May 1997, the U.S. EPA issued an Amended Record of Decision ("ARD") for the
Gould Superfund Site soils operable unit. The ARD requires construction of an
onsite containment facility estimated to cost between $10.5 million and $12
million, including capital costs and operating and maintenance costs.
German, et al. v. Federal Home Mortgage Loan Corp., et al. (No 93 Civ.
6941). In May 1997, plaintiffs moved for class certification and defendants
moved for summary judgment. In June 1997 the Court stayed all further activity
in the case pending reconsideration of its 1995 decision permitting filing of
the complaint against the manufacturer defendants and joinder of the new
complaint with the pre-existing complaint against New York City and other
landlords.
NL Industries, Inc. v. Commercial Union, et al. (No. 90-2124). In June
1997, NL reached a settlement in principle with its insurers regarding
allocation of defense costs in the lead pigment cases in which reimbursement of
defense costs had been sought.
Parker v. NL Industries, et al. (No. 97085060 CC915). In June 1997,
plaintiffs moved to remand to state court and NL answered the complaint denying
liability. Trial is scheduled to begin in July 1998.
Ritchie v. NL Industries, et al. (No. 5:96-CV-166). In July 1997,
defendants filed a second notice of removal to federal court.
The City of New York, et al. v. Lead Industries Association, Inc., et al.
(No. 89-4617). In July 1997, the trial court's denials of defendants' two
summary judgment motions on the fraud claim were affirmed by the Appellate
Division.
ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS.
Valhi's 1997 Annual Meeting of Stockholders was held on May 8, 1997.
Norman S. Edelcup, Kenneth R. Ferris, Glenn R. Simmons, Harold C. Simmons and J.
Walter Tucker, Jr. were elected as directors, each receiving votes "For" their
election from over 94% of the 114.4 million common shares eligible to vote at
the Annual Meeting. In addition, the proposal to amend and restate the Valhi,
Inc. 1987 Stock Option-Stock Appreciation Right Plan, and the proposal to adopt
the Valhi, Inc. 1997 Long-Term Incentive Plan, were each approved receiving
votes "For" adoption from over 93% of the 114.4 million common shares eligible
to vote.
ITEM 6. EXHIBITS AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K.
(a) Exhibits
10.1 - First Amendment to the Company Agreement of The Amalgamated
Sugar Company LLC dated May 14, 1997.
10.2 - Deposit Trust Agreement related to the Amalgamated
Collateral Trust among ASC Holdings, Inc. and Wilmington Trust
Company dated May 14, 1997.
10.3 - Pledge Agreement between the Amalgamated Collateral Trust
and Snake River Sugar Company dated May 14, 1997.
10.4 - Guarantee by the Amalgamated Collateral Trust in favor of
Snake River Sugar Company dated May 14, 1997.
10.5 - Amended and Restated Pledge Agreement between ASC Holdings,
Inc. and Snake River Sugar Company dated May 14, 1997.
10.6 - Collateral Deposit Agreement among Snake River Sugar
Company, Valhi, Inc. and First Security Bank, National
Association dated May 14, 1997.
10.7 - Voting Rights and Forbearance Agreement among the
Amalgamated Collateral Trust, ASC Holdings, Inc. and First
Security Bank, National Association dated May 14, 1997.
10.8 - Voting Rights and Collateral Deposit Agreement among Snake
River Sugar Company, Valhi, Inc., and First Security Bank,
National Association dated May 14, 1997.
10.9 - Subordinated Loan Agreement between Snake River Sugar
Company and Valhi, Inc., as amended and restated effective May
14, 1997.
10.10 - Subordination Agreement between Valhi, Inc. and Snake River
Sugar Company dated May 14, 1997.
10.11 - Form of Option Agreement among Snake River Sugar Company,
Valhi, Inc. and the holders of Snake River Sugar Company's 10.9%
Senior Notes Due 2009 dated May 14, 1997.
27.1 - Financial Data Schedule for the six-month period ended June 30,
1997.
(b) Reports on Form 8-K
Reports on Form 8-K for the quarter ended June 30, 1997.
April 25, 1997 - Reported Items 5 and 7.
April 30, 1997 - Reported Items 2 and 7.
May 2, 1997 - Reported Items 5 and 7.
May 8, 1997 - Reported Items 5 and 7.
May 15, 1997 - Reported Items 5 and 7.
June 17, 1997 - Reported Items 5 and 7.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
VALHI, INC.
(Registrant)
Date August 6, 1997 By /s/ Bobby D. O'Brien
Bobby D. O'Brien
(Vice President,
Principal Financial Officer)
Date August 6, 1997 By /s/ Gregory M. Swalwell
Gregory M. Swalwell
(Controller,
Principal Accounting Officer)
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
VALHI, INC.
(Registrant)
Date August 6, 1997 By
Bobby D. O'Brien
(Vice President,
Principal Financial Officer)
Date August 6, 1997 By
Gregory M. Swalwell
(Controller,
Principal Accounting Officer)
FIRST AMENDMENT TO
COMPANY AGREEMENT
This First Amendment (the "First Amendment") is dated as of May 14,
1997, among ASC Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as The Amalgamated Sugar
Company), a Utah corporation ("AGM"), Amalgamated Collateral Trust, a Delaware
business trust (the "Trust"), Snake River Sugar Company, an Oregon cooperative
corporation ("SRSC"), and The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company (the "Company").
RECITALS:
WHEREAS, AGM, SRSC and the Company are parties to the Company
Agreement dated January 3, 1997, effective for tax and accounting purposes as of
December 31, 1996 (the "Company Agreement");
WHEREAS, the parties hereto wish to admit the Trust as a member of the
Company and to amend the Company Agreement as provided in this First Amendment;
and
WHEREAS, capitalized terms used in this First Amendment shall have the
meanings given to them in the Company Agreement, except as otherwise provided in
this First Amendment;
NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1. DEFINITIONS.
(a) The following definitions are hereby added to Article II of the
Company Agreement:
AGGREGATE CONSOLIDATED NET INCOME means, as at any date of
determination, the aggregate Consolidated Net Income of the Company
and its Subsidiaries during the thirty-six (36) month period then most
recently ended.
CAPITAL LEASE OBLIGATIONS - means with respect to any Person and a
Capital Lease (which means, at any time, a lease with respect to which
the lessee is required concurrently to recognize the acquisition of an
asset and the incurrence of a liability in accordance with GAAP), the
amount of the obligation of such Person as the lessee under such
Capital Lease which would, in accordance with GAAP, appear as a
liability on a balance sheet of such Person
CCC LOANS - means loans made by the Commodity Credit Corporation or
any successor entity to the Company.
CHANGE OF CONTROL EVENT - means the termination of full-time
employment with the Company as a result of resignation or removal
(for any reason) of any five of the following nine individuals prior
to the expiration of such individual's employment contract in effect
on the date of this First Amendment: Allan M. Lipman, Jr.,
Lawrence L. Corry, Ralph C. Burton, K. Pete Chertudi, John R. Lemke,
David L. Budge, Wayne P. Neeley, Dennis D. Costesso and George R.
Hobbs.
COLLATERAL AGENT - means First Security Bank, National Association, as
the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Snake River Pledge Agreement, and
any successor collateral agent pursuant to such agreement.
CONSOLIDATED - means with respect to the accounting item with respect
to any Person, such item on a consolidated basis for such Person and
its Subsidiaries.
CONSOLIDATED NET INCOME - means with respect to any Person,
Consolidated gross revenues less all operating and non-operating
expenses and other proper charges determined in accordance with GAAP;
provided that there shall be excluded from the calculation of
Consolidated Net Income:
(1) extraordinary gains;
(2) gains or losses resulting from the sale or other disposition
of capital assets;
(3) undistributed earnings of non-Subsidiary Investments;
(4) gains arising from changes in accounting principles;
(5) gains arising from the write-up of assets;
(6) any earnings of a Person acquired by the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company prior to the date such acquisition
occurs; and
(7) any gains or losses resulting from the retirement or
extinguishment of Debt.
CONSOLIDATED TANGIBLE ASSETS - means the total net book value of all
assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries (excluding goodwill, trade
names, copyrights, trademarks, other intangible assets, and write-ups
of assets after the date of the this First Amendment) determined on a
Consolidated basis as of the last day of the Company's most recently
ended fiscal year.
CURRENT DEBT - means any Debt that is payable on demand or that
matures within one year, without any option on the part of the
borrower or issuer thereunder to extend or renew such Debt for a
period of more than one year from the date of original issuance or
borrowing. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Current Debt shall include
the Bank Indebtedness and the CCC Loans.
DEBT - means , with respect to any Person:
(a) any indebtedness for borrowed money, (including
commercial paper and revolving credit line borrowings), or which is
evidenced by bonds, debentures or notes, or otherwise representing the
deferred purchase price of property or extensions of credit, whether
or not representing obligations for borrowed money (other than trade,
payroll and taxes payable),
(b) indebtedness of a third party secured by Liens on the
assets of such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person,
(c) Capital Lease Obligations,
(d) Guarantees,
(e) with the exception of the AGM Interest, capital stock
(or similar equity interests) that provides for mandatory redemption
or repurchase or repurchase at the option of the holder thereof (and,
if such Person is a Subsidiary of the Company, all capital stock (or
similar equity interests) which is preferred as to liquidation and is
held by Persons other than the Company or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of
the Company);
(f) obligations with respect to Swaps, letters or credit
and similar obligations; and
(g) modifications, renewals and extensions of the above.
FAIR MARKET VALUE - means at any time and with respect to any
property, the sale value of such property that would be realized in an
arm's-length sale at such time between an informed and willing buyer
and an informed and willing seller (neither being under a compulsion
to buy or sell).
FUNDED DEBT - means all Debt other than Current Debt.
GUARANTEES - means with respect to any Person, any direct or indirect
liability, contingent or otherwise, of such Person with respect to any
Debt, lease, dividend or other obligation of another, including,
without limitation, any such obligation directly or indirectly
guaranteed, endorsed (otherwise than for collection or deposit in the
ordinary course of business) or discounted or sold with recourse by
such Person, or in respect of which such Person is otherwise directly
or indirectly liable, including, without limitation, any such
obligation in effect guaranteed by such Person through any agreement
(contingent or otherwise) to (i) maintain the solvency or any balance
sheet or other financial condition of another Person or (ii) make
payment for any products, materials or supplies or for any
transportation or services regardless of the non-delivery or
non-furnishing thereof, in any such case if the purpose or effect of
such agreement is to provide assurance that such obligation will be
paid or discharged, or that any agreements relating thereto will be
complied with, or that the holders of such obligation will be
protected against loss in respect thereof. Guarantees shall include
obligations of partnerships and joint ventures of which such Person or
any Subsidiary is a general partner or co-venturer that is not
expressly non-recourse to such Person or such Subsidiary.
MATERIAL - means material in relation to the business, operations,
affairs, financial condition, assets, properties, or prospects of the
Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT - means a material adverse effect on (a) the
business, operations, affairs, financial condition, assets or
properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, or
(b) the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under the
Company Agreement and this First Agreement, or (c) the validity or
enforceability of the Company Agreement and this First Agreement.
NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS - means the note purchase agreements dated as
of the date of this First Amendment among SRSC and each of the
purchasers named in such agreements, as such agreements may be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
PERCENTAGE OF EARNINGS CAPACITY means, with respect to assets of the
Company, and/or its Subsidiaries Transferred or proposed to be
Transferred, the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of (i) Consolidated
Net Income produced by or attributable to such assets during the
thirty-six (36) month period most recently ended prior to the date of
their Transfer or proposed Transfer to (ii) Aggregate Consolidated Net
Income.
PLEDGE AGREEMENTS - means the Snake River Pledge Agreement and the SPT
Pledge Agreement.
RETAINED AMOUNTS - means the sum of (i) 95% of any Accrual, (ii) 100%
of any Deferral, (iii) 100% of any Insurance Deferral, plus (iv) 100%
of any interest accrued on any such Deferral or Insurance Deferral.
SNAKE RIVER PLEDGE AGREEMENT - means the Pledge Agreement dated as of
the date of this First Amendment among the Collateral Agent and SRSC.
SPT PLEDGE AGREEMENT - means the Pledge Agreement dates as of the date
of this First Amendment among SRSC and the Trust.
SUBSIDIARY or SUBSIDIARIES - means as to any Person (a) any
corporation(s) organized under the laws of any state of the United
States of which such Person or another Subsidiary of such Person, as
the case may be, beneficially owns or controls, either directly or
indirectly, 100% of the outstanding capital stock, and (b) any
partnership(s) or other entities organized under the laws of any state
of the United States in which such Person or another Subsidiary of
such Person, as the case may be, holds a 100% equity interest and
controls the management of such entity.
SUBORDINATED PRINCIPAL REDUCTION - means, the repayment of all
principal, interest and other amounts owing on SRSC's indebtedness
incurred pursuant to the Loan and Security Agreement dated as of
January 3, 1997, to be effective for tax and accounting purposes as of
December 31, 1996, among SRSC, as borrower, and Valhi, as lender, as
amended.
SUBSTANTIAL PART - means, as of any date of determination and with
respect to assets of the Company and/or its Subsidiaries, any of the
following:
(a) assets having, when taken together with all other assets
Transferred by the Company and/or its Subsidiaries during the twelve
month period immediately preceding the date of determination, an
aggregate net book value or an aggregate Fair Market Value (whichever
is greater) equal to or greater than 10% of Consolidated Tangible
Assets;
(b) assets having, when taken together with all other assets
Transferred by the Company and/or its subsidiaries from and after the
date of this First Amendment, an aggregate net book value or an
aggregate Fair Market Value (whichever is greater) equal to or greater
than 25% of Consolidated Tangible Assets;
(c) assets having, when taken together with all other assets
Transferred by the Company and/or its Subsidiaries during the twelve
month period immediately preceding the date of determination, an
aggregate Percentage of Earnings Capacity equal to or greater than
10%; or
(d) assets having, when taken together with all other assets
Transferred by the Company and/or its Subsidiaries from and after the
date of this First Amendment, an aggregate Percentage of Earnings
Capacity equal to or greater than 25%.
SWAPS - means, with respect to any Person, payment obligations with
respect to interest rate swaps, currency swaps and similar obligations
obligating such Person to make payments, whether periodically or upon
the happening of a contingency. For the purposes of this Agreement,
the amount of the obligation under any Swap shall be the amount
determined in respect thereof as of the end of the then most recently
ended fiscal quarter of such Person, based on the assumption that such
Swap had terminated at the end of such fiscal quarter, and in making
such determination, if any agreement relating to such Swap provides
for the netting of amounts payable by and to such Person thereunder or
if any such agreement provides for the simultaneous payment of amounts
by and to such Person, then in each such case, the amount of such
obligation shall be the net amount so determined.
TRANSFER OR TRANSFERRED - means to consolidate with or merge with any
other corporation or otherwise effect a recapitalization or
restructuring or convey, transfer or lease any of its assets in a
single transaction or series of transactions to any Person or Persons.
TRUST - has the meaning set forth in the first paragraph of this First
Amendment.
VALHI DEFAULT - means a default which permits the Valhi Loans to be
accelerated.
VOTING RIGHTS AGREEMENT - means the voting rights and forbearance
agreement dated as of the date of this first Amendment among the
Trust, AGM as Company Trustee and the Collateral Agent (and
acknowledged by the Company).
WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY - means with respect to any Person, at any
time, any Subsidiary of such Person one hundred percent (100%) of all
of the equity interests (except directors' qualifying shares) and
voting interests of which are owned by any one or more of such Person
and such Person's other Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries at such time.
(b) The definition of "AGM" contained in Section 1.1 of the Company
Agreement is hereby amended to have the meaning set forth in the introductory
paragraph of this First Amendment.
(c) The definition of "Bank Indebtedness" is hereby amended to replace the
number "$100,000,000" with "$120,000,000."
(d) The definition of Distributable Cash is hereby amended to add the
following to such definition "For purposes of Sections 9.3.1, the term
Distributable Cash shall not include net cash proceeds to the Company generated
from a Major Capital Event."
(e) The following definitions are hereby amended and restated to read as
follows:
AFFILIATE - means , at any time, and with respect to any Person, (a)
any other Person that at such time directly or indirectly through one
or more intermediaries Controls, or is Controlled by, or is under
common Control with, such first Person, and (b) any Person
beneficially owning or holding, directly or indirectly, 10% or more of
any class of voting or equity interests of the Company or any
Subsidiary or any corporation of which the Company and its
Subsidiaries beneficially own or hold, in the aggregate, directly or
indirectly, 10% or more of any class of voting or equity interests.
As used in this definition, "CONTROL" means the possession, directly
or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the
management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of
voting securities, by contract or otherwise. Unless the context
otherwise clearly requires, any reference to an "Affiliate" is a
reference to an Affiliate of the Company.
INVESTMENT - means any investment, made in cash or by delivery of
property, by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in any Person,
whether by acquisition of stock, Debt or other obligation or Security
(as defined in Section 2(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
from time to time), or by loan, Guarantee, advance, capital
contribution or otherwise.
PUT OPTION CONSIDERATION - means the sum of $250,000,000 (in the sale
of all of the AGM Interest originally issued) or the applicable
portion thereof (in the sale of a portion of the AGM Interest), plus
any Retained Amounts (or, in the case of the sale of a portion of the
AGM Interest, the part of any Retained Amounts relating to such
portion).
REDEMPTION PRICE - means the sum of $250,000,000 (in the redemption of
all of the AGM Interest originally issued) or the applicable portion
thereof (in the redemption of a portion of the AGM Interest), plus any
Retained Amounts (or, in the case of the sale of a portion of the AGM
Interest, the part of any Retained Amounts relating to such portion).
SR TERM INDEBTEDNESS - means SR's term loans as in effect on the date
of this First Amendment, including without limitation all Indebtedness
under the Note Purchase Agreements.
(f) The following definitions are hereby deleted in their entirety:
CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OR STRUCTURE
OPERATING CASH FLOW
FIXED CHARGES
MONTHLY TRANCHE B INTEREST
PERMITTED INDEBTEDNESS
PERMITTED INVESTMENTS
PERMITTED MERGERS
2. CONSENT TO TRANSFER OF AGM INTEREST.
(a) SRSC and the Company hereby consent to the transfer of the AGM
Interest from AGM to the Trust and to the admission of the Trust as a Member of
the Company. In reliance on the representations and warranties of the Trust set
forth below, the parties waive the requirement set forth in Section 11.3.1 of
the Company Agreement that the Trust provide a legal opinion in connection with
such transfer. The Company represents that it has received from the Trust all
information and agreements required pursuant to Section 11.3.2 of the Company
Agreement. Appendix A to the Company Agreement is hereby amended to include the
following address for the Trust:
Amalgamated Collateral Trust
c/o Wilmington Trust Company, as Resident Trustee
Rodney Square North
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001
and c/o ASC Holdings, Inc., as Company Trustee
Three Lincoln Centre
5430 LBJ Freeway, Suite 1700
Dallas, Texas 75240-2697
(b) The Trust hereby consents to be bound by and subject to all provisions
of this First Amendment and the Company Agreement as if the Trust were a party
thereto. The Trust hereby represents and warrants that: (i) it is acquiring
the AGM Interest for investment and not with a view to the resale or
distribution thereof; and (ii) it is acquiring the AGM Interest solely for its
own account for investment purposes, and not with a view to the distribution
thereof. The Trust acknowledges that the AGM Interest is subject to
restrictions on its transfer, as set forth in the Company Agreement, and agrees
to observe and be bound by all such restrictions. The Trust further agrees that
the Company may endorse each certificate representing the AGM Interest with an
appropriate legend relating to the foregoing. The Trust understands the
following concerning the AGM Interest:
(i) that the AGM Interest has not been, and will not be, registered
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or under any state securities
laws, and is being transferred from AGM to the Trust in reliance upon
federal and state exemptions for transactions not involving any public
offering;
(ii) that the Trust cannot sell the AGM Interest unless the AGM
Interest is registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
applicable state securities laws, or pursuant to an exemption from such
registration requirements;
(iii) that the Trust must bear the economic risk of its investment
in the AGM Interest for an indefinite period of time because the AGM
Interest has not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, or any state securities laws, and, therefore, cannot be sold
unless it is subsequently registered or unless exemptions from such
registration requirements are available;
(iv) that even if sale of the AGM Interest is permitted, a purchaser
may not become a Member of the Company without the consent of the other
Members, which they may have no obligation to give;
(v) that any certificate evidencing the AGM Interest will bear a
legend in substantially the following form:
THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS MEMBERSHIP CERTIFICATE
HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933,
AS AMENDED (THE "ACT"), OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES ACTS
(THE "STATE ACTS") AND SHALL NOT BE SOLD, PLEDGED,
HYPOTHECATED, DONATED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED (WHETHER OR
NOT FOR CONSIDERATION) BY THE HOLDER EXCEPT UPON THE
ISSUANCE TO THE AMALGAMATED SUGAR COMPANY LLC (THE
"COMPANY") OF A FAVORABLE OPINION OF COUNSEL (WHICH MAY BE
COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR OR TRANSFEREE) AND THE SUBMISSION
TO THE COMPANY OF SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY BE SATISFACTORY
TO COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY, IN EACH SUCH CASE TO THE EFFECT
THAT ANY SUCH TRANSFER SHALL NOT BE IN VIOLATION OF THE ACT
AND THE STATE ACTS.
THE MEMBERSHIP INTEREST REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE IS
SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED IN A COMPANY
AGREEMENT DATED JANUARY 3, 1997, AMONG THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, THE COMPANY AND CERTAIN OTHER PARTIES, A COPY OF
WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED BY THE HOLDER HEREOF AT THE COMPANY'S
PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS WITHOUT CHARGE.
(vi) that stop transfer instructions will be placed with respect to
the AGM Interest so as to restrict resale, pledge, hypothecation or other
transfer thereof, subject to the further terms hereof, including the
provisions of the legend set forth above.
(c) Except as set forth in the Voting Rights Agreement, the parties agree
that the Trust, as the holder of the AGM Interest, shall have all of the rights
and obligations of a holder of the AGM Interest as provided in the Company
Agreement and this First Amendment.
(d) The Company agrees that it shall provide copies of all reports and
information required to be provided to the holder of the AGM Interest to each of
the Trust and AGM.
3. CONSENT TO PLEDGE OF AGM INTEREST AND SR INTEREST AND RELATED
TRANSFERS AND SALES.
(a) In connection with the Trust's pledge of the AGM Interest to SRSC
pursuant to the terms of the SPT Pledge Agreement, SRSC's pledge of the SR
Interest to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the terms of the Snake River
Pledge Agreement, and SRSC's pledge of all of its rights in the SPT Pledge
Agreement to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the terms of the Snake River
Pledge Agreement, the parties agree, notwithstanding anything in the
Company Agreement or this First Amendment to the contrary, as follows: (i)
the transfer or sale of the SR Interest to the Collateral Agent pursuant to
the terms and conditions of the Snake River Pledge Agreement shall not
require any further consent of the Members, (ii) the transfer or sale of
the AGM Interest from the Trust to SRSC (or, pursuant to the terms and
conditions of the Snake River Pledge Agreement, to the Collateral Agent)
pursuant to the terms and conditions of the SPT Pledge Agreement shall not
require any further consent of the Members, (iii) the transfer or sale of
the AGM Interest and/or the SR Interest pursuant to the terms and
conditions of the Pledge Agreements shall not require any further consent
of the Members, (iv) following any such transfer or sale, and upon the
receipt by the Company and the Remaining Members of written notice of such
transfer pursuant to the provisions of Section 11.2 of the Company
Agreement and the information and agreements referred to in Section 11.3.1,
11.3.2 and 11.3.4 of the Company Agreement, the transferee in any such
transfer or sale shall be admitted as a Member of the Company without the
need for any further consent of the Members, (v) the provisions of Section
11.3.3 of the Company Agreement shall not apply to any such transfer or
sale, and (vi) the last sentence of Section 11.1 of the Company Agreement
is hereby deleted.
(b) The parties agree that any transfer of all or part of the portion
of the AGM Interest pledged to the Company pursuant to the terms and
conditions of the Indemnification Pledge Agreement, dated as of January 3,
1997 among the Company, SRSC and AGM, as amended and restated as of the
date of this First Amendment among the Company, the Trust and SRSC, shall
not require any further consent of the Members and any transfer of all or
part of such portion of the AGM Interest pursuant to the terms and
conditions of such pledge agreement shall not require consent of the
Members.
(c) The parties acknowledge and understand that, pursuant to the
Deposit Trust Agreement dated as of the date of this First Amendment among
the Trust, the Collateral Agent and SRSC, immediately upon any Retained
Amount being accrued, the Trust will distribute to its beneficiaries all
rights of the holders of the AGM Interest to receive any Retained Amounts,
and, accordingly, the pledge of the AGM Interest pursuant to the SPT Pledge
Agreement does not include a pledge of any rights held by the holders of
the AGM Interest to receive any Retained Amounts to the extent such
Retained Amounts accrued prior to the date of any Valhi Default. Following
any Valhi Default, the parties agree that, except as otherwise approved by
the holders of the SR Term Indebtedness, no amounts shall be paid in
respect of any Retained Amounts until after the Principal Reduction. Prior
to any Valhi Default, amounts shall be paid in respect of any Retained
Amounts as provided in Section 9 of the Company Agreement and Section 6 of
this First Amendment.
4. CONSENT TO VOTING AGREEMENT. The parties understand and agree
that (i) pursuant to the Voting Rights Agreement, AGM has been granted certain
consent and voting rights to act, in its discretion, on behalf of the holder(s)
of the AGM Interest, and (ii) AGM's ability to exercise such rights (including,
without limitation, the right to require mandatory redemption of the AGM
Interest pursuant to the provisions of Article XVII of the Company Agreement,
the right to exercise the Put Option pursuant to the provisions of Article XVIII
of the Agreement, and the right to exercise certain remedies pursuant to Article
XVI of the Company Agreement) is subject to the terms and conditions of the
Voting Rights Agreement.
5. TERMINATION OF DEFERRAL RELATING TO TRANCHE B INTEREST. Each of
(i) clause (d)(iii) of Section 9.3.1 of the Company Agreement, and (ii) all
references to such clause in the Company Agreement, are hereby deleted in their
entirety. On the effective date of this First Amendment, the parties agree that
SRSC shall transfer to the Company, as an additional Capital Contribution, an
amount equal to all amounts deferred pursuant to clause (d)(iii) of Section
9.3.1 prior to the effective date of this First Amendment (and paid to the
holders of the SR Interest rather than the holders of the AGM Interest) (the
"Current Deferral") and such Capital Contribution shall be paid to the holder of
the AGM Interest. The parties agree that an amount equal to $30,546.18
(representing accrued interest on the Current Deferral as of the date of this
First Amendment), together with interest on such amounts at a rate equal 10.145%
per annum) shall be added to the Deferral (and paid as part of the Deferral at
such times an in such amounts as is permitted under the Company Agreement and
this First Amendment). The parties agree that payment of the Current Deferral
and such interest shall constitute full satisfaction of the obligation of the
Company to make any distributions required, prior to the date of this First
Amendment, by clause (d)(iii) of Section 9.3.1 of the Company Agreement.
6. PAYMENT OF DEFERRAL AND INTEREST THEREON UPON PAYMENT OF SRSC
SUBORDINATED DEBT. The references to "Principal Reduction" in Section 9.3.1(d)
of the Company Agreement are hereby amended to read "Subordinated Principal
Reduction."
7. OBLIGATION OF SRSC TO MAKE ADDITIONAL CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS. The
parties agree that, following the Subordinated Principal Reduction and so long
as the Deferral and the Insurance Deferral (including any interest accruing on
such Deferral or Insurance Deferral) is greater than zero, SRSC shall make
additional Capital Contributions to the Company in an amount equal to any
amounts permitted to be contributed by SRSC to the Company pursuant to Section
10.9 of the Note Purchase Agreements. Such additional Capital Contributions
shall be promptly paid by the Company to the holder of the AGM Interest and such
payments shall reduce, on a dollar for dollar basis, the amount of any
outstanding Deferral and Insurance Deferral (plus any interest accrued on such
Deferral or Insurance Deferral).
8. CONSENT TO REFINANCING. For purposes of the definition of SR
Term Indebtedness, AGM, as the holder of the AGM Interest, hereby consents to
SRSC's refinancing of a portion of its term debt pursuant to the Note Purchase
Agreements, and agrees that the $100 million in term indebtedness incurred
pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreements shall be considered as SR Term
Indebtedness for purposes of the Company Agreement.
9. PAYMENT OF PUT OPTION CONSIDERATION OR REDEMPTION PRICE PRIOR TO
THE PRINCIPAL REDUCTION.
(a) The parties agree that, upon any mandatory redemption of the AGM
Interest, except as otherwise approved by the holders of the SR Term
Indebtedness, the Company shall not pay the portion, if any, of the
Redemption Price consisting of any Retained Amounts until following the
Principal Reduction. Any such amounts which are not paid shall bear
interest at a rate of 10.145% per annum and shall be paid as soon as
practicable following the Principal Reduction.
(b) The parties agree that, upon any exercise of the Put Option,
except as otherwise approved by the holders of the SR Term Indebtedness,
SRSC shall not be obligated to pay the portion, if any, of the Put Option
Consideration consisting of any Retained Amounts until following the
Principal Reduction. Any such amounts which are not paid shall bear
interest at a rate of 10.145% per annum and shall be paid as soon as
practicable following the Principal Reduction.
10. MAJOR CAPITAL EVENTS. Section 9.3.2 of the Company Agreement is
hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:
9.3.2 Except as provided below, the Company shall distribute
any Distributable Cash from a Major Capital Event, (i) first, to the
Members in an amount equal to any unpaid Accrual, 95% to the holders of the
AGM Interest and 5% to the holders of the SR Interest, (ii) second, to the
holders of the AGM Interest, until such holders have received an amount
equal to any Deferral and any Insurance Deferral, (iii) third, to the
Members pro rata in accordance with their Sharing Ratios, until each Member
has received an amount under this Section 9.3.2 equal in the aggregate to
the Capital Contribution made by each Member, and (iv) fourth, to the
Members in the percentages then in effect under Section 9.3.1(b)(iii). Any
amounts which would be distributed under this Section 9.3.2 to holders of
the AGM Interest during the 1997 or 1998 Fiscal Years of the Company, to
the extent such distributions would cause distributions to the holders of
the AGM Interest for either of the Company's 1997 or 1998 Fiscal Years to
exceed an aggregate of $25,362,500, shall not be distributed in such Fiscal
Years but shall instead be paid to the holders of the AGM Interest in the
Company's 1999 Fiscal Year.
Except as otherwise approved by the holders of the SR Term
Indebtedness, prior to the date of the Principal Reduction, if the Major
Capital Event is also an Insurance Event, then prior to any distribution
pursuant to the first paragraph of this Section 9.3.2, an amount of
Distributable Cash from the Insurance Event (up to an amount equal to any
outstanding principal, interest and other amounts outstanding on the SR
Term Indebtedness) shall be distributed to the holders of the SR Interest.
The amounts that would otherwise have been distributed to the holders of
the AGM Interest, but for the provisions of the immediately preceding
sentence is referred to in this Agreement as the "Insurance Deferral."
Following the date of the Principal Reduction, amounts which would
otherwise be distributed to the holders of the SR Interest pursuant to this
Company Agreement shall be reduced (and such distribution shall instead be
paid dollar for dollar to the holders of the AGM Interest) in an amount
equal to the sum of (i) the amount of the Insurance Deferral, plus (ii)
interest on such Insurance Deferral at the rate of 10.145% per annum,
compounded annually, from the date any Insurance Deferral amount would
otherwise have been paid to the holders of the AGM Interest until the date
an amount equal to such Insurance Deferral and such interest is actually
paid to the holders of the AGM Interest pursuant to this Section 9.3.2.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 9.3.2, (i) if
a Major Capital Event is incident to or results in the liquidation of the
Company, Distributable Cash therefrom shall be distributed in accordance
with Section 13.3, and (ii) upon the occurrence and during the continuation
of an Event of Default (under and as defined in the Note Purchase
Agreements), the Company shall not distribute any Distributable Cash from a
Major Capital Event which is not an Insurance Event.
11. AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 6.3. Section 6.3 of the Company Agreement
is hereby amended to read as follows:
6.3 AGM MEMBER CONSENT. Notwithstanding anything in this Company
Agreement to the contrary, the Company shall not do any of the following
acts, directly or indirectly, without the written consent of a Majority of
the AGM Interest:
(i) make any distributions upon any Membership Interest other
than distributions pursuant to the terms of Section 9.3;
(ii) purchase or otherwise acquire all or any portion of any
Membership Interest (including, without limitation, rights to acquire all
or any portion of any Membership Interest) other than the purchase of the
AGM Interest pursuant to Article XVII;
(iii) directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume,
guarantee, have outstanding, or otherwise become or remain directly or
indirectly liable with respect to (and the Company will not permit any
Subsidiary of the Company to do any of the forgoing), (i) any Consolidated
Funded Debt or (ii) any Consolidated Current Debt, except for (A) the CCC
Loans (provided that at any time that the CCC Loans are recourse to the
Company, the Company will not have any CCC Loans outstanding unless there
shall have been during the immediately preceding twelve months a period of
at least 60 consecutive days on each day of which there shall have been no
CCC Loans outstanding in excess of $25,000,000) and (B) the Bank Loans,
provided that there shall have been during the immediately preceding twelve
months a period of at least 60 consecutive days on each day of which there
shall have been no Bank Loans outstanding in excess of $65,000,000;
(iv) declare, make or authorize any Investment (and the
Company will not permit any Subsidiary of the Company to do any of the
forgoing) except the following:
(1) Investments existing on the date of the this First
Amendment and set forth in Schedule 10.9 to the Note Purchase
Agreements;
(2) Investments in direct obligations of the United States
of America or obligations fully guaranteed by the United States of
America, provided that such obligations mature within one year from
the date acquired;
(3) Investments in certificates of deposit maturing within
one year from the date acquired and issued by a bank or trust company
organized under the laws of the United States or any or its states,
rated AA or better by Standard and Poor's Ratings Group, a division of
McGraw Hill, Inc. or Aa2 or better by Moody's Investors Service, Inc.,
and having capital, surplus and undivided profits aggregating at least
$750,000,000;
(4) Investments in commercial paper rated A1 by Standard
and Poor's Ratings Group, a division of McGraw Hill, Inc. or P1 by
Moody's Investors Service, Inc. and maturing not more than 270 days
from the date acquired;
(5) loans and advances by the Company to its Subsidiaries;
(6) loans and advances (i) by Subsidiaries of the Company
to the Company and (ii) between Subsidiaries of the Company;
(7) travel and other business advances to officers and
employees of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in the
ordinary course of business; and
(8) other Investments not to exceed an aggregate amount of
$1,500,000;
(v) effect any Transfer (and the Company will not permit any
Subsidiary of the Company to do any of the forgoing) except that:
(a) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may Transfer
assets in the ordinary course of their business;
(b) any Subsidiary of the Company may merge with the
Company or with a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company, provided
that the Company or such Wholly-Owned Subsidiary shall be the survivor
of such merger;
(c) any Subsidiary of the Company may Transfer its assets
to the Company or any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company;
(d) the Company may consolidate or merge with another
corporation if (i) the Company is the continuing or surviving company
and (ii) immediately before and after giving effect to such
transaction, no breach of the Company Agreement or this First
Amendment exists or would exist, and no amendment of the Company
Agreement or this First Amendment is required; and
(e) the Company and any of its Subsidiaries may Transfer
assets of the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, if all
of the following conditions shall have been satisfied with respect
thereto: (i) such Transfer does not involve a Substantial Part of the
assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (ii) in the good faith
opinion of the Company, the Transfer is in exchange for consideration
with a Fair Market Value at least equal to that of the property
Transferred, and is in the best interests of the Company and its
Members and (iii) immediately before and after giving effect to such
Transfer no breach of the Company Agreement or this First Amendment
exists or would exist, and no amendment of the Company Agreement or
this First Amendment is required;
No such Transfer of assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall
have the effect of releasing the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any
successor corporation that shall theretofore have become such a successor
corporation in the manner prescribed in this Section 6.3(v) from any
obligation to the Members under the Company Agreement or this First
Amendment;
(vi) Transfer, or part with control of, any shares of stock (or
other equity interests) or Debt of any Subsidiary of the Company (and the
Company will not permit any Subsidiary of the Company to do any of the
forgoing) except (i) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may Transfer
shares of stock (or other equity interests) or Debt of any Subsidiary of
the Company to the Company or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company and
(ii) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may Transfer all shares of
stock (or other equity interests) and all Debt of such a Subsidiary if
(a) the Transfer is in exchange for cash consideration with a Fair Market
Value at least equal to that of the property transferred (determined in
good faith by the Management Committee of the Company), (b) such Transfer
is otherwise permitted under this Section 6.3 and (c) at the time of such
Transfer, such Subsidiary shall not own, directly or indirectly, any shares
of stock (or other equity interests) or Debt of any other Subsidiary
(unless all of the shares of stock (or other equity interests) and Debt of
such other Subsidiary owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company and all
Subsidiaries are simultaneously being sold). The Company will not issue
any membership interests other than the SR Interest and the AGM Interest;
(vii) engage in any business other than the production and
sale of sugar and by-products;
(viii) other than in connection with Bank Indebtedness and the
Note Purchase Agreements, become subject to any agreement or instrument
which by its terms would (under any circumstances) restrict the Company's
ability to perform the provisions of the Company Agreement (including,
without limitation, provisions relating to payment of distributions on and
making acquisitions of the AGM Interest);
(ix) enter into directly or indirectly any transaction or
Material group of related transactions (including without limitation the
purchase, lease, sale or exchange of properties of any kind or the
rendering of any service) with any Affiliate (and the Company will not
permit any Subsidiary of the Company to do any of the forgoing), except (i)
as set forth on Schedule 10.1 to the Note Purchase Agreements, (ii) the
Company Agreement, this First Amendment, and the Formation Agreement and
transactions contemplated by such agreements, (iii) in the ordinary course
and pursuant to the reasonable requirements of the Company's or such
Subsidiary's business and upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable
to the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, than would be
obtainable in a comparable arm's-length transaction with a Person not an
Affiliate, and (iv) transactions between the Company and any Subsidiary of
the Company;
(x) permit any Subsidiary of the Company to incur or permit to
exist any restriction on such Subsidiary's ability to make payments or
other distributions to the Company or its Subsidiaries, to repay intra-
company Debt or to otherwise transfer earnings or assets to the Company or
its Subsidiaries;
(xi) make or commit to make capital expenditures (and the Company
will not permit any Subsidiary of the Company to do any of the forgoing) in
an aggregate amount exceeding $35,000,000 on a consolidated basis during
any fiscal year and the two previous fiscal years; provided, however, that
(A) to the extent such limit has been reached during any fiscal year, the
Company and its Subsidiaries may make capital expenditures reasonably
required to be made in such fiscal year by legal or regulatory
requirements, (B) commencing with the Company's fiscal year beginning on
January 1, 1998 and on each January 1 thereafter, the $35 million aggregate
threshold shall be adjusted by an amount equal to the change since January
1, 1997 in the U.S. producer price index for refined beet sugar (as shown
on the most currently available publication) (or, if such index is no
longer available, the closest comparable U.S. producer price index
available, as reasonably determined by the Company), (C) the limitation set
forth in this Section 6.3(xi) shall not apply to capital expenditures which
are financed with Debt incurred by the Company specifically for the purpose
of making such capital expenditures, so long as such Debt is permitted to
be incurred under this Section 6.3, (D) for purposes of this Section
6.3(xi), capital expenditures for each fiscal year prior to January 1, 1997
shall be deemed to be an amount equal to $10,000,000;
(xii) permit a court or governmental authority of competent
jurisdiction to enter an order appointing, without consent by the Company
or any Subsidiary of the Company, a custodian, receiver, trustee or other
officer with similar powers with respect to it or with respect to any
substantial part of its property, or constituting an order for relief or
approving a petition for relief or reorganization or any other petition in
bankruptcy or for liquidation or to take advantage of any bankruptcy or
insolvency law of any jurisdiction, or ordering the dissolution, winding-up
or liquidation of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company or the
marshaling of its assets, or any such petition shall be filed against the
Company or any Subsidiary of the Company and such petition shall not be
dismissed within 60 days;
(xiii) permit the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (i) to
generally not pay, or admit in writing its inability to pay, its debts as
they become due, (ii) to file, or consent by answer or otherwise to the
filing against it of, a petition for relief or reorganization or
arrangement or any other petition in bankruptcy, for liquidation or to take
advantage of any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or
other similar law of any jurisdiction, (iii) to make an assignment for the
benefit of its creditors, (iv) to consent to the appointment of a
custodian, receiver, trustee or other officer with similar powers with
respect to it or with respect to any substantial part of its property,
(v) to be adjudicated as insolvent or to be liquidated, (vi) to consent to
any other marshaling of its assets, (vii) to take corporate action for the
purpose of any of the foregoing;
(xiv) permit a final judgment or judgments for the payment of
money aggregating in excess of $1,000,000 to be rendered against one or
more of the Company, and its Subsidiaries and which judgments are not,
within 60 days after entry thereof, bonded, discharged or stayed pending
appeal, or are not discharged within 60 days after the expiration of such
stay;
(xvii) (i) permit the payment of any principal of or premium
or interest on the Bank Indebtedness, any CCC Loan or any other Debt that
is outstanding to be accelerated according to its terms and declared due
and payable before its stated maturity or before its regularly scheduled
dates of payment, or (ii) as a consequence of the occurrence or
continuation of any event or condition (other than the passage of time or
the right of the holder of Debt to convert such Debt into equity
interests), permit the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company to become
obligated to purchase or repay the Bank Loans, such CCC Loan or such other
Debt before its regular maturity or before its regularly scheduled dates of
payment; provided that in the case of Debt other than the Bank Loans or any
CCC Loan, the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof subject to
clauses (i) and/or (ii) above is $1,000,000 or more;
(xviii) permit a Change in Control Event to occur;
(xix) fail to preserve and keep in full force and effect the
limited liability company existence of the Company and all rights and
franchises (including, without limitation, licenses and permits) of the
Company, and, except as otherwise expressly provided by this Section 6.3,
fail to at all times preserve and keep in full force and effect the
existence of each of its Subsidiaries and all rights and franchises
(including, without limitation, licenses and permits) such Subsidiaries
unless, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the termination of or
failure to preserve and keep in full force and effect such existence, right
or franchise could not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material
Adverse Effect.
12. OFFSET RIGHTS. The parties agree that, in the event any Member
of the Company is obligated to return any amounts pursuant to the provisions of
Section 9.3.1(b) of the Company, the Company may, at its option, withhold such
amounts from amounts to be distributed to such Member pursuant to Section 9.3.1
or otherwise, provided, however, that in the case of the Trust, so long as the
notes issued pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreements are outstanding, the
Company shall not withhold an amount which would cause the Trust to receive an
amount, in any month, that is less than the scheduled payments of interest and
principal on such notes.
13. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS. Section 5.1.1 of the Company Agreement is
hereby amended by replacing the term "AGM" with the phrase "the holders of a
Majority of the AGM Interest." Section 9.3.3. of the Company Agreement is hereby
amended by replacing the phrase "will be rendered insolvent"with the phrase
"will not be rendered insolvent." The heading of Section 16.2 is hereby amended
by replacing the term "Distributions" with the term "Management Committee" and
by adding the phrase "and at the request of the holders of a Majority of the AGM
Interest" after the word "occurs" in the first sentence of such Section.
Article III is hereby amended by replacing the term "amortization" with the term
"authorization" and by deleting the words "refined" and the phrase "from
sugarbeets."
14. NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS. Notwithstanding anything in the
Company Agreement or this First Amendment to the contrary, to the extent that
any provision of or action required by the Company Agreement or this First
Amendment is inconsistent with or prohibited by the terms of the Note Purchase
Agreements or the Voting Rights Agreement, then until the Note Purchase
Agreements and the Voting Rights Agreement are terminated, the terms of the Note
Purchase Agreements and the Voting Rights Agreement, respectively, shall govern,
provided, however, that without the consent of the holders of the AGM Interest,
no amendment, modification or other alteration of the Note Purchase Agreements
and the Voting Rights Agreement after the date of this First Amendment shall be
deemed to (i) create any liability of, or increase any obligation of, the
holders of the AGM Interest, (ii) reduce any liability of, or decrease any
obligation of, the holders of the SR Interest, (iii) require any change in the
governance provisions of the Company Agreement, including without limitation the
provisions of the Company Agreement relating to the selection of the Management
Committee, the rights and responsibilities of representatives on the Management
Committee, or the voting rights of Members, (iv) change any provision of Section
6.3 of the Company Agreement, as amended by this First Amendment, (v) reduce or
eliminate any rights of the holders of the AGM Interest to receive information
from the Company or SRSC, (vi) require any change in the Capital Account of the
holder of the AGM Interest, (vii) change any provisions relating to
distributions and allocations, (viii) require the admission of any new member,
the withdrawal of any Member or the dissolution of the Company, (ix) change any
provisions relating to the Put Option or the mandatory redemption of the AGM
Interest, and (x) provide for any discriminatory treatment (including, without
limitation, relating to distributions) between Members not expressly permitted
by the Company Agreement or this First Amendment. The parties acknowledge that
the holders of the notes issued pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreements are
third party beneficiaries of the provisions of this Section 14.
15. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Section 16.2.2 of the Company Agreement is
hereby amended to add the following sentence "Any representative elected by the
holders of the AGM Interest shall cease to serve as a representative if and to
the extent required pursuant to the Voting Rights Agreement, and, thereafter, a
majority of the representatives to the Management Committee selected by the
holders of the SR Interest shall constitute a quorum of the Management
Committee." SRSC agrees to take all actions reasonably requested by the Trust to
facilitate compliance by the Trust with the requirements of the Voting Rights
Agreement, including, without limitation, the funding of the Voting Rights
Escrow as defined in the Note Purchase Agreements.
16. EXPENSES OF THE TRUST. Promptly upon request, SRSC agrees to pay
directly or to reimburse the Trust (and, if paid by AGM, to reimburse AGM) for
all expenses incurred by the Trust, whether to compensate or reimburse the
Resident Trustee of the Trust or otherwise.
17. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. Each of the parties represents
and warrants that the execution, delivery and performance by such party of this
First Amendment are within its powers, have been duly authorized by all
necessary action and do not and will not contravene or conflict with any
provision of law applicable to such party, the charter, declaration of trust or
bylaws of such party, or any order, judgment or decree of any court or other
agency of government or any contractual obligation binding upon such party, and
this First Amendment and the Company Agreement as amended as of the date hereof
are the legal, valid and binding obligations of such party enforceable against
such party in accordance with its terms.
18. MISCELLANEOUS.
(a) Captions. Section captions used in this First Amendment are for
convenience only, and shall not affect the construction of this First Amendment.
(b) Governing Law. This First Amendment shall be a contract made
under and governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to
conflict of laws principles.
(c) Counterparts. This First Amendment may be executed in any number
of counterparts, and each such counterpart shall be deemed to be an original,
but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same
amendment.
(d) Successors and Assigns. This First Amendment shall be binding
upon the parties and their respective successors and assigns, and shall inure to
the sole benefit of the parties their successors and assigns.
This First Amendment to the Company Agreement is dated as of the day
and year first above written.
ASC HOLDINGS, INC.
By:_______________________________
Name: Steven L. Watson
Title: Vice President
AMALGAMATED COLLATERAL TRUST
By Wilmington Trust Company, not individually but
solely
in its capacity as Resident Trustee
By:_______________________________
Name:_____________________________
Title:______________________________
SNAKE RIVER SUGAR COMPANY
By:_______________________________
Name: Allan M. Lipman
Title: President
THE AMALGAMATED SUGAR COMPANY LLC
By:_______________________________
Name: Allan M. Lipman
Title: President
24271
DEPOSIT TRUST AGREEMENT relating to AMALGAMATED COLLATERAL TRUST,
dated as of May 14, 1997, among ASC HOLDINGS, INC., a Utah corporation (the
"DEPOSITOR"), as a Certificateholder (as hereinafter defined) and as the Company
Trustee (as hereinafter defined), and WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware
banking corporation (in its individual capacity, "WILMINGTON"), as Resident
Trustee (as hereinafter defined).{PRIVATE }
R E C I T A L S
The Depositor is the record and beneficial owner of the limited
liability company membership interest (the "AGM INTEREST") issued by Amalgamated
Sugar Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("LLC"), identified as
the 94.7% Membership Interest in the Company Agreement of LLC dated as of
January 3, 1997 (as amended to the date hereof and as it may be amended,
supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the "COMPANY
AGREEMENT"). Pursuant to an amendment to the Company Agreement dated the date
hereof (the "FIRST AMENDMENT TO COMPANY AGREEMENT"), the Trust will be admitted
as a substitute member of LLC upon the transfer of the AGM Interest by the
Depositor to the Trust pursuant to this Agreement.
The Depositor is a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Valhi,
Inc. ("VALHI"), a Delaware corporation.
Valhi has issued to Snake River Sugar Company (the "SECURED
PARTY"), an Oregon cooperative, a Limited Recourse Promissory Note dated
January 3, 1997 in aggregate principal amount of $212,500,000 (the "Limited
Recourse Note") and a Subordinated Promissory Note (the "Subordinated Note")
dated January 3, 1997 in aggregate principal amount of $37,500,000
(collectively, as they may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise
modified from time to time, the "SNAKE RIVER LOAN NOTES").
Each of the Secured Party, Valhi and the Depositor desire that
the AGM Interest be transferred and to held by the Trust, independent and apart
from the assets of the Depositor and that (i) the Trust guarantee payment of the
Limited Recourse Note and (ii) the obligations of the Trust under such guarantee
and Valhi's obligations under the Subordinated Note be secured by the AGM
Interest and in furtherance thereof desire that the Depositor (i) enter into
this Agreement and establish the Trust (as hereinafter defined) as provided
herein and (ii) cause the Trust to execute and deliver the Guaranty, dated the
date of this Agreement (as it may hereafter be amended, supplemented, restated
or otherwise modified from time to time, the "SPT GUARANTY") and the Pledge
Agreement, dated as of the date of this Agreement, by and between the Secured
Party and the Trust (as it may hereafter be amended, supplemented, restated or
otherwise modified from time to time, the "SPT PLEDGE AGREEMENT").
The Secured Party intends to issue its 10.80% Senior Notes due
2009 (the "SENIOR NOTES") pursuant to certain Note Purchase Agreements dated as
of the date of this Agreement (as they may hereafter be amended, supplemented,
restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the "NOTE PURCHASE
AGREEMENTS").
Pursuant to that certain Pledge Agreement, dated as of the date
of this Agreement between the Secured Party and the Collateral Agent (as defined
below) (as it may hereafter be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise
modified from time to time, the "SNAKE PLEDGE AGREEMENT"), the Secured Party has
assigned to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the holders of the Senior
Notes, as collateral security for its obligations under the Note Purchase
Agreements and the Senior Notes, among other things, all of its rights, title
and interest in, to and under (i) the Snake River Loan Notes and (ii) the SPT
Guaranty and all collateral granted to the Secured Party in connection with the
SPT Guaranty and the Snake River Loan Notes, including, without limitation, the
AGM Interest pledged to the Secured Party pursuant to the SPT Pledge Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual
agreements herein contained, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
{PRIVATE }
DEFINITIONS{TC \L 1 "
DEFINITIONS"}
{PRIVATE } DEFINITIONS{TC \L 2 " DEFINITIONS"}. Capitalized
terms set forth below shall have the following meanings when used in this
Agreement:
"ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE" means the actual knowledge of any Authorized
Officer in the Corporate Trust Office of the Resident Trustee who is responsible
for administering the Resident Trustee's compliance with this Agreement or the
actual knowledge of any officer of the Company Trustee.
"AFFILIATE" of any Person means any other Person that directly or
indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such
Person. "Control", including with correlative meanings the terms "controlling",
"controlled by" and "under common control with" means the possession, directly
or indirectly, of the power to direct the management and policies of a person,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.
"AGM INTEREST" has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals
to this Agreement.
"AGREEMENT" means this Deposit Trust Agreement, as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
"AUTHORIZED OFFICER" means, with respect to any Person, the chairman,
president or any vice president of such Person and in addition, in the case of
the Resident Trustee, means a secretary, assistant secretary or financial
services officer of the Resident Trustee.
"BUSINESS DAY" means a day on which the Trustee and banks located in
New York, New York, Chicago, Illinois and Ogden, Utah are open for the purpose
of conducting commercial business.
"BUSINESS TRUST STATUTE" means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware
Code, 12 Del. C. Section 3801 et seq., as the same may be amended from time to
time.
"CERTIFICATE OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST" means any certificate
representing a beneficial ownership interest in the Trust in substantially the
form attached hereto as Exhibit A.
"CERTIFICATEHOLDER" means any holder of record of a Certificate of
Beneficial Interest. The Depositor shall be the sole initial Certificateholder.
"CODE" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
"COLLATERAL AGENT" means the Collateral Agent under that certain
Collateral Agency Agreement, dated as of the date of this Agreement by and among
the purchasers party to the Note Purchase Agreements, the Secured Party and
First Security Bank, National Association, as collateral agent.
"COMPANY AGREEMENT" has the meaning assigned to that term in the
Recitals to this Agreement.
"COMPANY TRUSTEE" means ASC Holdings, Inc. as the initial Company
Trustee, and its successor as Company Trustee hereunder.
"CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE" means the office of the Resident Trustee or
the Company Trustee, as applicable as set forth in Section 8.4.
"DEPOSITOR" has the meaning stated in the introductory paragraph of
this Agreement.
"DISTRIBUTION DATE" means, as to funds paid to a Trustee by wire
transfer, the Business Day on which the Trust receives such funds and, as to
funds paid to a Trustee by a method other than by wire transfer, the first
Business Day following the day on which a Trustee has Actual Knowledge of its
receipt of such funds.
"FISCAL YEAR" means the fiscal year of LLC.
"INDEMNIFICATION PLEDGE AGREEMENT" means the pledge agreement of the
Trust in favor of the Secured Party and LLC, and as of the date of this
Agreement.
"LIEN" means any mortgage, pledge, security interest, encumbrance,
set-off, bankers' lien or similar arrangement, charge or other lien of any kind,
any agreement to give the same, any conditional sale or other title retention
agreement, and the filing of or agreement to give any financing statement under
the
Uniform Commercial Code of any jurisdiction.
"LLC" has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals to this
Agreement.
"NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS" has the meaning assigned to that term in
the Recitals to this Agreement.
"PERCENTAGE INTEREST" means the beneficial ownership interest,
expressed as a percentage, of a Certificateholder in this Trust. The initial
Percentage Interest of the Depositor shall be 100%.
"PERSON" means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited
liability company, association, trust, unincorporated organization, or
government or agency or political subdivision thereof.
"RESIDENT TRUSTEE" means a Person satisfying the requirements of
Section 3807(a) of the Business Trust Statute, and shall initially be Wilmington
Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation acting not in its individual
capacity but solely as trustee hereunder, and any Person that shall have become
its successor pursuant to Section 7.4 hereof.
"SECURED PARTY" has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals
to this Agreement.
"SNAKE LOAN DEFAULT" means any default under the Snake River Loan
Notes permitting or resulting in acceleration of the Snake River Loan Notes.
"SNAKE LOAN DEFAULT NOTICE" means a written notice delivered to the
Resident Trustee in accordance with Section 8.4 hereof from Secured Party or the
Collateral Agent, stating that a Snake Loan Default has occurred.
"SENIOR NOTE PAYOFF NOTICE" means a notice given by the Collateral
Agent to the Resident Trustee stating that all obligations in respect to the
Senior Notes and the Note Purchase Agreements have been paid in full.
"SENIOR NOTES" has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals
to this Agreement.
"SNAKE PLEDGE AGREEMENT" has the meaning assigned to that term in the
Recitals to this Agreement.
"SNAKE RIVER LOAN NOTES" has the meaning assigned to that term in the
Recitals to this Agreement.
"SPT PLEDGE AGREEMENT" has the meaning assigned to that term in the
Recitals to this Agreement.
"TRUST" means the trust existing pursuant to this Agreement,
designated as Amalgamated Collateral Trust.
"TRUSTEE" means each of the Resident Trustee and the Company Trustee,
acting as trustee of the Trust pursuant to this Agreement.
"TRUST PROPERTY" has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.2
hereof.
"VALHI" has the meaning assigned to that term in the Recitals to this
Agreement.
"VALHI ENTITY PLEDGE AGREEMENT" means the Amended and Restated Pledge
Agreement, dated the date of this Agreement executed by the Depositor, as it may
be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.
"VOTING RIGHTS AGREEMENT" means the Voting Rights and Forbearance
Agreement, dated as of the date of this Agreement, by and among the Trust, the
Depositor and the Collateral Agent, as it may be amended, supplemented, restated
or otherwise modified from time to time.
"VOTING RIGHTS NOTICE" means a written notice delivered to the
Resident Trustee in accordance with Section 8.4 hereof from the Collateral Agent
stating that the Depositor does not have the right to exercise Control Action,
as defined in the Voting Rights Agreement.
{PRIVATE }
DECLARATION OF BUSINESS TRUST; ISSUANCE{TC \L 1 "
DECLARATION OF BUSINESS TRUST; ISSUANCE"}
AND TRANSFER OF CERTIFICATES OF BENEFICIAL
INTEREST; DUTIES OF TRUSTEES; NO FILING
{PRIVATE } DECLARATION OF BUSINESS TRUST{TC \L 2 "
DECLARATION OF BUSINESS TRUST"}.
Wilmington and the Depositor, and each of them, are hereby
appointed to hold, and each accepts such appointment and agrees to hold, the
Trust Property as Trustee in trust upon the terms and conditions and for the use
and benefit of the Certificateholders as herein set forth. Wilmington is hereby
designated the Resident Trustee of the Trust.
It is the intention of the parties hereto that the trust created by
this Agreement constitute a business trust under the Business Trust Statute and
that this Agreement constitute the governing instrument of such business trust.
This declaration of business trust is intended for federal income tax purposes
to be characterized as a partnership among the Certificateholders (if more than
one Certificateholder exists) and, at any time that there is only one
Certificateholder, as merely an agent of such holder and not as a separate
entity for federal income tax purposes. It is not intended to create an
association taxable as a corporation. The provisions hereof shall be
interpreted accordingly and no party hereto shall take a contrary position for
federal income tax purposes. Effective as of the date hereof, the Trustees
shall have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein and (except as
otherwise provided herein) in the Business Trust Statute with respect to
accomplishing the purposes of the Trust.
The principal objects and purposes for which the Trust is created
and established are (i) owning, managing, holding, encumbering and otherwise
dealing with the Trust Property, (ii) issuing and selling the Certificates of
Beneficial Interest and executing, delivering and performing this Agreement and
the Voting Rights Agreement, (iii) executing and delivering the SPT Guaranty,
SPT Pledge Agreement and the Indemnification Pledge Agreement and the First
Amendment to Company Agreement and performing its obligations thereunder and
under the Company Agreement, and (iv) engaging in any activities necessary,
convenient or incidental to the foregoing.
{PRIVATE } TRANSFER OF TRUST PROPERTY TO THE TRUST{TC \L 2 "
TRANSFER OF TRUST PROPERTY TO THE TRUST"}.
The Depositor hereby grants, assigns, transfers, and sets over to
the Trust all of the Depositor's right, title and interest in, to and under the
following (the "TRUST PROPERTY"): (i) the AGM Interest and the Company
Agreement, (ii) any certificates representing the AGM Interest and any interest
of the Depositor in the entries on the books of any financial intermediary
pertaining to the AGM Interest, and all distributions, dividends, cash,
warrants, rights, instruments, voting rights and other rights, property or
proceeds from time to time existing, received, receivable or otherwise
distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of the AGM Interest
and/or the Company Agreement, (iii) all additional equity interests, and all
securities convertible into and warrants, options and other rights to purchase
or otherwise acquire any equity interests, in any issuer of the AGM Interest
from time to time acquired by the Depositor in any manner (which interests shall
be deemed to be part of the Trust Property), any certificates or other
instruments representing such additional equity interests, securities, warrants,
options or other rights and any interest of Depositor in the entries on the
books of any financial intermediary pertaining to such additional equity
interests, and all dividends, cash, warrants, rights, instruments, voting rights
and other rights, property or proceeds from time to time received, receivable or
otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of such
additional equity interests, securities, warrants, options or other rights, and
(iv) to the extent not covered by clauses (i) through (iii) above, all proceeds
of any or all of the foregoing. For purposes of this Agreement, the term
"PROCEEDS" includes whatever is receivable or received when Trust Property or
proceeds are sold, exchanged, collected or otherwise disposed of, whether such
disposition is voluntary or involuntary, and includes, without limitation,
proceeds of any indemnity or guaranty payable to the Depositor or the Trust from
time to time with respect to any of the Trust Property.
At any time and from time to time, the Depositor or any other
Person may grant to the Trust additional Trust Property. Upon receipt of
written directions from the Collateral Agent, the Trust shall accept or acquire
such additional Trust Property for the common and equal use, benefit and
security of all Certificateholders.
{PRIVATE } ISSUANCE AND TRANSFER OF CERTIFICATES OF BENEFICIAL
INTEREST{TC \L 2 " ISSUANCE AND TRANSFER OF CERTIFICATES OF BENEFICIAL
INTEREST"}.
The Company Trustee (in such capacity) acknowledges that the
Trust has received the AGM Interest on the date hereof, duly transferred by the
Depositor, and the Depositor is hereby issued a 100% Certificate of Beneficial
Interest by the Trust and initially constitutes the sole beneficial owner of the
Trust and the Resident Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to execute such
Certificate of Beneficial Interest.
Each Certificate of Beneficial Interest shall be executed by
manual signature on behalf of the Resident Trustee by one of its Authorized
Officers. Certificates of Beneficial Interest bearing the manual signature of
an individual who was, at the time when such signature was affixed, authorized
to sign on behalf of the Resident Trustee shall bind the Trust, notwithstanding
that such individual has ceased to be so authorized prior to the delivery of
such Certificates of Beneficial Interest or does not hold such office at the
date of such Certificates of Beneficial Interest. Each Certificate of
Beneficial Interest shall be dated the date of its issuance.
A Certificateholder shall be entitled to all rights provided to
it under this Agreement, in the Business Trust Statute (to the extent not
limited by this Agreement), and in its Certificate of Beneficial Interest, and
shall be subject to the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, in the
Business Trust Statute (to the extent not limited by this Agreement) and in such
Certificate of Beneficial Interest.
The Resident Trustee shall cause to be kept at its Corporate
Trust Office, in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.2 hereof, a
register (the "CERTIFICATE REGISTER") in which, subject to such reasonable
regulations as it may prescribe, the Trustee shall provide for the registration
of Certificates of Beneficial Interest. Each registered Certificateholder and,
until termination of the Snake Pledge Agreement, the Collateral Agent, shall
have the right to inspect the Certificate Register, subject to such reasonable
regulations as the Resident Trustee shall prescribe. The person listed as the
owner of a Certificate of Beneficial Interest on the Certificate Register shall
be treated as the owner of such Certificate of Beneficial Interest for all
purposes of this Agreement.
No Certificateholder shall have any right, power or authority to
sell, assign, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise transfer its Certificate of
Beneficial Interest except in compliance with the Valhi Entity Pledge Agreement
or pursuant to a transfer to the Collateral Agent or the Secured Party in
connection with an exercise of remedies under the Snake Pledge Agreement and/or
the Valhi Entity Pledge Agreement, and each Certificate of Beneficial Interest
shall bear a legend as set forth in the form of Certificate of Beneficial
Interest attached hereto as Exhibit A.
Each Certificate of Beneficial Interest shall bear a legend
setting forth restrictions on transferability substantially as follows:
"THE BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE TRUST REPRESENTED BY THIS
CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR ANY STATE SECURITIES
LAWS."
If (i) any mutilated Certificate of Beneficial Interest is
surrendered to the Resident Trustee, or the Resident Trustee receives evidence
to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate of
Beneficial Interest and (ii) there is delivered to the Resident Trustee such
security or indemnity as may be required by it to save it harmless, then, in the
absence of Actual Knowledge by the Resident Trustee that such Certificate of
Beneficial Interest has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Resident
Trustee shall execute and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate of Beneficial Interest, a new
Certificate of Beneficial Interest of like tenor and aggregate beneficial
interest. In connection with the issuance of any new Certificate of Beneficial
Interest under this Section 2.3(g), the Resident Trustee may require the payment
by the applicable Certificate-holder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Resident Trustee) connected
therewith. Any new Certificate of Beneficial Interest issued pursuant to this
Section 2.3(g) shall constitute complete and indefeasible evidence of ownership
of a beneficial interest in the Trust, as if originally issued, whether or not
the lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate of Beneficial Interest shall be found
at any time.
{PRIVATE } PAYMENTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS{TC \L 2 " PAYMENTS AND
DISTRIBUTIONS"}.
All cash amounts held or received by the Trust with respect to
the Trust Property shall be applied by the Resident Trustee on the applicable
Distribution Date in the following order:
to the extent not otherwise paid, to pay all amounts (if
any) then due and payable to the Resident Trustee, pursuant to Sections 7.1
and 7.3 of this Agreement;
if the Resident Trustee shall not have received a Snake Loan
Default Notice, the Resident Trustee shall segregate an amount equal to the
amount of interest due on the Snake River Loan Notes on the next day set
for payment thereof, as specified from time to time by the Collateral Agent
(or after receipt by the Resident Trustee of the Senior Note Payoff Notice,
the Secured Party) in a notice or notices to the Resident Trustee, and on
the due date of such interest payment, pay such amount to the Collateral
Agent (or pursuant to payment instructions received by the Resident Agent
from the Collateral Agent); provided that upon receipt by the Resident
Trustee of the Senior Note Payoff Notice, the Resident Trustee will pay
such amount to Secured Party;
to the extent not otherwise paid, to pay all operating and
administrative expenses of the Trust for which the Resident Trustee has
received invoices;
if the Resident Trustee shall not have received a Snake Loan
Default Notice, all amounts remaining after payment (or segregation) of the
amounts set forth in clauses (i) through (iii) above plus all amounts of
interest on the amounts segregated under clause (ii) received by the
Resident Trustee since the last distribution pursuant to this clause (iv),
to the Certificateholders;
if the Resident Trustee shall have received a Snake Loan
Default Notice, to the Collateral Agent (or after receipt by the Resident
Trustee of the Senior Note Payoff Notice, to the Secured Party).
All payments and distributions required to be made to the
Certificateholders, the Collateral Agent (or pursuant to payment instructions
given by the Collateral Agent to the Resident Trustee) or Secured Party pursuant
to this Section 2.4 shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available
funds as specified in written instructions from the Certificateholder, the
Collateral Agent or Secured Party, as applicable.
All cash payments to be made to the Trust shall be paid to the
Resident Trustee and applied by the Resident Trustee as provided in subsection
2.4(a).
Cash held by the Trust shall be invested from time to time by the
Resident Trustee at the direction of the Company Trustee (subject to the
provisions of Section 2.7(h)) and subject to the requirements of the Trust to
make payments as set forth in Section 2.4(a) above, only in (i) marketable
securities issued or directly and unconditionally guaranteed by the United
States Government or issued by any agency thereof and backed by the full faith
and credit of the United States, in each case maturing within thirty (30) days
from the date of investment; (ii) marketable direct obligations issued by any
state of the United States of America or any political subdivision of any such
state or any public instrumentality thereof maturing within thirty (30) days
from the date of investment and, at the time of acquisition thereof, having the
highest rating obtainable from either Standard & Poor's Corporation or Moody's
Investors Service, Inc.; (iii) commercial paper maturing no more than thirty
(30) days from the date of investment and, at the time of acquisition thereof,
having the highest rating obtainable from either Standard & Poor's Corporation
or Moody's Investors Service, Inc.; and (iv) certificates of deposit or bankers'
acceptances maturing within thirty (30) days from the date of investment issued
by any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America
or any state thereof or the District of Columbia having unimpaired capital and
surplus of not less than $500,000,000.
{PRIVATE } TAX REPORTING{TC \L 2 " TAX REPORTING"}. If the Trust
is treated as a partnership for federal tax purposes, the Depositor shall serve
as tax matters partner within the meaning of Section 6231(a)(7) of the Code for
the Trust, and shall cause the Trust to file federal, state and local income tax
returns and information statements as a partnership for each of its taxable
years. Within a reasonable time after the end of each of the Trust's Fiscal
Years, the Depositor shall cause the Trust to provide to each Certificateholder
an Internal Revenue Service Schedule "K-1" or any successor schedule and
supplemental information, if required by law, to enable each Certificateholder
to file its income tax returns. The Depositor may from time to time make and
revoke such tax elections as it deems necessary or desirable in its sole
discretion to carry out the business of the Trust or the purposes of this
Agreement.
{PRIVATE } FURTHER ASSURANCES{TC \L 2 " FURTHER ASSURANCES"}.
The Certificateholders (and, after the receipt by the Resident Trustee of a
Snake Loan Default Notice, the Collateral Agent, or, after receipt by the
Resident Trustee of a Senior Note Payoff Notice, Secured Party) may direct in
writing a Trustee to execute and deliver, and such Trustee shall execute and
deliver, all such other instruments, documents or certificates and take all such
other actions as the Certificateholders or the Collateral Agent, as applicable
may deem necessary or advisable to give effect to the transactions contemplated
hereby or by the Voting Rights Agreement or the other documents contemplated
hereby, and the taking of any such action by a Trustee in the presence of (or
upon the written or oral request of (if such oral request is promptly confirmed
in writing)) a Certificateholder or the Collateral Agent or Secured Party, as
applicable, or such person's counsel shall evidence, conclusively but not
exclusively, the direction of such Certificateholder or the Collateral Agent or
Secured Party, as the case may be; provided, however, the Resident Trustee shall
not be required to take any such action if it shall have reasonably determined,
or shall have been advised by counsel, that such action is likely to result in
the Resident Trustee incurring personal liability or is contrary to the terms
hereof or of any document contemplated hereby to which the Trust or the Resident
Trustee is a party or is otherwise contrary to law.
{PRIVATE } DUTIES OF TRUSTEES{TC \L 2 " DUTIES OF TRUSTEES"}
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this
Section 2.7 or elsewhere in this Agreement, the Company Trustee shall not have
any power or authority in respect of Section 2.4 or any power or authority to
take any other actions hereunder which impair the ability of the Trust to
receive payments in respect of the AGM Interest or to make the payments required
by Section 2.4.
Subject to the limitations provided in the Voting Rights
Agreement, Sections 2.7(a), 2.7(h) and 2.8 and otherwise in this Agreement,
until receipt by the Resident Trustee of a Snake River Loan Default Notice, the
Company Trustee shall have full and exclusive power and authority to carry out
the purposes of the Trust. An action taken by the Company Trustee in accordance
with its powers shall constitute the act of and serve to bind the Trust; in
dealing with the Company Trustee acting on behalf of the Trust, no Person shall
be required to inquire into the authority of the Company Trustee and may rely
conclusively on the power and authority of the Company Trustee as set forth in
this Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company
Trustee shall have full and exclusive power and authority:
subject to the terms of the Voting Rights Agreement, to
manage and determine all of the business and affairs of the Trust,
including, without limitation, making all decisions, not inconsistent with
the terms of this Agreement and the Voting Rights Agreement, with respect
to Trust Property;
to incur expenses which the Company Trustee reasonably deems
necessary or incidental to carry out any of the purposes of this Agreement;
to execute all documents or instruments, perform all duties
and exercise all powers, and do all things for and on behalf of the Trust
which the Company Trustee deems necessary or incidental to the foregoing
not inconsistent with the terms hereof or of the Voting Rights Agreement;
and
until receipt by the Resident Trustee of a Voting Rights
Notice or after any recision of all Voting Rights Notices), to exercise all
Control Action (as defined in the Voting Rights Agreement) with respect to
the AGM Interest held as part of the Trust Property. After receipt by the
Resident Trustee of a Voting Rights Notice and until such Voting Rights
Notice has been rescinded by notice given to the Resident Trustee by the
Collateral Agent, the Company Trustee shall have no further right, power or
authority to exercise Control Action on behalf of the Trust.
Subject to the limitations provided in Sections 2.7(a), 2.7(h)
and 2.8, and otherwise in this Agreement, the Company Trustee is authorized to
execute on behalf of the Trust any documents which the Company Trustee has the
power and authority to cause the Trust to execute pursuant to Section 2.7(b).
The Company Trustee may, by power of attorney consistent with applicable law,
delegate to any other Person its power for the purposes of signing any documents
which the Company Trustee has power and authority to execute pursuant to this
Agreement.
A Trustee shall not have any right, power, duty or obligation to
take or refrain from taking any action under or in connection with this
Agreement, except as expressly required or permitted by the terms of this
Agreement or as expressly directed in written instructions pursuant to Sections
2.6, 2.7(e), 2.7(f) or 2.7(h) hereof, and no implied powers, duties or
obligations shall be read into this Agreement against or on the part of any
Trustee. A Trustee shall not be required to take any action if such Trustee
shall reasonably determine, or shall have been advised by counsel, that such
action is likely to result in personal liability, or is contrary to the terms
hereof or of any document contemplated hereby to which the Trust or the Trustee
is party, or is otherwise contrary to law.
No Trustee shall take any action contrary to (or fail to take any
action if such failure would be contrary to) this Agreement, the Snake Pledge
Agreement, the SPT Guaranty, the SPT Pledge Agreement, the Valhi Entity Pledge
Agreement, the Voting Rights Agreement or any other document contemplated hereby
or thereby to which the Trust is party, which the Trustee has Actual Knowledge
(without any duty of inquiry), or has been advised by counsel, is in
contravention of this paragraph (e).
Subject to the limitations provided in the Voting Rights
Agreement Sections 2.7(a), 2.7(h) and 2.8, and otherwise in this Agreement, the
Resident Trustee will take such action or shall refrain from taking such action
under this Agreement or any document to which the Trust is a party as it shall
be directed by the Company Trustee pursuant to an express provision of this
Agreement, which instruction shall be delivered by the Company Trustee in
accordance with Section 8.4 hereof; provided that, upon receipt by the Resident
Trustee of a Snake Loan Default Notice, (A) the Resident Trustee will take such
action or shall refrain from taking such action under this Agreement or any
document to which the Trust is a party as it shall be directed by the Collateral
Agent or Secured Party (if the Senior Note Payoff Notice has been received by
the Resident Trustee) pursuant to an express provision of this Agreement, which
instruction shall be delivered by the Collateral Agent or Secured Party (if the
Senior Note Payoff Notice has been received by the Resident Trustee) in
accordance with Section 8.4 hereof and (B) notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Agreement the Resident Trustee shall not take any direction
with respect to this Agreement, the Trust or any document to which the Trust is
a party from the Depositor, any Certificateholder (other than the Collateral
Agent) or any other Person.
If, in performing its duties under this Agreement, or any
document to which it or the Trust is a party, the Resident Trustee determines
that it requires or desires guidance regarding the application of any provision
of this Agreement or any such document, then the Resident Trustee shall promptly
deliver a notice to the Company Trustee (or if the Resident Trustee shall have
received a Snake Loan Default Notice, to the Collateral Agent or Secured Party
(if the Senior Note Payoff Notice has been received by the Resident Trustee)) in
accordance with Section 8.4 hereof requesting written instructions as to the
course of action required by the Company Trustee or by the Collateral Agent or
Secured Party after receipt by the Resident Trustee of a Snake Loan Default
Notice, and any action taken by the Resident Trustee in reliance on such
instruction shall be full and complete authorization and protection.
Prior to the time that the Resident Trustee shall have received a
Snake Loan Default Notice, the Company Trustee shall make any determination or
decision required pursuant to this Section 2.7, and, at any time after the
Resident Trustee shall have received a Snake Loan Default Notice, the Collateral
Agent or Secured Party (if the Senior Note Payoff Notice has been received by
the Resident Trustee) shall make any determination or decision required pursuant
to this Section 2.7, as reflected in instructions to the Resident Trustee
delivered in accordance with Section 8.4 hereof. If the Resident Trustee does
not receive such instructions within 10 business days after it has delivered
notice pursuant to Section 2.7(g) and in accordance with Section 8.4, or such
shorter period of time set forth in such notice, it shall refrain from taking
any action with respect to the matters described in such notice.
The Resident Trustee shall furnish to the Certificateholders and
the Collateral Agent, promptly upon receipt thereof, a duplicate or copy of all
reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates, financial statements and any
other instruments furnished to the Resident Trustee and relating to the Trust,
this Agreement or the other parties hereto; provided that the Resident Trustee
need not forward documents to such Person if such Person originated the
documents or furnished them to the Resident Trustee or is to receive any such
documents from any Person other than the Resident Trustee according to an
express provision hereof or under any document to which the Trust is a party.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this
Agreement, the Resident Trustee shall not be required to take any such action if
it shall have reasonably determined, or shall have been advised by counsel, that
such action is likely to result in the Resident Trustee incurring personal
liability or is contrary to the terms hereof or of any document contemplated
hereby to which the Trust or the Resident Trustee is a party or is otherwise
contrary to law. None of the Certificateholders, the Collateral Agent or
Secured Party or the Company Trustee shall direct the Resident Trustee to take
or refrain from taking any action contrary to this Agreement, or any document
contemplated hereby to which the Trust is a party, nor shall the Resident
Trustee be obligated to follow any such direction, if given, which the Resident
Trustee has Actual Knowledge (without any duty of inquiry), or has been advised
by counsel, is in contravention of this paragraph (j).
{PRIVATE } NO FILING{TC \L 2 " NO FILING"}. NOTWITHSTANDING
ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, ONLY THE RESIDENT TRUSTEE SHALL HAVE
THE RIGHT, POWER, AUTHORITY OR AUTHORIZATION TO INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS FOR ANY
TRUSTEE (IN SUCH CAPACITY) OR THE TRUST TO BE ADJUDICATED BANKRUPT OR INSOLVENT
OR SUBJECT TO RECEIVERSHIP, OR CONSENT TO THE INSTITUTION OF BANKRUPTCY OR
INSOLVENCY OR RECEIVERSHIP PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ANY TRUSTEE (IN SUCH CAPACITY) OR
THE TRUST, OR FILE A PETITION SEEKING, OR CONSENT TO REORGANIZATION OR RELIEF
UNDER ANY APPLICABLE FEDERAL OR STATE LAW RELATING TO BANKRUPTCY OR
RECEIVERSHIP, OR CONSENT TO THE APPOINTMENT OF A RECEIVER, LIQUIDATOR, ASSIGNEE,
TRUSTEE, SEQUESTRATOR (OR OTHER SIMILAR OFFICIAL) OF ANY TRUSTEE (IN SUCH
CAPACITY), THE TRUST OR A SUBSTANTIAL PART OF ITS PROPERTY, OR MAKE ANY
ASSIGNMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF CREDITORS, OR ADMIT IN WRITING ANY TRUSTEE'S (IN
SUCH CAPACITY) OR THE TRUST'S INABILITY TO PAY ITS DEBTS GENERALLY AS THEY
BECOME DUE, OR TAKE ACTION IN FURTHERANCE OF ANY SUCH ACTION (ANY SUCH ACTION
BEING AN "INSOLVENCY ACTION"). TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WITHOUT
THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE SECURED PARTY (SO LONG AS THE SPT PLEDGE
AGREEMENT IS IN EFFECT), THE COLLATERAL AGENT (SO LONG AS THE SNAKE PLEDGE
AGREEMENT IS IN EFFECT) AND THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS, NO TRUSTEE SHALL HAVE THE
RIGHT, POWER, AUTHORITY OR AUTHORIZATION TO TAKE AN INSOLVENCY ACTION; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, NO PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY CERTIFICATE OF BENEFICIAL
INTEREST OR ANY OTHER AGREEMENT, DOCUMENT OR INSTRUMENT RELATING TO THE TRUST IS
INTENDED TO, NOR SHALL ANY SUCH PROVISION, RESTRICT OR OTHERWISE AFFECT IN ANY
WAY ANY RIGHT, POWER, AUTHORITY OR AUTHORIZATION OF WILMINGTON UNDER APPLICABLE
LAW. BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF ITS CERTIFICATE OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST, THE DEPOSITOR
AND EACH CERTIFICATEHOLDER IS DEEMED TO IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY RIGHT OR INTEREST
IT MAY HAVE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, BY OPERATION OF LAW OR EQUITY, TO DIRECT OR
OTHERWISE REQUIRE THE RESIDENT TRUSTEE TO INITIATE OR CONSENT TO ANY BANKRUPTCY,
INSOLVENCY OR RECEIVERSHIP PROCEEDINGS OR SIMILAR ACTIONS AS DESCRIBED ABOVE AND
RELEASES THE RESIDENT TRUSTEE FROM ANY DUTY AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE RESIDENT
TRUSTEE HAS NO DUTY (FIDUCIARY OR OTHERWISE) ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, BY
OPERATION OF LAW OR EQUITY OR OTHERWISE, TO INITIATE, CONSENT TO, OR PARTICIPATE
IN ANY SUCH PROCEEDING OR OTHERWISE TAKE ANY ACTION THAT WOULD CAUSE A DEFAULT
UNDER THE NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS, IT BEING EXPRESSLY UNDERSTOOD THAT ANY SUCH
ACTION BY THE RESIDENT TRUSTEE SHALL BE UNDERTAKEN OR REFRAINED FROM, IN THE
RESIDENT TRUSTEE'S SOLE AND ABSOLUTE DISCRETION (BUT ONLY WITH THE EXPRESS
WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COLLATERAL AGENT, SECURED PARTY AND THE
CERTIFICATEHOLDERS), WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY RIGHTS OR INTERESTS THE
CERTIFICATEHOLDER OR ANY OTHER PERSON MAY HAVE.
{PRIVATE } SITUS OF TRUST{TC \L 2 " SITUS OF TRUST"}. The
principal office of the Trust will be at the principal office of the Resident
Trustee within the State of Delaware.
{PRIVATE } TITLE TO TRUST PROPERTY; ACTION BY TRUSTEES{TC \L 2 "
TITLE TO TRUST PROPERTY; ACTION BY TRUSTEES"}. (a) Until this Agreement
terminates pursuant to Article VIII hereof, title to all of the Trust Property
shall be vested in the Trust, provided, however, that if the laws of any
jurisdiction in which Trust Property is located require that title to any part
of such Trust Property be vested in a trustee of the Trust, then title to that
part of the Trust Property shall be deemed to be vested in the Company Trustee
or any co-trustee or separate trustees, as the case may be, appointed pursuant
to Article VII of this Agreement.
{PRIVATE } ALLOCATIONS{TC \L 2 " ALLOCATIONS"}. All items of
income, gain, loss, deduction and credit shall be allocated among the
Certificateholders in accordance with their respective Percentage Interests.
{PRIVATE } DISTRIBUTIONS OF RIGHTS TO RETAINED AMOUNTS{TC \L 2 "
DISTRIBUTIONS OF RIGHTS TO RETAINED AMOUNTS"}. Prior to the time that the
Resident Trustee shall have received a Snake Loan Default Notice, all rights to
Retained Amounts (as defined in the Company Agreement) received in respect of
the AGM Interest as Trust Property shall be deemed to have been distributed to
the Certificateholders immediately upon receipt thereof by the Trust. After
receipt by the Resident Trustee of a Snake Loan Default Notice, all rights to
Retained Amounts received in respect of the AGM Interest as Trust Property shall
be held by the Trust as Trust Property subject to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement.
{PRIVATE }
AUTHORIZATION OF TRUSTEES; PLEDGE OF COLLATERAL{TC \L 1 "
AUTHORIZATION OF TRUSTEES; PLEDGE OF COLLATERAL"}
{PRIVATE } AUTHORIZATION OF TRUSTEE{TC \L 2 " AUTHORIZATION
OF TRUSTEE"}. (a) Notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement to the
contrary, the Resident Trustee is hereby authorized and directed, without the
consent or approval of or other action by any Person, to (i) execute and deliver
on behalf of the Trust, the First Amendment to Company Agreement, the SPT
Guaranty, the SPT Pledge Agreement, the Voting Rights Agreement, all UCC-1
financing statements requested by the Collateral Agent and the Certificate of
Beneficial Interest furnished to the Trustee on the date hereof indicating the
Depositor as the registered owner of 100% of the undivided beneficial interests
in the Trust, (ii) perform all such agreements and the Company Agreement and
(iii) execute and file with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware the
Certificate of Trust of the Trust.
Subject to the Voting Rights Agreement and Sections 2.7(a),
2.7(h), 2.8, the Company Trustee (not in its individual capacity but solely in
its fiduciary capacity as trustee hereunder) is hereby (i) directed to take on
behalf of the Trust all actions required to be taken by the Trust under each
agreement to which the Trust is or becomes a party and (ii) subject to the terms
of such agreements, authorized to take on behalf of the Trust all actions
permitted to be taken by the Trust under each such agreement.
{PRIVATE } PLEDGE OF COLLATERAL{TC \L 2 " PLEDGE OF
COLLATERAL"}. (a) Effective on the date the Trust is established (the
"EFFECTIVE DATE"), the Trust hereby confirms that it has granted to the Secured
Party a first priority security interest in the Pledged Collateral (as defined
in the SPT Pledge Agreement) as provided in the SPT Pledge Agreement and the
Collateral described in the Indemnification Pledge Agreement, such first
priority security interest being pari passu with the first priority security
interest in favor of the LLC created by the Indemnification Pledge Agreement.
The Trust acknowledges and consents to the assignment by the Secured Party to
the Collateral Agent of all of the Secured Party's rights under the SPT Pledge
Agreement and the Indemnification Pledge Agreement, including all rights in and
to such Pledged Collateral.
On the Effective Date, the Company Trustee on behalf of the Trust
shall deliver or cause to be delivered the Pledged Collateral to the Collateral
Agent, to have and to hold such Pledged Collateral and the properties, rights
and privileges hereby contemplated and in which a security interest is granted
or intended to be granted to the Secured Party and/or the Collateral Agent.
Each Trustee shall give, execute, deliver, file and record any
notice, instrument, document, agreement or other papers presented to it in
execution form that may be necessary or desirable in the Collateral Agent's or
Secured Party's reasonable discretion in order to enable the Collateral Agent
and Secured Party (i) to preserve, perfect, substantiate or validate any
security interest granted under the SPT Pledge Agreement or the Snake Pledge
Agreement and (ii) to exercise and enforce the Collateral Agent's and Secured
Party's rights and the rights of the Trust with respect to the related Pledged
Collateral.
{PRIVATE }
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE DEPOSITOR {TC \L 1 "
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE DEPOSITOR "}
AND THE COMPANY TRUSTEE
{PRIVATE } SECURITIES LAW REPRESENTATIONS{TC \L 2 " SECURITIES
LAW REPRESENTATIONS"}. By the execution of this Agreement, the Depositor
represents that:
It is acquiring the Certificate of Beneficial Interest for its
own account and not with a view to the resale or distribution thereof.
It is an "accredited investor" as defined in Rule 215 under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
It understands and acknowledges that its Certificate of
Beneficial Interest has not been registered for sale under any Federal or state
securities law and must be held indefinitely unless subsequently registered or
an exemption from such registration is available.
{PRIVATE } OTHER REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES{TC \L 2 " OTHER
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES"}. ASC Holdings, Inc. ("ASC"), in its capacity
as the Depositor and as the Company Trustee, represents and warrants that:
ASC is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, and is duly
qualified as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in all additional
jurisdictions where such qualification is necessary under applicable law. ASC
has the corporate power and authority to own the properties it purports to own
and to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform the provisions hereof.
The execution and delivery by ASC of this Agreement and the
performance by ASC of its obligations under this Agreement do not and will not
(i) contravene, result in any breach of, or constitute a default under, or
result in the creation of any Lien in respect of any of the Trust Property
under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan, purchase or credit
agreement, lease, corporate charter or by-laws, or any other agreement or
instrument to which ASC is bound or by which ASC or the Trust Property may be
bound or affected, (ii) conflict with or result in a breach of any of the terms,
conditions or provisions of any order, judgment, decree, or ruling of any court,
arbitrator or governmental authority applicable to ASC or the Trust Property or
(iii) violate any provision of any statute or other rule or regulation of any
governmental authority applicable to ASC or the Trust Property.
Except as have been obtained, no consent, approval or
authorization of, or registration, filing or declaration with, any governmental
authority or any nongovernmental Person or entity, including, without
limitation, any creditor, lessor or stockholder of ASC is required in connection
with the execution, delivery or performance by ASC of this Agreement or the
transactions contemplated hereby or as a condition to the legality, validity or
enforceability of this Agreement.
This Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate action on the part of ASC, and this Agreement is the legal, valid and
binding obligation of ASC, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms,
except as limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or
similar laws affecting creditor's rights generally, or general principles of
equity.
There are no actions, suits or proceedings (including, without
limitation, arbitration and administrative proceedings) pending or, to the
knowledge of ASC or any officer of ASC, threatened against or affecting ASC or
the Trust Property in any court or before any arbitrator of any kind or before
or by any governmental authority that, individually or in the aggregate, if
determined adversely to ASC, could materially and adversely affect the ability
of ASC to perform its obligations under this Agreement, and, to the best
knowledge of ASC or any officer of ASC, there is no basis for any such action,
suit or proceeding.
ASC is not in default under any term of any agreement or
instrument to which it is a party or by which it or the Trust Property is bound,
or any order, judgment, decree or ruling of any court, arbitrator or
governmental authority or is in violation of any applicable law, ordinance, rule
or regulation of any governmental authority which violation or default,
individually or in the aggregate, could materially and adversely affect the
ability of ASC to perform its obligations under this Agreement.
(g) ASC, as the Depositor, has good and sufficient title to the Trust
Property free and clear of all Liens other than Liens being released in
connection with this Agreement.
(h) Since January 3, 1997, the Company Agreement has not been
amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified, and no violation of any
provision thereof has been waived, except for the First Amendment to Company
Agreement.
{PRIVATE }
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES{TC \L 1 "
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES"}
OF THE RESIDENT TRUSTEE
{PRIVATE } WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY{TC \L 2 " WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY"}. Wilmington hereby represents and warrants that:
{PRIVATE } GOOD STANDING{TC \L 3 " GOOD STANDING"}. Wilmington
is a banking corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware
and has all corporate powers and all material governmental licenses,
authorization, consents and approvals required under the laws of the State of
Delaware to carry on its trust business as now conducted.
{PRIVATE } CORPORATE POWER{TC \L 3 " CORPORATE POWER"}. The
execution, delivery and performance by Wilmington, in its individual capacity
and in its capacity as Resident Trustee, of this Agreement and the execution on
behalf of the Trust of the Certificates of Beneficial Interest by Wilmington, as
Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, are within the corporate power of
Wilmington, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the
part of Wilmington (no action by its shareholders being required) and do not and
will not (i) violate or contravene any judgment, injunction, order or decree
binding on Wilmington or (ii) violate, contravene or constitute a default under
any provision of the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of Wilmington or of
any material agreement, contract, mortgage or other instrument binding on
Wilmington or (iii) result in the creation or imposition of any lien on the
Trust Property, attributable to Wilmington which is not related to the
administration of the Trust or the transactions pursuant to this Agreement or
contemplated by this Agreement.
{PRIVATE } CONSENTS AND APPROVALS{TC \L 3 " CONSENTS AND
APPROVALS"}. Other than such filing of a Certificate of Trust as has been or
will be made, and the filing of a certificate of cancellation as described in
Section 8.5(c), no other consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing
with, any court or regulatory, supervisory or governmental agency or body is
required under Delaware law in connection with the execution, delivery and
performance by Wilmington, in its individual capacity and in its capacity as
Resident Trustee, of this Agreement or the execution on behalf of the Trust of
the Certificates of Beneficial Interest by Wilmington, as Resident Trustee,
pursuant to this Agreement or the consummation by Wilmington, as Resident
Trustee, of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (except as may be
required by Delaware securities laws).
{PRIVATE }
CERTAIN COVENANTS OF DEPOSITOR, OTHER OWNERS OF{TC \L 1 "
CERTAIN COVENANTS OF DEPOSITOR, OTHER OWNERS OF"}
CERTIFICATES OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST, AND THE TRUST
{PRIVATE } TITLE TO TRUST PROPERTY{TC \L 2 " TITLE TO TRUST
PROPERTY"}. Each Certificateholder from time to time is deemed to acknowledge
and agree by its acquisition of its Certificates of Beneficial Interest that
(i) the Trust owns the Trust Property and (ii) such Certificateholder shall
refrain from taking any action contrary to such ownership by the Trust.
{PRIVATE } NOTIFICATION OF TRANSFER{TC \L 2 " NOTIFICATION OF
TRANSFER"}. Immediately upon the sale or other transfer of any Trust Property
to the Trust pursuant to this Agreement or any agreement to which the Trust may
be or become a party, the Person effecting such sale will make any appropriate
notations on its records to indicate that such Trust Property has been sold or
transferred to the Trust pursuant to this Agreement.
{PRIVATE } INVESTMENT COMPANY{TC \L 2 " INVESTMENT COMPANY"}. No
Certificateholder shall take any action which would cause the Trust to become an
investment company which would be required to register under the Investment
Company Act of 1940.
{PRIVATE } LIABILITY OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS{TC \L 2 " LIABILITY
OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS"}. Except as expressly provided in Sections 7.3(b) and
7.3(c), the liability of the Certificateholders shall be limited to the full
extent provided by Section 3803 of the Business Trust Statute. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, but subject to Sections 7.3(b) and 7.3(c), no
recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly, against (i) any past, present or
future Certificateholder, or (ii) any principal, partner, shareholder, officer,
director, grantor, depositor, trustee, nominee, beneficiary, attorney-in-fact,
agent or employee of any Certificateholder or any elected or appointed official
of any of them, or against the assets of any of them, whether by virtue of any
constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement or assessment of any
penalty or otherwise, for any claim under or based on any agreement,
certificate, document or instrument referred to herein or delivered pursuant
hereto, or for any liabilities, obligations, fees, expenses, taxes or indemnity
payments of the Trust; provided that this Section 6.4 shall not be construed as
limiting or waiving in any manner the recourse liability of Valhi under the
Snake River Loan Notes.
{PRIVATE }
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEES AND THE TRUST{TC \L 1 "
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEES AND THE TRUST"}
{PRIVATE } GENERAL MATTERS RELATING TO THE TRUSTEES; LIMITATION ON
OBLIGATIONS{TC \L 2 " GENERAL MATTERS RELATING TO THE TRUSTEES; LIMITATION ON
OBLIGATIONS"}.
Subject to the terms of Section 7.3 of this Agreement, all moneys
deposited with or received by any Trustee hereunder shall be held by it, in
accordance with this Agreement, in trust as part of the Trust Property until
distributed in accordance with Section 2.4 hereof.
No Trustee, in its individual capacity or in its capacity as
Trustee, shall be liable for any action taken by it in good faith in reliance
upon any paper, order, instruction, signature, list, demand, request, consent,
affidavit, notice, opinion, direction, endorsement, assignment, resolution,
draft or other document, prima facie properly executed, or for the disposition
of any moneys pursuant to this Agreement; provided, however, that this provision
shall not protect any Trustee against any liability to Certificateholders to
which such Trustee would otherwise be subject by reason of such Trustee's bad
faith, willful misconduct or gross negligence in the performance of its duties
hereunder.
No Trustee shall be liable, either in its individual capacity or
in its capacity as Trustee, for performing any obligations or duties of the
Trust under any agreement to which the Trust is a party. No Trustee shall be
liable, either in its individual capacity or in its capacity as Trustee, with
respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by any other Trustee or by
any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed hereunder.
No Trustee shall be responsible, either in its individual
capacity or its capacity as Trustee, for or in respect of the recitals herein,
the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or for or in respect of the
validity or sufficiency of the Certificates of Beneficial Interest (except, in
the case of Wilmington, for the due execution thereof by Wilmington as Resident
Trustee), and no Trustee, in its individual capacity or in its capacity as
Trustee, shall assume or incur any liability, duty or obligation to ASC or to
any other Certificateholder, other than as expressly provided for herein.
Each Trustee shall promptly notify the Certificateholders and
each other Trustee and, until termination of the SPT Pledge Agreement, the
Secured Party, and, until termination of the Snake Pledge Agreement, the
Collateral Agent of any legal action taken by any Person with respect to the
Trust of which it has Actual Knowledge.
Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary,
Wilmington, in its individual capacity and its capacity as Trustee, shall not be
required to take any action in any jurisdiction other than in the State of
Delaware if the taking of such action will (i) require the consent or approval
or authorization or order of or the giving of notice to, or the registration
with or taking of any action in respect of, any state or other governmental
authority or agency of any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware;
(ii) result in any fee, tax or other governmental charge under the laws of any
jurisdiction or any political subdivisions thereof in existence on the date
hereof other than the State of Delaware becoming payable by Wilmington; or
(iii) subject Wilmington to personal jurisdiction in any jurisdiction other than
the State of Delaware for causes of action arising from acts unrelated to the
consummation by Wilmington, in it individual capacity or as Trustee, or by the
Trust, as the case may be, of the transactions contemplated hereby.
Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, no
Trustee shall have any obligation or duty, fiduciary or otherwise (and no such
obligation or duty shall be read into this Agreement or implied with respect to
or against any Trustee), to (i) initiate or otherwise participate in, or consent
to, any bankruptcy, insolvency or other proceeding or adjudication of the Trust
as described in Section 2.8 or (ii) otherwise take any action, or refrain from
taking action, which action or failure to act, would cause a default under the
Note Purchase Agreements or the Snake River Loan Notes.
{PRIVATE } BOOKS AND RECORDS{TC \L 2 " BOOKS AND RECORDS"}.
Each Trustee shall keep proper books of record and account of all transactions
by it as Trustee under this Agreement at its Corporate Trust Office. The
records shall include a record of the names and addresses of all
Certificateholders. Such books and records shall be open to inspection by any
Certificateholder, and, until termination of the Snake Pledge Agreement, the
Collateral Agent, at all reasonable times during usual business hours of the
applicable Trustee.
{PRIVATE } COMPENSATION AND INDEMNIFICATION OF TRUSTEE{TC \L 2 "
COMPENSATION AND INDEMNIFICATION OF TRUSTEE"}.
The Company Trustee shall not be entitled to any compensation for
service as trustee.
As may be specified in the fee arrangements entered into with the
Trust and/or ASC, Wilmington shall be entitled from the Trust and the
Certificateholders, or from the Trust Property, to reasonable compensation for
services as Resident Trustee and reimbursement for all reasonable out-of-pocket
expenses, disbursements and advances incurred by it as Trustee in accordance
with any of the provisions of this Agreement or any other agreement or
instrument referred to or contemplated herein (including the reasonable
compensation, reasonable expenses and reasonable disbursements of its counsel
and of all persons not regularly in its employ), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance to the extent it arises from, or is incurred as a result
of, the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Resident
Trustee. The Resident Trustee shall notify each Certificateholder upon receipt
by it of compensation from the Trust Property pursuant to the foregoing sentence
of the amount of such compensation.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Trust and the
Certificateholders, jointly and severally, shall indemnify Wilmington and hold
it harmless against any and all losses and liabilities, obligations, damages,
penalties, taxes (excluding any taxes payable by Wilmington or the Resident
Trustee on or measured by any compensation for services rendered by the Resident
Trustee under this Agreement), claims, actions, suits or out-of-pocket expenses
or costs of any kind and nature whatsoever incurred or arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of this Trust, including the
reasonable costs and out-of-pocket expenses of defending itself against any
claim of liability relating thereto, except to the extent that the same is
incurred as a result of, or arises out of, the bad faith, gross negligence or
willful misconduct of the Resident Trustee.
The obligations of the Trust and the Certificateholders to indemnify
Wilmington, and Wilmington's right to be compensated and to be reimbursed for
its reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, disbursements and advances pursuant to
this Agreement, shall constitute additional obligations of the Trust hereunder
and shall survive the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 8.5
hereof. Such additional obligations of the Trust shall be secured by a lien
upon the Trust Property senior to any interest of the Certificateholders in the
Trust Property.
The Resident Trustee shall not be required to take or refrain
from taking any action under this Agreement (other than giving of notices, as
specified herein) or any agreement to which the Trust is a party unless the
Resident Trustee shall have been indemnified by the Trust, in manner and form
reasonably satisfactory to the Resident Trustee, against any liability, fee,
cost or expense (including attorney's fees) which may be incurred or charged in
connection therewith, except to the extent the same is incurred as a result of,
or arises out of, the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of the
Resident Trustee. The Resident Trustee shall not be required to take any action
if it shall reasonably determine, or shall have been advised by counsel, that
such action is likely to result in personal liability, or is contrary to the
terms hereof or of any document contemplated hereby to which the Resident
Trustee is a party or otherwise contrary to law.
Any amounts paid to the Resident Trustee pursuant to this Section
7.3 shall be deemed not to be part of the Trust Property immediately after such
payment.
{PRIVATE } RESIGNATION, DISCHARGE OR REMOVAL OF TRUSTEES;
SUCCESSOR{TC \L 2 " RESIGNATION, DISCHARGE OR REMOVAL OF TRUSTEES;
SUCCESSOR"}.
The Company Trustee shall not resign until receipt by the
Resident Trustee of a Snake Loan Default Notice. The Resident Trustee and,
after receipt by the Resident Trustee of a Snake Loan Default Notice, the
Company Trustee, may resign and be discharged of the trust created by this
Agreement by executing an instrument in writing and mailing a copy of a notice
of resignation to the other Trustee and all Certificateholders then of record
and, until termination of the SPT Pledge Agreement, to the Secured Party, and,
until termination of the Snake Pledge Agreement, to the Collateral Agent, not
less than sixty (60) days before the date specified in such instrument when,
subject to Section 7.4(c) hereof, such resignation is to take effect, provided,
however, that no resignation of the Resident Trustee shall be effective until a
successor Resident Trustee shall have been appointed and accepted such
appointment hereunder. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation of the
Resident Trustee, the Certificateholders shall use their best efforts promptly
to appoint a successor Resident Trustee in the manner, having the
responsibilities and meeting the qualifications hereinafter provided by written
instrument or instruments delivered pursuant to Section 8.4 to such resigning
Resident Trustee and the successor Resident Trustee and the Company Trustee.
Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Section 7.4, the appointment of any
successor Resident Trustee shall be approved by all Certificateholders and, as
long as the Snake Pledge Agreement is in effect, the Collateral Agent. The
Certificateholders may remove the Company Trustee for any reason and appoint a
successor Company Trustee by written instrument or instruments signed by all the
Certificateholders and, as long as the Snake Pledge Agreement is in effect, the
Collateral Agent (which consent will not be unreasonably withheld), and
delivered to the Company Trustee, the Resident Trustee and the successor Company
Trustee. Upon resignation of the Company Trustee, the Resident Trustee shall
act as the Company Trustee hereunder.
In case at any time the Resident Trustee shall resign and no
successor Resident Trustee shall have been appointed within sixty (60) days
after notice of such resignation has been filed and mailed as required by
Section 7.4(a), the resigning Resident Trustee may forthwith apply to a court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Resident Trustee.
Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and
prescribe, appoint a successor Resident Trustee.
Any successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall promptly execute
and deliver to the Certificateholders, the retiring Trustee and the other
Trustees an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and the successor
Trustee without any further act, deed or conveyance shall become vested with all
the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder with
like effect as if originally named a Trustee herein and shall be bound by all
the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Upon the request of the successor
Trustee, the retiring Trustee shall, upon payment to the retiring Trustee of all
amounts to which it is entitled pursuant to this Agreement, execute and deliver
an instrument transferring to the successor Trustee all the rights and powers of
the retiring Trustee; and the retiring Trustee shall transfer, deliver and pay
over to the successor Trustee all of the Trust Property at the time held by it,
if any, together with all necessary instruments of transfer and assignment or
other documents properly executed necessary to effect such transfer and such of
the records or copies thereof maintained by the retiring Trustee in the
administration hereof as may be requested by the successor Trustee and shall
thereupon be discharged from all duties and responsibilities under this
Agreement. Any resignation or removal of a Trustee and appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.4 shall become effective upon such
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee.
Any corporation into which a Trustee may be merged or with which
it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger or
consolidation to which a Trustee shall be a party, shall be a successor Trustee
under this Agreement without the execution, delivery or filing of any paper,
instrument or further act to be done on the part of the parties hereto, anything
herein, or in any agreement relating to such merger or consolidation, by which
the predecessor corporation may seek to retain certain powers, rights and
privileges theretofore obtaining for any period of time following such merger or
consolidation, to the contrary notwithstanding; provided that such corporation
shall meet the qualifications set forth in Section 7.5 hereof.
Upon the happening of any of the events described in this
Section 7.4 that requires an amendment to the Certificate of Trust under the
Business Trust Statute, the successor Trustee shall cause an amendment to the
Certificate of Trust to be filed with the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware, in accordance with the provisions of Section 3810 of the Business
Trust Statute.
{PRIVATE } QUALIFICATION OF THE RESIDENT TRUSTEE{TC \L 2 "
QUALIFICATION OF THE RESIDENT TRUSTEE"}. The Resident Trustee shall at all
times be a banking corporation or a banking association organized and doing
business under the laws of the United States or any state thereof, having its
principal place of business in the State of Delaware, having all corporate
powers and all material governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and
approvals required to carry on a trust business and having at all times an
aggregate capital, surplus, and undivided profits of not less than $100,000,000.
{PRIVATE } APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL TRUSTEES{TC \L 2 "
APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL TRUSTEES"}. At any time or times, for the
purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part
of the Trust Property may at the time be located, the Company Trustee, by an
instrument in writing, may appoint one or more individuals or corporations to
act as separate trustees of all or any part of the Trust Property to the full
extent that local law makes it necessary for such separate trustees to act
alone.
{PRIVATE } NOT ACTING IN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY{TC \L 2 " NOT ACTING
IN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY"}. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, in
acting hereunder, each Trustee acts solely as Trustee of this Trust and not in
its individual capacity and, except as so provided, all persons having any claim
against any Trustee by reason of the transactions contemplated hereby shall look
only to the Trust Property for payment or satisfaction thereof; provided,
however, that the provisions of Article VII shall not protect any Trustee (in
either capacity) against any liability to the Certificateholders to which it
would otherwise be subject by reason of (i) such Trustee's bad faith, willful
misconduct or gross negligence in the performance of its duties, (ii) the
inaccuracy of any representation or warranty contained in Article V hereof
expressly made by such Trustee or (iii) taxes, fees or other charges on, based
on or measured by any fees, commissions or compensation received by such Trustee
in connection with any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
{PRIVATE }
MISCELLANEOUS{TC \L 1 "
MISCELLANEOUS"}
{PRIVATE } BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT{TC \L 2 " BENEFIT OF
AGREEMENT"}. All the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements
contained in this Agreement by or on behalf of ASC, the Certificateholders or
any Trustee shall bind, and inure to the benefit of, their respective successors
and permitted assigns. Each of the Secured Party and the Collateral Agent is an
intended third-party beneficiary of this Agreement (including without limitation
Sections 2.4, 2.8, 7.4(a), 8.3 and 8.5) and the provisions hereof are
enforceable directly by the Collateral Agent until such time as the Resident
Trustee shall have received the Senior Note Payoff Notice, and then by Secured
Party until such time as the Snake River Loan Notes have been paid in full. Any
provision hereof relating to the Collateral Agent shall cease to be applicable
following receipt by the Resident Trustee of the Senior Note Payoff Notice from
the Collateral Agent and any provision relating to Secured Party shall cease to
be applicable following receipt by the Resident Trustee of a notice from Secured
Party stating that the Snake River Loan Notes and all obligations in respect
thereof have been paid in full.
{PRIVATE } SEVERABILITY{TC \L 2 " SEVERABILITY"}. If any one or
more of the covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall
be held invalid for any reason whatsoever, then such covenants, agreements,
provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants,
agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the
validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the
Certificates of Beneficial Interest or the rights of the Trustees or
Certificateholders or of the Secured Party or of the Collateral Agent.
{PRIVATE } AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS{TC \L 2 " AMENDMENTS AND
WAIVERS"}. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, this Agreement may be
amended and compliance with any provision hereof may be waived by the Trustees
or the Certificateholders only if such amendment or waiver is consented to in
writing by all Certificateholders and (i) prior to receipt by Resident Trustee
of a Senior Note Payoff Notice, the Collateral Agent and (ii) thereafter, until
such time as the Snake River Loan Notes have been paid in full, the Secured
Party; provided, however, that no amendment shall alter the responsibilities,
liabilities, rights, compensation, indemnities or exculpations of any Trustee
without the prior written consent of the Trustee affected thereby. In addition
to the consents required by this Section, any amendment to any provision which
would adversely affect any indemnified Person shall require the consent of such
indemnified Person.
{PRIVATE } NOTICES{TC \L 2 " NOTICES"}. Any notice, demand,
consent, direction or instruction to be given to the Resident Trustee under this
Agreement shall be in writing and shall be duly given if mailed or delivered to
the Trustee at: Wilmington Trust Company, Trustee for Amalgamated Collateral
Trust, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware
19890-0001, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration; or such other address as
shall be specified by the Resident Trustee in a notice to the Certificateholders
given in accordance with this Section.
Any notice, demand, direction or instruction to be given to the
Company Trustee or the Depositor under this Agreement shall be in writing and
shall be duly given if mailed or delivered to it at c/o Valhi, Inc., Three
Lincoln Centre, 5430 LBJ Freeway, Suite 1700, Dallas, Texas 75240-2697.
Any notice or other communication to be given to Certificateholders
(other than ASC) under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be duly
given if mailed or delivered to each Certificateholder at the time such notice
or other communication is given at the address for such Certificateholder
contained in the records maintained by the Resident Trustee pursuant to Section
7.2 hereof. If mailed, any notice or other communication shall be effective 72
hours after being deposited in the United States mail, first class postage
prepaid.
{PRIVATE } TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT: NO POWER TO REVOKE OR
WITHDRAW TRUST PROPERTY{TC \L 2 " TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT\: NO POWER TO
REVOKE OR WITHDRAW TRUST PROPERTY"}.
The Trust shall be terminated in accordance with this Section 8.5
immediately after the earlier to occur of (i) a sale or liquidation by the Trust
of all or substantially all of the Trust Property or (ii) the election of any
Certificateholder to dissolve and terminate the Trust, which election shall be
made in a notice given in accordance with Section 8.4 to the Resident Trustee,
the Company Trustee, each other Certificateholder, and until termination of the
SPT Pledge Agreement, the Secured Party, and until termination of the Snake
Pledge Agreement, the Collateral Agent; provided that, prior to receipt by the
Resident Trustee of a Senior Note Payoff Notice, the Trust shall not be
terminated without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent. Upon any
such event, a liquidator designated by the Certificateholders shall, to the
extent directed by the Certificateholders, and subject to the requirements in
Section 3808(e) of the Business Trust Statute, proceed with reasonable
promptness to liquidate the Trust's assets, terminate its business, establish
such reserves in such amounts and for such periods as the liquidator shall
reasonably determine to be required to pay all liabilities of the Trust (whether
actual, asserted or determined by the liquidator to be reasonably likely of
assertion) and distribute the remaining proceeds of such liquidation to the
Certificateholders in accordance with Section 2.4. Liquidating distributions
shall be made in cash or in kind, as directed by the Certificateholders.
Except as expressly provided in Section 8.5(a) hereof, neither
ASC nor any other Certificateholder shall be entitled to revoke the Trust
established hereunder.
Upon the winding up of the Trust and its termination, the
Resident Trustee, upon the direction of the liquidator, shall cause the
Certificate of Trust of the Trust to be canceled by filing a certificate of
cancellation with the Delaware Secretary of State in accordance with the
provisions of Section 3810 of the Business Trust Statute. Such certificate may
be signed by the Resident Trustee and shall not require the signature of any
other Trustee.
{PRIVATE } NATURE OF INTEREST IN TRUST PROPERTY{TC \L 2 "
NATURE OF INTEREST IN TRUST PROPERTY"}. Neither ASC nor any other
Certificateholder shall have legal title to any part of the Trust Property. No
transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right, title or interest in
the Trust of any Certificateholder shall operate to terminate this Agreement or
the trusts hereunder or entitle any successor transferee to an accounting or to
the transfer to it of legal title to any part of the Trust Property.
{PRIVATE } GOVERNING LAW{TC \L 2 " GOVERNING LAW"}. THIS
AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF
THE STATE OF DELAWARE (WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY CONFLICTS OF LAW RULES), AND ALL
LAWS OR RULES OF CONSTRUCTION OF SUCH STATE SHALL GOVERN THE RIGHTS OF THE
PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE INTERPRETATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
AGREEMENT.
{PRIVATE } COUNTERPARTS{TC \L 2 " COUNTERPARTS"}. This
Agreement may be executed and delivered in any number of counterparts, and such
counterparts taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
{PRIVATE } LIMITATIONS ON RIGHTS OF OTHERS{TC \L 2 "
LIMITATIONS ON RIGHTS OF OTHERS"}. Except as provided in Sections 2.2(b),
2.4(a), 2.8, 3.2(c), 7.1(e), 7.3, 7.4(a), 8.2, 8.3, 8.5(a) and 8.11, nothing in
this Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be construed to give to any
person other than the Trustees and the Certificateholders any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim in the Trust Property or under or in respect of this
Agreement or any covenants, conditions or provisions contained herein; provided
that each of the Secured Party and the Collateral Agent is a third-party
beneficiary of this Agreement as set forth in Section 8.1.
{PRIVATE } REFERENCES TO SECTIONS{TC \L 2 " REFERENCES TO
SECTIONS"}. References to sections used herein shall refer to sections of this
Agreement unless otherwise specified herein.
{PRIVATE } MERGER AND CONSOLIDATION{TC \L 2 " MERGER AND
CONSOLIDATION"}. No merger or consolidation or conversion of the Trust with or
into any other business trust, common-law trust, corporation, partnership
(general or limited), unincorporated business or other Person may be effected,
and no agreement of merger or consolidation or conversion may be entered into by
the Trust, unless and until such merger or consolidation or conversion and such
agreement is approved in writing by the Secured Party and the Collateral Agent.
Each of the Secured Party and the Collateral Agent is an intended third-party
beneficiary of the provisions contained in this Section.
{PRIVATE } OPERATION OF THE TRUST{TC \L 2 " OPERATION OF THE
TRUST"}. The Company Trustee will, and will cause the Trust to, at all times,
(i) keep all records of the Trust in a form separate from the records of the
Depositor, (ii) prepare and maintain, separate from the Depositor, all financial
statements, accounting records and tax documents required of a Delaware business
trust, (iii) keep the Trust's administrative activities separate from the
Depositor's (including using stationery that does not resemble that of the
Depositor), (iv) maintain bank accounts of the Trust in the name of the Trust,
and separate in all respects from those of the Depositor.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to
be duly executed and delivered as of the date first above written.
ASC HOLDINGS, INC., as Depositor and Company
Trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Resident Trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
EXHIBIT A
FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST
THE BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE TRUST REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT
BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR
ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE TRUST REPRESENTED BY
THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL NOT BE SOLD, ASSIGNED, HYPOTHECATED OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AGREEMENT (AS DEFINED BELOW).
CERTIFICATE OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST
AMALGAMATED COLLATERAL TRUST
THIS CERTIFIES THAT ____________________ (the "OWNER") is the
registered owner of a _____% undivided beneficial interest in the Amalgamated
Collateral Trust existing under the laws of the State of Delaware pursuant to
the Deposit Trust Agreement dated as of May 14, 1997 (as amended from time to
time, the "AGREEMENT"; the terms herein are used as therein defined), between
Wilmington Trust Company and the other Trustee named therein, not in their
individual capacities but solely in their capacities as trustees under the
Agreement (the "TRUSTEES"), and ASC referred to therein. Wilmington Trust
Company, not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee, has executed this
Certificate of Beneficial Interest by one of its duly authorized signatories as
set forth below.
This Certificate of Beneficial Interest is one of the Certificates of
Beneficial Interest referred to in the Agreement and is issued under and is
subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Agreement to which the
owner of this Certificate of Beneficial Interest by virtue of the acceptance
hereof agrees and by which the owner hereof is bound. Reference is hereby made
to the Agreement for a statement of the rights of the owner of this Certificate
of Beneficial Interest, as well as for a statement of the terms and conditions
of the Trust created by the Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Trustee, has caused this Certificate of Beneficial
Interest to be executed as of the date hereof by one of its Authorized Officers,
by his or her manual signature. This Certificate of Beneficial Interest shall
not be valid or enforceable for any purpose until it shall have been so signed
by an Authorized Officer of Wilmington Trust Company.
Dated: ________________, ____
AMALGAMATED COLLATERAL TRUST
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
EXHIBIT B
FORM OF ASSIGNEE'S AGREEMENT
[DATE]
Dear Sirs:
We refer to the Deposit Trust Agreement, dated as of May 14, 1997 (as
amended from time to time, the "DEPOSIT TRUST AGREEMENT"), between ASC referred
to therein, Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as trustee
and the other trustee named therein (each a "TRUSTEE") of Amalgamated Collateral
Trust, a Delaware business trust (the "TRUST") formed pursuant to the Deposit
Trust Agreement.
1. We understand that our Certificates of Beneficial Interest are
not being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933
ACT") or any state securities laws and are being sold to us in a transaction
that is exempt from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act and applicable
state securities laws.
2. We have such knowledge and experience in financial and business
matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an investment in
our Certificates of Beneficial Interest, and we are able to bear the economic
risk of investment in our Certificates of Beneficial Interest.
3. We are acquiring our Certificates of Beneficial Interest for our
own account or for accounts as to which we exercise sole investment discretion
and not with a view to any distribution of our Certificates of Beneficial
Interest.
4. We understand that each of our Certificates of Beneficial
Interest bears a legend to substantially the following effect:
THE BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE TRUST REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT
BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR
ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE TRUST REPRESENTED BY
THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL NOT BE SOLD, ASSIGNED, HYPOTHECATED OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AGREEMENT (AS DEFINED BELOW).
5. We hereby further agree to be bound by all the terms and
conditions of our Certificates of Beneficial Interest and the obligations of an
owner of a Certificate of Beneficial Interest under the Deposit Trust Agreement.
Very truly yours,
Name of Purchaser
By: __________________________
Name:
Title:
Accepted as of _______________, ____
AMALGAMATED COLLATERAL TRUST
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
ASC HOLDINGS, INC.,
DEPOSITOR AND COMPANY TRUSTEE
AND
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
RESIDENT TRUSTEE
DEPOSIT TRUST AGREEMENT
OF
AMALGAMATED COLLATERAL TRUST
DATED AS OF MAY 14, 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS ........................ 2
1.1 DEFINITIONS......................................... 2
ARTICLE II
DECLARATION OF BUSINESS TRUST; ISSUANCE
AND TRANSFER OF CERTIFICATES OF BENEFICIAL
INTEREST; DUTIES OF TRUSTEES; NO FILING .......... 5
2.1 Declaration of Business Trust....................... 5
2.2 Transfer of Trust Property to the Trust............. 6
2.3 ISSUANCE AND TRANSFER OF CERTIFICATES OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST
7
2.4 PAYMENTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS.......................... 9
2.5 TAX REPORTING....................................... 10
2.6 FURTHER ASSURANCES.................................. 10
2.7 DUTIES OF TRUSTEES.................................. 11
2.8 No Filing........................................... 14
2.9 Situs of Trust...................................... 15
2.10 Title to Trust Property; Action by Trustees......... 15
2.11 Allocations......................................... 15
2.12 Distributions of Rights to Retained Amounts......... 15
ARTICLE III
AUTHORIZATION OF TRUSTEES; PLEDGE OF COLLATERAL ...... 16
3.1 AUTHORIZATION OF TRUSTEE............................ 16
3.2 PLEDGE OF COLLATERAL................................ 16
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE DEPOSITOR
AND THE COMPANY TRUSTEE .................. 17
4.1 SECURITIES LAW REPRESENTATIONS...................... 17
4.2 OTHER REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES................ 17
ARTICLE V
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
OF THE RESIDENT TRUSTEE .................. 19
5.1 WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY............................ 19
ARTICLE VI
CERTAIN COVENANTS OF DEPOSITOR, OTHER OWNERS OF
CERTIFICATES OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST, AND THE TRUST..... 20
6.1 TITLE TO TRUST PROPERTY............................. 20
6.2 NOTIFICATION OF TRANSFER............................ 20
6.3 INVESTMENT COMPANY.................................. 20
6.4 LIABILITY OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS..................... 20
ARTICLE VII
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEES AND THE TRUST ........... 21
7.1 GENERAL MATTERS RELATING TO THE TRUSTEES; LIMITATION ON
OBLIGATIONS......................................... 21
7.2 BOOKS AND RECORDS................................... 22
7.3 COMPENSATION AND INDEMNIFICATION OF TRUSTEE......... 22
7.4 Resignation, Discharge or Removal of Trustees; Successor 24
7.5 QUALIFICATION OF THE RESIDENT TRUSTEE............... 25
7.6 APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL TRUSTEES.................. 25
7.7 NOT ACTING IN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY................... 26
ARTICLE VIII
MISCELLANEOUS ....................... 26
8.1 BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT................................ 26
8.2 SEVERABILITY........................................ 26
8.3 AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS.............................. 27
8.4 Notices............................................. 27
8.5 TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT: NO POWER TO REVOKE OR WITHDRAW
TRUST PROPERTY...................................... 28
8.6 NATURE OF INTEREST IN TRUST PROPERTY................ 28
8.7 GOVERNING LAW....................................... 28
8.8 COUNTERPARTS........................................ 29
8.9 LIMITATIONS ON RIGHTS OF OTHERS..................... 29
8.10 REFERENCES TO SECTIONS.............................. 29
8.11 MERGER AND CONSOLIDATION............................ 29
8.12 OPERATION OF THE TRUST.............................. 29
EXHIBITS
Form of Certificate of Beneficial Interest A
Form of Transferee Letter B
PLEDGE AGREEMENT{PRIVATE }
(SPT)
This PLEDGE AGREEMENT (this "AGREEMENT") is dated as of May 14, 1997
and entered into by and between AMALGAMATED COLLATERAL TRUST, a Delaware
business trust ("PLEDGOR"), and SNAKE RIVER SUGAR COMPANY, an Oregon cooperative
("SECURED PARTY").
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS
A. Pledgor is the legal and beneficial owner of the limited
liability company membership interest (the "PLEDGED EQUITY") described in
Schedule I annexed hereto and issued by The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company ("LLC").
B. Valhi, Inc. ("VALHI"), a Delaware corporation and the indirect
holder of 100% of the outstanding stock of the sole owner of the Pledgor
("COMPANY"), has issued to Secured Party a Limited Recourse Promissory Note
dated January 3, 1997 in aggregate principal amount of $212,500,000 (as it may
hereafter be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
"LIMITED RECOURSE PROMISSORY NOTE") and a Subordinated Promissory Note dated
January 3, 1997 in aggregate principal amount of $37,500,000 (as it may
hereafter be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
"SUBORDINATED PROMISSORY NOTE", and, together with the Limited Recourse
Promissory Notes, the "NOTES").
C. Pledgor has entered into a Guaranty, dated May 14, 1997, in favor
of Secured Party (as it may hereafter be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time, the "SPT GUARANTY"), pursuant to which Pledgor
guaranteed the obligations of Valhi under the Limited Recourse Promissory Note
and in certain circumstances the obligations of Valhi under the Subordinated
Promissory Note.
D. Pursuant to a Pledge Agreement (the "SENIOR PLEDGE AGREEMENT")
dated as of May 14, 1997 between Secured Party and First Security Bank, National
Association, as "COLLATERAL AGENT," Secured Party has pledged and assigned to
Collateral Agent, and granted to Collateral Agent a security interest in, all of
Secured Party's right, title and interest in and to the Notes and all collateral
related thereto including its interest created hereunder in the Pledged Equity.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and for other good
and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby
acknowledged, Pledgor hereby agrees with Secured Party as follows:
CERTAIN DEFINITIONS. The following terms used in this Agreement
shall have the following meanings:
"CERTIFICATE OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST" means the Certificate of
Beneficial Interest as defined in the Deposit Trust Agreement of Amalgamated
Collateral Trust, dated as of May 14, 1997, between ASC Holdings, Inc. and
Wilmington Trust Company, as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time.
"COMPANY AGREEMENT" means the Company Agreement of LLC, dated January
3, 1997, as amended to the date hereof.
"CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION", as applied to any Person, means any
provision of any security issued by that Person or of any material indenture,
mortgage, deed of trust, contract, undertaking, agreement or other instrument to
which that Person is a party or by which it or any of its properties is bound or
to which it or any of its properties is subject.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" means a default under either of the Notes entitling
Secured Party to accelerate payment on the Notes.
"INDEMNIFICATION AND POST-CLOSING AGREEMENT" means the Indemnification
and Post-Closing Agreement, dated as of January 3, 1997, among ASC Holdings,
Inc., Secured Party and LLC, as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time.
"INDEMNIFICATION PLEDGE AGREEMENT" means the Amended and Restated
Indemnification Pledge Agreement, dated as of May 14, 1997, by Pledgor in favor
of Secured Party and LLC, as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time.
"Lien" means any lien, mortgage, pledge, assignment, security
interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind (including any conditional sale or
other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof, and any
agreement to give any security interest) and any option, trust or other
preferential arrangement having the practical effect of any of the foregoing.
"PERSON" means and includes natural persons, corporations, limited
partnerships, general partnerships, joint stock companies, joint ventures,
associations, companies, trusts, banks, trust companies, land trusts, business
trusts, limited liability companies, cooperatives or other organizations,
whether or not legal entities, and governments and agencies and political
subdivisions thereof.
"RESIDENT TRUSTEE" means the Resident Trustee as defined in the
Deposit Trust Agreement of Amalgamated Collateral Trust, dated as of May 14,
1997, between ASC Holdings, Inc. and Wilmington Trust Company, as it may be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
PLEDGE OF SECURITY. Pledgor hereby pledges and assigns to Secured
Party, and hereby grants to Secured Party a security interest in, all of
Pledgor's right, title and interest in and to the following (the "PLEDGED
COLLATERAL"):
(a) the Pledged Equity and any certificates representing the Pledged
Equity and any interest of Pledgor in the entries on the books of any financial
intermediary pertaining to the Pledged Equity, and all dividends, cash,
warrants, rights, instruments and other property or proceeds from time to time
received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for
any or all of the Pledged Equity;
(b) all additional equity interests, and all securities convertible
into and warrants, options and other rights to purchase or otherwise acquire any
equity interests, in any issuer of the Pledged Equity from time to time acquired
by Pledgor in any manner (which interests shall be deemed to be part of the
Pledged Equity), any certificates or other instruments representing such
additional equity interests, securities, warrants, options or other rights and
any interest of Pledgor in the entries on the books of any financial
intermediary pertaining to such additional equity interests, and all dividends,
cash, warrants, rights, instruments and other property or proceeds from time to
time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange
for any or all of such additional equity interests, securities, warrants,
options or other rights; and
(c) to the extent not covered by clauses (a) and (b) above, all
proceeds of any or all of the foregoing Pledged Collateral. For purposes of
this Agreement, the term "PROCEEDS" includes whatever is receivable or received
when Pledged Collateral or proceeds are sold, exchanged, collected or otherwise
disposed of, whether such disposition is voluntary or involuntary, and includes,
without limitation, proceeds of any indemnity or guaranty payable to Pledgor or
Secured Party from time to time with respect to any of the Pledged Collateral.
Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the
Pledged Collateral shall not include, and Secured Party shall not have a
security interest in (and Secured Party's security interest shall terminate and
automatically be released with respect to), (i) any cash distributions on
account of the Pledged Collateral paid or distributed prior to the date of any
Event of Default on the Notes to holder of the Certificate of Beneficial
Interest and (ii) any Retained Amounts (as defined in the Company Agreement)
accrued prior to an Event of Default. Upon the exercise of the put option
pursuant to Article XVIII of the Company Agreement by the Pledgor or any
mandatory redemption under Article XVII of the Company Agreement, the proceeds
received by Pledgor shall be applied as set forth in Section 13 of this
Agreement.
SECURITY FOR OBLIGATIONS. This Agreement secures, and the Pledged
Collateral is collateral security for, the prompt payment or performance in full
when due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration,
acceleration, demand or otherwise (including the payment of amounts that would
become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of
the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. Section362(a)), of (i) all obligations and
liabilities of every nature of Valhi now or hereafter existing under or arising
out of or in connection with the Subordinated Note and all extensions or
renewals thereof and (ii) all obligations and liabilities of every nature of
Pledgor now or hereafter existing under or arising out of or in connection with
the SPT Guaranty, in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii) whether for
principal, interest (including without limitation interest that, but for the
filing of a petition in bankruptcy with respect to Valhi or Pledgor, would
accrue on such obligations), fees, expenses, indemnities or otherwise, whether
voluntary or involuntary, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, liquidated
or unliquidated, whether or not jointly owed with others, and whether or not
from time to time decreased or extinguished and later increased, created or
incurred, and all or any portion of such obligations or liabilities that are
paid, to the extent all or any part of such payment is avoided or recovered
directly or indirectly from Secured Party as a preference, fraudulent transfer
or otherwise (all such obligations and liabilities being the "UNDERLYING DEBT"),
and all obligations of every nature of Pledgor now or hereafter existing under
this Agreement (all such obligations of Pledgor, together with the Underlying
Debt, being the "SECURED OBLIGATIONS").
ASSIGNMENT TO COLLATERAL AGENT; DELIVERY OF PLEDGED COLLATERAL. (a)
Pledgor hereby acknowledges and agrees that Secured Party will assign and grant
a security interest in all of Secured Party's rights in, to and under this
Agreement and the Pledged Collateral to Collateral Agent for the benefit of the
holders of the 10.80% Senior Notes due April 30, 2009 (the "SENIOR NOTES")
issued by Secured Party pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreements (the "NOTE
PURCHASE AGREEMENTS"), each dated May 14, 1997, between Secured Party and the
purchasers referred to therein, as security for Secured Party's obligations
under the Senior Notes and the Note Purchase Agreements, and thereafter
Collateral Agent shall have all of the rights granted to Secured Party
hereunder. So long as Collateral Agent has any security interest in this
Agreement or the Pledged Collateral, the term "Secured Party" shall include
Collateral Agent for all purposes under this Agreement.
(b) All certificates or instruments representing or evidencing the
Pledged Collateral shall be delivered to and held by or on behalf of Collateral
Agent pursuant hereto and to the Senior Pledge Agreement and shall be in
suitable form for transfer by delivery or, as applicable, shall be accompanied
by Pledgor's endorsement, where necessary, or duly executed instruments of
transfer or assignment in blank, all in form and substance satisfactory to
Collateral Agent. Collateral Agent shall have the right, at any time in its
discretion and without notice to Pledgor, to transfer to or to register in the
name of Collateral Agent or any of its nominees any or all of the Pledged
Collateral, subject only to the revocable rights specified in Section 8(a).
(c) The parties hereto hereby acknowledge and agree that Pledgor will
direct LLC and any other applicable party, as the case may be, (i) prior to an
Event of Default, to make all payments of distributions and any other amounts in
respect of any of the Pledged Collateral directly to the Resident Trustee (or as
otherwise instructed by the Resident Trustee) and (ii) upon and after an Event
of Default, to make all payments of distributions and any other amounts in
respect of any of the Pledged Collateral directly to Collateral Agent, to be
applied as provided in the Senior Pledge Agreement.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. Pledgor represents and warrants as
follows:
(a) Organization and Powers. Pledgor is a business trust duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware and has all requisite power and authority to own and operate its
properties, to carry on its business as now conducted and proposed to be
conducted and to enter into this Agreement and carry out the transactions
contemplated hereby.
(b) Authorization. The execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary action by Pledgor.
(c) No Conflict. The execution, delivery and performance by Pledgor
of this Agreement will not (i) violate the Certificate of Trust or other
organizational documents of Pledgor, (ii) violate any provision of law
applicable to Pledgor, or any order, judgment or decree of any court or other
agency of government binding on Pledgor, (iii) be in conflict with, result in a
breach of, or constitute (with due notice or lapse of time or both) a default
under any Contractual Obligation of Pledgor, (iv) result in or require the
creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties or assets, or
(v) require the approval of LLC or any direct or indirect beneficiary of Pledgor
or any approval or consent of any Person under any Contractual Obligation of
Pledgor other than the Company Agreement.
(d) Binding Obligation. This Agreement is the legally valid and
binding obligation of Pledgor, enforceable against it in accordance with its
terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or similar laws or equitable principles relating to
or limiting creditors' rights generally.
(e) Due Authorization, etc. of Pledged Equity. All of the Pledged
Equity has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and non-
assessable.
(f) Description of Pledged Equity. The Pledged Equity constitutes
94.7% of the membership interests in the LLC, and there are no outstanding
warrants, options or other rights to purchase, or other agreements outstanding
with respect to, or property that is now or hereafter convertible into, or that
requires the issuance or sale of, any Pledged Equity other than the Company
Agreement, the Indemnification Pledge Agreement and the Senior Pledge Agreement.
(g) Ownership of Pledged Collateral. Pledgor is the legal, record
and beneficial owner of the Pledged Collateral free and clear of any Lien,
except for the security interest created by this Agreement and subject to the
limitations set forth in the Company Agreement.
(h) Governmental Authorizations. Other than the filing of
appropriate UCC financing statements with the Secretary of State (or Department
of Business Regulation, if applicable) of the States of Utah and Delaware, no
authorization, approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any
governmental authority or regulatory body is required for either (i) the pledge
by Pledgor of the Pledged Collateral pursuant to this Agreement and the grant by
Pledgor of the security interest granted hereby, (ii) the execution, delivery or
performance of this Agreement by Pledgor, or (iii) the exercise by Secured Party
of the voting or other rights, or the remedies in respect of the Pledged
Collateral, provided for in this Agreement (except as may be required in
connection with a disposition of Pledged Collateral by laws affecting the
offering and sale of securities generally).
(i) Perfection. The pledge of the Pledged Collateral pursuant to
this Agreement creates a valid and perfected first priority security interest in
the Pledged Collateral, securing the payment of the Secured Obligations.
(j) Margin Regulations. The pledge of the Pledged Collateral
pursuant to this Agreement does not violate Regulation G, T, U or X of the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
(k) Other Information. All information heretofore, herein or
hereafter supplied to Secured Party by or on behalf of Pledgor with respect to
the Pledged Collateral is accurate and complete in all material respects.
TRANSFERS AND OTHER LIENS; ADDITIONAL PLEDGED COLLATERAL; ETC.
Pledgor shall:
(a) not, except as may be expressly permitted by this Agreement, the
Notes, or the Company Agreement (subject to the Note Purchase Agreements so long
as any is in effect) (i) sell, assign (by operation of law or otherwise) or
otherwise dispose of, or grant any option with respect to, any of the Pledged
Collateral or (ii) create or suffer to exist any Lien upon or with respect to
any of the Pledged Collateral, except for the security interest under this
Agreement, the Senior Pledge Agreement and the Indemnification Pledge Agreement;
(b) (i) cause each issuer of Pledged Equity not to issue any equity
in addition to or in substitution for the Pledged Equity issued by such issuer,
except to Pledgor, and (ii) pledge hereunder, immediately upon acquisition
(directly or indirectly) thereof by the Pledgor, any and all additional equity
of each issuer of Pledged Equity;
(c) promptly deliver to Secured Party and Collateral Agent all
written notices received by it with respect to the Pledged Collateral; and
(d) pay promptly when due all taxes, assessments and governmental
charges or levies imposed upon, and all claims against, the Pledged Collateral,
except to the extent the validity thereof is being contested in good faith;
provided that Pledgor shall in any event pay such taxes, assessments, charges,
levies or claims not later than five days prior to the date of any proposed sale
under any judgement, writ or warrant of attachment entered or filed against
Pledgor or any of the Pledged Collateral as a result of the failure to make such
payment.
FURTHER ASSURANCES; PLEDGE AMENDMENTS.
(a) Pledgor agrees that from time to time, at the expense of Pledgor,
Pledgor will promptly execute and deliver all further instruments and documents,
and take all further action, that may be necessary or desirable, or that Secured
Party may request, in order to perfect and protect any security interest granted
or purported to be granted hereby or to enable Secured Party to exercise and
enforce its rights and remedies hereunder with respect to any Pledged
Collateral. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Pledgor will:
(i) execute and file such financing or continuation statements, or amendments
thereto, and such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or
desirable, or as Secured Party may request, in order to perfect and preserve the
security interests granted or purported to be granted hereby and (ii) at Secured
Party's request, appear in and defend any action or proceeding that may affect
Pledgor's title to or Secured Party's security interest in all or any part of
the Pledged Collateral.
(b) Pledgor further agrees that it will, upon obtaining any
additional equity or securities required to be pledged hereunder as provided in
Section 6(b), promptly (and in any event within five business days) deliver to
Secured Party a Pledge Amendment, duly executed by Pledgor, in substantially the
form of Schedule II annexed hereto (a "PLEDGE AMENDMENT"), in respect of the
additional Pledged Collateral to be pledged pursuant to this Agreement. Pledgor
hereby authorizes Secured Party to attach each Pledge Amendment to this
Agreement and agrees that all Pledged Collateral listed on any Pledge Amendment
delivered to Secured Party shall for all purposes hereunder be considered
Pledged Collateral; provided that the failure of Pledgor to execute a Pledge
Amendment with respect to any additional Pledged Collateral pledged pursuant to
this Agreement shall not impair the security interest of Secured Party therein
or otherwise adversely affect the rights and remedies of Secured Party hereunder
with respect thereto.
VOTING RIGHTS; ETC.
(a) So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing:
(i) Pledgor shall be entitled to exercise any and all voting and
other consensual rights pertaining to the Pledged Collateral or any part
thereof for any purpose not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement
or the Notes.
(ii) Secured Party shall promptly execute and deliver (or cause to be
executed and delivered) to Pledgor all such proxies and other instruments
as Pledgor may from time to time reasonably request for the purpose of
enabling Pledgor to exercise the voting and other consensual rights which
it is entitled to exercise pursuant to paragraph (i) above.
(b) Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of
Default and upon written notice from Secured Party to Pledgor, all rights of
Pledgor to exercise the voting and other consensual rights which it would
otherwise be entitled to exercise pursuant to Section 8(a)(i) shall cease, and
all such rights shall thereupon become vested in Secured Party who shall
thereupon have the sole right to exercise such voting and other consensual
rights.
(c) In order to permit Secured Party to exercise the voting and other
consensual rights which it may be entitled to exercise pursuant to Section 8(b)
(i) Pledgor shall promptly execute and deliver (or cause to be executed and
delivered) to Secured Party all such proxies and other instruments as Secured
Party may from time to time reasonably request and (ii) without limiting the
effect of the immediately preceding clause (i), Pledgor hereby grants to Secured
Party an irrevocable proxy to vote the Pledged Equity and to exercise all other
rights, powers, privileges and remedies to which a holder of the Pledged Equity
would be entitled (including, without limitation, giving or withholding written
consents of equity holders, calling special meetings of equity holders and
voting at such meetings), which proxy shall be effective, automatically and
without the necessity of any action (including any transfer of any Pledged
Equity on the record books of the issuer thereof) by any other Person (including
the issuer of the Pledged Equity or any officer or agent thereof), upon the
occurrence of an Event of Default and which proxy shall only terminate upon the
payment in full in cash of the Secured Obligations.
SECURED PARTY APPOINTED ATTORNEY-IN-FACT. Pledgor hereby
irrevocably appoints Secured Party as Pledgor's attorney-in-fact, with full
authority in the place and stead of Pledgor and in the name of Pledgor, Secured
Party or otherwise, from time to time in Secured Party's discretion to take any
action and to execute any instrument that Secured Party may deem necessary or
advisable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, including without
limitation:
(a) to file one or more financing or continuation statements, or
amendments thereto, relative to all or any part of the Pledged Collateral
without the signature of Pledgor;
(b) to ask, demand, collect, sue for, recover, compound, receive and
give acquittance and receipts for moneys due and to become due under or in
respect of and constituting any of the Pledged Collateral;
(c) to receive, endorse and collect any instruments made payable to
Pledgor representing any dividend, principal or interest payment or other
distribution in respect of and constituting the Pledged Collateral or any part
thereof and to give full discharge for the same; and
(d) to file any claims or take any action or institute any
proceedings that Secured Party may deem necessary or desirable for the
collection of any of the Pledged Collateral or otherwise to enforce the rights
of Secured Party with respect to any of the Pledged Collateral.
SECURED PARTY MAY PERFORM. If Pledgor fails to perform any
agreement contained herein, Secured Party may itself perform, or cause
performance of, such agreement, and the expenses of Secured Party incurred in
connection therewith shall be payable by Pledgor under Section 14(b).
STANDARD OF CARE. The powers conferred on Secured Party hereunder
are solely to protect its interest in the Pledged Collateral and shall not
impose any duty upon it to exercise any such powers. Except for the exercise of
reasonable care in the custody of any Pledged Collateral in its possession and
the accounting for moneys actually received by it hereunder, Secured Party shall
have no duty as to any Pledged Collateral, it being understood that Secured
Party shall have no responsibility for (a) ascertaining or taking action with
respect to calls, conversions, exchanges, maturities, tenders or other matters
relating to any Pledged Collateral, whether or not Secured Party has or is
deemed to have knowledge of such matters, (b) taking any necessary steps (other
than steps taken in accordance with the standard of care set forth above to
maintain possession of the Pledged Collateral) to preserve rights against any
parties with respect to any Pledged Collateral, (c) taking any necessary steps
to collect or realize upon the Secured Obligations or any guarantee therefor, or
any part thereof, or any of the Pledged Collateral, or (d) initiating any action
to protect the Pledged Collateral against the possibility of a decline in market
value. Secured Party shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the
custody and preservation of Pledged Collateral in its possession if such Pledged
Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to that which Secured Party
accords its own property consisting of negotiable securities.
REMEDIES.
(a) If any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
Secured Party may exercise in respect of the Pledged Collateral, in addition to
all other rights and remedies provided for herein or otherwise available to it,
all the rights and remedies of a secured party on default under the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction (the "CODE") (whether
or not the Code applies to the affected Pledged Collateral), and Secured Party
may also in its sole discretion, without notice except as specified below, sell
the Pledged Collateral or any part thereof in one or more parcels at public or
private sale, at any exchange or broker's board or at any of Secured Party's
offices or elsewhere, for cash, on credit or for future delivery, at such time
or times and at such price or prices and upon such other terms as Secured Party
may deem commercially reasonable, irrespective of the impact of any such sales
on the market price of the Pledged Collateral. Secured Party may be the
purchaser of any or all of the Pledged Collateral at any such sale and shall be
entitled, for the purpose of bidding and making settlement or payment of the
purchase price for all or any portion of the Pledged Collateral sold at any such
public sale, to use and apply any of the Secured Obligations as a credit on
account of the purchase price for any Pledged Collateral payable by Secured
Party at such sale. Each purchaser at any such sale shall hold the property
sold absolutely free from any claim or right on the part of Pledgor, and Pledgor
hereby waives (to the extent permitted by applicable law) all rights of
redemption, stay and/or appraisal which it now has or may at any time in the
future have under any rule of law or statute now existing or hereafter enacted.
Pledgor agrees that, to the extent notice of sale shall be required by law, at
least ten days' notice to Pledgor 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. Secured Party shall not be obligated to make any sale of Pledged
Collateral regardless of notice of sale having been given. Secured Party 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. Pledgor hereby waives any
claims against Secured Party arising by reason of the fact that the price at
which any Pledged Collateral may have been sold at such a private sale was less
than the price which might have been obtained at a public sale, even if Secured
Party accepts the first offer received and does not offer such Pledged
Collateral to more than one offeree. If the proceeds of any sale or other
disposition of the Pledged Collateral are insufficient to pay all the Secured
Obligations, Pledgor shall be liable for the deficiency and the fees of any
attorneys employed by Secured Party to collect such deficiency.
(b) Pledgor recognizes that, by reason of certain prohibitions
contained in the Securities Act of 1933, as from time to time amended (the
"SECURITIES ACT"), and applicable state securities laws, Secured Party may be
compelled, with respect to any sale of all or any part of the Pledged Collateral
conducted without prior registration or qualification of such Pledged Collateral
under the Securities Act and/or such state securities laws, to limit purchasers
to those who will agree, among other things, to acquire the Pledged Collateral
for their own account, for investment and not with a view to the distribution or
resale thereof. Pledgor acknowledges that any such private sales may be at
prices and on terms less favorable than those obtainable through a public sale
without such restrictions (including, without limitation, a public offering made
pursuant to a registration statement under the Securities Act) and,
notwithstanding such circumstances, Pledgor agrees that any such private sale
shall be deemed to have been made in a commercially reasonable manner and that
Secured Party shall have no obligation to engage in public sales and no
obligation to delay the sale of any Pledged Collateral for the period of time
necessary to permit the issuer thereof to register it for a form of public sale
requiring registration under the Securities Act or under applicable state
securities laws, even if such issuer would, or should, agree to so register it.
(c) If Secured Party determines to exercise its right to sell any or
all of the Pledged Collateral, upon written request, Pledgor shall furnish to
Secured Party all such information as Secured Party may reasonably request in
order to determine the extent to which such equity interest and any instruments
included in the Pledged Collateral which may be sold by Secured Party in exempt
transactions under the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the
Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder, as the same are from time to time
in effect.
APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS. Except as expressly provided elsewhere in
this Agreement, all proceeds received by Secured Party in respect of any sale
of, collection from, or other realization upon all or any part of the Pledged
Collateral may, in the discretion of Secured Party, be held by Secured Party as
Pledged Collateral for, and/or then, or at any time thereafter, applied in full
or in part by Secured Party against, the Secured Obligations in the following
order of priority:
FIRST: To the payment of all costs and expenses of such sale,
collection or other realization, including reasonable compensation to
Secured Party and its agents and counsel, and all other expenses,
liabilities and advances made or incurred by Secured Party in connection
therewith, and all amounts for which Secured Party is entitled to
indemnification hereunder and all advances made by Secured Party hereunder
for the account of Pledgor, and to the payment of all costs and expenses
paid or incurred by Secured Party in connection with the exercise of any
right or remedy hereunder, all in accordance with Section 14;
SECOND: To the payment of all other Secured Obligations in such order
as Secured Party shall elect; and
THIRD: To the payment to or upon the order of Pledgor, or to
whosoever may be lawfully entitled to receive the same or as a court of
competent jurisdiction may direct, of any surplus then remaining from such
proceeds.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, upon the exercise of the put
option pursuant to Article XVIII of the Company Agreement by the Pledgor or any
mandatory redemption under Article XVII of the Company Agreement, the proceeds
received by Pledgor shall be applied to the payment of the Notes.
INDEMNITY AND EXPENSES.
(a) Pledgor agrees to indemnify Secured Party from and against any
and all claims, losses and liabilities in any way relating to, growing out of or
resulting from this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby
(including, without limitation, enforcement of this Agreement), except to the
extent such claims, losses or liabilities result solely from Secured Party's
gross negligence or willful misconduct as finally determined by a court of
competent jurisdiction.
(b) Pledgor shall pay to Secured Party upon demand the amount of any
and all costs and expenses, including the reasonable fees and expenses of its
counsel and of any experts and agents, that Secured Party may incur in connec-
tion with (i) the administration of this Agreement, (ii) the custody or
preservation of, or the sale of, collection from, or other realization upon, any
of the Pledged Collateral, (iii) the exercise or enforcement of any of the
rights of Secured Party hereunder, or (iv) the failure by Pledgor to perform or
observe any of the provisions hereof.
SURETYSHIP WAIVERS BY PLEDGOR, ETC.
(a) Pledgor agrees that its obligations hereunder are irrevocable,
absolute, independent and unconditional and shall not be affected by any
circumstance which constitutes a legal or equitable discharge of a guarantor or
surety other than payment in full in cash of the Underlying Debt. In
furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof,
Pledgor agrees as follows: (i) Secured Party may from time to time, without
notice or demand and without affecting the validity or enforceability of this
Agreement or giving rise to any limitation, impairment or discharge of Pledgor's
liability hereunder, (A) renew, extend, accelerate or otherwise change the time,
place, manner or terms of payment of the Underlying Debt, (B) settle,
compromise, release or discharge, or accept or refuse any offer of performance
with respect to, or substitutions for, the Underlying Debt or any agreement
relating thereto and/or subordinate the payment of the same to the payment of
any other obligations, (C) request and accept guaranties of the Underlying Debt
and take and hold other security for the payment of the Underlying Debt,
(D) release, exchange, compromise, subordinate or modify, with or without
consideration, any other security for payment of the Underlying Debt, any
guaranties of the Underlying Debt, or any other obligation of any Person with
respect to the Underlying Debt, (E) enforce and apply any other security now or
hereafter held by or for the benefit of Secured Party in respect of the
Underlying Debt and direct the order or manner of sale thereof, or exercise any
other right or remedy that Secured Party may have against any such security, as
Secured Party in its discretion may determine consistent with the Notes and any
applicable security agreement, including foreclosure on any such security
pursuant to one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales, whether or not every
aspect of any such sale is commercially reasonable, and (F) exercise any other
rights available to Secured Party under the Notes, at law or in equity; and
(ii) this Agreement and the obligations of Pledgor hereunder shall be valid and
enforceable and shall not be subject to any limitation, impairment or discharge
for any reason (other than payment in full in cash of the Underlying Debt),
including without limitation the occurrence of any of the following, whether or
not Pledgor shall have had notice or knowledge of any of them: (A) any failure
to assert or enforce or agreement not to assert or enforce, or the stay or
enjoining, by order of court, by operation of law or otherwise, of the exercise
or enforcement of, any claim or demand or any right, power or remedy with
respect to the Underlying Debt or any agreement relating thereto, or with
respect to any guaranty of or other security for the payment of the Underlying
Debt, (B) any waiver, amendment or modification of, or any consent to departure
from, any of the terms or provisions (including without limitation provisions
relating to events of default) of the Notes or any agreement or instrument
executed pursuant thereto, or of any guaranty or other security for the
Underlying Debt, (C) the Underlying Debt, or any agreement relating thereto, at
any time being found to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect,
(D) any failure to perfect or continue perfection of a security interest in any
other collateral which secures any of the Underlying Debt, (E) any defenses,
set-offs or counterclaims which Pledgor or Valhi may allege or assert against
Secured Party in respect of the Underlying Debt, including but not limited to
failure of consideration, breach of warranty, payment, statute of frauds,
statute of limitations, accord and satisfaction and usury, and (F) any other act
or thing or omission, or delay to do any other act or thing, which may or might
in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of Pledgor as an obligor in respect
of the Underlying Debt.
(b) Pledgor hereby waives, for the benefit of Secured Party: (i) any
right to require Secured Party, as a condition of payment or performance by
Pledgor, to (A) proceed against Valhi, any guarantor of the Underlying Debt or
any other Person, (B) proceed against or exhaust any other security held from
Valhi, any guarantor of the Underlying Debt or any other Person, (C) proceed
against or have resort to any balance of any deposit account or credit on the
books of Secured Party in favor of Valhi or any other Person, or (D) pursue any
other remedy in the power of Secured Party whatsoever; (ii) any defense arising
by reason of the incapacity, lack of authority or any disability or other
defense of Valhi including, without limitation, any defense based on or arising
out of the lack of validity or the unenforceability of the Underlying Debt or
any agreement or instrument relating thereto or by reason of the cessation of
the liability of Valhi from any cause other than payment in full in cash of the
Underlying Debt; (iii) any defense based upon any statute or rule of law which
provides that the obligation of a surety must be neither larger in amount nor in
other respects more burdensome than that of the principal; (iv) any defense
based upon Secured Party's errors or omissions in the administration of the
Underlying Debt, except behavior which amounts to bad faith; (v) (A) any
principles or provisions of law, statutory or otherwise, which are or might be
in conflict with the terms of this Agreement and any legal or equitable
discharge of Pledgor's obligations hereunder, (B) the benefit of any statute of
limitations affecting Pledgor's liability hereunder or the enforcement hereof,
(C) any rights to set-offs, recoupments and counterclaims, and (D) promptness,
diligence and any requirement that Secured Party protect, secure, perfect or
insure any other security interest or lien or any property subject thereto;
(vi) notices, demands, presentments, protests, notices of protest, notices of
dishonor and notices of any action or inaction, notices of default under the
Notes or any agreement or instrument related thereto, notices of any renewal,
extension or modification of the Underlying Debt or any agreement related
thereto, notices of any extension of credit to Valhi and notices of any of the
matters referred to in the preceding paragraph and any right to consent to any
thereof; and (vii) to the fullest extent permitted by law, any defenses or
benefits that may be derived from or afforded by law which limit the liability
of or exonerate guarantors or sureties, or which may conflict with the terms of
this Agreement.
(c) As used in this Section 15(c), any reference to "the principal"
includes Pledgor and Valhi, and any reference to "the creditor" includes Secured
Party.
(d) Until the Underlying Debt shall have been paid in full in cash,
Pledgor shall withhold exercise of (i) any claim, right or remedy, direct or
indirect, that Pledgor now has or may hereafter have against Valhi or any of its
assets in connection with this Agreement or the performance by Pledgor of its
obligations hereunder, in each case whether such claim, right or remedy arises
in equity, under contract, by statute, under common law or otherwise and
including without limitation (A) any right of subrogation, reimbursement or
indemnification that Pledgor now has or may hereafter have against Valhi,
(B) any right to enforce, or to participate in, any claim, right or remedy that
Secured Party now has or may hereafter have against Valhi, and (C) any benefit
of, and any right to participate in, any other collateral or security now or
hereafter held by Secured Party, and (ii) any right of contribution Pledgor may
have against any guarantor of any of the Underlying Debt. Pledgor further
agrees that, to the extent the waiver of its rights of subrogation,
reimbursement, indemnification and contribution as set forth herein is found by
a court of competent jurisdiction to be void or voidable for any reason, any
rights of subrogation, reimbursement or indemnification Pledgor may have against
Valhi or against any other collateral or security, and any rights of
contribution Pledgor may have against any such guarantor, shall be junior and
subordinate to any rights Secured Party may have against Valhi, to all right,
title and interest Secured Party may have in any such other collateral or
security, and to any right Secured Party may have against any such guarantor.
(e) Secured Party shall have no obligation to disclose or discuss
with Pledgor its assessment, or Pledgor's assessment, of the financial condition
of Valhi. Pledgor has adequate means to obtain information from Valhi on a
continuing basis concerning the financial condition of Valhi and its ability to
perform its obligations under the Notes, and Pledgor assumes the responsibility
for being and keeping informed of the financial condition of Valhi and of all
circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Underlying Debt.
Pledgor hereby waives and relinquishes any duty on the part of Secured Party to
disclose any matter, fact or thing relating to the business, operations or
condition of Valhi now known or hereafter known by Secured Party.
CONTINUING SECURITY INTEREST; TRANSFER OF NOTES. This Agreement
shall create a continuing security interest in the Pledged Collateral and shall
(a) remain in full force and effect until the payment in full in cash of all
Secured Obligations, (b) be binding upon Pledgor, its successors and assigns,
and (c) inure, together with the rights and remedies of Secured Party hereunder,
to the benefit of Secured Party and its successors, transferees and assigns.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing clause (c), Secured Party may
assign or otherwise transfer the Notes to any other Person, including without
limitation Collateral Agent, and such other Person shall thereupon become vested
with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to Secured Party herein or
otherwise. Upon the payment in full in cash of all Secured Obligations, the
security interest granted hereby shall terminate and all rights to the Pledged
Collateral shall revert to Pledgor. Upon any such termination Secured Party
will, at Pledgor's expense, execute and deliver to Pledgor such documents as
Pledgor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination, and Pledgor shall
be entitled to the return, upon its request and at its expense, against receipt
and without recourse to Secured Party, of such of the Pledged Collateral as
shall not have been sold or otherwise applied pursuant to the terms hereof.
AMENDMENTS; ETC. No amendment, modification, termination or waiver
of any provision of this Agreement, and no consent to any departure by Pledgor
therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing
and signed by Secured Party and unless the same shall be (i) in the case of any
such amendment or modification, signed by Pledgor and, until payment in full in
cash of the Senior Notes, approved by the Required Holders, as defined in the
Note Purchase Agreements, and (ii) in the case of any such termination prior to
the payment in full in cash of the Senior Notes, approved by all of the Holders,
as defined in the Note Purchase Agreement. Any such waiver or consent shall be
effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which
it was given.
NOTICES. Any notice or other communication herein required or
permitted to be given shall be in writing and may be personally served or sent
by telefacsimile, United States mail or courier service and shall be deemed to
have been given when delivered in person or by courier service, upon receipt of
telefacsimile, or three business days after depositing it in the United States
mail with postage prepaid and properly addressed. For the purposes hereof, the
address of each party hereto shall be as set forth under such party's name on
the signature pages hereof or, as to either party, such other address as shall
be designated by such party in a written notice delivered to the other party
hereto.
FAILURE OR INDULGENCE NOT WAIVER; REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. No failure
or delay on the part of Secured Party in the exercise of any power, right or
privilege hereunder shall impair such power, right or privilege or be construed
to be a waiver of any default or acquiescence therein, nor shall any single or
partial exercise of any such power, right or privilege preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or of any other power, right or privilege. All rights
and remedies existing under this Agreement are cumulative to, and not exclusive
of, any rights or remedies otherwise available.
SEVERABILITY. In case any provision in or obligation under this
Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or
obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall
not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
HEADINGS. Section and subsection headings in this Agreement are
included herein for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a
part of this Agreement for any other purpose or be given any substantive effect.
GOVERNING LAW; TERMS. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND
ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
(INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK), WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES, EXCEPT
TO THE EXTENT THAT THE CODE PROVIDES THAT THE VALIDITY OR PERFECTION OF THE
SECURITY INTEREST HEREUNDER, OR REMEDIES HEREUNDER, IN RESPECT OF ANY PARTICULAR
PLEDGED COLLATERAL ARE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF A JURISDICTION OTHER THAN THE
STATE OF NEW YORK. Unless otherwise defined herein or in the Notes, terms used
in Articles 8 and 9 of the Code in the State of New York are used herein as
therein defined.
CONSENT TO JURISDICTION AND SERVICE OF PROCESS. ALL JUDICIAL
PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT AGAINST PLEDGOR ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT
MAY BE BROUGHT IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION IN THE
STATE OF NEW YORK, AND BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT PLEDGOR
ACCEPTS FOR ITSELF AND IN CONNECTION WITH ITS PROPERTIES, GENERALLY AND
UNCONDITIONALLY, THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS AND
WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS AND IRREVOCABLY AGREES TO BE BOUND BY
ANY JUDGMENT RENDERED THEREBY IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT. Pledgor hereby
agrees that service of all process in any such proceeding in any such court may
be made by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to Pledgor at
its address provided in Section 18, such service being hereby acknowledged by
Pledgor to be sufficient for personal jurisdiction in any action against Pledgor
in any such court and to be otherwise effective and binding service in every
respect. Nothing herein shall affect the right to serve process in any other
manner permitted by law or shall limit the right of Secured Party to bring
proceedings against Pledgor in the courts of any other jurisdiction.
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. PLEDGOR AND SECURED PARTY HEREBY AGREE TO
WAIVE THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION
BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT. The scope of this waiver is
intended to be all-encompassing of any and all disputes that may be filed in any
court and that relate to the subject matter of this transaction, including
without limitation contract claims, tort claims, breach of duty claims, and all
other common law and statutory claims. Pledgor and Secured Party each
acknowledge that this waiver is a material inducement for Pledgor and Secured
Party to enter into a business relationship, that Pledgor and Secured Party have
already relied on this waiver in entering into this Agreement and that each will
continue to rely on this waiver in their related future dealings. Pledgor and
Secured Party further warrant and represent that each has reviewed this waiver
with its legal counsel, and that each knowingly and voluntarily waives its jury
trial rights following consultation with legal counsel. THIS WAIVER IS
IRREVOCABLE, MEANING THAT IT MAY NOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING,
AND THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS
OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT. In the event of litigation, this Agreement
may be filed as a written consent to a trial by the court.
COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in one or more
counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of
which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, but all such
counterparts together shall constitute but one and the same instrument;
signature pages may be detached from multiple separate counterparts and attached
to a single counterpart so that all signature pages are physically attached to
the same document.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Pledgor and Secured Party have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their respective officers
thereunto duly authorized as of the date first written above.
AMALGAMATED COLLATERAL TRUST
By: Wilmington Trust Company,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
Notice Address:
Wilmington Trust Company, as Trustee
for Amalgamated Collateral Trust
Rodney Square North
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001
Attn: Corporate Trust Administration
SNAKE RIVER SUGAR COMPANY
By:
Name:
Title:
Notice Address:
Snake River Sugar Company
2427 Lincoln Avenue
P.O. Box 1520
Ogden, Utah 84402
SCHEDULE I
Attached to and forming a part of the Pledge Agreement dated as of May
14, 1997 between Amalgamated Collateral Trust, as Pledgor, and Snake River Sugar
Company, as Secured Party.
Equity Issuer Equity Interest
The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC AGM Interest, as defined
in the Company Agreement
SCHEDULE II
PLEDGE AMENDMENT
This Pledge Amendment, dated ____________, 19__, is delivered pursuant to
Section 7(b) of the Pledge Agreement referred to below. The undersigned hereby
agrees that this Pledge Amendment may be attached to the Pledge Agreement dated
May 14, 1997, between the undersigned and Snake River Sugar Company, as Secured
Party (the "PLEDGE AGREEMENT," capitalized terms defined therein being used
herein as therein defined), and that the Pledged Collateral listed on this
Pledge Amendment shall be deemed to be and become part of the Pledged Collateral
and shall secure all Secured Obligations.
AMALGAMATED COLLATERAL TRUST
By: Wilmington Trust Company,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as Trustee
By: __________________________
Title:
[LIST PLEDGED COLLATERAL]
SPT GUARANTY{PRIVATE }
This GUARANTY is entered into as of May 14, 1997 by AMALGAMATED
COLLATERAL TRUST, a Delaware business trust ("GUARANTOR"), in favor of and for
the benefit of SNAKE RIVER SUGAR COMPANY, an Oregon cooperative ("GUARANTIED
PARTY").
RECITALS
A. Valhi, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("COMPANY"), the indirect
holder of 100% of the outstanding stock of the owner of the Certificate of
Beneficial Interest issued by Guarantor, has issued to Guarantied Party that
certain Limited Recourse Promissory Note dated January 3, 1997 in aggregate
principal amount of $212,500,000 (the "LIMITED RECOURSE NOTE") and that certain
Subordinated Promissory Note dated January 3, 1997 in aggregate principal amount
of $37,500,000 (the "SUBORDINATED NOTE," and, together with the Limited Recourse
Note, as they may hereafter be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from
time to time, being the "NOTES").
B. The Notes were issued in connection with the acquisition by ASC
Holdings, Inc., a Utah corporation ("AMALGAMATED"), an indirect subsidiary of
Company, of a membership interest (the "AGM INTEREST") in The Amalgamated Sugar
Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("LLC"), and Amalgamated
pledged the AGM Interest to Guarantied Party to secure the Note pursuant to the
Limited Recourse Pledge Agreement dated January 3, 1997, which Limited Resource
Pledge Agreement has been amended and restated as of the date hereof as The
Amended and Restated Pledge Agreement between Amalgamated and Guarantied Party
(the "VALHI ENTITY PLEDGE AGREEMENT").
C. Amalgamated has transferred and assigned the AGM Interest to
Guarantor, and in consideration of such transfer and assignment, Guarantor
desires to guaranty the Note pursuant to this Guaranty and to secure this
Guaranty and the Company's obligations under the Subordinated Promissory Note
dated January 3, 1997 issued to Guarantied Party pursuant to the Pledge
Agreement dated the date hereof between Guarantor and Guarantied Party (the "SPT
PLEDGE AGREEMENT").
D. Guarantor is willing irrevocably and unconditionally to guaranty
such obligations of Company.
NOW, THEREFORE, based upon the foregoing and other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged,
Guarantor hereby agrees as follows:
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 CERTAIN DEFINED TERMS. As used in this Guaranty, the following terms
shall have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires:
"BENEFICIARIES" means Guarantied Party and, upon the assignment of
Guarantied Party's rights hereunder to the Collateral Agent pursuant to
Section 4.12 hereof, the Noteholders.
"DEPOSIT TRUST AGREEMENT" means the Deposit Trust Agreement relating
to Guarantor dated as of May 14, 1997 between Amalgamated, as
Certificateholder and Company Trustee (each as therein defined), and
Wilmington Trust Company, as Resident Trustee (as therein defined).
"GUARANTIED OBLIGATIONS" has the meaning assigned to that term in
subsection 2.1.
"GUARANTY" means this Guaranty dated as of May 14, 1997, as it may be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
"LOAN DOCUMENTS" means the Note, the Valhi Entity Pledge Agreement and
the SPT Pledge Agreement, together with all agreements entered into in
connection therewith, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time.
"PAYMENT IN FULL", "PAID IN FULL" or any similar term means payment in
full of the Guarantied Obligations, including without limitation all
principal, interest, costs, fees and expenses (including, without
limitation, reasonable legal fees and expenses) of Beneficiaries as
required under the Loan Documents.
"PERSON" means and includes natural persons, corporations, limited
liability companies, limited partnerships, general partnerships, joint
stock companies, joint ventures, associations, companies, trusts, banks and
other organizations, whether or not legal entities, and governments and
agencies and political subdivisions thereof.
"SUBSIDIARY" or "SUBSIDIARIES" means as to any Person (a) any
corporation(s) organized under the laws of any state of the United States
of which such Person or another Subsidiary of such Person, as the case may
be, beneficially owns or controls, either directly or indirectly, 100% of
the outstanding capital stock, and (b) any partnership(s) or other entities
organized under the laws of any state of the United States in which such
Person or another Subsidiary of such Person, as the case may be, holds a
100% equity interest and controls the management of such entity, and (c) in
the context of a Subsidiary of Guarantied Party, LLC.
1.2 INTERPRETATION. References to "Sections" and "subsections" shall be
to Sections and subsections, respectively, of this Guaranty unless otherwise
specifically provided.
SECTION 2. THE GUARANTY
2.1 GUARANTY OF THE GUARANTIED OBLIGATIONS. Guarantor hereby irrevocably
and unconditionally guaranties, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, the
due and punctual payment in full of all Guarantied Obligations when the same
shall become due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment,
declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise (including amounts that would
become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of
the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. Section 362(a)). The term "GUARANTIED
OBLIGATIONS" is used herein in its most comprehensive sense and includes:
(a) any and all obligations of Company in respect of advances,
borrowings, loans, debts, interest, fees, costs, expenses (including,
without limitation, legal fees and expenses of counsel and allocated costs
of internal counsel), indemnities and liabilities of whatsoever nature now
or hereafter made, incurred or created, whether absolute or contingent,
liquidated or unliquidated, whether due or not due, and however arising
under or in connection with the Limited Recourse Note and in connection
with the Subordinated Note (but only to the extent the Subordinated Note
is, pursuant to its terms, non-recourse to the Company), including those
arising under successive transactions under the Notes which shall either
continue such obligations of Company or from time to time renew them after
they have been satisfied and including interest which, but for the filing
of a petition in bankruptcy with respect to Company, would have accrued on
any Guarantied Obligations, whether or not a claim is allowed against
Company for such interest in the related bankruptcy proceeding; and
(b) those expenses set forth in subsection 2.7 hereof.
2.2 Payment by Guarantor; Application of Payments. Guarantor hereby
agrees, in furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right
which Guarantied Party or any Beneficiary may have at law or in equity against
Guarantor by virtue hereof, that upon the failure of Company to pay any of the
Guarantied Obligations when and as the same shall become due, whether at stated
maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise
(including amounts that would become due but for the operation of the automatic
stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. Section 362(a)),
Guarantor will upon demand pay, or cause to be paid, in cash, to Guarantied
Party for the ratable benefit of Beneficiaries, an amount equal to the sum of
the unpaid principal amount of all Guarantied Obligations then due as aforesaid,
accrued and unpaid interest on such Guarantied Obligations (including, without
limitation, interest which, but for the filing of a petition in bankruptcy with
respect to Company, would have accrued on such Guarantied Obligations, whether
or not a claim is allowed against Company for such interest in the related
bankruptcy proceeding) and all other Guarantied Obligations then owed to
Beneficiaries as aforesaid. All such payments shall be applied promptly from
time to time by Guarantied Party:
First, to the payment of the costs and expenses of any collection or
other realization under this Guaranty, including reasonable compensation to
Guarantied Party and its agents and counsel, and all expenses, liabilities
and advances made or incurred by Guarantied Party in connection therewith;
Second, to the payment of all other Guarantied Obligations in such
order as Guarantied Party shall elect; and
Third, after payment in full of all Guarantied Obligations, to the
payment to Guarantor, or its successors or assigns, or to whomsoever may be
lawfully entitled to receive the same or as a court of competent
jurisdiction may direct, of any surplus then remaining from such payments.
2.3 LIABILITY OF GUARANTOR ABSOLUTE. Guarantor agrees that its
obligations hereunder are irrevocable, absolute, independent and unconditional
and shall not be affected by any circumstance which constitutes a legal or
equitable discharge of a guarantor or surety other than payment in full of the
Guarantied Obligations. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting
the generality thereof, Guarantor agrees as follows:
(a) This Guaranty is a guaranty of payment when due and not of
collectibility.
(b) Guarantied Party may enforce this Guaranty upon the occurrence of
a default under the Notes permitting or resulting in acceleration thereof
notwithstanding the existence of any dispute between Company and any
Beneficiary with respect to the existence of such default.
(c) The obligations of Guarantor hereunder are independent of the
obligations of Company under the Loan Documents and the obligations of any
other guarantor of the obligations of Company under the Loan Documents, and
a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against
Guarantor whether or not any action is brought against Company or any of
such other guarantors and whether or not Company is joined in any such
action or actions.
(d) Guarantor's payment of a portion, but not all, of the Guarantied
Obligations shall in no way limit, affect, modify or abridge Guarantor's
liability for any portion of the Guarantied Obligations which has not been
paid. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if Guarantied
Party is awarded a judgment in any suit brought to enforce Guarantor's
covenant to pay a portion of the Guarantied Obligations, such judgment
shall not be deemed to release Guarantor from its covenant to pay the
portion of the Guarantied Obligations that is not the subject of such suit.
(e) Any Beneficiary, upon such terms as it deems appropriate, without
notice or demand and without affecting the validity or enforceability of
this Guaranty or giving rise to any reduction, limitation, impairment,
discharge or termination of Guarantor's liability hereunder, from time to
time may (i) renew, extend, accelerate, increase the rate of interest on,
or otherwise change the time, place, manner or terms of payment of the
Guarantied Obligations, (ii) settle, compromise, release or discharge, or
accept or refuse any offer of performance with respect to, or substitutions
for, the Guarantied Obligations or any agreement relating thereto and/or
subordinate the payment of the same to the payment of any other
obligations, (iii) request and accept other guaranties of the Guarantied
Obligations and take and hold security for the payment of this Guaranty or
the Guarantied Obligations, (iv) release, surrender, exchange, substitute,
compromise, settle, rescind, waive, alter, subordinate or modify, with or
without consideration, any security for payment of the Guarantied
Obligations, any other guaranties of the Guarantied Obligations, or any
other obligation of any Person with respect to the Guarantied Obligations,
(v) enforce and apply any security now or hereafter held by or for the
benefit of such Beneficiary in respect of this Guaranty or the Guarantied
Obligations and direct the order or manner of sale thereof, or exercise any
other right or remedy that such Beneficiary may have against any such
security, in each case as such Beneficiary in its discretion may determine
consistent with the Loan Documents and any applicable security agreement,
including foreclosure on any such security pursuant to one or more judicial
or nonjudicial sales, whether or not every aspect of any such sale is
commercially reasonable, and even though such action operates to impair or
extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or
remedy of Guarantor against Company or any security for the Guarantied
Obligations and (vi) exercise any other rights available to it under the
Loan Documents.
(f) This Guaranty and the obligations of Guarantor hereunder shall be
valid and enforceable and shall not be subject to any reduction,
limitation, impairment, discharge or termination for any reason (other than
payment in full of the Guarantied Obligations), including without
limitation the occurrence of any of the following, whether or not Guarantor
shall have had notice or knowledge of any of them: (i) any failure or
omission to assert or enforce or agreement or election not to assert or
enforce, or the stay or enjoining, by order of court, by operation of law
or otherwise, of the exercise or enforcement of, any claim or demand or any
right, power or remedy (whether arising under the Loan Documents, at law,
in equity or otherwise) with respect to the Guarantied Obligations or any
agreement relating thereto, or with respect to any other guaranty of or
security for the payment of the Guarantied Obligations; (ii) any
rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of, or any consent to
departure from, any of the terms or provisions (including without
limitation provisions relating to events of default) of the Loan Documents
or any agreement or instrument executed pursuant thereto, or of any other
guaranty or security for the Guarantied Obligations, in each case whether
or not in accordance with the terms of such Loan Document or any agreement
relating to such other guaranty or security; (iii) the Guarantied
Obligations, or any agreement relating thereto, at any time being found to
be illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect; (iv) any Beneficiary's
consent to the change, reorganization or termination of the corporate
structure or existence of Company or any of its Subsidiaries and to any
corresponding restructuring of the Guarantied Obligations; (v) any failure
to perfect or continue perfection of a security interest in any collateral
which secures any of the Guarantied Obligations; (vi) any defenses, set-
offs or counterclaims which Company may allege or assert against any
Beneficiary in respect of the Guarantied Obligations, including but not
limited to failure of consideration, breach of warranty, payment, statute
of frauds, statute of limitations, accord and satisfaction and usury; and
(vii) any other act or thing or omission, or delay to do any other act or
thing, which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of
Guarantor as an obligor in respect of the Guarantied Obligations.
2.4 WAIVERS BY GUARANTOR. Guarantor hereby waives, for the benefit of
Beneficiaries:
(a) any right to require Guarantied Party or any Beneficiary, as a
condition of payment or performance by Guarantor, to (i) proceed against
Company, any other guarantor of the Guarantied Obligations or any other
Person, (ii) proceed against or exhaust any security held from Company, any
such other guarantor or any other Person, (iii) proceed against or have
resort to any balance of any deposit account or credit on the books of any
Beneficiary in favor of Company or any other Person, or (iv) pursue any
other remedy in the power of Guarantied Party or any Beneficiary
whatsoever;
(b) any defense arising by reason of the incapacity, lack of
authority or any disability or other defense of Company including, without
limitation, any defense based on or arising out of the lack of validity or
the unenforceability of the Guarantied Obligations or any agreement or
instrument relating thereto or by reason of the cessation of the liability
of Company from any cause other than payment in full of the Guarantied
Obligations;
(c) any defense based upon any statute or rule of law which provides
that the obligation of a surety must be neither larger in amount nor in
other respects more burdensome than that of the principal;
(d) any defense based upon Guarantied Party's or any Beneficiary's
errors or omissions in the administration of the Guarantied Obligations,
except behavior which amounts to bad faith;
(e) (i) any principles or provisions of law, statutory or otherwise,
which are or might be in conflict with the terms of this Guaranty and any
legal or equitable discharge of Guarantor's obligations hereunder, (ii) the
benefit of any statute of limitations affecting Guarantor's liability
hereunder or the enforcement hereof, (iii) any rights to set-offs,
recoupments and counterclaims, and (iv) promptness, diligence and any
requirement that any Beneficiary protect, secure, perfect or insure any
security interest or lien or any property subject thereto;
(f) notices, demands, presentments, protests, notices of protest,
notices of dishonor and notices of any action or inaction, including
acceptance of this Guaranty, notices of default under the Loan Documents or
any agreement or instrument related thereto, notices of any renewal,
extension or modification of the Guarantied Obligations or any agreement
related thereto, notices of any extension of credit to Company and notices
of any of the matters referred to in subsection 2.3 and any right to
consent to any thereof; and
(g) any defenses or benefits that may be derived from or afforded by
law which limit the liability of or exonerate guarantors or sureties, or
which may conflict with the terms of this Guaranty.
2.5 GUARANTOR'S RIGHTS OF SUBROGATION, CONTRIBUTION, ETC. Guarantor
hereby waives any claim, right or remedy, direct or indirect, that Guarantor now
has or may hereafter have against Company or any of its assets in connection
with this Guaranty or the performance by Guarantor of its obligations hereunder,
in each case whether such claim, right or remedy arises in equity, under
contract, by statute, under common law or otherwise and including without
limitation (a) any right of subrogation, reimbursement or indemnification that
Guarantor now has or may hereafter have against Company, (b) any right to
enforce, or to participate in, any claim, right or remedy that any Beneficiary
now has or may hereafter have against Company, and (c) any benefit of, and any
right to participate in, any collateral or security now or hereafter held by any
Beneficiary. In addition, until the Guarantied Obligations shall have been
indefeasibly paid in full, Guarantor shall withhold exercise of any right of
contribution Guarantor may have against any other guarantor of the Guarantied
Obligations. Guarantor further agrees that, to the extent the waiver or
agreement to withhold the exercise of its rights of subrogation, reimbursement,
indemnification and contribution as set forth herein is found by a court of
competent jurisdiction to be void or voidable for any reason, any rights of
subrogation, reimbursement or indemnification Guarantor may have against Company
or against any collateral or security, and any rights of contribution Guarantor
may have against any such other guarantor, shall be junior and subordinate to
any rights any Beneficiary may have against Company, to all right, title and
interest any Beneficiary may have in any such collateral or security, and to any
right any Beneficiary may have against such other guarantor. If any amount
shall be paid to Guarantor on account of any such subrogation, reimbursement,
indemnification or contribution rights at any time when all Guarantied
Obligations shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall be held in trust
for Guarantied Party on behalf of Beneficiaries and shall forthwith be paid over
to Guarantied Party for the benefit of Beneficiaries to be credited and applied
against the Guarantied Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance
with the terms hereof.
2.6 SUBORDINATION OF OTHER OBLIGATIONS. Any indebtedness of Company now
or hereafter held by Guarantor is hereby subordinated in right of payment to the
Guarantied Obligations, and any such indebtedness of Company to Guarantor
collected or received by Guarantor after a default on the Note has occurred and
is continuing shall be held in trust for Guarantied Party on behalf of
Beneficiaries and shall forthwith be paid over to Guarantied Party for the
benefit of Beneficiaries to be credited and applied against the Guarantied
Obligations but without affecting, impairing or limiting in any manner the
liability of Guarantor under any other provision of this Guaranty.
2.7 EXPENSES. Guarantor agrees to pay, or cause to be paid, on demand,
and to save Beneficiaries harmless against liability for, any and all costs and
expenses (including fees and disbursements of counsel and allocated costs of
internal counsel) incurred or expended by Guarantied Party or any Beneficiary in
connection with the enforcement of or preservation of any rights under this
Guaranty.
2.8 CONTINUING GUARANTY; TERMINATION OF GUARANTY. This Guaranty is a
continuing guaranty and shall remain in effect until all of the Guarantied
Obligations shall have been paid in full. Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives
any right to revoke this Guaranty as to future transactions giving rise to any
Guarantied Obligations.
2.9 AUTHORITY OF GUARANTOR OR COMPANY. It is not necessary for any
Beneficiary to inquire into the capacity or powers of Guarantor or Company or
the officers, directors or any agents acting or purporting to act on behalf of
any of them.
2.10 RIGHTS CUMULATIVE. The rights, powers and remedies given to
Guarantied Party and Beneficiaries by this Guaranty are cumulative and shall be
in addition to and independent of all rights, powers and remedies given to
Guarantied Party and Beneficiaries by virtue of any statute or rule of law or in
any of the Loan Documents or any agreement between Guarantor and Guarantied
Party or any Beneficiary or Beneficiaries or between Company and Guarantied
Party or any Beneficiary or Beneficiaries. Any forbearance or failure to
exercise, and any delay by any Beneficiary in exercising, any right, power or
remedy hereunder shall not impair any such right, power or remedy or be
construed to be a waiver thereof, nor shall it preclude the further exercise of
any such right, power or remedy.
2.11 BANKRUPTCY; POST-PETITION INTEREST; REINSTATEMENT OF GUARANTY.
(a) So long as any Guarantied Obligations remain outstanding, Guarantor shall
not, without the prior written consent of Guarantied Party in accordance with
the terms of the Loan Documents, commence or join with any other Person in
commencing any bankruptcy, reorganization or insolvency proceedings of or
against Company. The obligations of Guarantor under this Guaranty shall not be
reduced, limited, impaired, discharged, deferred, suspended or terminated by any
proceeding, voluntary or involuntary, involving the bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership, reorganization, liquidation or arrangement of Company or by any
defense which Company may have by reason of the order, decree or decision of any
court or administrative body resulting from any such proceeding.
(b) Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that any interest on any
portion of the Guarantied Obligations which accrues after the commencement of
any proceeding referred to in clause (a) above (or, if interest on any portion
of the Guarantied Obligations ceases to accrue by operation of law by reason of
the commencement of said proceeding, such interest as would have accrued on such
portion of the Guarantied Obligations if said proceedings had not been
commenced) shall be included in the Guarantied Obligations because it is the
intention of Guarantor and Beneficiaries that the Guarantied Obligations which
are guarantied by Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty should be determined
without regard to any rule of law or order which may relieve Company of any
portion of such Guarantied Obligations. Guarantor will permit any trustee in
bankruptcy, receiver, debtor in possession, assignee for the benefit of
creditors or similar Person to pay Guarantied Party, or allow the claim of
Guarantied Party in respect of, any such interest accruing after the date on
which such proceeding is commenced.
(c) In the event that all or any portion of the Guarantied
Obligations are paid by Company, the obligations of Guarantor hereunder shall
continue and remain in full force and effect or be reinstated, as the case may
be, in the event that all or any part of such payment(s) are rescinded or
recovered directly or indirectly from any Beneficiary as a preference,
fraudulent transfer or otherwise, and any such payments which are so rescinded
or recovered shall constitute Guarantied Obligations for all purposes under this
Guaranty.
2.12 NOTICE OF EVENTS. As soon as Guarantor obtains knowledge thereof,
Guarantor shall give Guarantied Party written notice of any condition or event
which has resulted in (a) a material adverse change in the financial condition
of Guarantor or Company or (b) a breach of or noncompliance with any term,
condition or covenant contained herein or in the Loan Documents or any other
document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto.
2.13 SET OFF. In addition to any other rights any Beneficiary may have
under law or in equity, if any amount shall at any time be due and owing by
Guarantor to any Beneficiary under this Guaranty, such Beneficiary is authorized
at any time or from time to time, without notice (any such notice being hereby
expressly waived), to set off and to appropriate and to apply any and all
deposits (general or special, including but not limited to indebtedness
evidenced by certificates of deposit, whether matured or unmatured) and any
other indebtedness of such Beneficiary owing to Guarantor and any other property
of Guarantor held by any Beneficiary to or for the credit or the account of
Guarantor against and on account of the Guarantied Obligations and liabilities
of Guarantor to any Beneficiary under this Guaranty.
SECTION 3. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
In order to induce Guarantied Party and Beneficiaries to accept this
Guaranty and to enter into the Loan Documents, Guarantor hereby represents and
warrants to Beneficiaries that the following statements are true and correct:
3.1 TRUST EXISTENCE. Guarantor is duly formed, validly existing and in
good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has the trust power to
own its assets and to transact the business in which it is now engaged.
3.2 TRUST POWER; AUTHORIZATION; ENFORCEABLE OBLIGATIONS. Guarantor has
the trust power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform this
Guaranty and all obligations required hereunder and has taken all necessary
trust action to authorize its Guaranty hereunder on the terms and conditions
hereof and its execution, delivery and performance of this Guaranty and all
obligations required hereunder. No consent of any other Person including,
without limitation, certificateholders and creditors of Guarantor, and no
license, permit, approval or authorization of, exemption by, notice or report
to, or registration, filing or declaration with, any governmental authority is
required by Guarantor in connection with this Guaranty or the execution,
delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this Guaranty and all
obligations required hereunder. This Guaranty has been, and each instrument or
document required hereunder will be, executed and delivered by a duly authorized
trustee of Guarantor, and this Guaranty constitutes, and each instrument or
document required hereunder when executed and delivered hereunder will
constitute, the legally valid and binding obligation of Guarantor, enforceable
against Guarantor in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be
limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or
other similar laws or equitable principles relating to or limiting creditors'
rights generally.
3.3 NO LEGAL BAR TO THIS GUARANTY. The execution, delivery and
performance of this Guaranty and the documents or instruments required hereunder
will not violate any provision of any existing law or regulation binding on
Guarantor, or any order, judgment, award or decree of any court, arbitrator or
governmental authority binding on Guarantor, or the Deposit Trust Agreement of
Guarantor or any securities issued by Guarantor, or any mortgage, indenture,
lease, contract or other agreement, instrument or undertaking to which Guarantor
is a party or by which Guarantor or any of its assets may be bound, the
violation of which would have a material adverse effect on the business,
operations, assets or financial condition of Guarantor and its Subsidiaries,
taken as a whole, and will not result in, or require, the creation or imposition
of any lien on any of its property, assets or revenues pursuant to the
provisions of any such mortgage, indenture, lease, contract or other agreement,
instrument or undertaking.
SECTION 4. MISCELLANEOUS
4.1 SURVIVAL OF WARRANTIES. All agreements, representations and
warranties made herein shall survive the execution and delivery of this Guaranty
and the Loan Documents.
4.2 NOTICES. Any communications between Guarantied Party and Guarantor
and any notices or requests provided herein to be given may be given by mailing
the same, postage prepaid, or by facsimile transmission to each such party at
its address set forth in the Loan Documents or to such other addresses as each
such party may in writing hereafter indicate. Any notice, request or demand to
or upon Guarantied Party or Guarantor shall not be effective until received.
4.3 SEVERABILITY. In case any provision in or obligation under this
Guaranty shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or
obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall
not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
4.4 AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. No amendment, modification, termination or
waiver of any provision of this Guaranty, and no consent to any departure by
Guarantor therefrom, shall in any event be effective without the written
concurrence of Guarantied Party and, in the case of any such amendment or
modification, Guarantor. Any such waiver or consent shall be effective only in
the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which it was given.
4.5 HEADINGS. Section and subsection headings in this Guaranty are
included herein for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a
part of this Guaranty for any other purpose or be given any substantive effect.
4.6 APPLICABLE LAW. THIS GUARANTY AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF
GUARANTOR AND BENEFICIARIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE
CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW
OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK), WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES.
4.7 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. This Guaranty is a continuing guaranty and
shall be binding upon Guarantor and its successors and assigns. This Guaranty
shall inure to the benefit of Beneficiaries and their respective successors and
assigns. Guarantor shall not assign this Guaranty or any of the rights or
obligations of Guarantor hereunder without the prior written consent of
Guarantied Party. Any Beneficiary may, without notice or consent, assign its
interest in this Guaranty in whole or in part. The terms and provisions of this
Guaranty shall inure to the benefit of any transferee or assignee of the Note,
and in the event of such transfer or assignment the rights and privileges herein
conferred upon such Beneficiary shall automatically extend to and be vested in
such transferee or assignee, all subject to the terms and conditions hereof.
4.8 CONSENT TO JURISDICTION AND SERVICE OF PROCESS. ALL JUDICIAL
PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT AGAINST GUARANTOR ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS
GUARANTY, OR ANY OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER, MAY BE BROUGHT IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL
COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION IN THE STATE, COUNTY AND CITY OF NEW YORK. BY
EXECUTING AND DELIVERING THIS AGREEMENT, GUARANTOR, FOR ITSELF AND IN CONNECTION
WITH ITS PROPERTIES, IRREVOCABLY
(I) ACCEPTS GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY THE NONEXCLUSIVE
JURISDICTION AND VENUE OF SUCH COURTS;
(II) WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS;
(III) AGREES THAT SERVICE OF ALL PROCESS IN ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN
ANY SUCH COURT MAY BE MADE BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT
REQUESTED, TO GUARANTOR AT ITS ADDRESS PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
SUBSECTION 4.2;
(IV) AGREES THAT SERVICE AS PROVIDED IN CLAUSE (III) ABOVE IS
SUFFICIENT TO CONFER PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER GUARANTOR IN ANY SUCH
PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT, AND OTHERWISE CONSTITUTES EFFECTIVE AND
BINDING SERVICE IN EVERY RESPECT;
(V) AGREES THAT BENEFICIARIES RETAIN THE RIGHT TO SERVE PROCESS IN
ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO BRING PROCEEDINGS AGAINST GUARANTOR
IN THE COURTS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION; AND
(VI) AGREES THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBSECTION 4.8 RELATING TO
JURISDICTION AND VENUE SHALL BE BINDING AND ENFORCEABLE TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW SECTION 5-1402 OR
OTHERWISE.
4.9 WAIVER OF TRIAL BY JURY. GUARANTOR AND, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF THE
BENEFITS HEREOF, EACH BENEFICIARY EACH HEREBY AGREES TO WAIVE ITS RESPECTIVE
RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT
OF THIS GUARANTY. The scope of this waiver is intended to be all-encompassing
of any and all disputes that may be filed in any court and that relate to the
subject matter of this transaction, including without limitation contract
claims, tort claims, breach of duty claims and all other common law and
statutory claims. Guarantor and, by its acceptance of the benefits hereof, each
Beneficiary each (i) acknowledges that this waiver is a material inducement for
Guarantor and Beneficiaries to enter into a business relationship, that
Guarantor and Beneficiaries have already relied on this waiver in entering into
this Guaranty or accepting the benefits thereof, as the case may be, and that
each will continue to rely on this waiver in their related future dealings and
(ii) further warrants and represents that each has reviewed this waiver with its
legal counsel, and that each knowingly and voluntarily waives its jury trial
rights following consultation with legal counsel. THIS WAIVER IS IRREVOCABLE,
MEANING THAT IT MAY NOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING (OTHER THAN BY A
MUTUAL WRITTEN WAIVER SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO THIS SUBSECTION 4.9 AND EXECUTED
BY GUARANTIED PARTY AND GUARANTOR), AND THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY
SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS GUARANTY.
In the event of litigation, this Guaranty may be filed as a written consent to a
trial by the court.
4.10 NO OTHER WRITING. This writing is intended by Guarantor and
Beneficiaries as the final expression of this Guaranty and is also intended as a
complete and exclusive statement of the terms of their agreement with respect to
the matters covered hereby. No course of dealing, course of performance or
trade usage, and no parol evidence of any nature, shall be used to supplement or
modify any terms of this Guaranty. There are no conditions to the full
effectiveness of this Guaranty.
4.11 FURTHER ASSURANCES. At any time or from time to time, upon the
request of Guarantied Party, Guarantor shall execute and deliver such further
documents and do such other acts and things as Guarantied Party may reasonably
request in order to effect fully the purposes of this Guaranty.
4.12 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Guarantor hereby acknowledges and agrees that
Guarantied Party will assign and grant a security interest in all of Guarantied
Party's rights in, to and under this Guaranty to First Security Bank, National
Association, as Collateral Agent (the "COLLATERAL AGENT") for the benefit of the
holders (the "NOTEHOLDERS") of the 10.80% Senior Notes due April 30, 2009 (the
"SENIOR NOTES") issued by Guarantied Party pursuant to the Note Purchase
Agreements, each dated May 14, 1997, between Guarantied Party and the purchasers
referred to therein (the "NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS"), as security for Guarantied
Party's obligations under the Senior Notes and the Note Purchase Agreements, and
thereafter the Collateral Agent shall have all of the rights granted to
Guarantied Party hereunder. So long as the Collateral Agent has any security
interest in this Guaranty, the term "GUARANTIED PARTY" shall include the
Collateral Agent for all purposes under this Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Guarantor has caused this Guaranty to be duly
executed and delivered by its trustee thereunto duly authorized as of the date
first written above.
AMALGAMATED COLLATERAL TRUST
By: Wilmington Trust Company, not in its
individual capacity but solely as Trustee
By: _________________________________
Name: _______________________________
Title:________________________________
AMENDED AND RESTATED PLEDGE AGREEMENT{PRIVATE }
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED PLEDGE AGREEMENT is entered into as of
May 14, 1997, between SNAKE RIVER SUGAR COMPANY, an Oregon cooperative (the
"COMPANY"), as secured party, and ASC HOLDINGS, INC., a Utah corporation
("AMALGAMATED"; formerly known as The Amalgamated Sugar Company), as debtor.
WHEREAS, pursuant to a Pledge Agreement and a Limited Recourse Pledge
Agreement, each dated January 3, 1997 and each between the Company and
Amalgamated (collectively, the "EXISTING PLEDGE AGREEMENTS"), Amalgamated
granted to the Company a security interest in the limited liability company
interest (the "AGM INTEREST") held by Amalgamated in The Amalgamated Sugar
Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the "LLC");
WHEREAS, Amalgamated granted such security interest in order to secure
the obligations of Valhi, Inc. ("VALHI"), the indirect holder of 100% of
Amalgamated's outstanding stock under (i) that certain Subordinated Promissory
Note dated January 3, 1997, in aggregate principal amount of $37,500,000, issued
by Valhi to the Company (the "SUBORDINATED NOTE") and (ii) that certain Limited
Recourse Promissory Note dated January 3, 1997, in aggregate principal amount of
$212,500,000, issued by Valhi to the Company (the "LIMITED RECOURSE NOTE," and
together with the Subordinated Note, the "SNAKE RIVER LOAN NOTES");
WHEREAS, pursuant to a Deposit Trust Agreement (the "DEPOSIT TRUST
AGREEMENT"), dated as of the date hereof, between Amalgamated and Wilmington
Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as Resident Trustee, Amalgamated
transferred its interest in the AGM Interest to the Amalgamated Collateral Trust
(the "TRUST"), in exchange for a 100% Certificate of Beneficial Interest issued
by the Trust (the "CERTIFICATE"); and
WHEREAS, in connection with the transfer of the AGM Interest by
Amalgamated to the Trust in exchange for the issuance of the Certificate by the
Trust to Amalgamated, Amalgamated and the Company desire to amend and restate
the Existing Pledge Agreements in their entirety and combine them into one
agreement in order to (i) reflect the change of the name of Amalgamated from The
Amalgamated Sugar Company to ASC Holdings, Inc., (ii) acknowledge the transfer
of the Collateral (as defined in the Existing Pledge Agreements) to the Trust,
(iii) acknowledge that the security interest in the AGM Interest granted by the
Trust pursuant to the Pledge Agreement (SPT) dated as of the date of this
Agreement has replaced and superseded the security interest in the AGM Interest
granted by the Existing Pledge Agreements, and (iv) grant to the Company a
security interest in Amalgamated's interest in the Certificate.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual
agreements herein contained, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
Pledge. For value received, Amalgamated grants to the Company a
security interest (the "SECURITY INTEREST") in (i) the Certificate and the
beneficial interest of Amalgamated in the Trust, (ii) following a Snake Loan
Default (as defined below), all dividends, distributions and cash from time to
time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange
for any or all of the Certificate and/or the beneficial interest in the Trust
and (iii) any other interest of Amalgamated in or relating to the AGM Interest
(and following a Snake Loan Default, all proceeds thereof) (the "COLLATERAL").
The Security Interest is created to secure all obligations and indebtedness
arising pursuant to the Snake River Loan Notes (the "OBLIGATIONS"). Except as
provided below, the Collateral includes all rights to receive future
distributions, increases, substitutions, accessions, voting rights or other
property or benefits which Amalgamated receives or is entitled to receive or
exercise on account of the Collateral. The Collateral shall not include and the
Security Interest shall terminate and be automatically released with respect to
(i) rights to Retained Amounts (as defined in the Company Agreement of LLC)
accrued prior to a Snake Loan Default and (ii) any cash distributions on account
of the Collateral paid or distributed to Amalgamated pursuant to the Deposit
Trust Agreement prior to a Snake Loan Default. The Company shall not encumber
or dispose, or attempt to encumber or dispose, of the Collateral except in
accordance with the provisions of paragraph 8 of this Agreement. "SNAKE LOAN
DEFAULT" means any default under the Snake River Loan Notes permitting or
resulting in acceleration of the Snake River Loan Notes.
Voting and Other Rights. During the term of this Agreement, so
long as the maturity dates of the Snake River Loan Notes have not been
accelerated as provided therein, Amalgamated shall have the right to vote the
Collateral on all questions. Following acceleration of the maturity date of the
Subordinated Note or the Limited Recourse Note pursuant to Section 7 or Section
6 thereof, respectively, Amalgamated's right to vote the Collateral shall
terminate (provided that in the case of a partial acceleration of either Snake
River Loan Note, Amalgamated's right to vote the Collateral shall terminate only
with respect to a portion of the Collateral equal to the portion of the Snake
River Loan Note(s) so accelerated).
Representations. Amalgamated warrants and represents (i) that
there are no restrictions on the transfer of any of the Collateral, other than
as set forth in the Deposit Trust Agreement, and (ii) this Agreement constitutes
the valid and legally binding obligation of Amalgamated, enforceable in
accordance with its terms and conditions, as enforceability may be limited by or
subject to any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar
laws affecting creditor rights generally, and subject to general principles of
equity and public policy considerations. Amalgamated shall, at the request of
the Collateral Agent (as defined below), promptly deliver all reasonable further
instruments and documents, and take all reasonable further actions, in order to
perfect the Security Interest granted herein and to otherwise give effect to the
provisions of this Agreement. Amalgamated shall not grant any security interest
in the Collateral, other than pursuant to (i) liens for taxes, assessments or
other governmental charges not yet due and payable, (ii) statutory liens of
landlords, carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, materialmen and other similar
liens imposed by law which are incurred in the ordinary course of business for
sums not more than thirty (30) days delinquent and (iii) liens incurred or
deposits made in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers'
compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security,
statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, bids, leases, government
contracts, trade contracts, performance and return-of-money bonds and other
similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of borrowed
money).
Adjustments. In the event that, during the term of this
Agreement, any reclassification, readjustment or other change is declared or
made in the capital structure of the issuer of the Collateral, all new,
substituted and additional interests or securities issued in respect of the
Collateral by reason of any such change shall be delivered to the Collateral
Agent and held by it under the terms of this Agreement in the same manner as the
Collateral originally pledged hereunder.
Payment of the Snake River Loan Notes. Upon payment of all
principal of and other amounts due on the Snake River Loan Notes, the Security
Interest shall be canceled and the Company and the Collateral Agent shall convey
to Amalgamated all certificates, documents and other instruments representing
the Collateral.
Rights of the Collateral Agent. Amalgamated hereby appoints the
Collateral Agent as Amalgamated's attorney-in-fact to do any act which
Amalgamated is obligated by this Agreement to do and to do all things deemed
necessary by the Collateral Agent (or the Company, after payment in full in cash
of the Senior Notes (as defined below)) to perfect the Security Interest and
collect, preserve and enforce the Collateral, all at Amalgamated's cost and
without any obligation on the Collateral Agent or the Company so to act.
Default. If, pursuant to the terms and provisions of the
Subordinated Note or the Limited Recourse Note, the maturity date thereof has
been accelerated pursuant to Section 7 or Section 6 thereof, respectively, the
Collateral Agent may proceed to enforce payment of such Snake River Loan Note or
any part thereof and to exercise any and all rights and remedies in connection
with the Collateral provided by the Uniform Commercial Code in force in the
State of New York (the "CODE"), as well as other rights and remedies in
connection with the Collateral possessed by the Collateral Agent (or the
Company, after payment in full in cash of the Senior Notes (as defined below))
under this Agreement. For purposes of the notice requirements of the Code, the
Company and Amalgamated agree that notice given at least five (5) business days
prior to the taking of any action with respect to which notice is required is
reasonable. Except as otherwise provided, all rights and remedies of the
Company and Collateral Agent hereunder are cumulative and may be exercised
singly or concurrently, and the exercise of any right or remedy shall not be a
waiver of any other. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the
contrary, Amalgamated shall not be liable to the Company or the Collateral Agent
(as defined below) for any deficiency or other amount constituting the
Obligations which the Company or the Collateral Agent does not recover or obtain
from the Collateral. If the amount received by the Company or the Collateral
Agent upon sale of the Collateral is less than the amount of the Obligations,
neither the Company nor the Collateral Agent shall have further recourse to any
assets or property of Amalgamated.
Acknowledgment. Amalgamated hereby acknowledges and agrees that
the Company will assign and grant a security interest in all of the Company's
rights in, to and under this Agreement and the Collateral to First Security
Bank, National Association, as Collateral Agent (the "COLLATERAL AGENT") for the
benefit of the holders of the 10.80% Senior Notes due April 30, 2009 (the
"SENIOR NOTES") issued by the Company pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreements,
each dated May 14, 1997, between the Company and the purchasers referred to
therein (the "NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS"), as security for the Company's
obligations under the Senior Notes and the Note Purchase Agreements, and
thereafter the Collateral Agent shall have all of the rights granted to the
Company hereunder. So long as the Collateral Agent has any security interest in
this Agreement or the Collateral, the term "COMPANY" shall include the
Collateral Agent for all purposes under this Agreement. The Certificate and all
other certificates and other instruments which may constitute the Collateral
shall be endorsed in blank for transfer, or be accompanied by proper instruments
of assignment and transfer properly endorsed in blank, and delivered to the
Collateral Agent. After the payment in full in cash of the Senior Notes, all
references herein to the Collateral Agent shall be deemed references to the
Company.
Miscellaneous.
Parties Bound. This Agreement shall be binding upon and
inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective heirs,
executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors, receivers,
trustees and assigns where permitted by this Agreement.
New York Law to Apply. This Agreement shall be construed in
accordance with the Code and other applicable laws of the State of New York.
Modification. This Agreement shall not be amended in any
way except by a written agreement signed by the parties hereto.
Severability. The unenforceability of any provision of this
Agreement shall not affect the enforceability or validity of any other provision
hereof.
Notice. Any notice required to be given under this
Agreement or under the Code shall be personally delivered or deposited with the
United States Postal Service, postage prepaid, certified with return receipt
requested and addressed as follows:
If to the Company:
Snake River Sugar Company
2427 Lincoln Avenue
Post Office Box 1520
Ogden, Utah 84402
If to Amalgamated:
ASC Holdings, Inc.
Three Lincoln Centre
Suite 1700
5430 LBJ Freeway
Dallas, Texas 75240
Any party hereto may change the address to which notices to such party are
required to be sent by giving notice of such change in the manner provided in
this Section 9E. All notices will be deemed to have been received on the date
of personal delivery or on the third business day after mailing in accordance
with this Section 9E, except that any notice of a change of address will be
effective only upon actual receipt.
Waiver of Amalgamated. Amalgamated hereby waives
presentment, demand, notice of dishonor, protest, notice of protest and all
other notices with respect to collection of the Collateral and the Snake River
Loan Notes.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as
of the date first above written.
ASC HOLDINGS, INC.
By:______________________________
Name:
Title:
SNAKE RIVER SUGAR COMPANY
By:______________________________
Name:
Title:
COLLATERAL DEPOSIT AGREEMENT{PRIVATE }
This COLLATERAL DEPOSIT AGREEMENT (this "AGREEMENT") is dated as of
May 14, 1997 and entered into by and among SNAKE RIVER SUGAR COMPANY, an Oregon
cooperative ("COMPANY"), VALHI, INC., a Delaware corporation ("VALHI"), and
FIRST SECURITY BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Collateral Agent for the holders
of the Notes referred to below ("COLLATERAL AGENT").
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS
Pursuant to those certain Note Purchase Agreements (the "NOTE
PURCHASE AGREEMENTS," the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein
being used herein as therein defined), each dated May 14, 1997, between Company
and the purchasers referred to therein (the "PURCHASERS"), Company has issued to
the Purchasers $100,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 10.80% Senior
Notes due April 30, 2009 (said Senior Notes, as they may hereafter be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, being the "NOTES").
Pursuant to a Loan and Security Agreement dated as of January 3,
1997, as amended and restated by the Subordinated Loan Agreement dated as of May
14, 1997, Company has issued to Valhi, Inc., a Delaware Corporation ("VALHI") a
subordinated note in the principal amount of $80,000,000 (as such subordinated
note may be amended, renewed or otherwise modified from time to time the
"SUBORDINATED NOTE").
As Company may from time to time wish to make, and Valhi may wish
to receive, payments of the principal and interest on the Subordinated Note and
the holders of the Notes require that such payments not interfere with Company's
obligations under the Note Purchase Agreements and the Notes, Collateral Agent,
Valhi and Company desire to enter into this Agreement, pursuant to which Company
or Valhi shall, if it is desired that certain payments be made on the
Subordinated Note, deposit certain funds in collateral accounts established
herein to be maintained by or for Collateral Agent.
It is a condition precedent to the initial purchase of Notes by
Purchasers under the Note Purchase Agreements that Company and Valhi shall have
undertaken the obligations contemplated by this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and in order to
induce the Purchasers to purchase Notes under the Note Purchase Agreements and
for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are
hereby acknowledged, each of Company and Valhi hereby agrees with Collateral
Agent as follows:
DEFINITIONS. The following terms used in this Agreement shall have
the following meanings:
"CASH EQUIVALENTS" means, as at any date of determination,
(i) marketable securities issued or directly and unconditionally guaranteed by
the United States Government or issued by any agency thereof and backed by the
full faith and credit of the United States, in each case maturing within thirty
(30) days from such date; (ii) marketable direct obligations issued by any state
of the United States of America or any political subdivision of any such state
or any public instrumentality thereof maturing within thirty (30) days from such
date and, at the time of acquisition thereof, having the highest rating
obtainable from either Standard & Poor's Corporation or Moody's Investors
Service, Inc.; (iii) commercial paper maturing no more than thirty (30) days
from such date and, at the time of acquisition thereof, having the highest
rating obtainable from either Standard & Poor's Corporation or Moody's Investors
Service, Inc.; and (iv) certificates of deposit or bankers' acceptances maturing
within thirty (30) days from such date issued by any commercial bank organized
under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the
District of Columbia having unimpaired capital and surplus of not less than
$500,000,000.
"COMPANY AGREEMENT" means the Company Agreement of LLC dated as of
January 3, 1997, as amended to the date of the Closing.
"FULLY FUNDED", with respect to the Payment Deposit Accounts, means
such accounts contain (i) cash and/or Cash Equivalents with a fair market value
of at least $5,000,000 plus (ii) marketable securities (in the case of the
Valhi/Snake Account only), cash and/or Cash Equivalents with a fair market value
of $5,000,000 (marketable securities in the Valhi/Snake Account being marked to
market by the Collateral Agent on a quarterly basis on the last Business Day of
each March, June, September and December).
"INVESTMENTS" means those investments, if any, made by Collateral
Agent pursuant to Section 5.
"PAYMENT DEPOSIT" means (i) the Payment Deposit Accounts and all
amounts from time to time on deposit therein, (ii) all Investments, including
all certificates and instruments from time to time representing or evidencing
such Investments and any account or accounts in which such Investments may be
held by, or in the name of, Collateral Agent for or on behalf of Company or
Valhi, as the case may be, (iii) all notes, certificates of deposit, checks and
other instruments and all deposits and securities from time to time hereafter
transferred to or otherwise possessed by, or held in the name of, Collateral
Agent for or on behalf of Company or Valhi in substitution for or in addition to
any or all of the Payment Deposit, (iv) all interest, dividends, 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 Payment
Deposit, and (v) to the extent not covered by clauses (i) through (iv) above,
all proceeds of any or all of the foregoing Payment Deposit.
"PAYMENT DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS" means the Snake River Payment Deposit
Account and Valhi/Snake Payment Deposit Account established and maintained with
Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 2.
"SECURED OBLIGATIONS" means all obligations and liabilities of every
nature of Company now or hereafter existing under or arising out of or in
connection with the Note Purchase Agreements, the Notes and the Collateral
Documents and all extensions or renewals thereof, whether for principal,
interest (including without limitation interest that, but for the filing of a
petition in bankruptcy with respect to Company, would accrue on such
obligations), fees, expenses, indemnities or otherwise, whether voluntary or
involuntary, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliqui-
dated, whether or not jointly owed with others, and whether or not from time to
time decreased or extinguished and later increased, created or incurred, and all
or any portion of such obligations or liabilities that are paid, to the extent
all or any part of such payment is avoided or recovered directly or indirectly
from Collateral Agent or any holder of a Note as a preference, fraudulent
transfer or otherwise, and all obligations of every nature of Company now or
hereafter existing under this Agreement.
"SNAKE RIVER ACCOUNT" has the meaning given in Section 2.
"VALHI/SNAKE ACCOUNT" has the meaning given in Section 2.
PAYMENT DEPOSIT ACCOUNT; FULL FUNDING OF ACCOUNT.
The Collateral Agent will establish and maintain at its office at
79 South Main Street, Corporate Trust Department, Salt Lake City, Utah, as
blocked accounts in the name of the Collateral Agent and under the sole dominion
and control of Collateral Agent, a deposit account designated as the "Snake
River Payment Deposit Account" (the "SNAKE RIVER ACCOUNT") and a deposit account
designated as the Valhi/Snake Payment Deposit Account (the "VALHI/SNAKE
ACCOUNT").
From time to time as contemplated by Section 10.5 of the Note
Purchase Agreements, Company may deposit with the Collateral Agent cash and Cash
Equivalents to be placed in the Snake River Account and Valhi may deposit with
the Collateral Agent to be placed in the Valhi/Snake Account marketable
securities, cash and Cash Equivalents so that the Payment Deposit Accounts will
at all times remain Fully Funded. The Collateral Agent shall hold such cash and
Cash Equivalents and, as to the Valhi/Snake Account, marketable securities in
the Payment Deposit Accounts pursuant to the terms hereof. If, as of the last
Business Day of each March, June, September and December, Collateral Agent
determines that the Payment Deposit Accounts are not Fully Funded, Collateral
Agent will promptly notify Company and Valhi of the amount required to cause the
Payment Deposit Account to be Fully Funded.
Any interest and dividends received in respect of marketable
securities and Investments of any amounts held in the Payment Deposit Accounts
shall be delivered by Collateral Agent to Company or Valhi (as appropriate) on
the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, provided that
such interest and dividends shall be retained in the Payment Deposit Accounts to
the extent necessary to keep the Payment Deposit Accounts Fully Funded; provided
that Collateral Agent shall not deliver to Company any such interest received in
respect of Investments if an Event of Default or Default has occurred and is
then continuing.
Notwithstanding Section 2(b) above, if no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, then in the event Company shall
have repaid (without the exercise by the Required Holders or the Collateral
Agent of remedies under the Note Purchase Agreements or the Collateral
Documents) an amount in excess of $50,000,000 in principal amount of the Notes,
the Collateral Agent will, at the request of Company or Valhi, as applicable,
terminate its security interest in the Payment Deposit and the Payment Deposit
Accounts and Company (as to the Snake River Account) or Valhi (as to the
Valhi/Snake Accounts) shall be entitled to the return of the Payment Deposit,
all in accordance with Section 15 of this Agreement, except to the extent of any
obligations or expenses that have arisen on or prior to the date of repayment,
in respect of Section 14 of this Agreement. If a Default or Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing at the time the Company or Valhi, as applicable,
would be entitled to the return of the Payment Deposit under this Section 2(d)
but for the existence of such Default or Event of Default, and the Company or
Valhi, as applicable, requests the return of the Payment Deposit as provided
above, then the Collateral Agent, at the direction of the Required Holders,
shall within a reasonable period either (i) liquidate the Payment Deposit and
apply the proceeds thereof as a prepayment of the Notes pursuant to Section 8.2
of the Note Purchase Agreements, together with accrued interest and Make-Whole
Amount, if any, on the amount so prepaid (and the Company and Valhi hereby
authorize such liquidation of the Payment Deposit and prepayment of the Notes),
provided that the Collateral Agent shall provide Valhi written notice prior to
any such liquidation of the Payment Deposit and Valhi shall have five days after
receipt of such notice to substitute cash for marketable securities included in
the Payment Deposit or (ii) return the Payment Deposit to the Company (as to the
Snake River Account) or to Valhi (as to the Valhi/Snake Account).
PLEDGE OF SECURITY FOR SECURED OBLIGATIONS. Each of Company and
Valhi hereby pledges and assigns to Collateral Agent, and hereby grants to
Collateral Agent a security interest in, all of Company's or Valhi's (as the
case may be) right, title and interest in and to the Payment Deposit as
collateral security for the prompt payment or performance in full when due,
whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration,
demand or otherwise (including the payment of amounts that would become due but
for the operation of the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy
Code, 11 U.S.C. Section362(a)), of all Secured Obligations.
DELIVERY OF PAYMENT DEPOSIT. (a) All certificates or instruments,
if any, representing or evidencing Payment Deposit shall be delivered to and
held by or on behalf of Collateral Agent pursuant hereto and shall be in
suitable form for transfer by delivery or, as applicable, shall be accompanied
by Company's or Valhi's endorsement, where necessary, or duly executed
instruments of transfer or assignment in blank, all in form and substance
satisfactory to Collateral Agent. In the event any portion of Payment Deposit
is not evidenced by a certificate, a notation reflecting title in the name of
Collateral Agent or the security interest of Collateral Agent shall be made in
the records of the issuer of such Payment Deposit or in such other appropriate
records as Collateral Agent may require, all in form and substance satisfactory
to Collateral Agent. Collateral Agent shall have the right, at any time in its
discretion and without notice to Company or Valhi, to transfer to or to register
in the name of Collateral Agent or any of its nominees any or all of the Payment
Deposit. In addition, Collateral Agent shall have the right at any time to
exchange certificates or instruments representing or evidencing Payment Deposit
for certificates or instruments of smaller or larger denominations.
(b) So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing:
(i) Valhi shall be entitled to exercise any and all voting and
other consensual rights pertaining to the marketable securities in the
Valhi/Snake Account or any part thereof for any purpose not
inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement;
(ii) Collateral Agent shall promptly execute and deliver (or
cause to be executed and delivered) to Valhi all such proxies and
other instruments as Valhi may from time to time reasonably request
for the purpose of enabling Valhi to exercise the voting and other
consensual rights which it is entitled to exercise pursuant to
paragraph (i) above.
(c) Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of
Default and upon written notice from Collateral Agent to Valhi, all rights of
Valhi to exercise the voting and other consensual rights which it would
otherwise be entitled to exercise pursuant to Section 4(b)(i) shall cease, and
all such rights shall thereupon become vested in Collateral Agent who shall
thereupon have the sole right to exercise such voting and other consensual
rights.
INVESTMENT OF AMOUNTS IN THE PAYMENT DEPOSIT ACCOUNT. Cash held by
Collateral Agent in the Payment Deposit Accounts shall not be invested or
reinvested except as provided in this Section 5.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 13, any cash on deposit
in the Payment Deposit Accounts shall, so long as no Event of Default or Default
has occurred and is continuing, be invested by Collateral Agent in its own name
in Cash Equivalents from time to time designated by Company or Valhi, as
applicable, in written notices to Collateral Agent.
Collateral Agent is hereby authorized to sell, and shall sell,
all or any designated part of the securities constituting part of the Payment
Deposit (i) so long as no Event of Default or Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, upon receipt of appropriate written instructions from Company or
Valhi (as applicable) or (ii) in any event if such sale is necessary to permit
Collateral Agent to perform its duties hereunder. Collateral Agent shall have
no responsibility for any loss resulting from a fluctuation in interest rates or
otherwise. Subject to the provisions of Section 2(c), any interest received in
respect of securities constituting part of the Payment Deposit and the net
proceeds of the sale or payment of any such securities shall be held in the
Payment Deposit Accounts by Collateral Agent pending investment thereof pursuant
to Section 5(a).
Valhi may at any time instruct the Collateral Agent to sell the
marketable securities held in the Valhi/Snake Account, the proceeds of which
sale shall be retained in the Valhi/Snake Account and may be invested as
provided in this Section 5.
The Payment Deposit Account shall be subject to such applicable
laws, and such applicable regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System and of any other appropriate banking or governmental authority,
as may now or hereafter be in effect.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. (a) Company represents and warrants
as follows:
(i) Ownership of Payment Deposit. Company is (or at the time of
transfer to Collateral Agent thereof will be) the legal and beneficial owner of
the Payment Deposit from time to time transferred by Company to Collateral
Agent, free and clear of any Lien except for the security interest created by
this Agreement.
(ii) Governmental Authorizations. No authorization, approval or other
action by, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or
regulatory body is required for either (x) the grant by Company of the security
interest granted hereby or for the execution, delivery or performance of this
Agreement by Company or (y) the perfection of or the exercise by Collateral
Agent of its rights and remedies hereunder (except as may have been taken by or
at the direction of Company) other than the filing of appropriate UCC-1
financing statements.
(iii) Perfection. Assuming continued possession of the Payment
Deposit by the Collateral Agent, the pledge and assignment of the Payment
Deposit pursuant to this Agreement creates a valid and perfected first priority
security interest in the Payment Deposit, securing the payment of the Secured
Obligations.
(iv) Other Information. All information heretofore, herein or
hereafter supplied to Collateral Agent by or on behalf of Company with respect
to the Payment Deposit is accurate and complete in all material respects.
(b) Valhi represents and warrants as follows:
(i) Ownership of Payment Deposit. Valhi is (or at the time of
transfer to Collateral Agent thereof will be) the legal and beneficial owner of
the Payment Deposit from time to time transferred by Valhi to Collateral Agent,
free and clear of any Lien except for the security interest created by this
Agreement.
(ii) Governmental Authorizations. No authorization, approval or other
action by, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or
regulatory body is required for either (x) the grant by Valhi of the security
interest granted hereby or for the execution, delivery or performance of this
Agreement by Valhi or (y) the perfection of or the exercise by Collateral Agent
of its rights and remedies hereunder (except as may have been taken by or at the
direction of Valhi) other than the filing of appropriate UCC-1 financing
statements.
(iii) Perfection. Assuming continued possession of the Payment
Deposit by the Collateral Agent, the pledge and assignment of the Payment
Deposit pursuant to this Agreement creates a valid and perfected first priority
security interest in the Payment Deposit, securing the payment of the Secured
Obligations.
(iv) Other Information. All information heretofore, herein or
hereafter supplied to Collateral Agent by or on behalf of Valhi with respect to
the Payment Deposit is accurate and complete in all material respects.
FURTHER ASSURANCES. Each of Company and Valhi agrees that from time
to time, at the expense of Company or Valhi, as the case may be, it will
promptly execute and deliver all further instruments and documents, and take all
further action, that may be necessary or desirable, or that Collateral Agent may
request, in order to perfect and protect any security interest granted or
purported to be granted hereby or to enable Collateral Agent to exercise and
enforce its rights and remedies hereunder with respect to any Payment Deposit.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Company and Valhi will:
(i) execute and file such financing or continuation statements, or amendments
thereto, and such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or
desirable, or as Collateral Agent may request, in order to perfect and preserve
the security interests granted or purported to be granted hereby and (ii) at
Collateral Agent's request, appear in and defend any action or proceeding that
may affect Company's or Valhi's title to or Collateral Agent's security interest
in all or any part of the Payment Deposit.
TRANSFERS AND OTHER LIENS. Each of Company and Valhi agrees that it
will not (a) sell, assign (by operation of law or otherwise) or otherwise
dispose of any part of the Payment Deposit or (b) create or suffer to exist any
Lien upon or with respect to any of the Payment Deposit, except for the security
interest under this Agreement.
COLLATERAL AGENT APPOINTED ATTORNEY-IN-FACT. Each of Company and
Valhi hereby irrevocably appoints Collateral Agent as Company's and Valhi's
attorney-in-fact, with full authority in the place and stead of Company or
Valhi, as the case may be, and in the name of Company or Valhi, as the case may
be, Collateral Agent or otherwise, from time to time in Collateral Agent's
discretion to take any action and to execute any instrument that Collateral
Agent may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes of this
Agreement, including without limitation (a) to file one or more financing or
continuation statements, or amendments thereto, relative to all or any part of
the Payment Deposit without the signature of Company or Valhi and (b) to
receive, endorse and collect any instruments made payable to Company or Valhi
representing any dividend, principal or interest payment or other distribution
in respect of the Payment Deposit or any part thereof and to give full discharge
for the same.
COLLATERAL AGENT MAY PERFORM. If Company or Valhi fails to perform
any agreement contained herein, Collateral Agent may itself perform, or cause
performance of, such agreement, and the expenses of Collateral Agent incurred in
connection therewith shall be payable by Company or Valhi, as applicable, under
Section 14.
STANDARD OF CARE. The powers conferred on Collateral Agent
hereunder are solely to protect its interest in the Payment Deposit and shall
not impose any duty upon it to exercise any such powers. Except for the
exercise of reasonable care in the custody of any Payment Deposit in its
possession and the accounting for moneys actually received by it hereunder,
Collateral Agent shall have no duty as to any Payment Deposit, it being
understood that Collateral Agent shall have no responsibility for
(a) ascertaining or taking action with respect to calls, conversions, exchanges,
maturities, tenders or other matters relating to any Payment Deposit, whether or
not Collateral Agent has or is deemed to have knowledge of such matters,
(b) taking any necessary steps (other than steps taken in accordance with the
standard of care set forth above to maintain possession of the Payment Deposit)
to preserve rights against any parties with respect to any Payment Deposit,
(c) taking any necessary steps to collect or realize upon the Secured
Obligations or any guarantee therefor, or any part thereof, or any of the
Payment Deposit, (d) initiating any action to protect the Payment Deposit
against the possibility of a decline in market value, (e) any loss resulting
from Investments made pursuant to Section 5, except for a loss resulting from
Collateral Agent's gross negligence or willful misconduct in complying with
Section 5, or (f) determining (i) the correctness of any statement or
calculation made by Company or Valhi in any written instructions or (ii) whether
any deposit in the Payment Deposit Account is proper. Collateral Agent shall be
deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody and preservation of
Payment Deposit in its possession if such Payment Deposit is accorded treatment
substantially equal to that which Collateral Agent accords its own property
consisting of negotiable securities.
REMEDIES. If any Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, Collateral Agent may exercise in respect of the Payment Deposit, in
addition to all other rights and remedies provided for herein or otherwise
available to it, all the rights and remedies of a secured party on default under
the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction (the
"CODE") (whether or not the Code applies to the affected Payment Deposit), and
Collateral Agent may also in its sole discretion, without notice except as
specified below, sell the Payment Deposit or any part thereof in one or more
parcels at public or private sale, at any exchange or broker's board or at any
of Collateral Agent's offices or elsewhere, for cash, on credit or for future
delivery, at such time or times and at such price or prices and upon such other
terms as Collateral Agent may deem commercially reasonable, irrespective of the
impact of any such sales on the market price of the Payment Deposit. Each
purchaser at any such sale shall hold the property sold absolutely free from any
claim or right on the part of Company or Valhi, and each of Company and Valhi
hereby waives (to the extent permitted by applicable law) all rights of
redemption, stay and/or appraisal which it now has or may at any time in the
future have under any rule of law or statute now existing or hereafter enacted.
Each of Company and Valhi agrees that, to the extent notice of sale shall be
required by law, at least ten days' notice to Company or Valhi, as applicable 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. Collateral Agent shall
not be obligated to make any sale of the Payment Deposit regardless of notice of
sale having been given. Collateral 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.
APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS. Subject to the provisions of Section 2(b),
if any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, all cash held by
Collateral Agent as Payment Deposit and all proceeds received by Collateral
Agent in respect of any sale of, collection from, or other realization upon all
or any part of the Payment Deposit may, in the discretion of Collateral Agent,
be held by Collateral Agent as Payment Deposit for, and/or then, or at any other
time thereafter, applied in full or in part by Collateral Agent against, the
Secured Obligations in the following order of priority:
FIRST: To the payment of all costs and expenses of such sale,
collection or other realization, including reasonable compensation to
Collateral Agent and its agents and counsel, and all other expenses,
liabilities and advances made or incurred by Collateral Agent in connection
therewith, and all amounts for which Collateral Agent is entitled to
indemnification hereunder and all advances made by Collateral Agent
hereunder for the account of Company or Valhi, and to the payment of all
costs and expenses paid or incurred by Collateral Agent in connection with
the exercise of any right or remedy hereunder, all in accordance with
Section 14;
SECOND: To the payment of all other Secured Obligations in such order
as Collateral Agent shall elect; and
THIRD: To the payment to or upon the order of Company or Valhi, as
applicable, or to whosoever may be lawfully entitled to receive the same or
as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct, of any surplus then
remaining from such proceeds.
INDEMNITY AND EXPENSES.
Company agrees to indemnify Collateral Agent from and against any
and all claims, losses and liabilities in any way relating to, growing out of or
resulting from this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby
(including, without limitation, enforcement of this Agreement), except to the
extent such claims, losses or liabilities result solely from Collateral Agent's
gross negligence or willful misconduct as finally determined by a court of
competent jurisdiction.
Company will pay to Collateral Agent upon demand the amount of
any and all costs and expenses, including the reasonable fees and expenses of
its counsel and of any experts and agents, that Collateral 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 Payment Deposit, (iii) the exercise or enforcement
of any of the rights of Collateral Agent hereunder, or (iv) the failure by
Company or Valhi to perform or observe any of the provisions hereof.
CONTINUING SECURITY INTEREST; TRANSFER OF NOTES. This Agreement
shall create a continuing security interest in the Payment Deposit and shall
(a) remain in full force and effect until the payment in full of the Secured
Obligations or the time at which the condition set forth in Section 2(d) shall
have been satisfied, (b) be binding upon Company and Valhi, its successors and
assigns, and (c) inure, together with the rights and remedies of Collateral
Agent hereunder, to the benefit of Collateral Agent and its successors,
transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing
clause (c), but subject to the provisions of Section 13.2 of the Note Purchase
Agreements, any holder of a Note may assign or otherwise transfer any Notes held
by it to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon become vested
with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to Collateral Agent herein or
otherwise. Upon the payment in full of all Secured Obligations the security
interest granted hereby shall terminate and all rights to the Payment Deposit
shall revert to Company or Valhi, as applicable. Upon any such termination
Collateral Agent will, at Company's or Valhi's expense, execute and deliver to
Company or Valhi such documents as Company or Valhi shall reasonably request to
evidence such termination and Company and/or Valhi, as applicable, shall be
entitled to the return, upon its request and at its expense, against receipt and
without recourse to Collateral Agent, of such of the Payment Deposit as shall
not have been sold or otherwise applied pursuant to the terms hereof.
COLLATERAL AGENT AS AGENT.
Collateral Agent has been appointed to act as Collateral Agent
hereunder by Purchasers. Collateral Agent shall be obligated, and shall have
the right hereunder, to make demands, to give notices, to exercise or refrain
from exercising any rights, and to take or refrain from taking any action
(including, without limitation, the release or substitution of Payment Deposit),
solely in accordance with this Agreement and the Collateral Agency Agreement.
Collateral Agent shall at all times be the same Person that is
Collateral Agent under the Collateral Agency Agreement. Written notice of
resignation by Collateral Agent pursuant to the Collateral Agency Agreement
shall also constitute notice of resignation as Collateral Agent under this
Agreement; removal of Collateral Agent pursuant to the Collateral Agency
Agreement shall also constitute removal as Collateral Agent under this
Agreement; and appointment of a successor Collateral Agent pursuant to the
Collateral Agency Agreement shall also constitute appointment of a successor
Collateral Agent under this Agreement. Upon the acceptance of any appointment
as Collateral Agent under the Collateral Agency Agreement by a successor
Collateral Agent, that successor Collateral Agent shall thereupon succeed to and
become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring
or removed Collateral Agent under this Agreement, and the retiring or removed
Collateral Agent under this Agreement shall promptly (i) transfer to such
successor Collateral Agent all sums, securities and other items of Payment
Deposit held hereunder (which shall be deposited in new Payment Deposit Accounts
established and maintained by such successor Collateral Agent), together with
all records and other documents necessary or appropriate in connection with the
performance of the duties of the successor Collateral Agent under this
Agreement, and (ii) execute and deliver to such successor Collateral Agent such
amendments to financing statements, and take such other actions, as may be
necessary or appropriate in connection with the assignment to such successor
Collateral Agent of the security interests created hereunder, whereupon such
retiring or removed Collateral Agent shall be discharged from its duties and
obligations under this Agreement. After any retiring or removed Collateral
Agent's resignation or removal hereunder as Collateral Agent, the provisions of
this Agreement shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to
be taken by it under this Agreement while it was Collateral Agent hereunder.
SURETYSHIP WAIVERS BY VALHI, ETC.
(a) Valhi agrees that its obligations hereunder are irrevocable,
absolute, independent and unconditional and shall not be affected by any
circumstance which constitutes a legal or equitable discharge of a guarantor or
surety other than payment in full of the Secured Obligations. In furtherance of
the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, Valhi agrees as
follows: (i) Collateral Agent may from time to time, without notice or demand
and without affecting the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or giving
rise to any limitation, impairment or discharge of Valhi's liability hereunder,
(A) renew, extend, accelerate or otherwise change the time, place, manner or
terms of payment of the Secured Obligations, (B) settle, compromise, release or
discharge, or accept or refuse any offer of performance with respect to, or
substitutions for, the Secured Obligations or any agreement relating thereto
and/or subordinate the payment of the same to the payment of any other
obligations, (C) request and accept guaranties of the Secured Obligations and
take and hold other security for the payment of the Secured obligations,
(D) release, exchange, compromise, subordinate or modify, with or without
consideration, any other security for payment of the Secured Obligations, any
guaranties of the Secured Obligations, or any other obligation of any Person
with respect to the Secured Obligations, (E) enforce and apply any other
security now or hereafter held by or for the benefit of Collateral Agent in
respect of the Secured Obligations and direct the order or manner of sale
thereof, or exercise any other right or remedy that Collateral Agent may have
against any such security, as Collateral Agent in its discretion may determine
consistent with the Notes and any applicable security agreement, including
foreclosure on any such security pursuant to one or more judicial or nonjudicial
sales, whether or not every aspect of any such sale is commercially reasonable,
and (F) exercise any other rights available to Collateral Agent under the Notes,
at law or in equity; and (ii) this Agreement and the obligations of Valhi
hereunder shall be valid and enforceable and shall not be subject to any
limitation, impairment or discharge for any reason (other than payment in full
of the Secured Obligations), including without limitation the occurrence of any
of the following, whether or not Valhi shall have had notice or knowledge of any
of them: (A) any failure to assert or enforce or agreement not to assert or
enforce, or the stay or enjoining, by order of court, by operation of law or
otherwise, of the exercise or enforcement of, any claim or demand or any right,
power or remedy with respect to the Secured Obligations or any agreement
relating thereto, or with respect to any guaranty of or other security for the
payment of the Secured Obligations, (B) any waiver, amendment or modification
of, or any consent to departure from, any of the terms or provisions (including
without limitation provisions relating to events of default) of the Notes or any
agreement or instrument executed pursuant thereto, or of any guaranty or other
security for the Secured Obligations, (C) the Secured Obligations, or any
agreement relating thereto, at any time being found to be illegal, invalid or
unenforceable in any respect, (D) any failure to perfect or continue perfection
of a security interest in any other collateral which secures any of the Secured
Obligations, (E) any defenses, set-offs or counterclaims which Company may
allege or assert against Collateral Agent in respect of the Secured Obligations,
including but not limited to failure of consideration, breach of warranty,
payment, statute of frauds, statute of limitations, accord and satisfaction and
usury, and (F) any other act or thing or omission, or delay to do any other act
or thing, which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of
Valhi as an obligor in respect of the Secured Obligations.
(b) Valhi hereby waives, for the benefit of Collateral Agent:
(i) any right to require Collateral Agent, as a condition of payment or
performance by Valhi, to (A) proceed against Company, any guarantor of the
Secured Obligations or any other Person, (B) proceed against or exhaust any
other security held from Company, any guarantor of the Secured Obligations or
any other Person, (C) proceed against or have resort to any balance of any
deposit account or credit on the books of Collateral Agent in favor of Company
or any other Person, or (D) pursue any other remedy in the power of Collateral
Agent whatsoever; (ii) any defense arising by reason of the incapacity, lack of
authority or any disability or other defense of Company including, without
limitation, any defense based on or arising out of the lack of validity or the
unenforceability of the Secured Obligations or any agreement or instrument
relating thereto or by reason of the cessation of the liability of Company from
any cause other than payment in full of the Secured Obligations; (iii) any
defense based upon any statute or rule of law which provides that the obligation
of a surety must be neither larger in amount nor in other respects more
burdensome than that of the principal; (iv) any defense based upon Collateral
Agent's errors or omissions in the administration of the Secured Obligations,
except behavior which amounts to bad faith; (v) (A) any principles or provisions
of law, statutory or otherwise, which are or might be in conflict with the terms
of this Agreement and any legal or equitable discharge of Valhi's obligations
hereunder, (B) the benefit of any statute of limitations affecting Valhi's
liability hereunder or the enforcement hereof, (C) any rights to set-offs,
recoupments and counterclaims, and (D) promptness, diligence and any requirement
that Collateral Agent protect, secure, perfect or insure any other security
interest or lien or any property subject thereto; (vi) notices, demands,
presentments, protests, notices of protest, notices of dishonor and notices of
any action or inaction, notices of default under the Notes or any agreement or
instrument related thereto, notices of any renewal, extension or modification of
the Secured Obligations or any agreement related thereto, notices of any
extension of credit to Company and notices of any of the matters referred to in
the preceding paragraph and any right to consent to any thereof; and (vii) to
the fullest extent permitted by law, any defenses or benefits that may be
derived from or afforded by law which limit the liability of or exonerate
guarantors or sureties, or which may conflict with the terms of this Agreement.
(c) Until the Secured Obligations shall have been paid in full, Valhi
shall withhold exercise of (i) any claim, right or remedy, direct or indirect,
that Valhi now has or may hereafter have against Company or any of its assets in
connection with this Agreement or the performance by Valhi of its obligations
hereunder, in each case whether such claim, right or remedy arises in equity,
under contract, by statute, under common law or otherwise and including without
limitation (A) any right of subrogation, reimbursement or indemnification that
Valhi now has or may hereafter have against Company, (B) any right to enforce,
or to participate in, any claim, right or remedy that Collateral Agent now has
or may hereafter have against Company, and (C) any benefit of, and any right to
participate in, any other collateral or security now or hereafter held by
Collateral Agent, and (ii) any right of contribution Valhi may have against any
guarantor of any of the Secured Obligations. Valhi further agrees that, to the
extent the waiver of its rights of subrogation, reimbursement, indemnification
and contribution as set forth herein is found by a court of competent
jurisdiction to be void or voidable for any reason, any rights of subrogation,
reimbursement or indemnification Valhi may have against Company or against any
other collateral or security, and any rights of contribution Valhi may have
against any such guarantor, shall be junior and subordinate to any rights
Collateral Agent may have against Company, to all right, title and interest
Collateral Agent may have in any such other collateral or security, and to any
right Collateral Agent may have against any such guarantor.
(e) Collateral Agent shall have no obligation to disclose or discuss
with Valhi its assessment, or Valhi's assessment, of the financial condition of
Company. Valhi has adequate means to obtain information from Company on a
continuing basis concerning the financial condition of Company and its ability
to perform its obligations under the Notes, and Valhi assumes the responsibility
for being and keeping informed of the financial condition of Company and of all
circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Secured Obligations.
Valhi hereby waives and relinquishes any duty on the part of Collateral Agent to
disclose any matter, fact or thing relating to the business, operations or
condition of Company now known or hereafter known by Collateral Agent.
SUBROGATION. After all of the Notes have been paid in full in cash,
Valhi shall be subrogated to the right of the holders of the Notes to receive
distributions and payments applicable to the Notes to the extent that any
proceeds of the Valhi/Snake Account have been applied to the payment of the
Notes. Proceeds of the Valhi/Snake Account that have been applied to the
payment of the Notes are not, as between the Company and Valhi, a payment by the
Company on the Notes.
AMENDMENTS; ETC. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this
Agreement, or consent to any departure by Company or Valhi herefrom, shall in
any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by
Collateral Agent, the Company and Valhi and then such waiver or consent shall be
effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which
it was given.
NOTICES. Any notice or other communication herein required or
permitted to be given shall be in writing and may be personally served,
telecopied or sent by United States mail or courier service and shall be deemed
to have been given when delivered in person or by courier service, upon receipt
of telecopy, or four Business Days after depositing it in the United States
mail, registered or certified, with postage prepaid and properly addressed. For
the purposes hereof, the address of each party hereto shall be as set forth
under such party's name on the signature pages hereof or, as to either party,
such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice
delivered to the other party hereto.
FAILURE OR INDULGENCE NOT WAIVER; REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. No failure
or delay on the part of Collateral Agent in the exercise of any power, right or
privilege hereunder shall impair such power, right or privilege or be construed
to be a waiver of any default or acquiescence therein, nor shall any single or
partial exercise of any such power, right or privilege preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or of any other power, right or privilege. All rights
and remedies existing under this Agreement are cumulative to, and not exclusive
of, any rights or remedies otherwise available.
SEVERABILITY. In case any provision in or obligation under this
Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or
obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall
not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
HEADINGS. Section and subsection headings in this Agreement are
included herein for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a
part of this Agreement for any other purpose or be given any substantive effect.
GOVERNING LAW; TERMS. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND
SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES, EXCEPT TO THE
EXTENT THAT THE CODE PROVIDES THAT THE VALIDITY OR PERFECTION OF THE SECURITY
INTEREST HEREUNDER, OR REMEDIES HEREUNDER, IN RESPECT OF ANY PARTICULAR PAYMENT
DEPOSIT ARE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF A JURISDICTION OTHER THAN THE STATE OF NEW
YORK. Unless otherwise defined herein or in the Note Purchase Agreements, terms
used in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code in the State of New York are
used herein as therein defined.
CONSENT TO JURISDICTION AND SERVICE OF PROCESS. ALL JUDICIAL
PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT AGAINST COMPANY OR VALHI ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS
AGREEMENT MAY BE BROUGHT IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION
IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AND BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT EACH
OF COMPANY AND VALHI ACCEPTS FOR ITSELF AND IN CONNECTION WITH ITS PROPERTIES,
GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID
COURTS AND WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS AND IRREVOCABLY AGREES TO
BE BOUND BY ANY JUDGMENT RENDERED THEREBY IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT.
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF COMPANY, VALHI AND COLLATERAL AGENT
HEREBY AGREES TO WAIVE THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR
CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT. The scope of this
waiver is intended to be all-encompassing of any and all disputes that may be
filed in any court and that relate to the subject matter of this transaction,
including without limitation contract claims, tort claims, breach of duty
claims, and all other common law and statutory claims. Company, Valhi and
Collateral Agent each acknowledge that this waiver is a material inducement for
Company, Valhi and Collateral Agent to enter into a business relationship, that
Company, Valhi and Collateral Agent have already relied on this waiver in
entering into this Agreement and that each will continue to rely on this waiver
in their related future dealings. Each of Company, Valhi and Collateral Agent
further warrants and represents that each has reviewed this waiver with its
legal counsel, and that each knowingly and voluntarily waives its jury trial
rights following consultation with legal counsel. THIS WAIVER IS IRREVOCABLE,
MEANING THAT IT MAY NOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING, AND THIS WAIVER
SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS
TO THIS AGREEMENT. In the event of litigation, this Agreement may be filed as a
written consent to a trial by the court.
COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in one or more
counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of
which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, but all such
counterparts together shall constitute but one and the same instrument;
signature pages may be detached from multiple separate counterparts and attached
to a single counterpart so that all signature pages are physically attached to
the same document.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Company, Valhi and Collateral Agent have caused
this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their respective officers
thereunto duly authorized as of the date first written above.
SNAKE RIVER SUGAR COMPANY
By:
Name:
Title:
Notice Address:
Snake River Sugar Company
2427 Lincoln Avenue
P.O. Box 1520
Ogden, Utah 84402
VALHI, INC.
By:
Name:
Title:
Notice Address:
Valhi, Inc.
Three Lincoln Center
5430 LBJ Freeway
Suite 1700
Dallas, Texas 75240-2697
FIRST SECURITY BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as
Collateral Agent
By:
Name:
Title:
Notice Address:
First Security Bank,
National Association
79 South Main Street
Corporate Trust Department
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
VOTING RIGHTS AND FORBEARANCE AGREEMENT{PRIVATE }
This Voting Rights and Forbearance Agreement (this "AGREEMENT")
supplements the Deposit Trust Agreement (as defined below) and is made this 14th
day of May, 1997 by and among (i) AMALGAMATED COLLATERAL TRUST, a Delaware
business trust (the "SPT") created pursuant to the Deposit Trust Agreement (the
"DEPOSIT TRUST AGREEMENT") dated as of May 14, 1997 between ASC Holdings, Inc.,
a Utah corporation ("AMALGAMATED"), Wilmington Trust Company, as Resident
Trustee (as defined on the Deposit Trust Agreement), and Amalgamated, as Company
Trustee (as defined on the Deposit Trust Agreement), (ii) AMALGAMATED, as holder
of the Certificate of Beneficial Interest issued by the SPT, (iii) Amalgamated,
as the Company Trustee under the Deposit Trust Agreement, and (iv) FIRST
SECURITY BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Collateral Agent (the "COLLATERAL
AGENT") under the Collateral Agency Agreement dated as of May 14, 1997 among
Snake River Sugar Company, an Oregon agricultural cooperative ("SNAKE RIVER"),
the Collateral Agent and the purchasers (the "PURCHASERS") referred to in the
Note Purchase Agreements (the "NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS") dated May 14, 1997
between the Purchasers and Snake River (terms defined in the Note Purchase
Agreements and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings provided in
the Note Purchase Agreements).
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Company Agreement (the "COMPANY AGREEMENT")
dated January 3, 1997 as amended May 14, 1997 among The Amalgamated Sugar
Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the "COMPANY"), Snake River
and Amalgamated, Snake River received the SR Interest in the Company and
Amalgamated received the AGM Interest in the Company, each as defined in the
Company Agreement;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Deposit Trust Agreement and to the First
Amendment to the Company Agreement dated as of May 14, 1997 (the "FIRST
AMENDMENT"), the AGM Interest was transferred and assigned to the SPT in
exchange for a beneficial interest in the SPT;
WHEREAS, Valhi, Inc. has issued to Snake River a Limited Recourse
Promissory Note dated January 3, 1997 in aggregate principal amount of
$212,500,000 (the "LIMITED RECOURSE NOTE") and a Subordinated Promissory Note
dated January 3, 1997 in aggregate principal amount of $37,500,000 (the
"SUBORDINATED NOTE") (collectively, as they may be amended, supplemented,
restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the "SNAKE RIVER LOAN NOTES").
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Pledge Agreement dated as of May 14, 1997
between the SPT and Snake River, as Secured Party (as it may be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the "SPT PLEDGE
AGREEMENT"), the SPT assigned all of its right, title and interest in and to the
AGM Interest to Snake River to secure (i) the obligations of the SPT under the
Guaranty dated as of May 14, 1997 (the "SPT GUARANTY") pursuant to which the SPT
has guaranteed the Limited Recourse Note, and (ii) the obligations of Valhi,
Inc. ("VALHI") under the Subordinated Note; and pursuant to the Pledge Agreement
dated as of May 14, 1997 between Amalgamated and Snake River, as Secured Party
(as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
"VALHI ENTITY PLEDGE AGREEMENT"), Amalgamated assigned all of its right, title
and interest in and to the beneficial interest in SPT to Snake River to secure
the obligations of Valhi under the Snake River Loan Notes ; and pursuant to the
Pledge Agreement dated as of May 14, 1997 between Snake River and the Collateral
Agent, as Secured Party (as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time, the "SNAKE RIVER PLEDGE AGREEMENT" and together with
the SPT Pledge Agreement and the Valhi Entity Pledge Agreement, the "PLEDGE
AGREEMENTS"), Snake River assigned all of its right, title and interest in and
to the SPT Guaranty, the SPT Pledge Agreement and the AGM Interest and the Valhi
Entity Pledge Agreement and the beneficial interest in SPT to the Collateral
Agent to secure Snake River's obligations under the Note Purchase Agreements and
the 10.80% Senior Notes due April 30, 2009 (the "SENIOR NOTES") issued pursuant
thereto;
WHEREAS, the AGM Interest is entitled to certain voting and other
consensual rights with respect to the Company under certain conditions, all as
set forth in the Company Agreement (the "AGM INTEREST RIGHTS"); and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to enter into an agreement
supplemental to the Deposit Trust Agreement with respect to the exercise of the
AGM Interest Rights by the Company Trustee on behalf of the SPT;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the covenants contained herein,
the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
Authority of Company Trustee with Respect to the AGM Interest
Rights. The parties acknowledge and agree that (i) the AGM Interest includes
the AGM Interest Rights and that, accordingly, pursuant to the First Amendment
and the Deposit Trust Agreement, the AGM Interest Rights have been transferred
by Amalgamated to the SPT and (ii) pursuant to the Pledge Agreements, the AGM
Interest Rights have been assigned by the SPT to Snake River and by Snake River
to the Collateral Agent. Subject to the provisions of Sections 2 and 3 hereof
and to the Pledge Agreements, the parties hereto agree that the Company Trustee
shall be entitled to exercise, on behalf of the SPT, all AGM Interest Rights.
Termination of Company Trustee's Authority to Exercise the AGM
Interest Rights. (a) The grant of authority to the Company Trustee pursuant to
Section 1 and Section 3 shall terminate upon receipt by the Resident Trustee of
notice from the Collateral Agent or Snake River of the occurrence of any one of
the following events:
(i) the Snake River Loan shall have been accelerated by the
Person or Persons entitled to take such action (including, without limitation,
the Collateral Agent) or (ii) following a default on the Snake River Loan Notes
permitting acceleration (a "SNAKE RIVER LOAN DEFAULT") such Person or Persons
shall have commenced the exercise of remedies with respect to the Snake River
Loan Notes or the AGM Interest or the Valhi Entity Pledge Agreement or the SPT
Pledge Agreement.
(b) Upon termination as set forth in this Section 2 of the
Company Trustee's right to exercise the AGM Interest Rights, the right to
exercise such AGM Interest Rights shall revert in their entirety to the Resident
Trustee and shall become exercisable, automatically and without the necessity of
any action whatsoever by any Person, solely by the Resident Trustee (or the
Collateral Agent pursuant to the terms of the Trust Agreement and the Pledge
Agreements).
Limitation of Company Trustee's Authority to Exercise Certain AGM
Interest Rights. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1, until
payment in full in cash of the Senior Notes issued pursuant to the Note Purchase
Agreements, the Company Trustee agrees that, without consent of the Required
Holders (as defined in the Note Purchase Agreements), the Company Trustee will
not take any Control Action (as defined below) or take any enforcement action or
exercise any rights or remedies with respect to any breach of the Company
Agreement (pursuant to Section 16 of the Company Agreement or otherwise),
provided, however, that:
(i) The Company Trustee may cause the SPT to take action to
enforce specific performance of the provisions of the Company Agreement, other
than (x) any provision which conflicts with any provision of the Note Purchase
Agreements or the Collateral Agreements (as defined therein), or (y) the
provisions of Section 6.3 except for Section 6.3(i) and Section 6.3(ii); and
(ii) The Company Trustee, on behalf of the SPT, may cause
the election and continuation in office of a majority of the Management
Committee of the Company as permitted by Section 16.2.1 of the Company Agreement
("CONTROL ACTION"; which Control Action shall be deemed to continue to be taken
so long as the members of the Management Committee elected by the Company
Trustee constitute a majority of the Management Committee) if (x) the unpaid
Accrual (as defined in the Company Agreement) exceeds the Accrual Threshold (as
defined in the Company Agreement), or (y) the Triggering Event (as defined in
the Company Agreement) giving rise to the Company Trustee's ability to exercise
and continue Control Action is a default under the provisions of Article III, or
Sections 6.3, 8.4.1, or 11.1 of the Company Agreement and (z) in each case if
the Company Trustee delivers to the Resident Trustee and to the Collateral Agent
a certificate executed by two officers of the Company Trustee certifying to such
effect, and provided further that if more than 30 days shall have elapsed
following written notice (a "DEFAULT NOTICE") by or on behalf of the Required
Holders to the Company Trustee, the Resident Trustee and the Collateral Agent of
their intention, following an Event of Default, to accelerate the Senior Notes
or, following an Event of Default, to exercise any remedies other than those set
forth in Section 2 above then the Company Trustee may only exercise Control
Action if:
A. No Snake River Loan Default shall exist, and on or
prior to the end of such 30-day period, the Company Trustee shall have caused
Valhi to loan funds, which loan shall be subject to the terms of the Note
Purchase Agreement and the Subordination Agreement, to Snake River and Snake
River shall have irrevocably deposited with the Collateral Agent pursuant to the
Voting Rights Collateral Deposit Agreement as security for the payment of the
Senior Notes not less than $5,000,000 in cash; provided that in lieu of loaning
such cash to Snake River, Valhi may cause, on a nonrecourse basis to Snake
River, an irrevocable letter of credit, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Required Holders, to be issued in favor of the Collateral
Agent by a bank organized in the United States and having a long-term debt
rating of "A" or better from Standard & Poor's Ratings Service, a division of
McGraw Hill Companies, or "A2" or better from Moody's Investors Services, Inc.
and a combined capital and surplus in excess of $500,000,000 (a "LETTER OF
CREDIT"), in an amount of not less than $5,000,000; and
B. No Snake River Loan Default shall exist, and on or
prior to the end of the 75th day following the date of the Default Notice, the
Company Trustee shall have caused Valhi to loan funds, which loan shall be
subject to the terms of the Note Purchase Agreement and the Subordination
Agreement, to Snake River and Snake River shall have irrevocably deposited with
the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Voting Rights Collateral Deposit Agreement
as additional cash collateral or caused a Letter of Credit to be delivered to
Collateral Agent in an amount sufficient to cause the sum of (x) the $5,000,000
previously deposited pursuant to the immediately preceding subparagraph A plus
(y) the amount of such additional collateral deposited pursuant to this
subparagraph B to equal or exceed the next 12 months' scheduled debt service on
the Senior Notes (including interest and principal payments).
(b) Notwithstanding the deposit of additional cash collateral
and/or any Letters of Credit as contemplated by subsection (a)(ii) above, the
Company Trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any Control Action on and
after the date which is 30 days after the last day of the fourth fiscal quarter
of Snake River ended after the date on which cash collateral or a Letter of
Credit is first deposited pursuant to subsection (A) above if any Specified
Default specified in the Subordination Agreement then exists, unless Amalgamated
shall have caused Valhi to loan funds, subject to the terms of the Note Purchase
Agreement and the Subordination Agreement, to Snake River and Snake River shall
have irrevocably deposited with the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Voting
Rights Collateral Deposit Agreement additional cash collateral or a Letter of
Credit in an amount which, when added to the amount previously deposited
pursuant to subsection (a)(ii)(A) and subsection (a)(ii)(B) above (plus any
earnings thereon held by the Collateral Agent), equals or exceeds the next 36
months' debt service on the Senior Notes (including interest and principal
payments).
(c) All collateral deposited with the Collateral Agent pursuant
to subsections (a) and (b) above shall be held by the Collateral Agent as
additional collateral for the Senior Notes and the Note Purchase Agreements
pursuant to the Voting Rights Collateral Deposit Agreement. All such collateral
deposited with the Collateral Agent pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) above,
together with any earnings thereon, shall be returned to Snake River for
repayment to Valhi in accordance with the terms of the Subordination Agreement:
(i) if no Event of Default on the Senior Notes has occurred and is continuing,
then five Business Days after the Company Trustee has notified Snake River and
the Collateral Agent that Amalgamated has ceased to exercise Control Action and
has caused its representatives to resign from the Management Committee of the
Company (and no Control Action may thereafter be exercised by the Company
Trustee hereunder unless the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including
Sections 3(a)(ii)(A) and 3(a)(ii)(B) above are again fully complied with in
respect of such exercise of Control Action), (ii) if the Senior Notes and all
other amounts payable under the Note Purchase Agreements are paid in full, or
(iii) if consented to by the Required Holders (including Valhi if Valhi has
acquired all of the Senior Notes).
(d) If any of the conditions set forth in this Section 3 to the
exercise by the Company Trustee of Control Action are not at any time satisfied
in full, the Collateral Agent, at the direction of the Required Holders, shall
notify the Resident Trustee and the Company Trustee of such non-satisfaction,
and immediately upon receipt of such notice by the Resident Trustee, all rights
of the Company Trustee to exercise Control Action shall automatically terminate
and the Company Trustee will cause its representatives to resign from the
Management Committee of the Company (and, if the Company Trustee shall fail to
so cause such resignations, then the Collateral Agent is hereby authorized to
direct the Resident Trustee to cause such resignations); provided that at such
time as the Collateral Agent, at the direction of the Required Holders, rescinds
such notice, the Company Trustee's rights to exercise Control Action under this
Section 3 shall be reinstated, subject to the right of the Collateral Agent, at
the direction of the Required Holders, to deliver additional notices under this
Section 3(d).
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, without
prior written consent of all of the holders of the Senior Notes, the Company
Trustee shall take no action, directly or indirectly, to dissolve or liquidate
the Company pursuant to Section 13.1.1(d) of the Company Agreement or otherwise.
Compliance with Note Purchase Agreements. The Company Trustee
hereby agrees that at all times that it is entitled to exercise the AGM Interest
Rights, the Company Trustee shall use reasonable commercial efforts to cause the
Company to comply with (and shall take no action which would cause the Company
to violate) the Trust Agreement and the covenants and other obligations
applicable to the Company under the Note Purchase Agreements and the Collateral
Documents, and shall not exercise any AGM Interest Rights inconsistent with the
terms of the Note Purchase Agreements and the Collateral Documents. Nothing in
this Section 4 shall require the Company Trustee to make additional
contributions to the Company or cause the Company Trustee to be or be deemed to
be a guarantor of the Senior Notes.
Continuation of Obligations Under Snake River Loan Notes. The
deposit of cash collateral and/or Letters of Credit pursuant to this Agreement
shall not relieve Valhi or any other Person of any payment obligations under the
Snake River Loan Notes or relieve Snake River or any other Person of any payment
obligations under the Note Purchase Agreements and the Senior Notes.
Representations of the SPT. The SPT hereby represents and
warrants that (a) it owns beneficially and of record and, subject to the Company
Agreement and the Pledge Agreements, has the right to vote the AGM Interest,
(b) it has full power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations
under this Agreement and has not, prior to the date of this Agreement, executed
or delivered any proxy or entered into any other voting agreement or similar
arrangement, and (c) it will not take any action inconsistent with the purposes
and provisions of this Agreement.
Representations of Amalgamated and the Collateral Agent. Each of
the Company Trustee and the Collateral Agent represents and warrants that (a) it
has full power to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement,
(b) this Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary action on behalf of
such party and (c) it will not take an action inconsistent with the purposes and
provisions of this Agreement, except in the case of the Collateral Agent,
pursuant to the exercise of rights and remedies under the Pledge Agreements.
Enforceability; Validity. Each party hereto expressly agrees
that this Agreement shall be specifically enforceable in any court of competent
jurisdiction in accordance with its terms and against each of the parties
hereto.
General Provisions. (a) All of the covenants and agreements
contained in this Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of,
the respective parties and their successors, assigns, heirs, executors,
administrators and other legal representatives, as the case may be.
This Agreement, and the rights of the parties hereto, shall
be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of
Delaware.
This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts,
each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which together shall
constitute one and the same instrument.
No amendment, modification, termination or waiver of any
provision of this Agreement, and no consent to any departure by the Company
Trustee therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in
writing and signed by the other parties hereto and, in the case of any such
amendment or modification, by the Company Trustee. Any such waiver or consent
shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose
for which it was given.
If any provision of this Agreement shall be declared void or
unenforceable by any court or administrative board of competent jurisdiction,
such provision shall be deemed to have been severed from the remainder of this
Agreement, and this Agreement shall continue in all other respects to be valid
and enforceable.
(f) Nothing herein shall limit in any way the rights and
remedies of the Collateral Agent under any of the Pledge Agreements.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as
of the date first above written.
AMALGAMATED COLLATERAL TRUST
By: Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
ASC HOLDINGS, INC., individually and as Company Trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
FIRST SECURITY BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as
Collateral Agent
By:
Name:
Title:
As of the date first above written, The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC,
a Delaware limited liability company (the "COMPANY"), hereby acknowledges and
agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions of the foregoing Voting Rights
Agreement among Amalgamated Collateral Trust, ASC Holdings, Inc. and First
Security Bank, National Association; provided, however, that the LLC shall
neither be a party to, nor a third-party beneficiary of, the foregoing
agreement.
THE AMALGAMATED SUGAR COMPANY LLC
By:
Name:
Title:
VOTING RIGHTS COLLATERAL DEPOSIT AGREEMENT{PRIVATE }
This COLLATERAL DEPOSIT AGREEMENT (this "AGREEMENT") is dated as of
May 14, 1997 and entered into by and between SNAKE RIVER SUGAR COMPANY, an
Oregon cooperative (the "COMPANY"), Valhi, Inc., a Delaware corporation
("VALHI") and FIRST SECURITY BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Collateral Agent
(the "COLLATERAL AGENT") for the holders of the Notes referred to below.
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS
Pursuant to those certain Note Purchase Agreements (the "NOTE
PURCHASE AGREEMENTS," the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein
being used herein as therein defined), each dated May 14, 1997, between the
Company and the purchasers referred to therein (the "PURCHASERS"), the Company
has issued to the Purchasers $100,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its
10.80% Senior Notes due April 30, 2009 (said Senior Notes, as they may hereafter
be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, being the
"NOTES").
Pursuant to a Loan and Security Agreement dated as of January 3,
1997, as amended and restated by the Subordinated Loan Agreement dated as of May
14, 1997, Company has issued to Valhi a subordinated note in the principal
amount of $80,000,000 (as such subordinated note may be amended, renewed or
otherwise modified from time to time the "SUBORDINATED NOTE"). The Subordinated
Note is subordinated to the Notes pursuant to the Subordination Agreement, dated
as of the date hereof, by Valhi and the Company in favor of the holders of the
Notes (as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time the "SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT").
Valhi is the indirect holder of 100% of the outstanding stock of
the sole beneficial owner of ASC Holdings, Inc. ("ASC").
Pursuant to the Company Agreement (the "COMPANY AGREEMENT") dated
January 3, 1997 as amended May 14, 1997 among The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC,
a Delaware limited liability company, the Company and ASC, the Company received
the SR Interest and ASC received the AGM Interest (each as defined in the
Company Agreement).
Pursuant to the Deposit Trust Agreement, dated as of the date
hereof (the "DEPOSIT TRUST AGREEMENT"), between ASC, as depositor and company
trustee, and Wilmington Trust Company, as resident trustee, and to the First
Amendment to the Company Agreement dated as of May 14, 1997, the AGM Interest
was transferred and assigned by ASC to The Amalgamated Collateral Trust, a
Delaware business trust (the "TRUST") in exchange for a beneficial interest in
the Trust.
The AGM Interest is entitled to certain voting and other
consensual rights under certain conditions as set forth in the Company Agreement
(the "AGM INTEREST RIGHTS").
Pursuant to the Voting Rights and Forbearance Agreement, dated as
of the date hereof, among the Trust, ASC, as the holder of the beneficial
interest in the Trust, ASC, as the company trustee under the Deposit Trust
Agreement and the Collateral Agent (as it may be amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time the "VOTING RIGHTS AGREEMENT"), ASC will be
entitled as Company Trustee to exercise on behalf of the Trust the AGM Interest
Rights under certain circumstances (as set forth more fully in the Deposit Trust
Agreement and the Voting Rights Agreement), which circumstances may include the
making of a cash deposit by the Company with the Collateral Agent (or in lieu
thereof the delivery to the Collateral Agent of a Letter of Credit) to be held
as collateral security for the Company's obligations under the Notes and the
Note Purchase Agreements. As contemplated in the Voting Rights Agreement, (i)
such cash deposit would be made by the Company from the proceeds of a loan from
Valhi to the Company which loan will be subordinated to the Notes pursuant to
the Subordination Agreement and (ii) such Letter of Credit would be obtained by
Valhi, any reimbursement obligation in respect thereof being non-recourse to the
Company.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and in order to
induce the Purchasers to purchase Notes under the Note Purchase Agreements and
direct the Collateral Agent to enter into the Voting Rights Agreement and for
other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are
hereby acknowledged, the Company hereby agrees with Collateral Agent as follows:
DEFINITIONS. The following terms used in this Agreement shall have
the following meanings:
"CASH DEPOSIT" or "CASH DEPOSITS" means any cash deposited into the
Payment Deposit Account pursuant to this Agreement and the Voting Rights
Agreement, including cash obtained through a drawing on a Letter of Credit.
"CASH EQUIVALENTS" means, as at any date of determination,
(i) marketable securities issued or directly and unconditionally guaranteed by
the United States Government or issued by any agency thereof and backed by the
full faith and credit of the United States, in each case maturing within thirty
(30) days from such date; (ii) marketable direct obligations issued by any state
of the United States of America or any political subdivision of any such state
or any public instrumentality thereof maturing within thirty (30) days from such
date and, at the time of acquisition thereof, having the highest rating
obtainable from either Standard & Poor's Corporation or Moody's Investors
Service, Inc.; (iii) commercial paper maturing no more than thirty (30) days
from such date and, at the time of acquisition thereof, having the highest
rating obtainable from either Standard & Poor's Corporation or Moody's Investors
Service, Inc.; and (iv) certificates of deposit or bankers' acceptances maturing
within thirty (30) days from such date issued by any commercial bank organized
under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the
District of Columbia having unimpaired capital and surplus of not less than
$500,000,000.
"INVESTMENTS" means those investments, if any, made by the Collateral
Agent pursuant to Section 5.
"LETTER OF CREDIT" means an irrevocable letter of credit, in form and
substance satisfactory to the Required Holders, (i) issued by a bank organized
in the United States having (A) a long-term debt rating of "A" or better from
Standard & Poor's Ratings Service, a division of McGraw Hill Companies, or "A2"
or better from Moody's Investors Services, Inc. and (B) a combined capital and
surplus in excess of $500,000,000, (ii) the beneficiary of which is the
Collateral Agent, (iii) with a face amount of not less than that amount called
for by the Voting Rights Agreement and (iv) upon which the Collateral Agent may
make a drawing at sight upon presentation of a draft. The Collateral Agent
shall not be required to present any documentation (other than a sight draft) in
order to draw upon any Letter of Credit.
"PAYMENT DEPOSIT" means (i) the Payment Deposit Account and all
amounts from time to time on deposit therein, (ii) any Cash Deposits, (iii) all
Investments, including all certificates and instruments from time to time
representing or evidencing such Investments and any account or accounts in which
such Investments may be held by, or in the name of, the Collateral Agent for or
on behalf of the Company, (iv) all notes, certificates of deposit, checks and
other instruments and all deposits and securities from time to time hereafter
transferred to or otherwise possessed by, or held in the name of, the Collateral
Agent for or on behalf of the Company in substitution for or in addition to any
or all of the Payment Deposit, (v) any Letter of Credit, (vi) all interest,
dividends, 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 Payment Deposit, and (vii) to the extent not covered by clauses (i)
through (vi) above, all proceeds of any or all of the foregoing Payment Deposit.
"PAYMENT DEPOSIT ACCOUNT" means the deposit account established and
maintained by the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 2 hereof.
"SECURED OBLIGATIONS" means all obligations and liabilities of every
nature of Company now or hereafter existing under or arising out of or in
connection with the Note Purchase Agreements, the Notes and the Collateral
Documents and all extensions or renewals thereof, whether for principal,
interest (including without limitation interest that, but for the filing of a
petition in bankruptcy with respect to Company, would accrue on such
obligations), fees, expenses, indemnities or otherwise, whether voluntary or
involuntary, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliqui-
dated, whether or not jointly owed with others, and whether or not from time to
time decreased or extinguished and later increased, created or incurred, and all
or any portion of such obligations or liabilities that are paid, to the extent
all or any part of such payment is avoided or recovered directly or indirectly
from Collateral Agent or any holder of a Note as a preference, fraudulent
transfer or otherwise, and all obligations of every nature of Company now or
hereafter existing under this Agreement.
PAYMENT DEPOSIT ACCOUNT; FUNDING OF ACCOUNT.
The Collateral Agent will establish and maintain at its office at
79 South Main Street, Corporate Trust Department, Salt Lake City, Utah, as a
blocked account in the name of the Collateral Agent and under the sole dominion
and control of the Collateral Agent, a deposit account designated as "Snake
River Voting Rights Payment Deposit Account."
Deposits to the Payment Deposit Account shall be made pursuant to
Section 3 of the Voting Rights Agreement. The Payment Deposit shall be returned
to as set forth in Section 3(c) of the Voting Rights Agreement.
Any interest received in respect of Investments of any amounts
held in the Payment Deposit Account shall be delivered by the Collateral Agent
to the Company on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and
December; provided that such interest shall be retained in the Payment Deposit
Account to the extent necessary to keep the amount held in the Payment Deposit
Account above the minimum level called for in the Voting Rights Agreement;
provided further that the Collateral Agent shall not deliver to the Company any
such interest received in respect of Investments if an Event of Default or
Default with respect to the Secured Obligations has occurred and is then
continuing.
If a Letter of Credit is part of the Payment Deposit, then prior
to the date (the "Drawing Date") which is 30 days before the expiration of such
Letter of Credit (or any replacement Letter of Credit issued pursuant to this
Section 2(d)), Valhi shall cause to be issued in favor of the Collateral Agent a
Letter of Credit to replace such expiring Letter of Credit or shall cause the
expiration date of such Letter of Credit to be extended. If Valhi shall not
have caused to be issued in favor of the Collateral Agent such replacement
Letter of Credit or have caused such expiration date to be extended on or before
the Drawing Date, the Collateral Agent shall draw upon the expiring Letter of
Credit and deposit the proceeds thereof in the Payment Deposit Account to be
held as part of the Payment Deposit.
PLEDGE OF SECURITY FOR SECURED OBLIGATIONS. The Company hereby
pledges and assigns to the Collateral Agent, and hereby grants to the Collateral
Agent a security interest in, all of the Company's right, title and interest in
and to the Payment Deposit as collateral security for the prompt payment or
performance in full when due, whether at stated maturity, by required
prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise (including the
payment of amounts that would become due but for the operation of the automatic
stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. Section362(a)), of
all the Secured Obligations.
DELIVERY OF PAYMENT DEPOSIT. Deposits into the Payment Deposit
Account shall be in the form of a Cash Deposit, except that, pursuant to the
Voting Rights Agreement, ASC may elect to cause Valhi to cause a Letter of
Credit to be issued in favor of the Collateral Agent.
INVESTMENT OF AMOUNTS IN THE PAYMENT DEPOSIT ACCOUNT. Cash held by
the Collateral Agent in the Payment Deposit Account shall not be invested or
reinvested except as provided in this Section 5.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 13, any cash on deposit
in the Payment Deposit Account shall, so long as no Event of Default or Default
has occurred and is continuing, be invested by the Collateral Agent, in its own
name, in such Cash Equivalents from time to time designated by the Company in
written notices to the Collateral Agent.
The Collateral Agent is hereby authorized to sell, and shall
sell, all or any designated part of the securities constituting part of the
Payment Deposit (i) so long as no Event of Default or Default with respect to
the Secured Obligations shall have occurred and be continuing, upon receipt of
appropriate written instructions from the Company or (ii) in any event if such
sale is necessary to permit the Collateral Agent to perform its duties
hereunder. The Collateral Agent shall have no responsibility for any loss
resulting from a fluctuation in interest rates or otherwise. Subject to the
provisions of Section 2(c), any interest received in respect of securities
constituting part of the Payment Deposit, and the net proceeds of the sale or
payment of any such securities, shall be held in the Payment Deposit Account by
the Collateral Agent pending investment thereof pursuant to Section 5(a).
The Payment Deposit Account shall be subject to such applicable
laws, and such applicable regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System and of any other appropriate banking or governmental authority,
as may now or hereafter be in effect.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The Company represents and warrants
as follows:
Ownership of Payment Deposit. The Company is (or at the time of
transfer thereof to the Collateral Agent will be) the legal and beneficial owner
of the Payment Deposit from time to time transferred by the Company to the
Collateral Agent, free and clear of any Lien except for the security interest
created by this Agreement.
Governmental Authorizations. No authorization, approval or other
action by, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or
regulatory body is required for (i) the grant by the Company of the security
interest granted hereby, (ii) the execution, delivery or performance of this
Agreement by the Company or (iii) the perfection or exercise by the Collateral
Agent of its rights and remedies hereunder (except as may have been taken by or
at the direction of the Company) other than the filing of appropriate UCC-1
financing statements.
Perfection. Assuming continued possession by the Collateral
Agent of the Payment Deposit, the pledge and assignment of the Payment Deposit
pursuant to this Agreement creates a valid and perfected first priority security
interest in the Payment Deposit, securing the payment of the Secured
Obligations.
Other Information. All information heretofore, herein or
hereafter supplied to the Collateral Agent by or on behalf of the Company with
respect to the Payment Deposit is accurate and complete in all material
respects.
FURTHER ASSURANCES. The Company agrees that from time to time, at
the expense of the Company, the Company will promptly execute and deliver all
further instruments and documents, and take all further action, that may be
necessary or desirable, or that the Collateral Agent may request, in order to
perfect and protect any security interest granted or purported to be granted
hereby or to enable the Collateral Agent to exercise and enforce its rights and
remedies hereunder with respect to the Payment Deposit. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the Company will: (i) execute 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 Collateral
Agent may request, in order to perfect and preserve the security interests
granted or purported to be granted hereby and (ii) at the Collateral Agent's
request, appear in and defend any action or proceeding that may affect the
Company's title to or the Collateral Agent's security interest in all or any
part of the Payment Deposit.
TRANSFERS AND OTHER LIENS. The Company agrees that it will not
(a) sell, assign (by operation of law or otherwise) or otherwise dispose of any
part of the Payment Deposit or (b) create or suffer to exist any Lien upon or
with respect to any of the Payment Deposit, except in favor of the Collateral
Agent.
COLLATERAL AGENT APPOINTED ATTORNEY-IN-FACT. The Company hereby
irrevocably appoints the Collateral Agent as the Company's attorney-in-fact,
with full authority in the place and stead of the Company and in the name of the
Company, the Collateral Agent or otherwise, from time to time in the Collateral
Agent's discretion to take any action and to execute any instrument that the
Collateral Agent may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes of
this Agreement, including without limitation (a) to file one or more financing
or continuation statements, or amendments thereto, relative to all or any part
of the Payment Deposit without the signature of the Company and (b) to receive,
endorse and collect any instruments made payable to the Company representing any
dividend, principal or interest payment or other distribution in respect of the
Payment Deposit or any part thereof and to give full discharge for the same.
COLLATERAL AGENT MAY PERFORM. If the Company fails to perform any
agreement contained herein, the Collateral Agent may itself perform, or cause
performance of, such agreement, and the expenses of the Collateral Agent
incurred in connection therewith shall be payable by the Company under Section
14.
STANDARD OF CARE. The powers conferred on the Collateral Agent
hereunder are solely to protect its interest in the Payment Deposit and shall
not impose any duty upon it to exercise any such powers. Except for the
exercise of reasonable care in the custody of the Payment Deposit in its
possession and the accounting for moneys actually received by it hereunder, the
Collateral Agent shall have no duty as to the Payment Deposit, it being
understood that the Collateral Agent shall have no responsibility for
(a) ascertaining or taking action with respect to calls, conversions, exchanges,
maturities, tenders or other matters relating to the Payment Deposit, whether or
not the Collateral Agent has or is deemed to have knowledge of such matters,
(b) taking any necessary steps (other than steps taken in accordance with the
standard of care set forth above to maintain possession of the Payment Deposit)
to preserve rights against any parties with respect to the Payment Deposit,
(c) taking any necessary steps to collect or realize upon the Secured
Obligations or any guarantee therefor, or any part thereof, or any of the
Payment Deposit, (d) initiating any action to protect the Payment Deposit
against the possibility of a decline in market value, (e) any loss resulting
from Investments made pursuant to Section 5, except for a loss resulting from
the Collateral Agent's gross negligence or willful misconduct in complying with
Section 5, or (f) determining (i) the correctness of any statement or
calculation made by the Company in any written instructions or (ii) whether any
deposit in the Payment Deposit Account is proper. The Collateral Agent shall be
deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody and preservation of the
Payment Deposit in its possession if such Payment Deposit is accorded treatment
substantially equal to that which the Collateral Agent accords its own property
consisting of negotiable securities.
REMEDIES. If any Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing with respect to the Secured Obligations, the Collateral Agent may (i)
exercise in respect of the Payment Deposit all rights and remedies provided for
in the Notes, the Note Purchase Agreements and the Collateral Documents in
respect of any collateral therein defined and (ii) make a drawing on any Letter
of Credit in the face amount thereof. In addition to all other rights and
remedies provided for herein or otherwise available to it, the Collateral Agent
may exercise all the rights and remedies of a secured party on default under the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction (the "CODE")
(whether or not the Code applies to the affected Payment Deposit), and the
Collateral Agent may also in its sole discretion, without notice except as
specified below, sell the Payment Deposit or any part thereof in one or more
parcels at public or private sale, at any exchange or broker's board or at any
of the Collateral Agent's offices or elsewhere, for cash, on credit or for
future delivery, at such time or times and at such price or prices and upon such
other terms as the Collateral Agent may deem commercially reasonable,
irrespective of the impact of any such sales on the market price of the Payment
Deposit. Collateral Agent or any Noteholder may be the purchaser of all or any
part of the Payment Deposit at any such sale, and Collateral Agent, as agent for
and representative of the Noteholders (but not any Noteholder or Noteholders in
its or their respective individual capacities unless the Required Holders shall
otherwise agree in writing), shall be entitled, for the purpose of bidding and
making settlement or payment of the purchase price for all or any portion of the
Payment Deposit sold at any such public sale, to use and apply any of the
Secured Obligations as a credit on account of the purchase price for any Payment
Deposit payable by the Collateral Agent at such sale. Each purchaser at any
such sale shall hold the property sold absolutely free from any claim or right
on the part of the Company, and the Company hereby waives (to the extent
permitted by applicable law) all rights of redemption, stay and/or appraisal
which it now has or may at any time in the future have under any rule of law or
statute now existing or hereafter enacted. The Company agrees that, to the
extent notice of sale shall be required by law, at least ten days' notice to the
Company 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
Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to make any sale of the Payment Deposit
regardless of notice of sale having been given. The Collateral 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. If the proceeds of any sale or
other disposition of the Payment Deposit are insufficient to pay all the Secured
Obligations, the Company shall be liable for the deficiency and the fees of any
attorneys employed by the Collateral Agent to collect such deficiency.
APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS. If, with respect to the Secured
Obligations, any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, all
cash held by the Collateral Agent as Payment Deposit and all proceeds received
by the Collateral Agent in respect of a drawing on a Letter of Credit and any
sale of, collection from, or other realization upon all or any part of the
Payment Deposit may, in the discretion of the Collateral Agent, be held by the
Collateral Agent as Payment Deposit for, and/or then, or at any other time
thereafter, applied in full or in part by the Collateral Agent against, the
Secured Obligations in the following order of priority:
FIRST: To the payment of all costs and expenses of such sale,
collection or other realization, including reasonable compensation to the
Collateral Agent and its agents and counsel, and all other expenses,
liabilities and advances made or incurred by the Collateral Agent in
connection therewith, all amounts for which the Collateral Agent is
entitled to indemnification hereunder and all advances made by the
Collateral Agent hereunder for the account of the Company, and to the
payment of all costs and expenses paid or incurred by the Collateral Agent
in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy hereunder, all in
accordance with Section 14;
SECOND: To the payment of all other Secured Obligations in such order
as the Collateral Agent shall elect; and
THIRD: To the payment to or upon the order of the Company, or to
whosoever may be lawfully entitled to receive the same or as a court of
competent jurisdiction may direct, of any surplus then remaining from such
proceeds.
INDEMNITY AND EXPENSES.
The Company agrees to indemnify the Collateral Agent from and
against any and all claims, losses and liabilities in any way relating to,
growing out of or resulting from this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated hereby (including, without limitation, enforcement of this
Agreement), except to the extent such claims, losses or liabilities result
solely from the Collateral Agent's gross negligence or willful misconduct as
finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction.
The Company will pay to the Collateral Agent upon demand the
amount of any and all costs and expenses, including the reasonable fees and
expenses of its counsel and of any experts and agents, that the Collateral 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 Payment Deposit, (iii) the exercise or
enforcement of any of the rights of the Collateral Agent hereunder, or (iv) the
failure by the Company to perform or observe any of the provisions hereof.
CONTINUING SECURITY INTEREST; TRANSFER OF NOTES. This Agreement
shall create a continuing security interest in the Payment Deposit and shall
(a) remain in full force and effect until the indefeasible payment in full of
the Secured Obligations, (b) be binding upon the Company, its successors and
assigns, and (c) inure, together with the rights and remedies of the Collateral
Agent hereunder, to the benefit of the Collateral Agent and its successors,
transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing
clause (c), but subject to the provisions of subsection 13.2 of the Note
Purchase Agreements, any Noteholder may assign or otherwise transfer any Notes
held by it to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon become
vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to the Collateral Agent
herein or otherwise.
COLLATERAL AGENT AS AGENT.
The Collateral Agent has been appointed to act as the Collateral
Agent hereunder by the Purchasers. The Collateral Agent shall be obligated, and
shall have the right hereunder, to make demands, to give notices, to exercise or
refrain from exercising any rights, and to take or refrain from taking any
action (including, without limitation, the release or substitution of the
Payment Deposit), solely in accordance with this Agreement and the Collateral
Agency Agreement.
The Collateral Agent shall at all times be the same Person that
is the Collateral Agent under the Collateral Agency Agreement. Written notice
of resignation by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Collateral Agency
Agreement shall also constitute notice of resignation as the Collateral Agent
under this Agreement; removal of the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Collateral
Agency Agreement shall also constitute removal as the Collateral Agent under
this Agreement; and appointment of a successor Collateral Agent pursuant to the
Collateral Agency Agreement shall also constitute appointment of a successor
Collateral Agent under this Agreement. Upon the acceptance of any appointment
as the Collateral Agent under the Collateral Agency Agreement by a successor
Collateral Agent, that successor Collateral Agent shall thereupon succeed to and
become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring
or removed Collateral Agent under this Agreement, and the retiring or removed
Collateral Agent under this Agreement shall promptly (i) transfer to such
successor Collateral Agent all sums, securities and other items of Payment
Deposit held hereunder (which shall be deposited in a new Payment Deposit
Account established and maintained by such successor Collateral Agent), together
with all records and other documents necessary or appropriate in connection with
the performance of the duties of the successor Collateral Agent under this
Agreement and (ii) execute and deliver to such successor Collateral Agent such
amendments to financing statements, and take such other actions, as may be
necessary or appropriate in connection with the assignment to such successor
Collateral Agent of the security interests created hereunder, whereupon such
retiring or removed Collateral Agent shall be discharged from its duties and
obligations under this Agreement. After any retiring or removed Collateral
Agent's resignation or removal hereunder as the Collateral Agent, the provisions
of this Agreement shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted
to be taken by it under this Agreement while it was the Collateral Agent
hereunder.
AMENDMENTS; ETC. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this
Agreement, or consent to any departure by the Company herefrom, shall in any
event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the
Collateral Agent, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the
specific instance and for the specific purpose for which it was given.
NOTICES. Any notice or other communication herein required or
permitted to be given shall be in writing and may be personally served,
telecopied or sent by United States mail or courier service and shall be deemed
to have been given when delivered in person or by courier service, upon receipt
of telecopy or four Business Days after depositing it in the United States mail,
registered or certified, with postage prepaid and properly addressed. For the
purposes hereof, the address of each party hereto shall be as designated by such
party in a written notice delivered to the other party hereto.
FAILURE OR INDULGENCE NOT WAIVER; REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. No failure
or delay on the part of the Collateral Agent in the exercise of any power, right
or privilege hereunder shall impair such power, right or privilege or be
construed to be a waiver of any default or acquiescence therein, nor shall any
single or partial exercise of any such power, right or privilege preclude any
other or further exercise thereof or of any other power, right or privilege.
All rights and remedies existing under this Agreement are cumulative to, and not
exclusive of, any rights or remedies otherwise available.
SEVERABILITY. In case any provision in or obligation under this
Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or
obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall
not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
HEADINGS. Section and subsection headings in this Agreement are
included herein for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a
part of this Agreement for any other purpose or be given any substantive effect.
GOVERNING LAW; TERMS. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND
SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES, EXCEPT TO THE
EXTENT THAT THE CODE PROVIDES THAT THE VALIDITY OR PERFECTION OF THE SECURITY
INTEREST HEREUNDER, OR REMEDIES HEREUNDER, IN RESPECT OF ANY PARTICULAR PAYMENT
DEPOSIT ARE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF A JURISDICTION OTHER THAN THE STATE OF NEW
YORK. Unless otherwise defined herein or in the Note Purchase Agreements, terms
used in Article 9 of the Code in the State of New York are used herein as
therein defined.
CONSENT TO JURISDICTION AND SERVICE OF PROCESS. ALL JUDICIAL
PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT AGAINST VALHI AND/OR THE COMPANY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING
TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE BROUGHT IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT OF COMPETENT
JURISDICTION IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AND BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS
AGREEMENT EACH OF VALHI AND THE COMPANY ACCEPTS FOR ITSELF AND IN CONNECTION
WITH ITS PROPERTIES, GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE NONEXCLUSIVE
JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS AND WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON
CONVENIENS AND IRREVOCABLY AGREES TO BE BOUND BY ANY JUDGMENT RENDERED THEREBY
IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT.
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF VALHI, THE COMPANY AND THE COLLATERAL
AGENT HEREBY AGREES TO WAIVE ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM
OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT. The scope of
this waiver is intended to be all-encompassing of any and all disputes that may
be filed in any court and that relate to the subject matter of this transaction,
including without limitation contract claims, tort claims, breach of duty
claims, and all other common law and statutory claims. Each of the parties
hereto acknowledges that this waiver is a material inducement for each party to
enter into a business relationship, that each party has already relied on this
waiver in entering into this Agreement and that each party will continue to rely
on this waiver in their related future dealings. Each party further warrants
and represents that each has reviewed this waiver with its legal counsel, and
that each knowingly and voluntarily waives its jury trial rights following
consultation with legal counsel. THIS WAIVER IS IRREVOCABLE, MEANING THAT IT
MAY NOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING, AND THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO
ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS
AGREEMENT. In the event of litigation, this Agreement may be filed as a written
consent to a trial by the court.
COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in one or more
counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of
which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, but all such
counterparts together shall constitute but one and the same instrument;
signature pages may be detached from multiple separate counterparts and attached
to a single counterpart so that all signature pages are physically attached to
the same document.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as
of the date first above written.
SNAKE RIVER SUGAR COMPANY
By: ________________________________
Name: _____________________________
Title: ______________________________
VALHI, INC.
By: ________________________________
Name: _____________________________
Title: ______________________________
FIRST SECURITY BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Collateral Agent
By: ________________________________
Name: _____________________________
Title: ______________________________
SUBORDINATED LOAN AGREEMENT
DATED JANUARY 3, 1997
AS AMENDED AND RESTATED MAY 14, 1997
BETWEEN
SNAKE RIVER SUGAR COMPANY,
AS BORROWER,
AND
VALHI, INC.,
AS LENDER
SNAKE RIVER SUGAR COMPANY
2427 LINCOLN AVENUE
P.O. BOX 1520
OGDEN, UTAH 84402
Senior Subordinated Note due April 30, 2010
May 14, 1997
Valhi, Inc.
Three Lincoln Centre
5430 LBJ Freeway, Suite 1700
Dallas, Texas 75240-2697
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Snake River Sugar Company, an Oregon cooperative (the "COMPANY"),
agrees with you as follows:
1. AUTHORIZATION OF SUBORDINATED NOTES.
The Company will authorize the issue and sale at Closing of
$131,879,229 aggregate principal amount of its Senior Subordinated Notes due
April 30, 2010 (the "SUBORDINATED NOTES", such term to include any such notes
issued in substitution therefor pursuant to Section 13 of this Agreement). A
Subordinated Note in the principal amount of $80,000,000 shall be substantially
in the form set out in Exhibit 1-A (the "$80,000,000 Note"), and a Subordinated
Note in the principal amount of $51,879,229 (the "Collateral Deposit Note")
(representing your obligations to make additional advances to the Company
pursuant to the provisions of Section 8.4(b)) shall be substantially in the form
set out in Exhibit 1-B, in each case with such changes therefrom, if any, as may
be approved by you and the Company. In addition, the Company will authorize the
issue and sale in accordance with the provisions of Section 8.4(a) of one or
more additional Subordinated Notes substantially in form set out in Exhibit 1-B
(the "Contribution Note"). Certain capitalized terms used in this Agreement are
defined in Schedule A; references to a "Schedule" or an "Exhibit" are, unless
otherwise specified, to a Schedule or an Exhibit attached to this Agreement.
2. ISSUANCE OF SUBORDINATED NOTES.
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Company
will issue to you and you will receive from the Company, at the Closing provided
for in Section 3, (i) the $80,000,000 Note and the Collateral Deposit Note.
3. CLOSING.
The issuance of the Subordinated Notes shall occur at the offices of
O'Melveny & Myers LLP, 400 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, California 90017, at
10:00 a.m., Los Angeles time, at a closing (the "CLOSING") on May 14, 1997. At
the Closing the Company will deliver to you the Subordinated Notes in the form
of notes dated the date of the Closing and registered in your name, against
delivery by you to the Company for cancellation the Tranche B Note issued to you
on January 3, 1997. Concurrently with the Closing, the Company will repay in
its entirety the Tranche A Note issued to you on January 3, 1997.
4. CONDITIONS TO CLOSING.
Your obligation to accept the Subordinated Notes to be issued to you
at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment to your satisfaction, prior to or
at the Closing, of the following conditions:
4.1 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.
The representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement
shall be correct when made and at the time of the Closing.
4.2. PERFORMANCE; NO DEFAULT.
Each of the Company and the LLC shall have performed and complied with
all agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement and the other
Transaction Documents required to be performed or complied with by it prior to
or at the Closing and after giving effect to the issue and sale of the
Subordinated Notes (and the application of the proceeds thereof as contemplated
by Schedule 5.14) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing. None of the Company, LLC or any Subsidiary of the Company or LLC
shall have entered into any transaction since January 3, 1997 that would have
been prohibited by Section 10 hereof (other than Sections 10.5 (with respect to
the payments disclosed in Schedule 5.14), 10.8 and 10.15) had such Section
applied since such date. Since December 31, 1996 there shall have been no event
or condition which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
4.3. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE.
Each of the Company and LLC shall have delivered to you an Officer's
Certificate, dated the date of the Closing, certifying that the conditions
specified in Sections 4.1, 4.2 and 4.9 have been fulfilled.
4.4. OPINIONS OF COUNSEL.
You shall have received opinions in form and substance satisfactory to
you, dated the date of the Closing from Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough,
special counsel for the Company, covering the matters set forth in Exhibit
4.4(a) and covering such other matters incident to the transactions contemplated
hereby as you or your counsel may reasonably request (and the Company hereby
instructs its counsel to deliver such opinion to you).
4.5. PURCHASE PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ETC.
On the date of the Closing your acquisition of the Subordinated Notes
shall (i) be permitted by the laws and regulations of each jurisdiction to which
you are subject, without recourse to provisions, (ii) not violate any applicable
law or regulation (including, without limitation, Regulation G, T or X of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) and (iii) not subject you to
any tax, penalty or liability under or pursuant to any applicable law or
regulation, which law or regulation was not in effect on the date hereof. If
requested by you, you shall have received an Officer's Certificate certifying as
to such matters of fact as you may reasonably specify to enable you to determine
whether such acquisition is so permitted.
4.6. SALE OF SENIOR NOTES.
Contemporaneously with the Closing the Company shall sell $100,000,000
of its Senior Notes, the proceeds of which shall be used to repay the Tranche A
Note issued by the Company to you on January 3, 1997 and related fees and
expenses set forth on Schedule 5.14.
4.7. [SECTION RESERVED].
4.8. [SECTION RESERVED].
4.9. CHANGES IN CORPORATE STRUCTURE.
Except as specified in Schedule 4.9, neither the Company nor LLC shall
have changed its jurisdiction of organization or been a party to any merger or
consolidation and shall not have succeeded to all or any substantial part of the
liabilities of any other entity, at any time following the date of the most
recent financial statements referred to in Schedule 5.5.
4.10. PROCEEDINGS AND DOCUMENTS.
All corporate and other proceedings in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and all documents and instruments
incident to such transactions shall be satisfactory to you and your special
counsel, and you and your special counsel shall have received all such
counterpart originals or certified or other copies of such documents as you or
they may reasonably request.
4.11. DELIVERY OF COMPANY DOCUMENTS.
On or before the date of the Closing, the Company shall have delivered
to you and your special counsel each, unless otherwise noted, dated the date of
the Closing:
(a) Certified copies of the Company's Articles of Incorporation,
together with a good standing certificate from the Secretary of State of the
State of Oregon and good standing certificates from each state in which the
Company is required to be qualified to transact business as a foreign
cooperative, each to be dated a recent date prior to the date of the Closing;
(b) Copies of the Company's Bylaws, certified by its corporate
secretary or an assistant secretary;
(c) Resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company approving
and authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and
the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party and any other documents,
instruments and certificates required to be executed by the Company in
connection herewith or therewith, and approving and authorizing the execution,
issuance, sale, and delivery of the Subordinated Notes, each certified by a
Responsible Officer and its corporate secretary or an assistant secretary as
being in full force and effect without modification or amendment;
(d) Signature and incumbency certificates of the officers of the
Company executing the documents referred to in item (c) above, the other
Transaction Documents to which it is a party, and any other documents,
instruments and certificates required to be executed by the Company in
connection herewith or therewith; and
(e) Such other documents as you or your special counsel may
reasonably request, including, without limitation, documents confirming the
Company's status as a cooperative for purposes of the Code.
4.12. [SECTION RESERVED].
4.13. [SECTION RESERVED].
4.14. [SECTION RESERVED].
4.15. [SECTION RESERVED].
4.16. EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF DOCUMENTS.
On or prior to the date of the Closing, each of the following
documents shall have been duly executed and delivered by the parties thereto,
each such document shall be in full force and effect and no term or condition
thereof shall have been amended, modified or waived and the Company shall have
delivered, or shall cause to be delivered, to you and your special counsel true,
correct, complete and original copies of each such agreement:
(i) this Agreement and the Subordinated Notes;
(ii) the Note Purchase Agreements dated as of the date of this
Agreement relating to the issuance of the Senior Notes and all related
documents, including the Senior Notes;
(iii) the Subordination Agreement; and
(iv) the Valhi Option Agreement.
4.17. PAYMENT OF TRANCHE A NOTE.
On the date of the Closing, the Company shall have paid to you all
principal, premium, if any, and accrued interest sufficient to prepay the
Tranche A Note issued to you on January 3, 1997 and all accrued interest on the
Tranche B Note issued to you on January 3, 1997. You shall have delivered to
the Company the originally executed copies of the Tranche A Note and the Tranche
B Note for cancellation.
4.18. [SECTION RESERVED].
4.19. [SECTION RESERVED].
4.20. [SECTION RESERVED].
4.21. [SECTION RESERVED].
4.22. [SECTION RESERVED].
4.23. CONSENTS.
All consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third
party necessary to permit the consummation of the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents or to prevent the
cancellation or modification of any agreement necessary in the conduct of the
Company's or LLC's business shall have been obtained and delivered to you.
4.24. [SECTION RESERVED].
4.25. AMENDMENT OF HENRY'S FORK LOAN AGREEMENT.
Prior to the date of Closing, (i) the Henry's Fork Loan Agreement
shall have been amended to extend the maturity of the loans thereunder to
January 2, 2000, (ii) the Midwest Loan Agreement shall have been amended to
extend the maturity of the loans thereunder to December 31, 1999 and (iii) the
Company shall have delivered to you and your special counsel true, correct and
complete copies of each such agreement, as so amended, and the Loan Purchase
Agreement, dated as of December 26, 1996 between the Company and Midwest Agri-
Commodities Company, each of which shall be in full force and effect and no term
or condition thereof shall have been amended, modified or waived.
4.26. SUBSIDIARIES OF COMPANY.
Prior to the date of the Closing, the Company shall have acquired all
of the outstanding ownership interests of Snake River Farms, LLC and Snake River
Farms II, LLC. Concurrently with the Closing, the Company shall have made a
capital contribution to Snake River Farms II, LLC in the amount set forth on
Schedule 5.14, the proceeds of which will be used to prepay the Henry's Fork
Loan Agreement.
5. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.
The Company represents and warrants to you that:
5.1. ORGANIZATION; POWER AND AUTHORITY.
The Company is a cooperative corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Oregon, and is duly
qualified to do business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which
such qualification is required by law. The Company has the cooperative
corporate power and authority to own or hold under lease the properties it
purports to own or hold under lease, to transact the business it transacts and
proposes to transact, to execute and deliver this Agreement, the other
Transaction Documents to which it is a party and the Subordinated Notes and to
perform the provisions hereof and thereof. The Company is a cooperative for
purposes of the Code and all income tax statutes of all states that may be
applicable to the Company, and the Company has delivered to you copies of all
correspondence to and from the United States Internal Revenue Service in
connection with the status of the Company under the Code.
LLC is a limited liability company duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and is
duly qualified to do business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in
which such qualification is required by law. LLC has the limited liability
company power and authority to own or hold under lease the properties it
purports to own or hold under lease, to transact the business it transacts and
proposes to transact, to execute and deliver the Transaction Documents to which
it is a party and to perform the provisions thereof.
5.2. AUTHORIZATION, ETC.
This Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and the Subordinated
Notes have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the
Company and LLC, as applicable, and this Agreement, the other Agreements and the
other Transaction Documents constitute, and upon execution and delivery thereof
the Subordinated Notes will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of
the Company or LLC, as the case may be, enforceable against the Company or LLC,
as the case may be, in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability
may be limited by (i) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights
generally and (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether such
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
5.3. DISCLOSURE.
No representation or warranty of the Company contained in this
Agreement, the financial statements, the other Loan Documents, or any other
document, certificate or written statement furnished to you by or on behalf of
the Company for use in connection with the Loan Documents contains any untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements contained herein or therein not
misleading in light of the circumstances in which the same were made. There is
no material fact known to the Company that has had or could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and that has not been disclosed in
this Agreement or in such other documents, certificates and statements furnished
to you for use in connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement. The financial projections (the "PROJECTIONS") attached hereto as
part of Schedule 5.3 have been prepared in good faith, have a reasonable basis
and represent the good faith opinion of the Company as to the projected results
of operations of the Company, LLC and their respective Subsidiaries after giving
effect to the transactions contemplated hereby. No facts have occurred since
the preparation of the Projections that would cause the Projections not to be
reasonably attainable.
5.4. ORGANIZATION AND OWNERSHIP OF SHARES OF SUBSIDIARIES; AFFILIATES.
(a) Schedule 5.4 contains (except as noted therein) complete and
correct lists (i) of the Company's Owned Subsidiaries and LLC's Owned
Subsidiaries, showing, as to each such Owned Subsidiary, the correct name
thereof, the jurisdiction of its organization, and the percentage of shares of
each class of its capital stock or similar equity interests outstanding owned by
the Company, LLC and each other Owned Subsidiary, (ii) of the Company's
Affiliates, other than its Owned Subsidiaries, and LLC's Affiliates, other than
its Owned Subsidiaries, and (iii) of the Company's directors and senior officers
and LLC's managers and senior officers.
(b) All of the outstanding shares of capital stock or similar equity
interests of each Owned Subsidiary shown in Schedule 5.4 as being owned by the
Company (including, without limitation, 100% of the voting membership interest
in LLC) and its Owned Subsidiaries, or LLC and its Owned Subsidiaries, have been
validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable and are owned by the Company,
LLC or another Owned Subsidiary of the Company or LLC free and clear of any Lien
(except as otherwise disclosed in Schedule 5.4 and Liens required by the Note
Purchase Agreements).
(c) Each Owned Subsidiary identified in Schedule 5.4 is a corporation
or other legal entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization, and is duly qualified as a
foreign corporation or other legal entity and is in good standing in each
jurisdiction in which such qualification is required by law, other than those
jurisdictions as to which the failure to be so qualified or in good standing
could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect. Each such Owned Subsidiary has the corporate or other
power and authority to own or hold under lease the properties it purports to own
or hold under lease and to transact the business it transacts and proposes to
transact.
(d) No Owned Subsidiary identified in Schedule 5.4 is a party to, or
otherwise subject to any legal restriction or any agreement (other than this
Agreement, the Company Agreement, the agreements listed on Schedule 5.4 and
customary limitations imposed by statutes) restricting the ability of such Owned
Subsidiary to pay dividends out of profits or make any other similar
distributions of profits to the Company or any of its Owned Subsidiaries that
owns outstanding shares of capital stock or similar equity interests of such
Owned Subsidiary) or to LLC or any of its Owned Subsidiaries that owns
outstanding shares of capital stock or similar equity interests of such Owned
Subsidiary.
5.5. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
The Company has delivered, or caused to be delivered, to each holder
Subordinated Notes copies of the financial statements of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, and LLC and its Subsidiaries, listed on Schedule 5.5. All of said
financial statements (including in each case the related schedules and notes)
fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial position of
the Company and its Subsidiaries, or LLC and its Subsidiaries, as the case may
be, as of the respective dates specified in such Schedule and the consolidated
results of their operations and cash flows for the respective periods so
specified and have been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied
throughout the periods involved except as set forth in the notes thereto
(subject, in the case of any interim financial statements, to normal year-end
adjustments).
5.6. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS, OTHER INSTRUMENTS, ETC.
The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this
Agreement, the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party and the
Subordinated Notes will not (i) contravene, result in any breach of, or
constitute a default under, or result in the creation of any Lien in respect of
any property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than Liens
required by the Note Purchase Agreements) under, any indenture, mortgage, deed
of trust, loan, purchase or credit agreement, lease, charter or by-laws, or any
other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is
bound or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their
respective properties may be bound or affected, (ii) conflict with or result in
a breach of any of the terms, conditions or provisions of any order, judgment,
decree, or ruling of any court, arbitrator or Governmental Authority applicable
to the Company or any Subsidiary or (iii) violate any provision of any statute
or other rule or regulation of any Governmental Authority applicable to the
Company or any Subsidiary.
5.7. GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORIZATIONS, ETC.
No consent, approval or authorization of, or registration, filing or
declaration with, any Governmental Authority is required in connection with the
execution, delivery or performance by the Company of this Agreement, the other
Transaction Documents or the Subordinated Notes.
5.8. LITIGATION; OBSERVANCE OF AGREEMENTS, STATUTES AND ORDERS.
(a) Except as set forth on Schedule 5.8, there are no actions, suits
or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against
or affecting the Company, LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries or any
property of the Company, LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries in any
court or before any arbitrator of any kind or before or by any Governmental
Authority that, individually or in the aggregate, if adversely determined could
have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no actions, suits or proceedings
pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the
Company, LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries or any property of the
Company, LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries in any court or before any
arbitrator of any kind or before or by any Governmental Authority which could
reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material
Adverse Effect.
(b) Neither the Company nor LLC or any of their respective
Subsidiaries is in default under any term of any agreement or instrument to
which it is a party or by which it is bound, or any order, judgment, decree or
ruling of any court, arbitrator or Governmental Authority or is in violation of
any applicable law, ordinance, rule or regulation (including without limitation
Environmental Laws) of any Governmental Authority, which default or violation,
individually or in the aggregate, could result in a Material Adverse Effect.
5.9. TAXES.
The Company and its Subsidiaries, and LLC and its Subsidiaries, have
filed all tax returns that are required to have been filed in any jurisdiction,
and have paid all taxes shown to be due and payable on such returns and all
other taxes and assessments levied upon them or their properties, assets, income
or franchises, to the extent such taxes and assessments have become due and
payable and before they have become delinquent, except for any taxes and
assessments (i) the amount of which is not individually or in the aggregate
Material or (ii) the amount, applicability or validity of which is currently
being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to
which the Company, LLC or a Subsidiary, as the case may be, has established
adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP. The Company knows of no basis for
any other tax or assessment that could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect. The charges, accruals and reserves on the books of the Company
and its Subsidiaries, and LLC and its Subsidiaries, in respect of Federal, state
or other taxes for all fiscal periods are adequate.
5.10. TITLE TO PROPERTY; LEASES.
The Company, LLC and their respective Subsidiaries have good and
sufficient title to their respective properties, including all such properties
reflected in the most recent audited balance sheet referred to in Section 5.5 or
purported to have been acquired by the Company, LLC or any Subsidiary after said
date (except as sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary course of
business), in each case free and clear of Liens prohibited by this Agreement.
All leases to which the Company, LLC and/or their respective Subsidiaries are a
party are valid and subsisting and are in full force and effect in all material
respects.
5.11. LICENSES, PERMITS, ETC.
Except as disclosed in Schedule 5.11,
(a) the Company, LLC and their respective Subsidiaries own or possess
all licenses, permits, franchises, authorizations, patents, copyrights, service
marks, trademarks and trade names, or rights thereto, that individually or in
the aggregate are Material, without known conflict with the rights of others;
(b) to the best knowledge of the Company, no product of the Company,
LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries infringes in any material respect
any license, permit, franchise, authorization, patent, copyright, service mark,
trademark, trade name or other right owned by any other Person; and
(c) to the best knowledge of the Company, there is no Material
violation by any Person of any right of the Company, LLC or any of their
respective Subsidiaries with respect to any patent, copyright, service mark,
trademark, trade name or other right owned or used by the Company, LLC or any of
their respective Subsidiaries.
5.12. COMPLIANCE WITH ERISA.
(a) The Company and each ERISA Affiliate have operated and
administered each Plan in compliance with all applicable laws except for such
instances of noncompliance as have not resulted in and could not reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any
ERISA Affiliate has incurred any liability pursuant to Title I or IV of ERISA or
the penalty or excise tax provisions of the Code relating to employee benefit
plans (as defined in Section 3 of ERISA), and no event, transaction or condition
has occurred or exists that could reasonably be expected to result in the
incurrence of any such liability by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate, or in
the imposition of any Lien on any of the rights, properties or assets of the
Company or any ERISA Affiliate, in either case pursuant to Title I or IV of
ERISA or to such penalty or excise tax provisions or to Section 401(a)(29) or
412 of the Code, other than such liabilities or Liens as would not be
individually or in the aggregate Material.
(b) The present value of the aggregate benefit liabilities under each
of the Plans (other than Multiemployer Plans) of the Company, LLC and each of
their respective Subsidiaries, determined as of the end of such Plan's most
recently ended plan year on the basis of the actuarial assumptions specified for
funding purposes in such LLC Plan's most recent actuarial valuation report, did
not exceed the aggregate current value of the assets of such Plan allocable to
such benefit liabilities. The term "BENEFIT LIABILITIES" has the meaning
specified in section 4001 of ERISA and the terms "CURRENT VALUE" and "PRESENT
VALUE" have the meaning specified in section 3 of ERISA.
(c) The Company and its ERISA Affiliates have not incurred withdrawal
liabilities (and are not subject to contingent withdrawal liabilities) under
section 4201 or 4204 of ERISA in respect of Multiemployer Plans that
individually or in the aggregate are Material.
(d) The aggregate accrued postretirement benefit obligation
(determined in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement
No. 106, without regard to liabilities attributable to continuation coverage
mandated by section 4980B of the Code) of the Company and its Subsidiaries does
not exceed $20,000,000 as of December 31, 1996.
(e) The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the issuance and
sale of the Subordinated Notes hereunder will not involve any transaction that
is subject to the prohibitions of section 406 of ERISA or in connection with
which a tax could be imposed pursuant to section 4975(c)(1)(A)-(D) of the Code.
5.13. PRIVATE OFFERING BY THE COMPANY.
Neither the Company nor anyone acting on its behalf has offered the
Subordinated Notes or any similar securities for sale to, or solicited any offer
to buy any of the same from, or otherwise approached or negotiated in respect
thereof with, any person other than you. Neither the Company nor anyone acting
on its behalf has taken, or will take, any action that would subject the
issuance or sale of the Subordinated Notes to the registration requirements of
Section 5 of the Securities Act.
5.14. USE OF PROCEEDS; MARGIN REGULATIONS.
The Company will apply the proceeds of the sale of the Senior Notes to
repay the Tranche A Note and pay related fees and expenses and as set forth in
Schedule 5.14. No part of the proceeds from the issuance of the Subordinated
Notes hereunder will be used, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of buying
or carrying any margin stock within the meaning of Regulation G of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System (12 CFR 207), or for the purpose of
buying or carrying or trading in any securities under such circumstances as to
involve the Company in a violation of Regulation X of said Board (12 CFR 224) or
to involve any broker or dealer in a violation of Regulation T of said Board (12
CFR 220). The Company and its Subsidiaries do not own any margin stock, and the
Company does not have any present intention of acquiring margin stock. As used
in this Section, the terms "MARGIN STOCK" and "PURPOSE OF BUYING OR CARRYING"
shall have the meanings assigned to them in said Regulation G.
5.15. EXISTING DEBT; FUTURE LIENS.
(a) Except as described therein, Schedule 5.15 sets forth a complete
and correct list of all outstanding Debt of the Company, LLC and their
respective Subsidiaries as of the date of the Closing. None of the Company, LLC
or any of their respective Subsidiaries is in default and no waiver of default
is currently in effect, in the payment of any principal or interest on any Debt
of the Company, LLC or such Subsidiary and no event or condition exists with
respect to any Debt of the Company, LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries
that would permit (or that with notice or the lapse of time, or both, would
permit) one or more Persons to cause such Debt to become due and payable before
its stated maturity or before its regularly scheduled dates of payment.
(b) Except as disclosed in Schedule 5.15, none of the Company, LLC or
any of their respective Subsidiaries has agreed or consented to cause or permit
in the future (upon the happening of a contingency or otherwise) any of its
property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, to be subject to a Lien not
permitted by Section 10.3.
5.16. FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL REGULATIONS, ETC.
Neither the sale of the Subordinated Notes by the Company hereunder
nor its use of the proceeds thereof will violate the Trading with the Enemy Act,
as amended, or any of the foreign assets control regulations of the United
States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) or any
enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto.
5.17. STATUS UNDER CERTAIN STATUTES.
None of the Company, LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries is
subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended, the Interstate Commerce
Act, as amended, or the Federal Power Act, as amended.
5.18. ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS.
None of the Company, LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries has
knowledge of any claim or has received any notice of any claim, and no
proceeding has been instituted raising any claim against the Company, LLC, any
of their respective Subsidiaries or Amalgamated or any of their respective real
properties now or formerly owned, leased or operated by any of them or other
assets, alleging any damage to the environment or violation of any Environmental
Laws. None of the Company, LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries has
knowledge of any facts which would give rise to any claim, public or private, of
violation of Environmental Laws or damage to the environment emanating from,
occurring on or in any way related to real properties now or formerly owned,
leased or operated by any of them or by Amalgamated or to other assets or their
use which claims could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect. None of the Company, LLC, any of their respective Subsidiaries has
used, generated or stored any Hazardous Materials on real properties now or
formerly owned, leased or operated by any of them in a manner contrary to any
Environmental Laws and has not disposed of any Hazardous Materials in a manner
contrary to any Environmental Laws which use, generation, storage or disposal
could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. All
buildings on all real properties now owned, leased or operated by the Company,
LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries are in material compliance with
applicable Environmental Laws.
5.19. CAPITALIZATION.
As of the date of the Closing, the authorized capital stock of the
Company is as set forth on Schedule 5.19. All issued and outstanding shares of
capital stock of the Company are duly authorized and validly issued, fully paid
and nonassessable, and such shares were issued in compliance with all applicable
state and federal laws concerning the issuance of securities. No such shares of
capital stock are subject to redemption or purchase by the Company at the option
of the holders thereof. As of the date of the Closing, the capital stock of the
Company is owned by the Persons and in the amounts set forth on Schedule 5.19.
As of the date of the Closing, no shares of the capital stock of the Company,
other than those described above, are issued and outstanding. Except as set
forth on Schedule 5.19, as of the date of the Closing, there are no preemptive
or other outstanding rights, options, warrants, conversion rights or similar
agreements or understandings for the purchase or acquisition from the Company of
any shares of capital stock or other securities of the Company.
5.20. BROKER'S FEES.
No broker's or finder's fee or commission will be payable by the
Company with respect to the issuance and sale of the Subordinated Notes or any
of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (other than the issuance of
the Senior Notes).
5.21. SOLVENCY.
As of and after the date of this Agreement, the Company: (a) owns and
will own assets the fair salable value of which are (i) greater than the total
amount of its liabilities (including contingent liabilities) and (ii) greater
than the amount that will be required to pay probable liabilities as they
mature; (b) has capital that is not unreasonably small in relation to its
business as presently conducted or any contemplated or undertaken transaction;
and (c) does not intend to incur and does not believe that it will incur debts
beyond its ability to pay such debts as they become due.
5.22. EMPLOYEE MATTERS.
Except as set forth on Schedule 5.22 hereto (a) no employee of the
Company or LLC is subject to any collective bargaining agreement, (b) no
petition for certification or union election is pending with respect to the
employees of the Company or LLC and no union or collective bargaining unit has
sought such certification or recognition with respect to the employees of the
Company or LLC, (c) there are no strikes, slowdowns, work stoppages or
controversies pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company or LLC after due
inquiry, threatened between the Company or LLC and its employees, other than
employee grievances arising in the ordinary course of business, which could
reasonably be expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a
Material Adverse Effect and (d) neither the Company nor LLC is a party to any
employment contract.
5.23. AFFILIATE TRANSACTIONS.
Except for the Year-End Transactions and as disclosed on Schedule 5.23
hereto, none of the Company, LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries has,
directly or indirectly, entered into or permitted to exist any transaction or
group of related transactions (including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange
of any property or the rendering of any service) with any Affiliate (other than
the Company, LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries), except for (i) the
purchase by the Company of sugarbeets from the Company's shareholders pursuant
to the Grower Contracts and (ii) transactions in the ordinary course and
pursuant to the reasonable requirements of the Company's, LLC's, or such
Subsidiary's business and upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to
the Company, LLC or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, than would be
obtainable in a comparable arm's-length transaction with a Person not an
Affiliate.
5.24. INDEBTEDNESS OF COMPANY MEMBERS.
To the best knowledge of the Company, after due inquiry, no
Significant Shareholder of the Company is a debtor in any bankruptcy proceeding
or in payment default on any Debt of such shareholder in aggregate principal
amount greater than $10,000. For purposes of this Section 5.24, a "SIGNIFICANT
SHAREHOLDER" is any one of the 25 largest growers measured by number of acres
devoted primarily to the production or cultivation of sugarbeets which are to be
delivered to the Company.
5.25. LEGISLATION.
To the best knowledge of LLC and its officers, no federal or state law
or regulation is pending or proposed which would materially alter or affect any
relevant provision of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of
1996, or which would materially alter or affect any applicable loan support
programs for sugar processors, except as set forth on Schedule 5.25 hereto.
6. YOUR REPRESENTATIONS.
You represent that you are acquiring the Subordinated Notes for your
own account and not with a view to the distribution thereof, provided that the
disposition of your property shall at all times be within your or their control.
You understand that the Subordinated Notes have not been registered under the
Securities Act and may be resold only if registered pursuant to the provisions
of the Securities Act or if an exemption from registration is available, except
under circumstances where neither such registration nor such an exemption is
required by law, and that the Company is not required to register the
Subordinated Notes.
7. INFORMATION AS TO COMPANY.
7.1. FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS INFORMATION.
The Company shall, or shall cause LLC to, deliver to each holder of
Subordinated Notes:
(a) Monthly Statements -- within 30 days after the end of each
monthly period in each fiscal year of the Company and LLC, as applicable (other
than the last month of each of the first three quarterly fiscal periods in each
fiscal year), duplicate copies of,
(i) a consolidated and consolidating balance sheet of the
Company and its Subsidiaries, and LLC and its Subsidiaries, as applicable, as at
the end of such month, and
(ii) consolidated and consolidating statements of income, changes
in shareholders' equity and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries and
LLC and its Subsidiaries, as applicable, for such month,
all in reasonable detail, prepared in accordance with GAAP applicable to monthly
financial statements generally, and certified by a Senior Financial Officer of
the Company or LLC, as applicable, as fairly presenting, in all material
respects, the financial position of the companies being reported on and their
results of operations and cash flows, subject to changes resulting from normal
year-end adjustments;
(b) Quarterly Statements -- within 45 days after the end of each
quarterly fiscal period in each fiscal year of the Company and LLC, as
applicable (other than the last quarterly fiscal period of each such fiscal
year), duplicate copies of,
(i) a consolidated and consolidating balance sheet of the
Company and its Subsidiaries, and LLC and its Subsidiaries, as applicable, as at
the end of such quarter, and
(ii) consolidated and consolidating statements of income, changes
in shareholders' equity and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries, and
LLC and its Subsidiaries, as applicable, for such quarter and (in the case of
the second and third quarters) for the portion of the fiscal year ending with
such quarter,
setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for (1) the
corresponding periods in the previous fiscal year and (2) if available, the
Budget for the corresponding fiscal year, all in reasonable detail, prepared in
accordance with GAAP applicable to quarterly financial statements generally, and
certified by a Senior Financial Officer as fairly presenting, in all material
respects, the financial position of the companies being reported on and their
results of operations and cash flows, subject to changes resulting from normal
year-end adjustments;
(c) Annual Statements -- within 90 days after the end of each fiscal
year of the Company and LLC, duplicate copies of:
(i) a consolidated and consolidating balance sheet of the
Company and its Subsidiaries, and LLC and its Subsidiaries, as applicable, as at
the end of such year, and
(ii) consolidated and consolidating statements of income, changes
in shareholders' or members' equity, as applicable, and cash flows of the
Company and its Subsidiaries and LLC and its Subsidiaries, as applicable, for
such year,
setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous
fiscal year, all in reasonable detail, prepared in accordance with GAAP, and
accompanied in each case by:
(A) in the case of the consolidated statements, an opinion
thereon of independent certified public accountants of recognized national
standing (i.e., a "big six" accounting firm) or other independent certified
public accountants acceptable to the Required Holders, which opinion shall state
that such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the
financial position of the companies being reported upon and their results of
operations and cash flows and have been prepared in conformity with GAAP, and
that the examination of such accountants in connection with such financial
statements has been made in accordance with generally accepted auditing
standards, and that such audit provides a reasonable basis for such opinion in
the circumstances, and
(B) a certificate of such accountants addressed to the
holders of the Subordinated Notes stating that they have reviewed this Agreement
and stating further whether, in making their audit, they have become aware of
any condition or event that then constitutes a Default or an Event of Default,
and, if they are aware that any such condition or event then exists, specifying
the nature and period of the existence thereof, and
(d) Notice of Default or Event of Default -- promptly, and in any
event within five days after a Responsible Officer becoming aware of the
existence of any Default or Event of Default or that any Person has given any
notice or taken any action with respect to a claimed default hereunder or that
any Person has given any notice or taken any action with respect to a claimed
default of the type referred to in Section 11(f), a written notice specifying
the nature and period of existence thereof and what action the Company is taking
or proposes to take with respect thereto;
(e) Accountants' Reports -- promptly after delivery by any
independent accountants of the Company or LLC or any of their respective
Subsidiaries, copies of all significant reports submitted to the Company, LLC or
any such Subsidiary in connection with each annual, interim or special audit of
the books or financial statements of the Company, LLC or such Subsidiary,
including a copy of each comment letter submitted to management in connection
therewith;
(f) Annual Budget -- promptly, but in no event later than (i) 30 days
after the date such projections or budgets have been finalized and (ii) December
15 of each year, the budget used by management of the Company and LLC, as
applicable, for planning purposes for the next fiscal year of the Company and
LLC;
(g) ERISA Matters -- promptly, and in any event within five days
after a Responsible Officer becoming aware of any of the following, a written
notice setting forth the nature thereof and the action, if any, that the Company
or an ERISA Affiliate proposes to take with respect thereto:
(i) with respect to any Plan, any reportable event, as defined
in section 4043(b) of ERISA and the regulations thereunder, for which notice
thereof has not been waived pursuant to such regulations as in effect on the
date hereof; or
(ii) the taking by the PBGC of steps to institute, or the
threatening by the PBGC of the institution of, proceedings under section 4042 of
ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any
Plan, or the receipt by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate of a notice from a
Multiemployer Plan that such action has been taken by the PBGC with respect to
such Multiemployer Plan; or
(iii) any event, transaction or condition that could result
in the incurrence of any liability by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate
pursuant to Title I or IV of ERISA or the penalty or excise tax provisions of
the Code relating to employee benefit plans, or in the imposition of any Lien on
any of the rights, properties or assets of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate
pursuant to Title I or IV of ERISA or such penalty or excise tax provisions, if
such liability or Lien, taken together with any other such liabilities or Liens
then existing, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(h) Notices from Governmental Authority -- promptly, and in any event
within 30 days of receipt thereof, copies of any notice to the Company, LLC or
any of their respective Subsidiaries from any Federal or state or local
Governmental Authority (including, without limitation, the United States
Department of the Treasury and the United States Internal Revenue Service)
relating to any proceeding, claim, order, ruling, statute or other law or
regulation that could have a Material Adverse Effect or asserts any other
related non-compliance with tax statutes, laws, decrees, court or administrative
orders or regulations;
(i) Reports to Other Creditors -- concurrently with the delivery
thereof to other creditors of the Company or LLC, each other report, statement
or information regularly provided to other creditors of the Company and LLC, as
well as any notice of default provided to any such creditor;
(j) Minutes of Company and LLC -- promptly, copies of the minutes of
all meetings of (i) members of LLC, (ii) the management committee of LLC, (iii)
the Board of Directors of the Company and (iv) the shareholders of the Company
(including all written consents of such shareholders);
(k) Material Adverse Effect; Changes -- promptly, notice of (i) any
change of the name, principal place of business or the location of the books and
records of the Company or LLC, (ii) any other event or condition (including,
without limitation, disputes and litigation but excluding economic conditions
and other events or conditions generally applicable to businesses) that has more
than a remote likelihood of occurrence and could have a Material Adverse Effect,
and (iii) any changes in GAAP or the accounting policies, practices or
procedures of the Company or LLC, and the effect, if any, of such changes on the
Company's or LLC's results of operations, financial condition or compliance with
this Agreement);
(l) Amendments to Bank Agreement; Transaction Documents -- promptly,
and in no event later than three Business Days after its effectiveness, any
waiver, modification or other amendment to the Bank Agreement or any Transaction
Document;
(m) LLC Distributions -- concurrently with the delivery of each set
of financial statements delivered to a holder of Subordinated Notes pursuant to
Section 7.1(a), 7.1(b) or 7.1(c), a report prepared by a Senior Financial
Officer of the Company showing the amount of distributions made by LLC to (or
for the account of) each member of LLC for the related period;
(n) Reports to Members -- concurrently with the delivery thereof to
its members, each report, statement, notice or other information provided by LLC
to its members (provided that this covenant shall not require delivery of any
such report, statement, notice or other information provided by the LLC to ASC
Holdings, Inc.); and
(o) Requested Information -- with reasonable promptness, such other
data and information relating to the business, operations, affairs, financial
condition, assets or properties of the Company, LLC or any of their respective
Subsidiaries or relating to the ability of the Company to perform its
obligations hereunder and under the Subordinated Notes as from time to time may
be reasonably requested by any such holder of Subordinated Notes.
7.2. OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE.
Each set of financial statements delivered to a holder of Subordinated
Notes pursuant to Section (b) or Section (c) hereof shall be accompanied by a
certificate of a Senior Financial Officer setting forth:
(a) Covenant Compliance -- the information (including detailed
calculations) required in order to establish whether the Company and LLC were in
compliance with the requirements of Section 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 and 10.10
hereof, during the quarterly or annual period covered by the statements then
being furnished (including with respect to each such Section, where applicable,
the calculations of the maximum or minimum amount, ratio or percentage, as the
case may be, permissible under the terms of such Sections, and the calculation
of the amount, ratio or percentage then in existence); and
(b) Event of Default -- a statement that such officer has reviewed
the relevant terms hereof and has made, or caused to be made, under his or her
supervision, a review of the transactions and conditions of the Company, LLC and
their respective Subsidiaries from the beginning of the quarterly or annual
period covered by the statements then being furnished to the date of the
certificate and that such review shall not have disclosed the existence during
such period of any condition or event that constitutes a Default or an Event of
Default or, if any such condition or event existed or exists (including, without
limitation, any such event or condition resulting from the failure of the
Company, LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries to comply with any
Environmental Law), specifying the nature and period of existence thereof and
what action the Company or LLC, as applicable, shall have taken or proposes to
take with respect thereto.
7.3. INSPECTION.
The Company shall permit the representatives of each holder of
Subordinated Notes:
(a) No Default -- if no Default or Event of Default then exists, at
the expense of such holder and upon reasonable prior notice to the Company, LLC,
or any Subsidiary of the Company or LLC, as applicable, to visit and inspect any
of their respective offices or properties, to examine all their respective books
of account, records, reports and other papers, to make copies and extracts
therefrom, and to discuss their respective affairs, finances and accounts with
their respective officers, managers and independent public accountants (and by
this provision the Company authorizes, and will cause LLC to authorize, said
accountants to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Company and its
Subsidiaries), all at such reasonable times and as often as may be reasonably
requested in writing; and
(b) Default -- if a Default or Event of Default then exists, at the
expense of the Company to visit and inspect any of the offices or properties of
the Company, LLC or any Subsidiary of the Company or LLC, to examine all their
respective books of account, records, reports and other papers, to make copies
and extracts therefrom, and to discuss their respective affairs, finances and
accounts with their respective officers, managers and independent public
accountants (and by this provision the Company authorizes, and will cause LLC to
authorize, said accountants to discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the
Company and its Subsidiaries), all at such times and as often as may be
requested.
8. PREPAYMENT OF THE SUBORDINATED NOTES AND FUTURE ADVANCES.
8.1. REQUIRED PAYMENTS.
(a) Maturity -- Subject to mandatory prepayments as provided below,
the Company shall make one scheduled installment of principal of and interest on
the Subordinated Notes on April 30, 2010, on which date all Obligations shall
become due and payable without notice or demand.
(b) Excess Cash Flow -- On or prior to the end of any month
immediately following a month in which the Company has Excess Cash Flow, the
Company shall prepay the Obligations in an amount equal to the lesser of (i)
Excess Cash Flow for such preceding month or (ii) $400,000. Promptly following
the receipt of the annual audited financial statements of the Company and the
LLC for the preceding fiscal year, the Company shall prepay the Obligations in
an amount equal to Excess Cash Flow for such preceding fiscal year less the
amount of payments during such preceding year made pursuant to the first
sentence of this Section 8.1(b). Following payment of an aggregate of
$30,000,000 pursuant to this Section 8.1(b), the Company's obligation to make
payments pursuant to this Section 8.1(b) shall be suspended until such time as
the Payment Escrow is fully funded. The Company agrees to use best efforts to
fund the portion of the Payment Escrow described in clause (i) of the definition
of the Payment Escrow as soon as practicable following payment of an aggregate
of $30,000,000 pursuant to this Section 8.1(b). Concurrently with the making of
any such payment, the Company shall deliver to you a certificate of a Senior
Financial Officer demonstrating its calculation of the amount required to be
paid.
(c) Equity Contributions -- Promptly following the receipt of the
annual audited financial statements of the Company and the LLC for the preceding
fiscal year, the Company shall prepay the Obligations in an amount equal to any
cash equity distributions which the Company has received from Snake River Farms
LLC and Snake River Farms II, LLC, provided, however, that the maximum amount
which the Company shall be obligated to prepay pursuant to this Section 8.1(c)
shall be an aggregate of $5,000,000. The Company agrees to cause each of Snake
River Farms LLC and Snake River Farms II, LLC to make equity distributions to
the Company as soon as possible for the purposes of enabling the Company to make
such prepayments.
(d) Payment Escrow and Voting Rights Escrow -- Promptly following
termination of the Payment Escrow or the Voting Rights Escrow, the Company shall
prepay the Obligations in an amount equal to all amounts received by the Company
from such Payment Escrow or the Voting Rights Escrow.
(e) Optional Prepayments -- The Company may, at any time upon not
less than five Business Days' prior notice, prepay all or part of the
Obligations, provided any partial payments shall be in an amount of at least
$50,000. The Obligations may be prepaid or repaid in full or part without any
penalty or premium.
(f) Manner and Time of Payment -- All payments made by the Company
with respect to the Obligations shall be made without any deduction, defense,
setoff, offset or counterclaim. All payments with respect to the Obligations
shall, unless otherwise directed by you, be made in accordance with the terms
and conditions of this Agreement by delivery of such payment to your Account
("LENDER'S ACCOUNT"), ABA No. 071 000 039, Account No. 78-27296, at Bank of
America, Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, Reference: Valhi, Inc. for the benefit of
Snake River Sugar Company. Proceeds remitted to Lender's Account shall be
credited to the Obligations on the Business Day on which received in Lender's
Account in immediately available funds; provided, however, for the purpose of
calculating interest on the Obligations, such funds shall be deemed received on
the first Business Day thereafter.
(g) Application of Payments -- Any prepayments shall be applied,
FIRST, to all fees, costs and expenses incurred by you with respect to this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents; SECOND, to accrued and unpaid interest
on the Obligations; THIRD, to the principal amounts of the Subordinated Notes;
and FOURTH, to any other indebtedness or obligations of the Company owing to
you.
8.2. INTEREST.
(a) Rate -- Prior to January 1, 1999, the outstanding principal
balance of the $80,000,000 Note shall bear interest at a rate per annum (meaning
360 days) equal to 10.99 percent, and commencing January 1, 1999, the
outstanding principal balance of the Subordinated Notes shall bear interest at a
rate per annum (meaning 360 days) equal to 12.99 percent. The outstanding
principal balance, if any, of the Collateral Deposit Note and the Contribution
Note shall bear interest at a rate per annum (meaning 360 days) equal to 10.145
percent. After the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default, each Subordinated Note and all other Obligations shall, at your option,
bear interest at a rate per annum (meaning 360 days) equal to the Default Rate.
(b) Computation and Payment of Interest -- Interest on the
Subordinated Notes and all other Obligations shall be computed on the daily
principal balance on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day
months and shall be payable monthly in arrears on the last day of each month,
provided, however, that interest shall only be payable to the extent of
available Excess Cash Flow as provided in Section 8.1(b). Interest not paid on
a monthly basis will be compounded annually from the applicable monthly date.
Whenever any payment to be made hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day
that is not a Business Day, the payment may be made on the next succeeding
Business Day and such extension of time shall be included in the computation of
the amount of interest or fees due hereunder.
(c) Interest Laws -- Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary
contained in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, the Company shall not
be required to pay, and you shall not be permitted to collect, any amount of
interest in excess of the maximum amount of interest permitted by law ("EXCESS
INTEREST"). If any Excess Interest is provided for or determined by a court of
competent jurisdiction to have been provided for in this Agreement or in any of
the other Loan Documents, then in such event: (i) the provisions of this
subsection shall govern and control; (ii) the Company shall not be obligated to
pay any Excess Interest; (iii) any Excess Interest that you may have received
hereunder shall be, at your option, (a) applied as a credit against the
outstanding principal balance of the Obligations or accrued and unpaid interest
(not to exceed the maximum amount permitted by law), (b) refunded to the payor
thereof, or (c) any combination of the foregoing; (iv) the interest rate(s)
provided for in this Agreement shall be automatically reduced to the maximum
lawful rate allowed from time to time under applicable law (the "MAXIMUM RATE"),
and this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be deemed to have been and
shall be, reformed and modified to reflect such reduction; and (v) the Company
shall not have any action against you for any damages arising out of the payment
or collection of any Excess Interest. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if for any
period of time interest on any Obligations is calculated at the Maximum Rate
rather than the applicable rate under this Agreement, and thereafter such
applicable rate becomes less than the Maximum Rate, the rate of interest payable
on such Obligations shall remain at the Maximum Rate until you shall have
received the amount of interest which you would have received during such period
on such Obligations had the rate of interest not been limited to the Maximum
Rate during such period.
8.3 FEES.
You shall repay to the Company, from amounts paid to you in connection
with the initial closing under this Agreement, an amount equal to $2,000,000
(provided at least $100,000,000 of the original principal amount of the
Subordinated Notes is repaid in full on the Closing). The Company shall pay to
you, for your own account, all charges for returned items and all other bank
charges incurred by you.
8.4. YOUR OBLIGATIONS TO MAKE FUTURE ADVANCES.
(a) Sections 8.2.3 and 9.3.1(b) of the Company Agreement -- Upon
notice from the Company, the LLC, holders of the Senior Notes, any Member of the
LLC or the lenders pursuant to the Bank Loans, that the Company is obligated to
make a capital contribution to the LLC pursuant to the terms of Section 8.2.3 of
the Company Agreement or to return amounts to the Company pursuant to the terms
of Section 9.3.1(b) of the Company Agreement, you agree to advance the Company
an amount equal to any required capital contribution or amount to be returned,
subject to the Company issuing to you a duly executed Contribution Note in the
principal amount of such advance. Such advances will be paid directly to the
LLC on behalf of the Company. The Company agrees that this obligation shall
replace your obligation, as set forth in the letter dated January 3, 1997, to
make such advances, and such letter agreement is hereby terminated. This
obligation shall terminate upon the repayment in full of the Senior Notes.
(b) Voting Rights Escrow -- Upon notice from the Company or
Amalgamated (in its capacity as Company Trustee under the SPT) that the
Amalgamated as the Company Trustee desires that the Company fund the Voting
Rights Escrow pursuant to the terms of the Voting Rights Agreement, you agree to
advance the Company, in one or more advances, cash, cash equivalents or one or
more letters of credit representing all amounts required to be placed in the
Voting Rights Escrow pursuant to the Voting Rights Agreement and the Voting
Rights Collateral Deposit Agreement. Such advances will be paid on behalf of
the Company directly to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Voting Rights
Collateral Deposit Agreement. This obligation shall terminate upon the
repayment in full of the Senior Notes.
9. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS.
The Company covenants that so long as any of the Subordinated Notes
are outstanding:
9.1 COMPLIANCE WITH LAW.
The Company will and will cause LLC and each Subsidiary of the Company
and LLC to comply with all laws, ordinances or governmental rules or regulations
to which each of them is subject, including, without limitation, Environmental
Laws, and will obtain and maintain in effect all licenses, certificates,
permits, franchises and other governmental authorizations necessary to the
ownership of their respective properties or to the conduct of their respective
businesses, in each case to the extent necessary to ensure that non-compliance
with such laws, ordinances or governmental rules or regulations or failures to
obtain or maintain in effect such licenses, certificates, permits, franchises
and other governmental authorizations could not, individually or in the
aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
9.2. INSURANCE.
The Company will and will cause LLC and each Subsidiary of the Company
and LLC to maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurers, insurance
with respect to their respective properties and businesses against such
casualties and contingencies, of such types, on such terms and in such amounts
(including deductibles, co-insurance and self-insurance, if adequate reserves
are maintained with respect thereto) as is customary in the case of entities of
established reputations engaged in the same or a similar business and similarly
situated. Schedule 9.2 lists such insurance policies of Company, LLC and each
Subsidiary of Company and LLC in effect as of the date of Closing.
9.3. MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTIES.
The Company will and will cause LLC and each Subsidiary of the Company
and LLC to maintain and keep, or cause to be maintained and kept, their
respective properties in good repair, working order and condition (other than
ordinary wear and tear), so that the business carried on in connection therewith
may be properly conducted at all times, provided that this Section shall not
prevent the Company, LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries from
discontinuing the operation and the maintenance of any of its properties if such
discontinuance is desirable in the conduct of its business and the Company or
LLC, as the case may be, has concluded that such discontinuance could not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
9.4. PAYMENT OF TAXES AND CLAIMS.
The Company will and will cause LLC and each Subsidiary of the Company
and LLC to file all tax returns required to be filed in any jurisdiction and to
pay and discharge all taxes shown to be due and payable on such returns and all
other taxes, assessments, governmental charges, or levies imposed on them or any
of their properties, assets, income or franchises, to the extent such taxes and
assessments have become due and payable and before they have become delinquent
and all claims for which sums have become due and payable that have or might
become a Lien on properties or assets of the Company, LLC or any of their
respective Subsidiaries, provided that neither the Company nor LLC or any of
their respective Subsidiaries need pay any such tax or assessment or claims if
the amount, applicability or validity thereof is contested by the Company, LLC
or such Subsidiary on a timely basis in good faith and in appropriate
proceedings, and the Company or a Subsidiary has established adequate reserves
therefor in accordance with GAAP on the books of the Company, LLC or such
Subsidiary.
9.5 EXISTENCE; TAX STATUS; ETC.
The Company will at all times preserve and keep in full force and
effect its cooperative existence as an Oregon cooperative and shall maintain its
tax status as a tax-exempt agricultural cooperative at all times. The Company
will at all times preserve and keep in full force and effect the limited
liability company existence of LLC and all rights and franchises (including,
without limitation, licenses and permits) of LLC. Subject to Section 10.2, the
Company will at all times preserve and keep in full force and effect the
existence of each of its Subsidiaries and all rights and franchises (including,
without limitation, licenses and permits) of the Company and its Subsidiaries
unless, in the good faith judgment of the Company, the termination of or failure
to preserve and keep in full force and effect such existence, right or franchise
could not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
Subject to Section 10.2, the Company will cause LLC to at all times preserve and
keep in full force and effect the corporate existence of each Subsidiary of LLC
and all rights and franchises (including, without limitation, licenses and
permits) of LLC and its Subsidiaries unless, in the good faith judgment of LLC,
the termination of or failure to preserve and keep in full force and effect such
corporate existence, right or franchise could not, individually or in the
aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
9.6. MAINTENANCE OF REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY.
The Company will cause LLC to at all times keep in full force and
effect a revolving credit facility with a minimum aggregate availability
(including outstanding amounts) of $50,000,000 with terms substantially similar
or more favorable to LLC than those in existence at the date of the Closing
under the Bank Agreement, with a remaining term to scheduled facility
termination of at least six months as of any date of determination.
9.7. [SECTION RESERVED].
9.8. [SECTION RESERVED].
9.9. [SECTION RESERVED].
9.10. TAX STATUS OF LLC.
The Company will cause LLC at all times to be treated for federal
income tax purposes as a partnership.
9.11. PAYMENTS BY DUAL PAYMENT CHECK.
The Company will, and will cause LLC to make all payments to a grower
by means of a dual payment check if any lender has given legally effective
notice from any lender to such grower that such lender has a Lien on the sugar
beets sold by such grower to the Company.
10. NEGATIVE COVENANTS.
The Company covenants that so long as any of the Subordinated Notes
are outstanding or any amount remains owing hereunder:
10.1. TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES.
The Company will not and will not permit LLC or any Subsidiary of the
Company or LLC to enter into directly or indirectly any transaction or Material
group of related transactions (including without limitation the purchase, lease,
sale or exchange of properties of any kind or the rendering of any service) with
any Affiliate, except (i) the purchase by the Company of sugarbeets from the
Company's shareholders pursuant to the Grower Contracts, (ii) as set forth on
Schedule 10.1, (iii) the Year-End Transactions, (iv) in the ordinary course and
pursuant to the reasonable requirements of the Company's, LLC's or such
Subsidiary's business and upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to
the Company, LLC or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, than would be
obtainable in a comparable arm's-length transaction with a Person not an
Affiliate, (v) transactions between the Company and any Subsidiary of the
Company (other than LLC and its Subsidiaries) and (vi) transactions between LLC
and any Subsidiary of LLC.
10.2. MERGER, CONSOLIDATION, ETC.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit LLC or any Subsidiary of
the Company or LLC to, consolidate with or merge with any other corporation or
otherwise effect a recapitalization or restructuring or convey, transfer or
lease (a "TRANSFER") any of its assets in a single transaction or series of
transactions to any Person or Persons except that:
(a) the Company, LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries may
Transfer assets in the ordinary course of their business;
(b) any Subsidiary of the Company may merge with the Company or with
a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company (other than LLC or a Subsidiary of
LLC), provided that the Company or such Wholly-Owned Subsidiary shall be the
survivor of such merger;
(c) any Subsidiary of LLC may merge with LLC or the Company or with a
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of LLC or the Company, provided that LLC, the Company or
such Wholly-Owned Subsidiary shall be the survivor of such merger;
(d) any Subsidiary of the Company may Transfer its assets to the
Company or any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company (other than to LLC or a
Subsidiary of LLC);
(e) any Subsidiary of LLC may Transfer its assets to LLC, the Company
or any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of LLC or the Company;
(f) the Company may consolidate or merge with another corporation if
(i) the Company is the continuing or surviving company and (ii) immediately
before and after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of De-
fault exists or would exist; and
(g) the Company, LLC and any of their respective Subsidiaries may
Transfer assets of the Company, LLC or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, if
all of the following conditions shall have been satisfied with respect thereto:
(i) such Transfer does not involve a Substantial Part of the assets of the
Company, LLC and their respective Subsidiaries, (ii) in the good faith opinion
of the Company, the Transfer is in exchange for consideration with a Fair Market
Value at least equal to that of the property Transferred, and is in the best
interests of the Company and (iii) immediately before and after giving effect to
such Transfer no Default or Event of Default exists or would exist.
No such Transfer of assets of the Company, LLC or any of their respective
Subsidiaries shall have the effect of releasing the Company, LLC or any of their
respective Subsidiaries or any successor corporation that shall theretofore have
become such a successor corporation in the manner prescribed in this
Section 10.2 from its liability under this Agreement, any other Transaction
Document or the Subordinated Notes.
10.3. LIENS.
The Company will not, and will not permit LLC or any Subsidiary of the
Company or LLC to, directly or indirectly create, incur, assume or permit to
exist (upon the happening of a contingency or otherwise) any Lien on or with
respect to any property or asset (including, without limitation, any document or
instrument in respect of goods or accounts receivable) of the Company, LLC or
any such Subsidiary, whether now owned or held or hereafter acquired, or any
income or profits therefrom (whether or not provision is made for the equal and
ratable securing of the Subordinated Notes in accordance with the last paragraph
of this Section 10.3), or assign or otherwise convey any right to receive income
or profits, except:
(a) Liens securing the Senior Notes;
(b) Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental levies or
charges not yet due or which are subject to a Good Faith Contest;
(c) statutory Liens of landlords and Liens of carriers, warehousemen,
mechanics and materialmen incurred in the ordinary course of business that do
not secure Debt and are for sums not yet due or subject to a Good Faith Contest;
(d) Liens on property or assets of a Subsidiary of the Company to
secure obligations of such Subsidiary to the Company;
(e) Liens on property or assets of a Subsidiary of LLC to secure
obligations of such Subsidiary to the Company or LLC, as the case may be;
(f) Liens (other than any Lien imposed by ERISA) incurred, or
deposits made, in the ordinary course of business such as workers' compensation
Liens or statutory or legal obligation Liens; provided, however, that such Liens
were not incurred or made in connection with the borrowing of money, or the
obtaining of advances or credit;
(g) Liens on accounts, inventory, the sugar processing factory of
Nampa, Idaho and related assets of LLC that on the Closing Date secure the Bank
Loans in an amount not to exceed at any time $120,000,000;
(h) Liens on inventory of LLC to secure the obligations of LLC under
CCC Loans permitted by Section 10.7;
(i) minor survey exceptions or minor encumbrances, easements or
reservations and related Liens, that are necessary for the conduct of the
operations of the Company, LLC and their respective Subsidiaries and that do not
secure Debt; and
(j) purchase money Liens provided such Liens (i) secure only the
asset so purchased and (ii) the obligations secured by such Lien do not exceed,
at any time, $2,000,000.
10.4. SUBSIDIARY DEBT.
The Company will not at any time permit any Subsidiary of the Company
or LLC to, directly, or indirectly, create, incur, assume, guarantee, have
outstanding, or otherwise become or remain directly or indirectly liable with
respect to, any Debt except (a) Debt existing on the date of the Closing and set
forth in Schedule 10.4, (b) Debt owed by Subsidiaries of the Company to the
Company, (c) Debt owed by Subsidiaries of LLC to LLC or the Company, (d) to the
extent not referenced above, Debt of the LLC permitted by Section 10.7 hereof,
and (e) additional Debt not to exceed $1,000,000 in the aggregate.
10.5. RESTRICTED PAYMENTS.
The Company will not, and will not permit LLC or any Subsidiary of the
Company or LLC to, at any time, make, pay, or declare any Restricted Payments,
except:
(a) LLC may make payments to the Company and in accordance with
Section 9.3.1 of the Company Agreement as amended at Closing and to the holder
of the AGM Interest in accordance with Section 9.3.1(a) and Section 9.3.1(b)(i)
of the Company Agreement as amended at Closing;
(b) so long as no Event of Default referred to in Section 11(a) shall
have occurred and be continuing and the Subordinated Notes have not been
accelerated, the Company may make distributions to its shareholders each year in
the minimum amount necessary to preserve the Company's cooperative status for
federal tax purposes;
(c) the Company may make distributions to its shareholders each year
which, together with amounts described in clause (b) above, do not exceed 30% of
the Company's taxable income that is imputed to such shareholders, if prior to
and after giving effect to such distributions no Default or Event of Default
exists or would result therefrom;
(d) LLC and the Company may make payments required pursuant to the
Indemnification and Post-Closing Agreement; and
(e) the Company and LLC may perform their respective obligations
under Section 18.1 and Section 17.2 of the Company Agreement.
10.6. DEBT.
The Company will not, and will not permit LLC to, directly or
indirectly, create, incur, assume, guarantee, have outstanding or otherwise
become or remain directly or indirectly liable with respect to, Debt during the
period commencing on the date of Closing and ending on the third anniversary of
such date, except for:
(a) the Senior Notes, Debt in existence on the date of the Closing
and set forth on Schedule 10.6 and any extensions or renewals thereof;
(b) Debt of LLC permitted by Section 10.7; and
(c) additional Debt not to exceed $2,000,000 in the aggregate.
10.7. DEBT OF LLC.
The Company will not permit LLC or any Subsidiary of LLC to, directly
or indirectly, create, incur, assume, guarantee, have outstanding, or otherwise
become or remain directly or indirectly liable with respect to, (i) any
Consolidated Funded Debt or (ii) any Consolidated Current Debt, except for (A)
the CCC Loans (provided that at any time that the CCC Loans are recourse to LLC,
LLC will not have any CCC Loans outstanding unless there shall have been during
the immediately preceding twelve months a period of at least 60 consecutive days
on each day of which there shall have been no CCC Loans outstanding in excess of
$25,000,000) and (B) the Bank Loans, provided that there shall have been during
the immediately preceding twelve months a period of at least 60 consecutive days
on each day of which there shall have been no Bank Loans outstanding in excess
of $65,000,000.
10.8. FINANCIAL COVENANTS.
(a) The Company will not permit, as at the end of each fiscal quarter
of the Company, the ratio of Consolidated Senior Debt to Distributable Cash for
the period of four LLC fiscal quarters ending on or closest (but prior) to such
date (provided, however, that for the quarter of LLC ended March 31, 1997, such
ratio shall be determined on an annualized basis based solely on such quarter)
to exceed (i) 5.50:1.00 from the date of the Closing to and including
November 30, 2000; (ii) 5.00:1.00 from December 1, 2001 to and including
November 30, 2003; (iii) 4.50:1.00 from December 1, 2004 to and including
November 30, 2006; and (iv) 3.50:1.00 thereafter.
(b) The Company will not permit, as at the end of each fiscal quarter
of the Company, the ratio of Consolidated Total Debt to Distributable Cash for
the period of four LLC fiscal quarters ending on or closest (but prior) to such
date (provided, however, that for the quarter of LLC ended March 31, 1997, such
ratio shall be determined on an annualized basis based solely on such quarter)
to exceed (i) 7.50:1.00 from the date of the Closing to and including August 31,
1997; (ii) 7.25:1.00 from September 1, 1997 to and including November 30, 2000;
(iii) 6.75:1.00 from December 1, 2001 to and including November 30, 2003;
(iv) 6.00:1.00 from December 1, 2004 to and including November 30, 2006; and
(v) 5.00:1.00 thereafter.
(c) The Company will not permit, as at the end of any fiscal quarter
of the Company, the ratio of (x) the sum of Distributable Cash for the period of
four LLC fiscal quarters ending on or closest (but prior) to such date and
Consolidated operating lease and rent payments of the Company and its
Subsidiaries for the period of four fiscal quarters ending on such date
(provided, however, that for the quarter of LLC ended March 31, 1997, such ratio
shall be determined on an annualized basis based solely on such quarter) to (y)
Consolidated Fixed Charges to be less than (i) 1.50:1.00 from the date of the
Closing to and including November 30, 2001; (ii) 1.60:1.00 from December 1, 2002
to and including November 30, 2005; (iii) 1.75:1.00 at all times thereafter.
(d) The Company will not permit LLC to have at any time a ratio of
(i) accounts receivable plus inventory on a FIFO basis (excluding sugar that is
collateral for CCC Loans), to (ii) the aggregate outstanding amount of the Bank
Loans, of less than 1.60:1.00.
(e) The Company will not permit LLC to have at any time a ratio of
Consolidated current assets to Consolidated current liabilities of less than
0.70:1.00.
(f) The Company will not permit Consolidated Tangible Net Worth at
any time to be less than the sum of (i) $70,000,000 plus (ii) 50% of positive
Consolidated Net Income for each fiscal year from and after the date of the
Closing.
(g) The Company will not permit Consolidated operating expenses of
the Company and its Subsidiaries (other than LLC and its Subsidiaries) in any
calendar month to exceed $35,000 plus the amount of fees and expenses for such
month of the Collateral Agent, the SPT and the Resident Trustee of the SPT in
connection with the transactions contemplated in the Transaction Documents and
the fees and expenses of counsel incurred in such month in connection with the
opinion referred to in Section 9.9.
10.9. INVESTMENTS.
The Company will not, and will not permit LLC or any Subsidiary of the
Company or LLC to, declare, make or authorize any Investment except the
following:
(a) Investments existing on the date of the Closing and set forth in
Schedule 10.9.
(b) Investments in direct obligations of the United States of America
or obligations fully guaranteed by the United States of America, provided that
such obligations mature within one year from the date acquired;
(c) Investments in certificates of deposit maturing within one year
from the date acquired and issued by a bank or trust company organized under the
laws of the United States or any or its states, rated AA or better by Standard
and Poor's Ratings Group, a division of McGraw Hill, Inc. or Aa2 or better by
Moody's Investors Service, Inc., and having capital, surplus and undivided
profits aggregating at least $750,000,000;
(d) Investments in commercial paper rated A1 by Standard and Poor's
Ratings Group, a division of McGraw Hill, Inc. or P1 by Moody's Investors
Service, Inc. and maturing not more than 270 days from the date acquired;
(e) loans and advances (i) by the Company to its Subsidiaries (other
than LLC and Subsidiaries of LLC) and (ii) by the LLC to its Subsidiaries;
(f) loans and advances (i) by Subsidiaries of the Company (other than
LLC and subsidiaries of LLC) to the Company (provided that the obligations with
respect to such loans and advances are subordinated to the Subordinated Notes in
form and substance satisfactory to the Required Holders), (ii) by Subsidiaries
of LLC to LLC, (iii) between Subsidiaries of the Company (other than LLC and
Subsidiaries of LLC) and (iv) between Subsidiaries of LLC;
(g) travel and other business advances to officers and employees of
the Company, LLC or any Subsidiary of the Company or LLC in the ordinary course
of business;
(h) capital contributions to LLC required by Section 8.2.3 of the
Company Agreement;
(i) capital contributions by the Company to LLC for the purpose of
permitting LLC to pay the Bank Loans, provided such capital contributions are
funded by the imposition of a Unit Retain (excluding any Unit Retain referred to
in Section 9.8 of the Note Purchase Agreements) and provided further that the
Company prepays the Subordinated Notes in an amount equal to any such capital
contribution;
(j) other Investments not to exceed an aggregate amount of
$1,500,000.
10.10. CAPITAL EXPENDITURES.
The Company, LLC and their respective Subsidiaries shall not make or
commit to make capital expenditures in an aggregate amount exceeding $35,000,000
on a consolidated basis during any fiscal year and the two previous fiscal
years; provided, however, that (A) to the extent such limit has been reached
during any fiscal year, the Company, LLC and their respective Subsidiaries may
make capital expenditures reasonably required to be made in such fiscal year by
legal or regulatory requirements, (B) commencing with LLC's fiscal year
beginning on January 1, 1998 and on each January 1 thereafter, the $35 million
aggregate threshold shall be adjusted by an amount equal to the change since
January 1, 1997 in the U.S. producer price index for refined beet sugar (as
shown on the most currently available publication) (or, if such index is no
longer available, the closest comparable U.S. producer price index available, as
reasonably determined by LLC), (C) the limitation set forth in this Section
10.10 shall not apply to capital expenditures which are financed with Debt
incurred by LLC specifically for the purpose of making such capital
expenditures, so long as such Debt is permitted to be incurred under Section
10.7, (D) for purposes of this Section 10.10, capital expenditures for each
fiscal year prior to January 1, 1997 shall be deemed to be an amount equal to
$10,000,000; provided further that if, pursuant to the Company Agreement,
Amalgamated or SPT shall have consented to the making of capital expenditures by
LLC in excess of the foregoing amounts, the Company, LLC and their respective
Subsidiaries may make capital expenditures in an aggregate amount not exceeding
(i) $18,000,000 in any rolling twelve month period and (ii) $44,000,000 in any
rolling 36 month period.
10.11 RESTRICTIONS ON SUBSIDIARIES.
The Company will not at any time permit any Subsidiary of the Company
or LLC to incur or permit to exist any restriction on such Subsidiary's ability
to make payments or other distributions to the Company, LLC or their respective
Subsidiaries, to repay intra-company Debt or to otherwise transfer earnings or
assets to the Company, LLC or their respective Subsidiaries, except, in the case
of LLC, limitations set forth in the Company Agreement and the Bank Agreement,
in each case as in effect on the date of Closing and, in the case of Snake River
Farms, LLC and Snake River Farms II, LLC, limitations set forth in the Henry's
Fork Loan Agreement and the Midwest Loan Agreement, in each case as in effect of
the date of the Closing.
10.12. SALE-AND-LEASEBACKS.
The Company will not, and will not permit LLC or any Subsidiary of the
Company or LLC to, enter into or otherwise engage in any Sale-and-Leaseback
Transaction.
10.13. SALE OF STOCK OF SUBSIDIARY, ETC.
The Company, LLC and their Subsidiaries will not Transfer, or part
with control of, any shares of stock (or other equity interests) or Debt of any
Subsidiary thereof, except (i) the Company, LLC or any of their respective
Subsidiaries may Transfer shares of stock (or other equity interests) or Debt of
any Subsidiary of the Company or LLC to the Company or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary
of the Company (and, if the Subsidiary in question is a Subsidiary of LLC, to
LLC or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary thereof) and (ii) the Company, LLC or any of
their respective Subsidiaries may Transfer all shares of stock (or other equity
interests) and all Debt of such a Subsidiary if (a) the Transfer is in exchange
for cash consideration with a Fair Market Value at least equal to that of the
property transferred (determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the
Company), (b) such Transfer is otherwise permitted under Section 10.2 and (c) at
the time of such Transfer, such Subsidiary shall not own, directly or
indirectly, any shares of stock (or other equity interests) or Debt of any other
Subsidiary (unless all of the shares of stock (or other equity interests) and
Debt of such other Subsidiary owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company, LLC
and all Subsidiaries are simultaneously being sold). The Company will not
permit LLC, after the date of the Closing, to issue any membership interests
other than the SR Interest and the AGM Interest (each as defined on the Company
Agreement) outstanding on the date of Closing.
10.14. [SECTION RESERVED].
10.15. [SECTION RESERVED].
10.16. LINE OF BUSINESS.
The Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary of LLC or the
Company (other than LLC) to, engage in any business which is not substantially
the same as or directly related to the business in which the Company and such
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, are engaged on the date of this Agreement.
LLC's business shall be the production and sale of sugar and by-products and the
Company will not permit the LLC to otherwise violate Article III of the Company
Agreement.
10.17. RECEIVABLES.
The Company will not, and will not permit LLC or any Subsidiary of the
Company or LLC to, enter into any agreement, understanding, commitment or other
transaction, the effect of which is or otherwise would be to sell, pledge,
encumber or in any way transfer, or subject to any security interest, such
Person's accounts receivable except for Liens on accounts receivable of LLC
securing Debt outstanding under the Bank Agreement.
10.18. [SECTION RESERVED].
11. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
An "EVENT OF DEFAULT" shall exist if any of the following conditions
or events shall occur and be continuing:
(a) the Company defaults in the payment of any principal or interest
on any Subordinated Note when the same becomes due and payable, whether at
maturity or at a date fixed for prepayment or by declaration or otherwise and
such default continues for a period of five days or the Company defaults in the
payment when due of any other amount payable hereunder or under any of the
Transaction Documents to the holder of any Subordinated Note and such default
continues for a period of five days; provided that (i) after the occurrence of
any Delayed Payment in any calendar year, an Event of Default shall exist if
during such calendar year the Company defaults in the payment of any principal
or interest on any Subordinated Note when the same becomes due and payable,
whether at maturity or at a date fixed for prepayment or by declaration or
otherwise or the Company defaults in the payment when due of any other amount
payable hereunder or under any of the Transaction Documents to the holder of any
Subordinated Note and (ii) after the occurrence of six Delayed Payments an Event
of Default shall exist if the Company defaults in the payment of any principal
or interest on any Subordinated Note when the same becomes due and payable,
whether at maturity or at a date fixed for prepayment or by declaration or
otherwise or the Company defaults in the payment when due of any other amount
payable hereunder or under any of the Transaction Documents to the holder of any
Subordinated Note; or
(b) the Company defaults in the performance of or compliance with any
term contained in Section 7.1(d), Section 9.10 or Section 10; or
(c) the Company defaults in the performance of or compliance with any
term contained herein (other than those referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of
this Section 11) and such default is not remedied within 30 days after the
earlier of (i) a Responsible Officer obtaining actual knowledge of such default
and (ii) the Company receiving written notice of such default from any holder of
a Subordinated Note (any such written notice to be identified as a "notice of
default" and to refer specifically to this paragraph (c) of Section 11); or
(d) any representation or warranty made in writing by or on behalf of
the Company or by any officer of the Company or LLC in this Agreement or in any
writing furnished in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby proves
to have been false or incorrect in any material respect on the date as of which
made; or
(e) (i) the payment of any principal of or premium or make-whole
amount or interest on the Senior Debt, the Bank Loans, any CCC Loan or any other
Debt that is outstanding is accelerated according to its terms and declared due
and payable before its stated maturity or before its regularly scheduled dates
of payment, or (ii) as a consequence of the occurrence or continuation of any
event or condition (other than the passage of time or the right of the holder of
Debt to convert such Debt into equity interests), the Company, LLC or any
Subsidiary of the Company or LLC has become obligated to purchase or repay the
Senior Notes, the Bank Loans, such CCC Loan or such other Debt before its
regular maturity or before its regularly scheduled dates of payment; provided
that in the case of Debt other than the Senior Notes, the Bank Loans or any CCC
Loan, the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof subject to clauses (i)
and/or (ii) above is $1,000,000 or more; or
(f) the Company, LLC, or any Subsidiary of the Company or LLC (i) is
generally not paying, or admits in writing its inability to pay, its debts as
they become due, (ii) files, or consents by answer or otherwise to the filing
against it of, a petition for relief or reorganization or arrangement or any
other petition in bankruptcy, for liquidation or to take advantage of any
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar law of any
jurisdiction, (iii) makes an assignment for the benefit of its creditors,
(iv) consents to the appointment of a custodian, receiver, trustee or other
officer with similar powers with respect to it or with respect to any
substantial part of its property, (v) is adjudicated as insolvent or to be
liquidated, (vi) consents to any other marshalling of its assets, (vii) takes
corporate action for the purpose of any of the foregoing; or
(g) a court or governmental authority of competent jurisdiction
enters an order appointing, without consent by the Company, LLC, or any
Subsidiary of the Company or LLC (as applicable), a custodian, receiver, trustee
or other officer with similar powers with respect to it or with respect to any
substantial part of its property, or constituting an order for relief or
approving a petition for relief or reorganization or any other petition in
bankruptcy or for liquidation or to take advantage of any bankruptcy or
insolvency law of any jurisdiction, or ordering the dissolution, winding-up or
liquidation of the Company, LLC, or any Subsidiary of the Company or LLC or the
marshalling of its assets, or any such petition shall be filed against the
Company, LLC, or any Subsidiary of the Company or LLC and such petition shall
not be dismissed within 60 days; or
(h) a final judgment or judgments for the payment of money
aggregating in excess of $1,000,000 are rendered against one or more of the
Company, LLC and their Subsidiaries and which judgments are not, within 60 days
after entry thereof, bonded, discharged or stayed pending appeal, or are not
discharged within 60 days after the expiration of such stay; or
(i) if (i) any Plan shall fail to satisfy the minimum funding
standards of ERISA or the Code for any plan year or part thereof or a waiver of
such standards or extension of any amortization period is sought or granted
under section 412 of the Code, (ii) a notice of intent to terminate any Plan
shall have been or is reasonably expected to be filed with the PBGC or the PBGC
shall have instituted proceedings under ERISA section 4042 to terminate or
appoint a trustee to administer any Plan or the PBGC shall have notified the
Company, LLC or any ERISA Affiliate that a Plan may become a subject of any such
proceedings, (iii) the aggregate "amount of unfunded benefit liabilities"
(within the meaning of section 4001(a)(18) of ERISA) under all Plans of the
Company, LLC and any of their respective Subsidiaries, determined in accordance
with Title IV of ERISA, shall exceed $2,500,000, (iv) the Company, LLC or any
ERISA Affiliate shall have incurred or is reasonably expected to incur any
liability pursuant to Title I or IV of ERISA or the penalty or excise tax
provisions of the Code relating to employee benefit plans, (v) the Company, LLC
or any ERISA Affiliate withdraws from any Multiemployer Plan, or (vi) the
Company, LLC or any Subsidiary of either establishes or amends any employee
welfare benefit plan that provides post-employment welfare benefits in a manner
that would increase the liability of the Company, LLC or any Subsidiary
thereunder; and any such event or events described in clauses (i) through (vi)
above, either individually or together with any other such event or events,
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; or
(j) a Change in Control Event occurs; or
(k) any Governmental Authority takes any action that results in a
Material Adverse Effect on the Company or LLC.
As used in Section 11(i), the terms "EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN" and "EMPLOYEE
WELFARE BENEFIT PLAN" shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms
in Section 3 of ERISA; provided that for purposes of Section 11(i)(iv), the term
Plan shall exclude any excess benefit plan as defined in Section 3(36) of ERISA
and any plan maintained by an employer primarily for the purpose of providing
deferred compensation for a select group of management or highly compensated
employees.
12. REMEDIES ON DEFAULT, ETC.
12.1. ACCELERATION.
(a) If an Event of Default with respect to the Company or LLC
described in paragraph (f) or (g) of Section 11 (other than an Event of Default
described in clause (i) of paragraph (f) or described in clause (vi) of
paragraph (f) by virtue of the fact that such clause encompasses clause (i) of
paragraph (f)) has occurred, all the Subordinated Notes then outstanding shall
automatically become immediately due and payable.
(b) If any other Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any
holder or holders of more than 66 2/3% in principal amount of the Subordinated
Notes at the time outstanding may at any time at its or their option, by notice
or notices to the Company, declare all the Subordinated Notes then outstanding
to be immediately due and payable.
(c) If any Event of Default described in paragraph (a) of Section 11
has occurred and is continuing, any holder or holders of Subordinated Notes at
the time outstanding affected by such Event of Default may at any time, at its
or their option, by notice or notices to the Company, declare all the
Subordinated Notes held by it or them to be immediately due and payable.
Upon any Subordinated Notes becoming due and payable under this
Section 12.1, whether automatically or by declaration, such Subordinated Notes
will forthwith mature and the entire unpaid principal amount of such
Subordinated Notes, plus all accrued and unpaid interest thereon shall all be
immediately due and payable, in each and every case without presentment, demand,
protest or further notice, all of which are hereby waived.
12.2. OTHER REMEDIES.
If any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and
irrespective of whether any Subordinated Notes have become or have been declared
immediately due and payable under Section 12.1, the holder of any Subordinated
Note at the time outstanding may proceed to protect and enforce the rights of
such holder by an action at law, suit in equity or other appropriate proceeding,
whether for the specific performance of any agreement contained herein or in any
Subordinated Note, or for an injunction against a violation of any of the terms
hereof or thereof, or in aid of the exercise of any power granted hereby or
thereby or by law or otherwise.
12.3. RESCISSION.
At any time after any Subordinated Notes have been declared due and
payable pursuant to clause (b) or (c) of Section 12.1, the holders of not less
than 66 2/3% in principal amount of the Subordinated Notes then outstanding, by
written notice to the Company, may rescind and annul any such declaration and
its consequences if (a) the Company has paid all overdue interest on the
Subordinated Notes and all principal on any Subordinated Notes that are due and
payable and are unpaid other than by reason of such declaration, and all
interest on such overdue principal and (to the extent permitted by applicable
law) any overdue interest in respect of the Subordinated Notes, at the Default
Rate, (b) all Events of Default and Defaults, other than non-payment of amounts
that have become due solely by reason of such declaration, have been cured or
have been waived pursuant to Section 17, and (c) no judgment or decree has been
entered for the payment of any monies due pursuant hereto or to the Subordinated
Notes. No rescission and annulment under this Section 12.3 will extend to or
affect any subsequent Event of Default or Default or impair any right consequent
thereon.
12.4. NO WAIVERS OR ELECTION OF REMEDIES, EXPENSES, ETC.
No course of dealing and no delay on the part of any holder of any
Subordinated Note in exercising any right, power or remedy shall operate as a
waiver thereof or otherwise prejudice such holder's rights, powers or remedies.
No right, power or remedy conferred by this Agreement or by any Subordinated
Note upon any holder thereof shall be exclusive of any other right, power or
remedy referred to herein or therein or now or hereafter available at law, in
equity, by statute or otherwise. Without limiting the obligations of the
Company under Section 15, the Company will pay to the holder of each
Subordinated Note on demand such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover
all costs and expenses of such holder incurred in any enforcement or collection
under this Section 12, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys'
fees, expenses and disbursements.
12.5. SET OFF.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the Subordination Agreement and
in addition to any rights now or hereafter granted under applicable law and not
by way of limitation of any such rights, upon the occurrence of any Event of
Default, you, each assignee of your interest, and each participant is hereby
authorized by the Company at any time or from time to time, without notice to
the Company or to any other Person, any such notice being hereby expressly
waived, to set off and to appropriate and to apply any and all balances held by
it at any of its offices for the account of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries (regardless of whether such balances are then due to the Company or
its Subsidiaries) and any other property at any time held or owing by you or
such assignee or participant to or for the credit or for the account of the
Company against and on account of any of the Obligations then outstanding;
provided, that no participant shall exercise such right without your the prior
written consent.
The Company hereby agrees, to the fullest extent permitted by law,
that you, any assignee or participant may exercise your or its right of setoff
with respect to amounts in excess of your or its pro rata share of the
Obligations (or, in the case of a participant, in excess of its pro rata
participation interest in the Obligations) and that you or such assignee or
participant, as the case may be, shall be deemed to have purchased for cash in
the amount of such excess, participations in each other holder's share of the
Obligations.
12.6. SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT.
The Subordinated Notes are subordinate to the Senior Notes to the
extent set forth in the Subordination Agreement, which contains certain limits
on the ability of the holders of the Subordinated Notes to exercise remedies and
receive payments and contains certain other terms and conditions.
13. REGISTRATION; EXCHANGE; SUBSTITUTION OF NOTES.
13.1. REGISTRATION OF SUBORDINATED NOTES.
The Company shall keep at its principal executive office a register
for the registration and registration of transfers of Subordinated Notes. The
name and address of each holder of one or more Subordinated Notes, each transfer
thereof and the name and address of each transferee of one or more Subordinated
Notes shall be registered in such register. Prior to due presentment for
registration of transfer, the Person in whose name any Subordinated Note shall
be registered shall be deemed and treated as the owner and holder thereof for
all purposes hereof, and the Company shall not be affected by any notice or
knowledge to the contrary. The Company shall give to any holder of a
Subordinated Note that is an Institutional Investor promptly upon request
therefor, a complete and correct copy of the names and addresses of all
registered holders of Subordinated Notes.
13.2. TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF SUBORDINATED NOTES.
Upon surrender of any Subordinated Note at the principal executive
office of the Company for registration of transfer or exchange (and in the case
of a surrender for registration of transfer, duly endorsed or accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer duly executed by the registered holder of such
Subordinated Note or his attorney duly authorized in writing and accompanied by
the address for notices of each transferee of such Subordinated Note or part
thereof), the Company shall execute and deliver, at the Company's expense
(except as provided below), one or more new Subordinated Notes (as requested by
the holder thereof) in exchange therefor, in an aggregate principal amount equal
to the unpaid principal amount of the surrendered Subordinated Note. Each such
new Subordinated Note shall be payable to such Person as such holder may request
and shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit 1. Each such new Subordinated
Note shall be dated and bear interest from the date to which interest shall have
been paid on the surrendered Subordinated Note or dated the date of the
surrendered Subordinated Note if no interest shall have been paid thereon. The
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any stamp tax or
governmental charge imposed in respect of any such transfer of Subordinated
Notes. Subordinated Notes shall not be transferred in denominations of less
than $100,000, provided that if necessary to enable the registration of transfer
by a holder of its entire holding of Subordinated Notes, one Subordinated Note
may be in a denomination of less than $100,000. Any transferee, by its
acceptance of a Subordinated Note registered in its name (or the name of its
nominee), shall be deemed to have made the representation set forth in Section
6.2.
13.3. REPLACEMENT OF SUBORDINATED NOTES.
Upon receipt by the Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to it
of the ownership of and the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of any
Subordinated Note (which evidence shall be, in the case of an Institutional
Investor, notice from such Institutional Investor of such ownership and such
loss, theft, destruction or mutilation), and
(a) in the case of loss, theft or destruction, of indemnity
reasonably satisfactory to it (provided that if the holder of such Subordinated
Note is, or is a nominee for, you or another holder of a Subordinated Note with
a minimum net worth of at least $100,000,000, such Person's own unsecured
agreement of indemnity shall be deemed to be satisfactory), or
(b) in the case of mutilation, upon surrender and cancellation
thereof,
the Company at its own expense shall execute and deliver, in lieu thereof, a new
Subordinated Note, dated and bearing interest from the date to which interest
shall have been paid on such lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated Subordinated
Note or dated the date of such lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated Subordinated
Note if no interest shall have been paid thereon.
14. [SECTION RESERVED].
15. EXPENSES, ETC.
15.1. TRANSACTION EXPENSES.
The Company will pay all costs and expenses (including reasonable
attorneys' fees of a special counsel and, if reasonably required, local or other
counsel) incurred by you and each other holder of a Subordinated Note incurred
after the Closing in connection with any amendments, waivers or consents under
or in respect of this Agreement, the Transaction Documents or the Subordinated
Notes (whether or not such amendment, waiver or consent becomes effective),
including, without limitation: (a) the costs and expenses incurred in enforcing
or defending (or determining whether or how to enforce or defend) any rights
under this Agreement, the Transaction Documents or the Subordinated Notes or in
responding to any subpoena or other legal process or informal investigative
demand issued in connection with this Agreement or the Subordinated Notes, or by
reason of being a holder of any Subordinated Note, and (b) the costs and
expenses, including financial advisors' fees, incurred in connection with the
insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, LLC, any Subsidiary of the Company or
LLC or in connection with any work-out or restructuring of the transactions
contemplated hereby and by the Subordinated Notes. The Company will pay, and
will save you and each other holder of a Subordinated Note harmless from, all
claims in respect of any fees, costs or expenses if any, of brokers and finders
(other than those retained by you).
15.2. SURVIVAL.
The obligations of the Company under this Section 15 will survive the
payment or transfer of any Subordinated Note, the enforcement, amendment or
waiver of any provision of this Agreement or the Subordinated Notes, and the
termination of this Agreement.
16. SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; ENTIRE AGREEMENT.
All representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the
execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Subordinated Notes, the
purchase or transfer by you of any Subordinated Note or portion thereof or
interest therein and the payment of any Subordinated Note, and may be relied
upon by any subsequent holder of a Subordinated Note, regardless of any
investigation made at any time by or on behalf of you or any other holder of a
Subordinated Note. All statements contained in any certificate or other
instrument delivered by or on behalf of the Company or LLC pursuant to this
Agreement shall be deemed representations and warranties of the Company under
this Agreement. Subject to the preceding sentence, this Agreement and the
Subordinated Notes embody the entire agreement and understanding between you and
the Company and supersede all prior agreements and understandings relating to
the subject matter hereof.
17. AMENDMENT AND WAIVER.
17.1. REQUIREMENTS.
This Agreement and the Subordinated Notes may be amended, and the
observance of any term hereof or thereof may be waived (either retroactively or
prospectively), with (and only with) the written consent of the Company and the
Required Holders and, if required pursuant to the Subordination Agreement, the
holders of Senior Notes, except that (a) no amendment or waiver of any of the
provisions of Section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 21 hereof, or any defined term (as it
is used therein), will be effective as to you unless consented to by you in
writing, and (b) no such amendment or waiver may, without the written consent of
the holder of each Subordinated Note at the time outstanding affected thereby,
(i) subject to the provisions of Section 12 relating to acceleration or
rescission, change the amount or time of any prepayment or payment of principal
of, or reduce the rate or change the time of payment or method of computation of
interest on, the Subordinated Notes, (ii) change the percentage of the principal
amount of the Subordinated Notes the holders of which are required to consent to
any such amendment or waiver, or (iii) amend any of Sections 8, 11(a), 11(b),
12, 17 or 20.
17.2. SOLICITATION OF HOLDERS OF SUBORDINATED NOTES.
(a) Solicitation. The Company will provide each holder of the
Subordinated Notes (irrespective of the amount of Subordinated Notes then owned
by it) with sufficient information, sufficiently far in advance of the date a
decision is required, to enable such holder to make an informed and considered
decision with respect to any proposed amendment, waiver or consent in respect of
any of the provisions hereof or of the Subordinated Notes. The Company will
deliver executed or true and correct copies of each amendment, waiver or consent
effected pursuant to the provisions of this Section 17 to each holder of
outstanding Subordinated Notes promptly following the date on which it is
executed and delivered by, or receives the consent or approval of, the requisite
holders of Subordinated Notes.
(b) Payment. Except for payment of those amounts set forth in
Sections 4.7 and 15.1 hereof, the Company will not directly or indirectly pay or
cause to be paid any remuneration, whether by way of supplemental or additional
interest, fee or otherwise, or grant any security, to any holder of Subordinated
Notes as consideration for or as an inducement to the entering into by any
holder of Subordinated Notes or any waiver or amendment of any of the terms and
provisions hereof unless such remuneration is concurrently paid, or security is
concurrently granted, on the same terms, ratably to each holder of Subordinated
Notes then outstanding even if such holder did not consent to such waiver or
amendment.
17.3. BINDING EFFECT, ETC.
Any amendment or waiver consented to as provided in this Section 17
applies equally to all holders of Subordinated Notes and is binding upon them
and upon each future holder of any Subordinated Note and upon the Company
without regard to whether such Subordinated Note has been marked to indicate
such amendment or waiver. No such amendment or waiver will extend to or affect
any obligation, covenant, agreement, Default or Event of Default not expressly
amended or waived or impair any right consequent thereon. No course of dealing
between the Company and the holder of any Subordinated Note nor any delay in
exercising any rights hereunder or under any Subordinated Note shall operate as
a waiver of any rights of any holder of such Subordinated Note. As used herein,
the term "THIS AGREEMENT" and references thereto shall mean this Agreement as it
may from time to time be amended or supplemented.
17.4. SUBORDINATED NOTES HELD BY COMPANY, ETC.
Solely for the purpose of determining whether the holders of the
requisite percentage of the aggregate principal amount of Subordinated Notes
then outstanding approved or consented to any amendment, waiver or consent to be
given under this Agreement or the Subordinated Notes, or have directed the
taking of any action provided herein or in the Subordinated Notes to be taken
upon the direction of the holders of a specified percentage of the aggregate
principal amount of Subordinated Notes then outstanding, Subordinated Notes
directly or indirectly owned by the Company or any of its Affiliates shall be
deemed not to be outstanding.
18. NOTICES.
All notices and communications provided for hereunder shall be in
writing and sent (a) by telecopy if the sender on the same day sends a
confirming copy of such notice by a recognized overnight delivery service
(charges prepaid), or (b) by registered or certified mail with return receipt
requested (postage prepaid), or (c) by a recognized overnight delivery service
(with charges prepaid). Any such notice must be sent:
(a) if to you or your nominee, at your address set forth at the
beginning hereof to the attention of your General Counsel, or at such other
address as you or it shall have specified to the Company in writing,
(b) if to any other holder of any Subordinated Note, to such holder
at such address as such other holder shall have specified to the Company in
writing, or
(c) if to the Company, to the Company at its address set forth at the
beginning hereof to the attention of Chairman, or at such other address as the
Company shall have specified to the holder of each Subordinated Note in writing.
Notices under this Section 18 will be deemed given only when actually received.
19. REPRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS.
This Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and all documents
relating thereto, including, without limitation, (a) consents, waivers and
modifications that may hereafter be executed, (b) documents received by you at
the Closing (except the Subordinated Notes themselves), and (c) financial
statements, certificates and other information previously or hereafter furnished
to you, may be reproduced by you by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm,
microcard, miniature photographic or other similar process and you may destroy
any original document so reproduced. The Company agrees and stipulates that, to
the extent permitted by applicable law, any such reproduction shall be
admissible in evidence as the original itself in any judicial or administrative
proceeding (whether or not the original is in existence and whether or not such
reproduction was made by you in the regular course of business) and any
enlargement, facsimile or further reproduction of such reproduction shall
likewise be admissible in evidence. This Section 19 shall not prohibit the
Company or any other holder of Subordinated Notes from contesting any such
reproduction to the same extent that it could contest the original, or from
introducing evidence to demonstrate the inaccuracy of any such reproduction.
20. [SECTION RESERVED].
21. [SECTION RESERVED].
22. MISCELLANEOUS.
22.1. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS.
All covenants and other agreements contained in this Agreement by or
on behalf of any of the parties hereto bind and inure to the benefit of their
respective successors and assigns (including, without limitation, any subsequent
holder of a Subordinated Note) whether so expressed or not.
22.2. [SECTION RESERVED].
22.3. SEVERABILITY.
Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in
any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of
such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining
provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any
jurisdiction shall (to the full extent permitted by law) not invalidate or
render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
22.4. CONSTRUCTION.
Each covenant contained herein shall be construed (absent express
provision to the contrary) as being independent of each other covenant contained
herein, so that compliance with any one covenant shall not (absent such an
express contrary provision) be deemed to excuse compliance with any other
covenant. Where any provision herein refers to action to be taken by any
Person, or which such Person is prohibited from taking, such provision shall be
applicable whether such action is taken directly or indirectly by such Person.
22.5. COUNTERPARTS.
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which shall be an original but all of which together shall constitute one
instrument. Each counterpart may consist of a number of copies hereof, each
signed by less than all, but together signed by all, of the parties hereto.
22.6. GOVERNING LAW.
This Agreement shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, and
the rights of the parties shall be governed by, the law of the State of Utah
excluding choice-of-law principles of the law of such State that would require
the application of the laws of a jurisdiction other than such State.
22.7. INDEMNITY.
In addition to the payment of expenses pursuant to this Agreement,
whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby shall be consummated, the
Company agrees to indemnify, pay and hold you, your officers, directors,
employees, agents, consultants, auditors, affiliates and your attorneys
(collectively called the "INDEMNITEES") harmless from and against any and all
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits,
claims, costs, expenses and disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever
(including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for such Indemnities
in connection with any investigative, administrative or judicial proceeding
commenced or threatened, whether or not such Indemnitee shall be designated a
party thereto) that may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against that
Indemnitee, in any manner relating to or arising out of this Agreement or the
other Loan Documents, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, your agreement to issue the Subordinated Notes hereunder, the use or
intended use of the proceeds of any of the Subordinated Notes or the exercise of
any right or remedy hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (the
"INDEMNIFIED LIABILITIES"); provided that the Company shall have no obligation
to an Indemnitee hereunder with respect to Indemnified Liabilities arising from
the gross negligence or willful misconduct of that Indemnitee as determined by a
court of competent jurisdiction, and provided further that the Company shall
have no obligation to an Indemnitee hereunder with respect to any federal or
state income tax liabilities.
22.8. CONSENT TO JURISDICTION.
THE COMPANY HEREBY CONSENTS TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY STATE OR
FEDERAL COURT LOCATED WITHIN THE COUNTY OF DALLAS, STATE OF TEXAS AND
IRREVOCABLY AGREES THAT, SUBJECT TO YOUR ELECTION, ALL ACTIONS OR PROCEEDINGS
ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE SUBORDINATED NOTES OR THE
OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS SHALL BE LITIGATED IN SUCH COURTS. THE COMPANY ACCEPTS FOR
ITSELF AND IN CONNECTION WITH ITS PROPERTIES, GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE
NON-EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS AND WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF
FORUM NON CONVENIENS, AND IRREVOCABLY AGREES TO BE BOUND BY ANY JUDGMENT
RENDERED THEREBY IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, THE SUBORDINATED NOTES, THE
OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR THE OBLIGATIONS.
22.9. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.
THE COMPANY AND YOU HEREBY WAIVE THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY
TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS
AGREEMENT, THE SUBORDINATED NOTES OR THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS. THE COMPANY AND
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT TO ENTER INTO A
BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP, THAT EACH HAS ALREADY RELIED ON THE WAIVER IN ENTERING
INTO THIS AGREEMENT, THE SUBORDINATED NOTES AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS AND
THAT EACH WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON THE WAIVER IN THEIR RELATED FUTURE DEALINGS.
THE COMPANY AND YOU FURTHER WARRANT AND REPRESENT THAT EACH HAS REVIEWED THIS
WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL COUNSEL, AND THAT EACH KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES
ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL.
22.10. NO FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIP; LIMITATION OF LIABILITIES.
No provision in this Agreement or in any of the other Loan Documents
and no course of dealing between the parties shall be deemed to create any
fiduciary duty by you to the Company. Neither you, nor any affiliate, officer,
director, shareholder, employee, attorney, or agent of you shall have any
liability with respect to, and the Company hereby waives, releases, and agrees
not to sue any of them upon, any claim for any special, indirect, incidental, or
consequential damages suffered or incurred by the Company in connection with,
arising out of, or in any way related to, this Agreement or any of the other
Loan Documents, or any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any
of the other Loan Documents. The Company hereby waives, releases, and agrees
not to sue you or any of your affiliates, officers, directors, employees,
attorneys, or agents for punitive damages in respect of any claim in connection
with, arising out of, or in any way related to, this Agreement or any of the
other Loan Documents, or any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
or any of the transactions contemplated hereby.
22.11. NO DUTY.
All attorneys, accountants, appraisers, and other professional Persons
and consultants retained by you shall have the right to act exclusively in your
interest and shall have no duty of disclosure, duty of loyalty, duty of care, or
other duty or obligation of any type or nature whatsoever to the Company or any
other Person.
* * * * *
If you are in agreement with the foregoing, please sign the form of
agreement on the accompanying counterpart of this Agreement and return it to the
Company, whereupon the foregoing shall become a binding agreement between you
and the Company.
Very truly yours,
SNAKE RIVER SUGAR COMPANY
By
Allan M. Lipman, Jr.
The foregoing is hereby
agreed to as of May 14, 1997
VALHI, INC.
By_____________________________________
Steven L. Watson, Vice President
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DEFINED TERMS
As used herein, the following terms have the respective meanings set
forth below or set forth in the Section hereof following such term. Unless
otherwise specified herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be
interpreted, all determinations with respect to accounting matters hereunder
shall be made, and all unaudited financial statements and certificates and
reports as to financial matters required to be furnished hereunder shall be
prepared, in accordance with GAAP (without provision of footnotes in the case of
unaudited financial statements), applied on a basis consistent with the most
recent audited consolidated financial statements of the Company and its
Subsidiaries delivered pursuant to Section 7.1(c) or, if no such statements have
been so delivered, the most recent audited financial statements referred to in
Section 5.5.
"AFFILIATE" means, at any time, and with respect to any Person, (a)
any other Person that at such time directly or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries Controls, or is Controlled by, or is under common Control with,
such first Person, and (b) any Person beneficially owning or holding, directly
or indirectly, 10% or more of any class of voting or equity interests of the
Company or any Subsidiary or any corporation of which the Company and its
Subsidiaries beneficially own or hold, in the aggregate, directly or indirectly,
10% or more of any class of voting or equity interests. As used in this
definition, "CONTROL" means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power
to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.
Unless the context otherwise clearly requires, any reference to an "Affiliate"
is a reference to an Affiliate of the Company.
"AGGREGATE CONSOLIDATED NET INCOME" means, as at any date of
determination, the aggregate Consolidated Net Income of the Company and its
Subsidiaries during the thirty-six (36) month period then most recently ended.
"AGM INTEREST" has the meaning assigned to it in the Company
Agreement.
"AGREEMENT" means this Subordinated Loan Agreement, as it may be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with
the terms hereof.
"AMALGAMATED" means ASC Holdings, Inc., a Utah corporation.
"BANK AGREEMENT" means the Working Capital Agreement dated as of
January 3, 1997 among LLC, United States National Bank of Oregon, First Security
Bank, National Association and the lenders party thereto, as amended from time
to time in accordance with the terms thereof and hereof.
"BANK LOANS" means loans and contingent obligations in respect to
Letters of Credit to LLC outstanding from time to time under the Bank Agreement
or a replacement agreement meeting the requirements of Section 9.6.
"BUDGET" means the projections and/or annual budget delivered by the
Company or LLC pursuant to Section 7.1(f).
"BUSINESS DAY" means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day
on which commercial banks in Ogden, Utah, Chicago, Illinois or New York, New
York are required or authorized to be closed.
"CAPITAL LEASE" means, at any time, a lease with respect to which the
lessee is required concurrently to recognize the acquisition of an asset and the
incurrence of a liability in accordance with GAAP.
"CAPITAL LEASE OBLIGATION" means, with respect to any Person and a
Capital Lease, the amount of the obligation of such Person as the lessee under
such Capital Lease which would, in accordance with GAAP, appear as a liability
on a balance sheet of such Person.
"CCC" means the Commodity Credit Corporation or any successor entity.
"CCC LOANS" means loans made by CCC to LLC.
"CHANGE IN CONTROL EVENT" means the termination of full-time
employment with LLC or the Company as a result of resignation or removal (for
any reason) of any five of the following nine individuals prior to January 1,
2002: Allan M. Lipman, Jr., Lawrence L. Corry, Ralph C. Burton, K. Pete
Chertudi, John R. Lemke, David L. Budge, Wayne P. Neeley, Dennis D. Costesso and
George R. Hobbs.
"CLOSING" is defined in Section 3.
"CODE" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time
to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder from time to time.
"COLLATERAL AGENT" means First Security Bank, National Association, or
any successor Collateral Agent under the Collateral Agency Agreement dated as of
the date of this Agreement among such Collateral Agent and the Company.
"COMPANY" means Snake River Sugar Company, an Oregon cooperative.
"COMPANY AGREEMENT" means the Company Agreement of LLC dated as of
January 3, 1997, as amended to the date of the Closing.
"CONSOLIDATED" means, with respect to the accounting item with respect
to any Person, such item on a consolidated basis for such Person and its
Subsidiaries.
"CONSOLIDATED FIXED CHARGES" means the sum of (i) Consolidated
Interest Expense, (ii) scheduled payments of principal in respect of Senior Debt
(excluding (x) Debt of LLC and (y) an amount equal to 80% of the principal
amount of the loans guaranteed by the Company under the Henry's Fork Loan
Agreement and the Midwest Loan Agreement outstanding on the date of
determination, and (iii) Consolidated operating lease and rent payments, of the
Company and its Subsidiaries in each case as projected for the four consecutive
fiscal quarter period immediately succeeding the date of determination.
"CONSOLIDATED INTEREST EXPENSE" means all interest expense on Debt
described in clause (i) of the definition of Senior Debt, including, without
limitation, all commissions, discounts or related amortization and other fees
and charges with respect to letters of credit and bankers' acceptance financing
and the net costs associated with interest swap obligations, amortization of
debt expense and original issue discount and the interest portion of any
deferred payment obligation (including leases of all types), calculated in
accordance with the effective interest method.
"CONSOLIDATED NET INCOME" means with respect to any Person,
Consolidated gross revenues less all operating and non-operating expenses and
other proper charges determined in accordance with GAAP; provided that there
shall be excluded from the calculation of Consolidated Net Income:
(a) extraordinary gains;
(b) gains or losses resulting from the sale or other disposition of
capital assets;
(c) undistributed earnings of non-Subsidiary Investments;
(d) gains arising from changes in accounting principles;
(e) gains arising from the write-up of assets;
(f) any earnings of a Person acquired by the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company prior to the date such acquisition occurs; and
(g) any gains or losses resulting from the retirement or
extinguishment of Debt.
"CONSOLIDATED TANGIBLE ASSETS" means the total net book value of all
assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries (excluding goodwill, trade names,
copyrights, trademarks, other intangible assets, and write-ups of assets after
the date of the Closing) determined on a Consolidated basis as of the last day
of the Company's most recently ended fiscal year.
"CONSOLIDATED TANGIBLE NET WORTH" means Consolidated shareholders'
equity of the Company and its Subsidiaries excluding goodwill, trade names,
copyrights, trademarks, other intangible assets and write-ups of assets after
the date of the Closing.
"CONSOLIDATED TOTAL DEBT" means the sum of Senior Debt and
Subordinated Debt.
"CURRENT DEBT" means any Debt that is payable on demand or that
matures within one year, without any option on the part of the borrower or
issuer thereunder to extend or renew such Debt for a period of more than one
year from the date of original issuance or borrowing. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, Current Debt shall include the Bank Loans and the CCC Loans.
"DEBT" means, with respect to any Person:
(a) any indebtedness for borrowed money, (including commercial paper
and revolving credit line borrowings), or which is evidenced by bonds,
debentures or notes, or otherwise representing the deferred purchase price of
property or extensions of credit, whether or not representing obligations for
borrowed money (other than trade, payroll and taxes payable),
(b) indebtedness of a third party secured by Liens on the assets of
such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person,
(c) Capital Lease Obligations,
(d) Guarantees,
(e) with the exception of the AGM Interest, capital stock (or similar
equity interests) that provides for mandatory redemption or repurchase or
repurchase at the option of the holder thereof (and, if such Person is a
Subsidiary of the Company, all capital stock (or similar equity interests) which
is preferred as to liquidation and is held by Persons other than the Company or
a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company);
(f) obligations with respect to Swaps, letters or credit and similar
obligations; and
(g) modifications, renewals and extensions of the above.
"DEFAULT" means an event or condition the occurrence or existence of
which would, with the lapse of time or the giving of notice or both, become an
Event of Default.
"DEFAULT RATE" means that rate of interest that is the greater of
(i) 2% per annum above the rate of interest stated in clause (a) of the first
sentence of Section 8.2(a) or (ii) 2% over the rate of interest publicly
announced by The Bank of New York in New York, New York as its "base" or "prime"
rate.
"DELAYED PAYMENT" means payment by the Company of any principal or
interest on any Subordinated Note after the same becomes due and payable,
whether at maturity or at a date fixed for prepayment or by declaration or
otherwise or payment by the Company of any other amount payable hereunder or
under any of the Transaction Documents to the holder of any Subordinated Note.
"DISTRIBUTABLE CASH" means, with respect to any period, Consolidated
Net Income of LLC for such period (or for periods prior to January 1, 1997, of
Amalgamated) plus (i) actual book depreciation, depletion, amortization and LLC
Consolidated Interest Expense included in computing such net income and (ii) the
LIFO Adjustment, if any, used in computing such net income, less (iii) actual
capital expenditures and actual LLC Consolidated Interest Expense paid (net of
interest capitalized) for such period (or for periods prior to January 1, 1997,
of Amalgamated) and (iv) $1,800,000 if the relevant period is a year and a pro
rata portion thereof if the relevant period is less than a year.
"ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS" means any and all Federal, state, local, and
foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders,
decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or
governmental restrictions relating to pollution and the protection of the
environment or the release of any materials into the environment, including but
not limited to those related to hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions
and discharges to waste or public systems.
"ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder
from time to time in effect.
"ERISA AFFILIATE" means LLC and any trade or business (whether or not
incorporated) that is treated as a single employer together with the Company or
LLC under section 414 of the Code, and which is controlled by the Company or
LLC.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" is defined in Section 11.
"EXCESS CASH FLOW" means, with respect to any period, Distributable
Cash for the comparable period of LLC ending on or closest (but prior) to the
last day of such period, less (i) actual debt service in respect of Senior Debt
described in clause (i) of the definition of "Senior Debt" (including, without
limitation any Debt of Persons other than the Company guaranteed by the Company)
of the Company, including without limitation, the Senior Notes, (ii) patronage
dividends actually paid to the Company's shareholders, and (iii) Permitted
Operating Expenses.
"EXCHANGE ACT" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"FAIR MARKET VALUE" means, at any time and with respect to any
property, the sale value of such property that would be realized in an arm's-
length sale at such time between an informed and willing buyer and an informed
and willing seller (neither being under a compulsion to buy or sell).
"FUNDED DEBT" means all Debt other than Current Debt.
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles as in effect in
the United States from time to time.
"GOOD FAITH CONTEST" means an active challenge or contest initiated in
good faith by appropriate proceedings for which adequate reserves have been
established in accordance with GAAP.
"GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY" means
(a) the government of
(i) the United States of America or any State or other political
subdivision thereof, or
(ii) any jurisdiction in which the Company or any Subsidiary
conducts all or any part of its business, or which asserts jurisdiction over any
properties of the Company or any Subsidiary, or
(b) any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial,
regulatory or administrative functions of, or pertaining to, any such
government.
"GROWER CONTRACTS" means the Grower Agreements between each of the
members of the Company and the Company.
"GUARANTEE" means, with respect to any Person, any direct or indirect
liability, contingent or otherwise, of such Person with respect to any Debt,
lease, dividend or other obligation of another, including, without limitation,
any such obligation directly or indirectly guaranteed, endorsed (otherwise than
for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business) or discounted or
sold with recourse by such Person, or in respect of which such Person is
otherwise directly or indirectly liable, including, without limitation, any such
obligation in effect guaranteed by such Person through any agreement (contingent
or otherwise) to (i) maintain the solvency or any balance sheet or other
financial condition of another Person or (ii) make payment for any products,
materials or supplies or for any transportation or services regardless of the
non-delivery or non-furnishing thereof, in any such case if the purpose or
effect of such agreement is to provide assurance that such obligation will be
paid or discharged, or that any agreements relating thereto will be complied
with, or that the holders of such obligation will be protected against loss in
respect thereof. Guarantees shall include obligations of partnerships and joint
ventures of which such Person or any Subsidiary is a general partner or
co-venturer that is not expressly non-recourse to such Person or such
Subsidiary.
"HAZARDOUS MATERIAL" means any and all pollutants, toxic or hazardous
wastes or any other substances that might pose a hazard to health or safety, the
removal of which may be required or the generation, manufacture, refining,
production, processing, treatment, storage, handling, transportation, transfer,
use, disposal, release, discharge, spillage, seepage, or filtration of which is
or shall be restricted, prohibited or penalized by any applicable law
(including, without limitation, asbestos, urea formaldehyde foam insulation and
polychlorinated biphenyls).
"HENRY'S FORK LOAN AGREEMENT" means the Loan and Security Agreement,
dated as of January 3, 1997, between Snake River Farms II, LLC and Henry's Fork
Financial, Inc., and any refinancing of such loan thereunder provided that such
refinancing is on terms no more onerous to Snake River Farms II, LLC than those
existing on the Closing as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time.
"HOLDER" means, with respect to any Subordinated Note, the Person in
whose name such Subordinated Note is registered in the register maintained by
the Company pursuant to Section 13.1.
"INDEMNIFICATION AND POST-CLOSING AGREEMENT" means the Indemnification
and Post-Closing Agreement, dated as of January 3, 1997, among Amalgamated, the
Company and LLC, as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from
time to time.
"INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR" means (a) any original holder of a
Subordinated Note or Senior Note and (b) any bank, trust company, savings and
loan association or other financial institution, any pension plan, any
investment company, any fund managed by an investment adviser, any mutual fund,
any insurance company, any broker or dealer, or any other similar financial
institution or entity, regardless of legal form.
"INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT" is defined in Section 4.21.
"INVESTMENT" means any investment, made in cash or by delivery of
property, by the Company, LLC or any of their respective Subsidiaries in any
Person, whether by acquisition of stock, Debt or other obligation or Security,
or by loan, Guarantee, advance, capital contribution or otherwise.
"LIEN" shall mean any mortgage, pledge, security interest,
encumbrance, set-off, bankers' lien or similar arrangement, charge or other lien
of any kind, any agreement to give the same, any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement, and the filing of or agreement to give any financing
statement under the Uniform Commercial Code of any jurisdiction.
"LIFO ADJUSTMENT" means the adjustment made to net income of LLC (with
inventory accounting done on a first-in, first-out basis) to derive net income
of LLC on a last-in, first-out basis.
"LLC" means The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC, a limited liability
company organized under the laws of the State of Delaware.
"LLC CONSOLIDATED INTEREST EXPENSE" means all interest expense of LLC
and its Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, all commissions, discounts
or related amortization and other fees and charges with respect to letters of
credit and bankers' acceptance financing and the net costs associated with
interest swap obligations, amortization of debt expenses and original issue
discount and the interest portion of any deferred payment obligation (including
leases of all types), calculated in accordance with the effective interest
method, all as determined on a consolidated basis for LLC and its Subsidiaries.
"LOAN DOCUMENTS" means this Agreement, the Subordinated Notes and all
other instruments, documents and agreements executed by or on behalf of the
Company and delivered concurrently herewith or at any time hereafter to or for
the benefit of you in connection with the Subordinated Notes and other
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, all as amended, restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
"MATERIAL" means material in relation to the business, operations,
affairs, financial condition, assets, properties, or prospects of the Company
and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
"MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT" means a material adverse effect on (a) the
business, operations, affairs, financial condition, assets or properties of the
Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, or LLC and its Subsidiaries,
taken as a whole, or (b) the ability of the Company to perform its obligations
under this Agreement and the Subordinated Notes, or (c) the validity or
enforceability of this Agreement, any Transaction Document or the Subordinated
Notes.
"MIDWEST LOAN AGREEMENT" means the Loan Agreement, dated December 26,
1996 between Snake River Farms, LLC and Midwest Agri-Commodities Company, and
any refinancing of such loan thereunder provided that such refinancing is on
terms no more onerous to Snake River Farms, LLC than those existing on the
Closing as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time.
"MULTIEMPLOYER PLAN" means any Plan that is a "multiemployer plan" (as
such term is defined in section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA).
"NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS" means the Note Purchase Agreements dated as
of the date of Closing between the Company and each of the purchasers of Senior
Notes pursuant to such agreements.
"OBLIGATIONS" means all obligations, liabilities and indebtedness of
every nature of the Company from time to time owed to you under the Loan
Documents including the principal amount of all debts, claims and indebtedness,
accrued and unpaid interest and all fees, costs and expenses, whether primary,
secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise, heretofore, now and/or from
time to time hereafter owing, due or payable.
"OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE" means a certificate of a Senior Financial
Officer or of any other officer of the Company or LLC, as applicable whose
responsibilities extend to the subject matter of such certificate.
"OWNED SUBSIDIARY" means as to any Person (a), any corporation(s),
partnership(s) or other entities organized under the laws of any state of the
United States in which such Person or another Owned Subsidiary of such Person,
as the case may be, beneficially owns or controls, either directly or
indirectly, 50% or more of the outstanding capital stock or equity interest.
"PAYMENT ESCROW" means the sum of (i) $5,000,000 in cash and (ii)
marketable securities with a value of $5,000,000 (marked to market on a
quarterly basis), both deposited with and pledged to the Collateral Agent for
the benefit of the holders of the Senior Notes. No Payment Escrow shall be
required after more than 50% of the original principal amount of the Senior
Notes has been repaid.
"PBGC" means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and
defined in ERISA or any successor thereto.
"PERCENTAGE OF EARNINGS CAPACITY" means, with respect to assets of the
Company, LLC and/or their respective Subsidiaries Transferred or proposed to be
Transferred, the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of (i) Consolidated Net
Income produced by or attributable to such assets during the thirty-six (36)
month period most recently ended prior to the date of their Transfer or proposed
Transfer to (ii) Aggregate Consolidated Net Income.
"PERMITTED OPERATING EXPENSES" means miscellaneous operating expenses
of the Company.
"PERSON" means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited
liability company, association, trust, unincorporated organization, or a
government or agency or political subdivision thereof.
"PLAN" means an "employee benefit plan" (as defined in section 3(3) of
ERISA) that is or, within the preceding five years, has been established or
maintained, or to which contributions are or, within the preceding five years,
have been made or required to be made, by the Company, LLC or any ERISA
Affiliate or with respect to which the Company, LLC or any ERISA Affiliate may
have any liability.
"PROPERTY" or "PROPERTIES" means, unless otherwise specifically
limited, real or personal property of any kind, tangible or intangible, choate
or inchoate.
"REQUIRED HOLDER(S)" means the holder(s) of at least 66 2/3% of the
aggregate principal amount of Subordinated Notes from time to time outstanding.
"RESPONSIBLE OFFICER" means any Senior Financial Officer and any other
officer of the Company or LLC, as applicable, with responsibility for the
administration of the relevant portion of this agreement.
"RESTRICTED PAYMENTS" means any: (a) dividend payments or other
distributions of cash, assets, properties, obligations or securities on account
of any class of equity interest (other than stock dividends or their equivalent)
in the Company or LLC, including the AGM Interest (including, without
limitation, repayment of Unit Retains), and (b) repurchases or redemptions of
equity interests in the Company or LLC.
"SALE-AND-LEASEBACK TRANSACTION" means a transaction or series of
transactions pursuant to which the Company, LLC or any Subsidiary of the Company
or LLC shall sell or transfer to any Person any property, whether now owned or
hereafter acquired, and, as part of the same transaction or series of
transactions, the Company, LLC or any Subsidiary of the Company or LLC shall
rent or lease as lessee, or similarly acquire the right to possession or use of,
such property or one or more properties which it intends to use for the same
purpose or purposes as such property.
"SECURITIES ACT" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from
time to time.
"SECURITY" has the meaning set forth in Section 2(1) of the Securities
Act.
"SENIOR DEBT" means (i) all Debt of the Company other than the
Subordinated Debt and (ii) up to $50,000,000 of Debt of LLC.
"SENIOR NOTES" means the Company's 10.8% Senior Notes due April 30,
2009.
"SENIOR FINANCIAL OFFICER" means the chief financial officer,
principal accounting officer, treasurer or comptroller of the Company or LLC, as
applicable.
"SPT" means the Amalgamated Collateral Trust, a Delaware business
trust, formed pursuant to the SPT Trust Agreement.
"SUBORDINATED DEBT" shall mean the Debt evidenced by the Subordinated
Notes.
"SUBORDINATED NOTES" is defined in Section 1.
"SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT" means the Subordination Agreement,
substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1, as it may be amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time.
"SUBSIDIARY" or "SUBSIDIARIES" means as to any Person (a) any
corporation(s) organized under the laws of any state of the United States of
which such Person or another Subsidiary of such Person, as the case may be,
beneficially owns or controls, either directly or indirectly, 100% of the
outstanding capital stock, and (b) any partnership(s) or other entities
organized under the laws of any state of the United States in which such Person
or another Subsidiary of such Person, as the case may be, holds a 100% equity
interest and controls the management of such entity, and (c) in the context of a
Subsidiary of the Company, LLC.
"SUBSTANTIAL PART" means, as of any date of determination and with
respect to assets of the Company, LLC and/or their respective Subsidiaries, any
of the following:
(a) assets having, when taken together with all other assets
Transferred by the Company, LLC and/or their respective Subsidiaries during the
twelve month period immediately preceding the date of determination, an
aggregate net book value or an aggregate Fair Market Value (whichever is
greater) equal to or greater than 10% of Consolidated Tangible Assets;
(b) assets having, when taken together with all other assets
Transferred by the Company, LLC and/or their respective Subsidiaries from and
after the date of Closing, an aggregate net book value or an aggregate Fair
Market Value (whichever is greater) equal to or greater than 25% of Consolidated
Tangible Assets;
(c) assets having, when taken together with all other assets
Transferred by the Company, LLC and/or their respective Subsidiaries during the
twelve month period immediately preceding the date of determination, an
aggregate Percentage of Earnings Capacity equal to or greater than 10%; or
(d) assets having, when taken together with all other assets
Transferred by the Company, LLC and/or their respective Subsidiaries from and
after the date of Closing, an aggregate Percentage of Earnings Capacity equal to
or greater than 25%.
"SWAPS" means, with respect to any Person, payment obligations with
respect to interest rate swaps, currency swaps and similar obligations
obligating such Person to make payments, whether periodically or upon the
happening of a contingency. For the purposes of this Agreement, the amount of
the obligation under any Swap shall be the amount determined in respect thereof
as of the end of the then most recently ended fiscal quarter of such Person,
based on the assumption that such Swap had terminated at the end of such fiscal
quarter, and in making such determination, if any agreement relating to such
Swap provides for the netting of amounts payable by and to such Person
thereunder or if any such agreement provides for the simultaneous payment of
amounts by and to such Person, then in each such case, the amount of such
obligation shall be the net amount so determined.
"TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS" means this Agreement, the Subordinated Notes,
the Valhi Option Agreement, and the Subordination Agreement.
"TRANSFER" or "TRANSFERRED" is defined in Section 10.2.
"UNIT RETAINS" means withholdings of beet crop payments due to the
grower shareholders of the Company as imposed by the Company's board of
directors.
"VALHI OPTION AGREEMENT" means the Option Agreement in substantially
the form of Exhibit B-2 attached hereto, as it may be amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time.
"VOTING RIGHTS COLLATERAL DEPOSIT AGREEMENT" means the Collateral
Deposit Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-3 hereto, as it may be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
"VOTING RIGHTS ESCROW" means the cash, securities and/or letter of
credit deposited with the Collateral Agent under the Voting Rights Collateral
Deposit Agreement.
"WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY" means with respect to any Person, at any
time, any Subsidiary of such Person one hundred percent (100%) of all of the
equity interests (except directors' qualifying shares) and voting interests of
which are owned by any one or more of such Person and such Person's other
Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries at such time.
"YEAR-END TRANSACTIONS" means the transactions among the Company, you,
Amalgamated and LLC that, among other things, resulted in (i) the formation of
LLC, (ii) the contribution by Amalgamated of the assets and liabilities of
Amalgamated to LLC, (iii) this Agreement and the Company's loan to Valhi, Inc.,
and (iv) the closing of and financing by Henry's Fork Financial, Inc. of the
equity offering for the Company.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section Page
1. AUTHORIZATION OF SUBORDINATED NOTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. ISSUANCE OF SUBORDINATED NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 1
3. CLOSING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
4. CONDITIONS TO CLOSING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 2
4.1. Representations and Warranties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 2
4.2. Performance; No Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 2
4.3. Compliance Certificate. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
4.4. Opinions of Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 2
4.5. Purchase Permitted By Applicable Law, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 3
4.6. Sale of Senior Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4.7. [Section Reserved] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4.8. [Section Reserved]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4.9. Changes in Corporate Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 3
4.10. Proceedings and Documents. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4.11. Delivery of Company Documents . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4.12. [Section Reserved]. . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.13. [Section Reserved] . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.14. [Section Reserved] . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.15. [Section Reserved] . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.16. Execution and Delivery of Documents. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.17. Payment of Tranche A Note. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.18. [Section Reserved]. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.19. [Section Reserved]. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.20. [Section Reserved]. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.21. [Section Reserved]. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.22. [Section Reserved]. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.23. Consents . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.24. [Section Reserved] . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.25. Amendment of Henry's Fork Loan Agreement. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 5
4.26. Subsidiaries of Company. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY . . . . 6
5.1. Organization; Power and Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 6
5.2. Authorization, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5.3. Disclosure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.4. Organization and Ownership of Shares of Subsidiaries; Affiliates . . . . .
. . 7
5.5. Financial Statements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.6. Compliance with Laws, Other Instruments, etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 8
5.7. Governmental Authorizations, etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 9
5.8. Litigation; Observance of Agreements, Statutes and Orders . . . . . . . .
. . . 9
5.9. Taxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.10. Title to Property; Leases . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.11. Licenses, Permits, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
5.12. Compliance with ERISA. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.13. Private Offering by the Company . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.14. Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.15. Existing Debt; Future Liens. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.16. Foreign Assets Control Regulations, etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.17. Status under Certain Statute . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.18. Environmental Matters. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.19. Capitalization. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.20. Broker's Fees. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.21. Solvency. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.22. Employee Matters. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.23. Affiliate Transactions. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
5.24. Indebtedness of Company Members.. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.25. Legislation.. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6. YOUR REPRESENTATIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . 14
7. INFORMATION AS TO COMPANY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 15
7.1. Financial and Business Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 15
7.2. Officer's Certificate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.3. Inspection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
8. PREPAYMENT OF THE SUBORDINATED NOTES AND FUTURE
ADVANCES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8.1. Required Payments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8.2. Interest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
8.3. Fees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8.4. Your Obligations to make Future Advances.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 22
9. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 23
9.1. Compliance with Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 23
9.2. Insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
9.3. Maintenance of Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 24
9.4. Payment of Taxes and Claims. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 24
9.5. Existence; Tax Status; etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 24
9.6. Maintenance of Revolving Credit Facility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 25
9.7. [Section Reserved]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
9.8. [Section Reserved] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
9.9. [Section Reserved]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
9.10. Tax Status of LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
9.11. Payments by Dual Payment Check. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
10. NEGATIVE COVENANTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 25
10.1. Transactions with Affiliates. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
10.2. Merger, Consolidation, etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
10.3. Liens. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
27
10.4. Subsidiary Debt. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
10.5. Restricted Payments. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
10.6. Debt. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
29
10.7. Debt of LLC. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
10.8. Financial Covenants. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
10.9. Investments. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
10.10. Capital Expenditures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
10.11. Restrictions on Subsidiaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
10.12. Sale-and-Leasebacks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
10.13. Sale of Stock of Subsidiary, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 32
10.14. [Section Reserved] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
10.15. [Section Reserved] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
10.16. Line of Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
10.17. Receivables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
10.18. [Section Reserved]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
11. EVENTS OF DEFAULT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 33
12. REMEDIES ON DEFAULT, ETC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 36
12.1. Acceleration. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
12.2. Other Remedies. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
12.3. Rescission. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
12.4.No Waivers or Election of Remedies, Expenses, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 37
12.5. Set Off. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
37
12.6. Subordination Agreement. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
13. REGISTRATION; EXCHANGE; SUBSTITUTION OF NOTES. . . . . . . 38
13.1. Registration of Subordinated Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
13.2. Transfer and Exchange of Subordinated Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 38
13.3. Replacement of Subordinated Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
14. [SECTION RESERVED] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 39
15. EXPENSES, ETC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 39
15.1. Transaction Expenses. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
15.2. Survival. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
16. SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES;
ENTIRE AGREEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 40
17. AMENDMENT AND WAIVER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 40
17.1. Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
17.2. Solicitation of Holders of Subordinated Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 41
17.3. Binding Effect, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
17.4. Subordinated Notes held by Company, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 41
18. NOTICES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
19. REPRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 42
20. [SECTION RESERVED] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 43
21. [SECTION RESERVED] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 43
22. MISCELLANEOUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 43
22.1. Successors and Assigns. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
22.2. [Section Reserved] . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
22.3. Severability. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
22.4. Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
22.5. Counterparts. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
22.6. Governing Law. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
22.7. Indemnity. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
22.8. CONSENT TO JURISDICTION. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
22.9. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
22.10.No Fiduciary Relationship; Limitation of Liabilities. . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 45
22.11. No Duty. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
SCHEDULE A -- DEFINED TERMS
SCHEDULE 3 -- Funds Flow Information
SCHEDULE 4.9 -- Changes in Corporate Structure
SCHEDULE 5.3 -- Disclosure Materials; Projections
SCHEDULE 5.4 -- Subsidiaries of the Company and Ownership of
Subsidiary Stock
SCHEDULE 5.5 -- Financial Statements
SCHEDULE 5.8 -- Certain Litigation
SCHEDULE 5.11 -- Patents, etc.
SCHEDULE 5.14 -- Use of Proceeds
SCHEDULE 5.15 -- Existing Debt
SCHEDULE 5.19 -- Capitalization
SCHEDULE 5.23 -- Affiliate Transactions
SCHEDULE 9.2 -- Insurance
EXHIBIT 1-A -- Form of Senior Subordinated Note due April 30, 2010
EXHIBIT 1-B -- Form of Senior Subordinated Note due April 30, 2010
EXHIBIT 4.4(a) -- Form of Opinion of Special Counsel for the Company
EXHIBIT B-1 -- Form of Subordination Agreement
EXHIBIT B-2 -- Form of Valhi Option Agreement
EXHIBIT B-3 -- Form of Voting Rights Collateral Deposit
Agreement
NOTE: TABLE OF CONTENTS WAS MANUALLY ENTERED (NOT CONFORMED).{PRIVATE }
SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT
Dated as of May 14, 1997
By
VALHI, INC.
("Subordinated Creditor")
and
SNAKE RIVER SUGAR COMPANY
("Borrower")
In favor of
THE HOLDERS OF THE SENIOR NOTES (AS DEFINED HEREIN)
("Senior Debt Holders")
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
1. Certain Defined Terms............................... 2
2. Default on Senior Debt; Acceleration of Subordinated Debt 4
3. Insolvency, Dissolution, Etc. of Borrower........... 5
4. Distributions Held in Trust; Subrogation............ 6
5. Legends............................................. 7
6. Power of Attorney................................... 7
7. Agreements by Subordinated Creditor and Senior Debt Holders 8
8. Waivers............................................. 9
9. Representations and Warranties...................... 9
10. Negative Covenants.................................. 10
11. Financial Matters................................... 11
12. Reliance............................................ 12
13. Amendments, Etc..................................... 12
14. Entire Agreement.................................... 12
15. Notices............................................. 12
16. Expenses............................................ 12
17. No Waiver........................................... 13
18. Validity of Subordinated Debt and Senior Debt....... 13
19. Termination......................................... 13
20. Successors.......................................... 13
21. Counterparts........................................ 14
22. Duties of Senior Debt Holders Limited............... 14
23. Additional Documentation............................ 14
24. Severability........................................ 14
25. Waiver of Jury Trial................................ 14
26. Governing Law....................................... 15
SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT
This SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT, dated as of May 14, 1997 ("Agreement"),
is made by Valhi, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Subordinated Creditor"), and
Snake River Sugar Company, an Oregon cooperative ("Borrower"), in favor of the
holders from time to time of the Senior Debt (as defined below) ("Senior Debt
Holders") and First Security Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent for the Senior Debt
Holders.
R E C I T A L S
WHEREAS, Borrower has entered into separate but identical Note
Purchase Agreements, each dated as of May 14, 1997 with the financial
institutions named therein ("Purchasers") (said agreements, as they may
hereafter be amended or otherwise modified from time to time, collectively being
the "Note Agreement", the terms defined in the Note Agreement and not otherwise
defined herein being used herein as defined in the Note Agreement) pursuant to
which Borrower has issued to the Purchasers its senior notes in the principal
amount of $100,000,000 (as such senior notes may be amended, renewed or
otherwise modified from time to time the "Senior Notes"); and
WHEREAS, Subordinated Creditor and Borrower have entered into a Loan
and Security Agreement dated as of January 3, 1997, as amended and restated by
the Subordinated Loan Agreement dated as of the date of this Agreement (said
agreement, as it may hereafter be amended or otherwise modified from time to
time, being the "Subordinated Agreement") pursuant to which Borrower has issued
or may issue in the future to Subordinated Creditor certain subordinated notes
(as such subordinated notes may be amended, renewed or otherwise modified from
time to time, collectively, the "Subordinated Note"); and
WHEREAS, it is a condition precedent to the purchase of the Senior
Notes by the Purchasers pursuant to the Note Agreement that Borrower and
Subordinated Creditor shall have executed and delivered this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and in order to
induce the Purchasers to purchase the Notes under the Note Agreement, the
parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
{PRIVATE } CERTAIN DEFINED TERMS{TC \L 1 " CERTAIN DEFINED
TERMS"}. For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
"Debt" means, with respect to any person, (i) all indebtedness,
obligations and other liabilities (contingent or otherwise) of such person for
borrowed money or evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments
(whether or not the recourse of the lender is to the whole of the assets of such
person or to only a portion thereof); (ii) all reimbursement obligations and
other liabilities (contingent or otherwise) of such person with respect to
letters of credit or bankers' acceptances issued for the account of such person
or with respect to interest rate protection agreements or currency exchange
agreements; (iii) all obligations and other liabilities (contingent or
otherwise) of such person with respect to any conditional sale, installment sale
or other title retention agreement, purchase money mortgage or security
interest, or otherwise to pay the deferred purchase price of property or
services (except trade accounts payable and accrued expenses arising in the
ordinary course of business) or in respect of any sale and leaseback
arrangement; (iv) all obligations and liabilities (contingent or otherwise) in
respect of leases by such person as lessee which, in conformity with generally
accepted accounting principles, are required to be accounted for as capitalized
lease obligations on the balance sheet of such person; (v) all direct or
indirect guaranties or similar agreements in respect of, and obligations and
liabilities (contingent or otherwise) to purchase or otherwise acquire or
otherwise to assure a creditor against loss in respect of, indebtedness,
obligations or liabilities of others; and (vi) all liabilities for borrowed
money secured by any Lien with respect to any property owned by such person
(whether or not it has assumed or otherwise become liable for such liabilities).
"Distribution of Assets" means any distribution of assets of
Borrower of any kind or character, whether (a) a payment, purchase or other
acquisition or retirement for cash, property or securities or (b) by way of
cancellation, forgiveness or offset of the Subordinated Debt against any Debt
owed by Subordinated Creditor to Borrower or (c) payable or deliverable by
reason of the payment of any other Debt of Borrower being subordinated to the
payment of the Subordinated Debt and, in any case, shall include any assets of
any kind or character received by Subordinated Creditor in connection with the
realization of security for the Subordinated Debt.
"Specified Default" means any Event of Default described in the
following Sections of the Note Agreement and any Default that would, after
notice or lapse of time or both, give rise to such an Event of Default (all
references to sections in this definition of Specified Default are references to
sections of the Note Agreement):
(i) Section 11(a);
(ii) Section 11(b); provided that any Default or Event of Default
under Section 11(b) that occurs by reason of a default in the performance
or compliance with Section 7.1(d) or (l) shall not be a Specified Default;
provided further that for purposes of determining a Specified Default due
to a Default or Event of Default under Section 11(b) that occurs by reason
of a default in the performance or compliance with Section 9.7, the
relevant amount of acres shall be 200,000 acres, not 210,000 acres;
provided further that, for purposes of determining a Specified Default due
to a Default or Event of Default under Section 11(b) that occurs by reason
of a default in the performance or compliance with Section 10.3, Section
10.3 shall be deemed to contain an additional clause (k) which reads "Liens
securing Debt the amount of which does not exceed $500,000"; provided
further that, for purposes of determining a Specified Default due to a
Default or Event of Default under Section 11(b) that occurs by reason of a
default in the performance or compliance with Section 10.4, Section 10.4
shall be deemed to contain an additional clause (e) which reads "Debt of
LLC and Subsidiaries of the Company not exceeding $500,000"; provided
further that, for purposes of determining a Specified Default due to a
Default or Event of Default under Section 11(b) that occurs by reason of a
default in the performance or compliance with Section 10.6, Section 10.6
shall be deemed to contain an additional clause (d) which reads "Additional
Debt of the Company not to exceed $500,000 in the aggregate"; provided
further that, for purposes of determining a Specified Default due to a
Default or Event of Default under Section 11(b) that occurs by reason of a
default in the performance or compliance with Section 10.9, the amount in
clause (k) of Section 10.9 shall be deemed to be $1,000,000; and provided
further that, for purposes of determining a Specified Default due to a
Default or Event of Default under Section 11(b) that occurs by reason of a
default in the performance or compliance with Section 10.10, the amounts
set forth in Section 10.10 shall be deemed to be $18,500,000 and
$44,500,000, not $18,000,000 and $44,000,000.
(iii) Section 11(e)(i), but only if, as a consequence of the
occurrence or continuation of any event or condition in such section, the
lenders under the Bank Loan or any other lenders under or holders of Debt
exercise their right to accelerate such Debt or to prohibit LLC from making
distributions with respect to the AGM Interest or any other distributions
to its members;
(iv) Section 11(e)(ii) and Section 11(e)(iii);
(v) Section 11(m)(i); and
(vi) Section 11(m)(ii), but only if the amount of the Debt or other
obligation referred to in such section exceeds $500,000.
"Section 6 Event" means: (i) the acceleration of all or any
portion of the Senior Debt pursuant to Section 12.1 of the Note Agreement or
(ii) the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in Section 11(f) or 11(g)
of the Note Agreement with respect to Borrower.
"Senior Debt" means: (i) the principal of all Debt of Borrower
under the Note Agreement and the Senior Notes; the Make-Whole Amount, if any,
thereon; interest accrued or accruing thereon both before and after the date of
filing a petition in any bankruptcy, insolvency, arrangement, reorganization or
receivership proceedings, whether or not allowed as a claim in such case or
proceeding; commitment, facility and other fees payable under the Note Agreement
and any other amounts due under the Note Agreement, whether direct or indirect,
absolute or contingent, secured or unsecured, due or to become due, now existing
or hereafter arising; and (ii) any refundings, renewals or extensions of any
Debt or other obligation described in clause (i) above; and (iii) all expenses
and attorney's fees for which Borrower is now or hereafter becomes liable to pay
to any Senior Debt Holder or to the Collateral Agent.
"Subordinated Debt" means all Debt of Borrower to Subordinated
Creditor now or hereafter existing (whether created directly or acquired by
assignment or otherwise), including, but not limited to, all Debt of Borrower
pursuant to the Subordinated Agreement and the Subordinated Note, and interest
and premium, if any, thereon and other amounts payable in respect thereof.
{PRIVATE } Default on Senior Debt; Acceleration of Subordinated
Debt{TC \L 1 " Default on Senior Debt; Acceleration of Subordinated Debt"}.
Subordinated Creditor will not receive or accept from Borrower,
and the Borrower will not make to or for the benefit of Subordinated Creditor,
any payment or Distribution of Assets in respect of the Subordinated Debt at any
time (i) after a Specified Default shall have occurred or if payment in respect
of the Subordinated Debt would result in a Specified Default or (ii) after all
or any portion of the Senior Debt shall have been accelerated pursuant to
Section 12.1 of the Note Agreement, unless and until, in the case of clause (i),
such Specified Default has been cured to the satisfaction of the Required
Holders (and in the case of a Specified Default described in clause (i) of the
definition of "Specified Default" to the satisfaction of all of the Senior Debt
Holders), in their sole discretion, or, in the case of clause (ii), such
acceleration has been rescinded pursuant to Section 12.2 of the Note Agreement,
as applicable, or all Senior Debt has been paid in full in cash.
Until all Senior Debt has been paid in full in cash, Subordinated
Creditor shall deliver to the largest holder of Senior Debt (the "Senior Debt
Representative") prior written notice of any intent by Subordinated Creditor to
(i) declare all or any part of the Subordinated Debt due and payable prior to
its scheduled maturity, (ii) take any enforcement action with respect to the
Subordinated Debt, or (iii) commence or join with any other creditor of Borrower
to commence any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, readjustment of debt,
arrangement of debt, receivership or liquidation or other similar proceeding
against Borrower (collectively a "Bankruptcy Action"). Subordinated Creditor
shall not take any action to declare the Subordinated Debt due and payable, or
to otherwise demand, ask for or take any enforcement action in respect of the
Subordinated Debt, including without limitation the exercise of any remedy or
Bankruptcy Action, in each case subject to Section 2a above, until the earlier
of (x) the date on which the Required Holders consent in writing to such
acceleration or enforcement action or (y) the date on which all of the Senior
Debt is accelerated or (z) if there has been a default in the payment of the
principal of or interest on the Subordinated Debt (other than as a result of
such intended acceleration) which has existed continuously since the date of
such notice, 180 days after receipt by the Senior Debt Representative of such
written notice. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2b,
Borrower and Subordinated Creditor shall at all times be subject to the
prohibitions set forth in Section 2a on the payment to, and receipt of, funds
and other assets by Subordinated Creditor.
{PRIVATE } INSOLVENCY, DISSOLUTION, ETC. OF BORROWER{TC \L 1 "
INSOLVENCY, DISSOLUTION, ETC. OF BORROWER"}.
In the event of any dissolution, winding up, liquidation,
reorganization or other similar proceedings with respect to Borrower, its
property or its operations (whether in bankruptcy, insolvency or receivership
proceedings, or upon an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or any other
marshalling of the assets of Borrower or otherwise),
all Senior Debt (including, without limitation, interest on
Senior Debt at the rate stated in the Note Agreement or the Senior Notes from
the date of filing any petition in bankruptcy to the date of payment whether or
not allowed as a claim) shall first be paid in full in cash before Subordinated
Creditor shall be entitled to receive or retain any payment or Distribution of
Assets of Borrower with respect to the Subordinated Debt. In any such
proceedings, any payment or distribution of any kind (whether in cash, property
or securities) to which Subordinated Creditor would be entitled if the
Subordinated Debt were not subordinated to the Senior Debt shall be paid by the
trustee or agent or other person making such payment or distribution, or by
Subordinated Creditor if received by it, directly to the Collateral Agent for
the benefit of the Senior Debt Holders to the extent necessary to make payment
in full of all Senior Debt remaining unpaid, after giving effect to any
concurrent payment or distribution to or for the benefit of the Senior Debt
Holders; and
Subordinated Creditor shall duly and promptly take such action as
the Required Holders may reasonably request (i) to collect the Subordinated Debt
for the account of the Senior Debt Holders and to file appropriate claims or
proofs of claim in respect of the Subordinated Debt, (ii) to execute and deliver
to any Senior Debt Holder such powers of attorney, assignments, or other
instruments as it may reasonably request in order to enable it to enforce any
and all claims with respect to the Subordinated Debt, and (iii) to collect and
receive any and all payments or distributions which may be payable or
deliverable upon or with respect to the Subordinated Debt.
{PRIVATE } DISTRIBUTIONS HELD IN TRUST; SUBROGATION{TC \L 1 "
DISTRIBUTIONS HELD IN TRUST; SUBROGATION"}.
If Subordinated Creditor receives any payment or Distribution of
Assets of Borrower which Subordinated Creditor is not entitled to retain under
the provisions of this Agreement, such payment or assets shall be delivered
forthwith by Subordinated Creditor to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of
the Senior Debt Holders for application to the Senior Debt, in the form received
except for the addition of any endorsement or assignment necessary to effect a
transfer of all rights therein to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the
Senior Debt Holders. The Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Senior Debt
Holders is irrevocably authorized by Subordinated Creditor to supply any
required endorsement or assignment which may have been omitted. Until so
delivered any such payment or collateral shall be held by Subordinated Creditor
in trust for the Senior Debt Holders.
If all Senior Debt of Borrower has been paid in full in cash and
thereafter (i) Subordinated Creditor receives any payment or Distribution of
Assets of Borrower and (ii) any portion or all of the amounts received by any
Senior Debt Holder is required to be returned to Borrower or any receiver,
trustee or other Person succeeding to the assets of Borrower, such payment or
assets received by Subordinated Creditor shall be delivered forthwith by
Subordinated Creditor to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Senior Debt
Holders for application to the Senior Debt. Until so delivered any such payment
or collateral shall be held by Subordinated Creditor in trust for the Senior
Debt Holders.
After all Senior Debt of Borrower has been paid in full in cash
and until the Subordinated Debt is paid in full, Subordinated Creditor shall be
subrogated to the rights of the Senior Debt Holders to receive distributions
applicable to the Senior Debt to the extent that distributions otherwise payable
to Subordinated Creditor have been applied to the payment of such Senior Debt.
A distribution made under this Agreement to holders of the Senior Debt that
otherwise would have been made to Subordinated Creditor is not, as between the
Borrower and Subordinated Creditor, a payment by the Borrower on the
Subordinated Debt.
{PRIVATE } LEGENDS{TC \L 1 " LEGENDS"}. If Borrower issues or
has issued any instrument or document evidencing the Subordinated Debt,
including without limitation the Subordinated Agreement and the Subordinated
Notes, each such instrument and document shall bear a conspicuous legend that it
is subordinated to the Senior Debt. Borrower's books shall be marked to
evidence the subordination of all of the Subordinated Debt to the Senior Debt.
Any Senior Debt Holder is authorized to examine such books from time to time and
to make any notations required by this Agreement.
{PRIVATE } POWER OF ATTORNEY{TC \L 1 " POWER OF ATTORNEY"}.
Subordinated Creditor hereby irrevocably authorizes and empowers
the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Senior Debt Holders (and its
representative or representatives), after the occurrence of any Section 6 Event,
to demand, sue for, collect and receive all payments and distributions under the
Subordinated Agreement and the Subordinated Notes and give acquittance therefor
and to file and enforce claims and proofs of claims or suits and take all such
other actions (including, without limitation, voting the Subordinated Debt
(including in connection with any liquidation, reorganization or arrangement) or
enforcing any security interest or other lien securing payment of the
Subordinated Debt) in the name of Subordinated Creditor or otherwise, as the
Collateral Agent or the Required Holders determine to be necessary or
appropriate. In no event shall Subordinated Creditor waive, forgive or cancel
any claim Subordinated Creditor may now or hereafter have against Borrower.
In no event shall the Collateral Agent or any Senior Debt Holder
be liable to Subordinated Creditor for any failure to prove the Subordinated
Debt, to exercise any right with respect thereto or to collect any sums payable
thereon.
{PRIVATE } AGREEMENTS BY SUBORDINATED CREDITOR AND SENIOR DEBT
HOLDERS{TC \L 1 " AGREEMENTS BY SUBORDINATED CREDITOR AND SENIOR DEBT
HOLDERS"}.
Subordinated Creditor has received and has been given an opportunity
to review the Note Agreement and the Transaction Documents, and Subordinated
Creditor hereby consents to and approves of the provisions contained therein.
Subordinated Creditor agrees that the Senior Debt Holders may, at any time and
from time to time, without the consent of or notice to Subordinated Creditor,
without incurring responsibility to Subordinated Creditor, and without impairing
or releasing the rights of the Collateral Agent or any of the Senior Debt
Holders, or any of the obligations of Subordinated Creditor hereunder:
Change the amount, manner, place or terms of payment or change or
extend the time of payment of or renew or alter Senior Debt or amend the
Note Agreement, the Senior Notes, the Transaction Documents or any other
document referred to therein in any manner or enter into or amend in any
manner any other agreement relating to the Senior Debt; provided that
notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) if a payment default on the Senior Notes
has occurred and is continuing, Borrower and the Senior Debt Holders shall
not increase the principal amount of the Senior Debt by an amount in excess
of 25% of the outstanding principal amount of the Senior Notes without the
consent of Subordinated Creditor, and (y) if no Event of Default exists in
respect of the Senior Debt, Borrower and the Senior Debt Holders will not
increase the interest rate on the Senior Notes or change the principal
payment schedule with respect to the Senior Notes in a manner which would
cause the average life of the Senior Notes to be shortened, in each case
without the consent of Subordinated Creditor;
Sell, exchange, release or otherwise deal with any property by
whomsoever at any time pledged or mortgaged to secure, or howsoever
securing, the Senior Debt;
Release anyone (including any guarantor) liable in any manner for the
payment or collection of the Senior Debt;
Exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against Borrower and
others (including any guarantor or Subordinated Creditor);
Apply any sums by whomsoever paid or however realized to the
Senior Debt; or
Take any other action with respect to the Senior Debt which otherwise
might be deemed to impair the rights of Subordinated Creditor.
{PRIVATE } WAIVERS{TC \L 1 " WAIVERS"}. Borrower and
Subordinated Creditor each hereby waives any defense based on the adequacy of a
remedy at law which might be asserted as a bar to the remedy of specific
performance of this Agreement in any action brought therefor by the Collateral
Agent or any Senior Debt Holder. To the fullest extent permitted by law,
Borrower and Subordinated Creditor each hereby further waives: promptness,
diligence, presentment, demand, protest, notice of protest, notice of default or
dishonor, notice of payment or nonpayment and any and all other notices and
demands of any kind in connection with all negotiable instruments evidencing all
or any portion of the Senior Debt or the Subordinated Debt to which Borrower or
Subordinated Creditor may be a party; notice of the acceptance of this
Agreement; notice of any loans made, extensions granted or other actions taken
in reliance hereon; and any requirement that the Collateral Agent or the Senior
Debt Holders exhaust any right or take any action against Borrower or any other
person or entity or any collateral.
{PRIVATE } REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES{TC \L 1 "
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES"}. Subordinated Creditor hereby represents
and warrants to the Senior Debt Holders, which representations, warranties and
covenants shall be true and correct as of the date hereof, that:
Subordinated Creditor has not heretofore assigned or transferred
any of the Subordinated Debt or any interest therein; Subordinated Creditor is
the true and lawful holder and owner of the Subordinated Debt and the
Subordinated Note; the Subordinated Note and the Subordinated Agreement have not
been amended or modified in any way; and the Subordinated Note is free and clear
of any defense, offset, counterclaim or other adverse claims and any liens,
encumbrances or security interests.
There are no agreements or understandings, written or oral, by
Subordinated Creditor with Borrower other than as set forth in this Agreement,
the Snake River Loan, the Subordinated Agreement, the Subordinated Note and the
other Transaction Documents to which Subordinated Creditor is a party with
respect to the obligations evidenced by the Subordinated Note and Subordinated
Creditor has not heretofore given any subordination in respect of the
Subordinated Debt.
Subordinated Creditor has the requisite power, authority,
capacity and legal right to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement, and
this Agreement, when executed and delivered, will constitute the legal, valid
and binding obligation of Subordinated Creditor enforceable against Subordinated
Creditor in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be
limited by (i) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or
other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally and
(ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will, with or without
notice and/or lapse of time, constitute a breach of any of the terms and
provisions of, or constitute a default under, any note, contract, instrument,
agreement or undertaking, whether written or oral, to which Subordinated
Creditor is a party.
{PRIVATE }NEGATIVE COVENANTS{TC \L 1 " NEGATIVE COVENANTS"}. Until
all of the Senior Debt has been paid in full in cash:
Except as expressly permitted in this Agreement, Borrower shall
not, directly or indirectly, make any payment or Distribution of Assets on
account of or grant a security interest in, mortgage, pledge, assign or transfer
any properties to secure or satisfy all or any part of the Subordinated Debt or
in any way amend or modify the Subordinated Note or Subordinated Agreement.
Except as expressly permitted in this Agreement, Subordinated
Creditor shall not demand or accept from Borrower or any other person any such
payment, Distribution of Assets or collateral nor shall Subordinated Creditor
release, exchange, extend the time of payment of, compromise, set off or
otherwise discharge or enforce any part of the Subordinated Debt or in any way
amend or modify the Subordinated Debt or this Agreement.
Neither Subordinated Creditor nor any receiver, trustee or other
Person succeeding to the assets of Subordinated Creditor shall set off all or
any portion of the Subordinated Debt against Debt of Subordinated Creditor owing
to Borrower (including, without limitation, the Snake River Loan), give any
subordination in respect of the Subordinated Debt, convert any or all of the
Subordinated Debt to capital stock or other securities of Borrower. The parties
acknowledge that all or a substantial part of the Snake River Loan may be non-
recourse to Subordinated Creditor, and agree that (i) nothing in this Agreement
shall be deemed to affect any such non-recourse nature of the Snake River Loan
and (ii) any change in the characterization of all or any part of the Snake
River Loan as non-recourse, limited recourse or recourse or similar
characterization shall not be deemed a set off.
Borrower will not hereafter issue any instrument, security or
other writing evidencing any part of the Subordinated Debt, and Subordinated
Creditor will not receive any such writing or transfer or assign any of the
Subordinated Debt, except upon the prior written approval of the Required
Holders or in connection with a transfer of the Subordinated Debt as permitted
under paragraph (e) below.
Neither Subordinated Creditor nor any receiver, trustee or other
Person succeeding to the assets of Subordinated Creditor shall transfer or
assign any of the Subordinated Debt, or any interest therein, to any person
(other than the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Senior Debt Holders),
unless such transferee shall have executed and delivered to the Collateral Agent
and each Senior Debt Holder its assumption of the due and punctual performance
and observance of each covenant, condition and provision of this Agreement.
{PRIVATE }FINANCIAL MATTERS{TC \L 1 " FINANCIAL MATTERS"}.
Subordinated Creditor has established adequate and independent means of
obtaining from Borrower on a continuing basis financial and other information
pertaining to the financial condition of Borrower. Subordinated Creditor agrees
that no Senior Debt Holder shall have any obligation to disclose to Subordinated
Creditor information or material acquired by such Senior Debt Holder in the
course of its relationship with Borrower. Subordinated Creditor understands
that there may be various agreements among the Collateral Agent, the Senior Debt
Holders and Borrower evidencing and governing the Senior Debt and Subordinated
Creditor acknowledges and agrees that such agreements are not intended to confer
any benefits on Subordinated Creditor and that no Senior Debt Holder shall have
any obligation to Subordinated Creditor or any other Person to exercise any
rights, enforce any remedies, or take any actions which may be available to it
under such agreements.
{PRIVATE }RELIANCE{TC \L 1 " RELIANCE"}. Subordinated Creditor
understands that in reliance upon the terms and provisions of this Agreement,
specific monetary and other obligations are being entered into and will be
entered into by the Senior Debt Holders that would not be made or entered into
but for reliance on this Agreement. Subordinated Creditor further understands
that this Agreement constitutes a continuing offer to all persons who become
holders of, or continue to hold Senior Debt (whether such Senior Debt was
created or acquired before or after the date of this Agreement).
{PRIVATE }AMENDMENTS, ETC.{TC \L 1 " AMENDMENTS, ETC."} No
amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement nor consent to any
departure by Subordinated Creditor or Borrower therefrom shall in any event be
effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by each Senior Debt
Holder and Subordinated Creditor, and then such waiver or consent shall be
effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which
given.
{PRIVATE }ENTIRE AGREEMENT{TC \L 1 " ENTIRE AGREEMENT"}. This
Agreement constitutes and expresses the entire understanding between the parties
hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior and
contemporaneous agreements and understandings, whether express or implied or
oral or written. If there is any conflict between the terms hereof and the
terms of any other documents executed in connection with the Note Agreement, the
terms of such documents shall be read together so as to provide the Senior Debt
Holders with the broadest possible range of rights and remedies.
{PRIVATE }NOTICES{TC \L 1 " NOTICES"}. All notices, requests,
demands and other communications required or permitted under this Agreement or
by law shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given, made and
received only when delivered against receipt or actually received by the noticed
party at the address set forth on the signature pages hereof. Any addressee may
change the address to which communications are to be sent by giving notice of
such change in accordance with the provisions of this Section 15.
{PRIVATE }EXPENSES{TC \L 1 " EXPENSES"}. Borrower agrees to pay,
upon demand, to the Collateral Agent and the Senior Debt Holders the amount of
any and all reasonable expenses, including the reasonable fees and expenses of
their respective counsel, which the Collateral Agent or the Senior Debt Holders
may incur in connection with the exercise or enforcement of any of their rights
or interests hereunder.
{PRIVATE } NO WAIVER{TC \L 1 " NO WAIVER"}. No course of dealing
by the Collateral Agent or any holder of Senior Debt, nor any failure on the
part of the Collateral Agent or any Senior Debt Holder 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 right hereunder preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies
herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by
law. No Senior Debt Holder shall be prejudiced in its right to enforce
subordination of the Subordinated Debt by any act or failure to act by Borrower,
Subordinated Creditor or anyone in custody of Borrower's assets or property.
{PRIVATE } VALIDITY OF SUBORDINATED DEBT AND SENIOR DEBT{TC \L 1 "
VALIDITY OF SUBORDINATED DEBT AND SENIOR DEBT"}.
The provisions of this Agreement subordinating the Subordinated
Debt are solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the Senior
Debt Holders and Subordinated Creditor and shall not impair, as between
Subordinated Creditor and Borrower, the obligation of Borrower, which is
unconditional and absolute, to pay the Subordinated Debt in accordance with its
terms, nor shall any such provisions, except as otherwise set forth in Section
2b or elsewhere in this Agreement, prevent Subordinated Creditor from exercising
all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law or under any instrument or
agreement evidencing the Subordinated Debt upon default thereunder, subject to
the rights of the Senior Debt Holders hereunder to receive cash, property or
securities or any other Distribution of Assets otherwise payable or deliverable
to Subordinated Creditor until the Senior Debt is paid in full.
This Agreement is effective notwithstanding any defect in the
validity or enforceability of any instrument or document evidencing the Senior
Debt.
{PRIVATE }TERMINATION{TC \L 1 " TERMINATION"}. This Agreement is a
continuing agreement and shall remain in full force and effect until ninety-one
(91) days after payment in full of all Senior Debt. Neither the bankruptcy or
dissolution of Subordinated Creditor shall effect a termination hereof. Subject
to the limitation set forth in Section 7(i), any Senior Debt Holder may, without
notice to Subordinated Creditor, extend or continue credit and make other
financial accommodations to or for the account of Borrower in reliance upon this
Agreement.
{PRIVATE }SUCCESSORS{TC \L 1 " SUCCESSORS"}. Each of the
provisions hereof shall be binding upon Subordinated Creditor and Subordinated
Creditor's legal representatives, successors and assigns and shall inure to the
benefit of the Senior Debt Holders, the Collateral Agent and their respective
successors and assigns. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any
Senior Debt Holder may assign or otherwise transfer the Senior Notes to any
other person or entity in accordance with the Note Agreement, and such other
person or entity shall thereupon become vested with all the rights in respect
thereof granted to the Senior Debt Holders herein or otherwise.
{PRIVATE } COUNTERPARTS{TC \L 1 " COUNTERPARTS"}. This Agreement may
be executed in one or more counterparts, and by different parties hereto in
separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be
deemed an original, but all such counterparts together shall constitute but one
and the same instrument.
{PRIVATE }DUTIES OF SENIOR DEBT HOLDERS LIMITED{TC \L 1 " DUTIES OF
SENIOR DEBT HOLDERS LIMITED"}. The rights granted to the Collateral Agent and
Senior Debt Holders in this Agreement are solely for their protection and
nothing herein contained imposes on any Senior Debt Holder any duties with
respect to any property either of Borrower or of Subordinated Creditor
heretofore or hereafter received by any Senior Debt Holder. No Senior Debt
Holder has any duty to preserve rights against prior parties on any instrument
or chattel paper received from Borrower or Subordinated Creditor as collateral
security for the Senior Debt or any portion thereof.
{PRIVATE }ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION{TC \L 1 "ADDITIONAL
DOCUMENTATION"}. Borrower and Subordinated Creditor shall execute and deliver
to the Collateral Agent and any Senior Debt Holder such further instruments and
shall take such further action as the Collateral Agent or any Senior Debt Holder
may at any time reasonably request in order to carry out the provisions and
intent of this Agreement.
{PRIVATE } SEVERABILITY{TC \L 1 " SEVERABILITY"}. The provisions of
this Agreement are independent of and severable from each other. If any
provision hereof shall for any reason be held invalid or unenforceable, it is
the intent of the parties that such invalidity or unenforceability shall not
affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof, and that
this Agreement shall be construed as if such invalid or unenforceable provision
had never been contained herein.
{PRIVATE }WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL{TC \L 1 " WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL"}.
SUBORDINATED CREDITOR, BORROWER AND EACH SENIOR DEBT HOLDER EACH HEREBY AGREE TO
WAIVE THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION
BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT. The scope of this waiver is
intended to be all-encompassing of any and all disputes that may be filed in any
court and that relate to the subject matter of this transaction, including
without limitation, contract claims, tort claims, breach of duty claims, and all
other common law and statutory claims. Subordinated Creditor, Borrower and each
Senior Debt Holder each acknowledges that this waiver is a material inducement
to enter into a business relationship, that each has already relied on this
waiver in entering into this Agreement and that each will continue to rely on
the waiver in related future dealings. Subordinated Creditor, Borrower and each
Senior Debt Holder each further warrant and represent that each has reviewed
this waiver with legal counsel, and that each knowingly and voluntarily waives
jury trial rights following consultation with legal counsel. THIS WAIVER IS
IRREVOCABLE, MEANING THAT IT MAY NOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING,
AND THE WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS
OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT. In the event of litigation, this Agreement
may be filed as a written consent to a trial by the court.
{PRIVATE }GOVERNING LAW{TC \L 1 " GOVERNING LAW"}. It is expressly
agreed that this Agreement and the rights and obligations and all other aspects
hereof shall be deemed to be made under, shall be governed by, and shall be
construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Subordinated Creditor and Borrower each has caused
this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered for the benefit of the Senior
Debt Holders by its officer thereunto duly authorized as of the date first above
written.
SNAKE RIVER SUGAR COMPANY
By: __________________________
Name: ________________________
Title: _______________________
Notice Address:
Snake River Sugar Company
2427 Lincoln Avenue
P.O. Box 1520
Ogden, Utah 84402
VALHI, INC.
By: __________________________
Name: ________________________
Title: _______________________
Notice Address:
Valhi, Inc.
Three Lincoln Centre
5430 LBJ Freeway
Suite 1700
Dallas, Texas 75240-2697
Accepted this _____ day of
May, 1997:
THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE
COMPANY OF AMERICA
By:
Name:
Title:
Address:
c/o Prudential Capital Group - Corporate,
Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 2700
San Francisco, CA 94111
Accepted this _____ day of
May, 1997:
CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
By CIGNA Investments, Inc.
By:
Name:
Title:
Address:
CIG & Co.
c/o CIGNA Investments, Inc.
Attention: Private Securities Division - S-307
MS. MARY S. LAW
900 Cottage Grove Road
Hartford, Connecticut 06152-2307
Fax: 860-726-7203
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA
By CIGNA Investments, Inc.
By:
Name:
Title:
Address:
CIG & Co.
c/o CIGNA Investments, Inc.
Attention: Private Securities Division - S-307
MS. MARY S. LAW
900 Cottage Grove Road
Hartford, Connecticut 06152-2307
Fax: 860-726-7203
Accepted this _____ day of
May, 1997:
THE MINNESOTA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
By: MIMLIC Asset Management Company
By:
Name:
Title:
Address:
The Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company
900 Robert Street North
St. Paul, Minnesota 55101
Attention: MIMLIC Asset Management Company
Accepted this _____ day of
May, 1997:
FIRST SECURITY BANK,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Collateral Agent
By:
Name:
Title:
Address:
First Security Bank, National Association
79 South Main Street
Corporate Trust Department
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
Accepted this _____ day of
May, 1997:
THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE
COMPANY OF AMERICA
By:
Name:
Title:
Address:
c/o Prudential Capital Group - Corporate,
Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 2700
San Francisco, CA 94111
OPTION AGREEMENT
This OPTION AGREEMENT is dated May 14, 1997 ("this Agreement"), by
and among Snake River Sugar Company, an Oregon cooperative corporation (the
"Company"), Valhi, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Valhi") and the holder of the
Company's 10.8% Senior Notes due 2009 (the "Senior Notes") whose name is set
forth on the signature page of this Agreement (the "Noteholder").
RECITALS
In connection with Valhi's $80,000,000 subordinated loan to the
Company pursuant to the terms of a Loan Agreement, as amended and restated as of
the date of this Agreement, between Valhi and the Company (the "Loan
Agreement"), and the Noteholder's acquisition of certain Senior Notes from the
Company pursuant to the terms of a Note Purchase Agreement dated as of the date
of this Agreement between Noteholder and the Company (the "Note Purchase
Agreement"), the Noteholder has agreed to grant Valhi the right to acquire the
Senior Notes owned or held by Noteholder (the "Option Notes"), pursuant to and
on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement. This Agreement is a
condition to the effectiveness of each of the Note Purchase Agreement and the
Loan Agreement.
Now, therefor, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good
and sufficient consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the
parties agree as follows:
1. Grant of Option. The Noteholder hereby grants to Valhi an
irrevocable option (the "Option") to purchase all but not less than all of the
Option Notes (including any principal, interest or other amounts owing to
Noteholder from the Company in respect of the Option Notes). The exercise price
of the Option (the "Exercise Price") shall be an amount in cash equal to the sum
of (i) the principal outstanding on Option Notes, (ii) all accrued interest on
Option Notes, and (iii) the applicable Make Whole Amount (as defined in the Note
Purchase Agreement), in each case as of the closing referred to in Section 3.
2. Exercise of Option. The Option may be exercised by Valhi in
whole and not in part at any time after the date of this Agreement, subject to
the condition that, prior to or concurrently with such exercise, Valhi acquire
all other Senior Notes issued by the Company pursuant to the note purchase
agreements dated as of the date of this Agreement. If Valhi wishes to exercise
the Option, Valhi shall send a written notice to Noteholder specifying the
Exercise Price and the place, date and time (but not earlier than 10 Business
Days (as defined in the Note Purchase Agreement) from the date such notice is
given) for the closing of such purchase. The parties' obligations in connection
with the exercise of the Option are subject to compliance with applicable legal
requirements. Upon request of Valhi, the Company shall promptly take all action
required to effect the exercise of the Option (including certifying to Valhi,
upon request, information concerning the outstanding principal, accrued interest
and applicable Make Whole Amount of the Option Notes, any defaults or events of
default under the Senior Notes and any other information requested).
3. Closing of the Option and Transfer of the Option Notes. At the
closing of the exercise of the Option pursuant to this Agreement, Noteholder
shall deliver to the Company the Option Notes, in proper form for transfer, and
the Company will issue a new Senior Note to Valhi in the principal amount of the
Senior Note being purchased. At such closing, Valhi will purchase and pay for
the Option Notes being purchased from Noteholder by wire transfer to the
Noteholder of cash in an amount equal to the Exercise Price.
4. Representations and Warranties of Valhi. Valhi represents and
warrants to Noteholder that (a) Valhi is a corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has
the requisite corporate power to enter into and perform this Agreement; (b) this
Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part
of Valhi; (c) Valhi is not subject to or obligated under any provision of
(i) its Certificate of Incorporation or By-Laws, (ii) any contract, (iii) any
license, franchise or permit or (iv) any law, regulation, order, judgment or
decree, which would be breached or violated by its execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the consummation by it of the transactions
contemplated hereby, other than any such breaches or violations which will not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, and (d) any acquisition of
the Option Notes pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall be
for Valhi's own account and not with a view to distribution of the Option Notes.
No authorization, consent or approval of, or filing with, any public body, court
or authority is necessary for the execution, delivery and performance by Valhi
of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except for such
authorizations, consents, approvals and filings as to which the failure to
obtain or make would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material
adverse effect on the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
5. Representations and Warranties of Noteholder. Noteholder
represents and warrants to Valhi that (a) Noteholder is a corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its incorporation and has the requisite corporate power to enter
into and perform this Agreement; (b) this Agreement has been duly authorized by
all necessary corporate action on the part of Noteholder; (c) Noteholder is not
subject to or obligated under any provision of (i) its charter or bylaws,
(ii) any contract, (iii) any license, franchise or permit or (iv) any law,
regulation, order, judgment or decree, which would be breached or violated by
its execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation
by it of the transactions contemplated hereby, other than any such breaches or
violations which will not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material
adverse effect on the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby; and
(d) when the Option Notes are delivered by Noteholder to Valhi upon exercise of
the Option and payment of the Exercise Price, Noteholder will deliver good,
legal and valid title in and to the Option Notes, free and clear of any claims,
liens, encumbrances, security interests and charges of any nature whatsoever
(other than any such claims, liens, encumbrances, security interests and charges
created by Valhi). As of the date of this Agreement, no authorization, consent
or approval of, or filing with, any public body, court or authority is necessary
for the execution, delivery and performance by Noteholder this Agreement, except
for such authorizations, consents, approvals and filings as to which the failure
to obtain or make would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material
adverse effect on the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
6. Legend. Upon execution of this Agreement, the Company and
Noteholder shall place the following legend in a conspicuous place on the Option
Notes:
"This Note is subject to the terms and conditions of that certain Option
Agreement dated May 14, 1997, by and between the issuer, Valhi, Inc. and the
holder of this Note."
7. Amendment; Assignment. This Agreement may not be modified,
amended, altered or supplemented except by a writing signed by Valhi and
Noteholder. Each of the provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon
Noteholder and its successors and assigns. Valhi may not assign any of its
rights or obligations under this Agreement (other than to any affiliate of
Valhi) without the prior written consent of Noteholder.
8. Notices. All notices, requests, claims, demands and other
communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be given (and, except as
otherwise provided in this Agreement, shall be deemed to have been duly given if
so given) if delivered in person, by cable, telegram, facsimile, or sent by
registered or certified mail (postage prepaid, return receipt requested) to the
respective parties as follows:
If to Noteholder (at the address specified on Schedule I to this Agreement)
If to Valhi:
Valhi, Inc.
Three Lincoln Centre, Suite 1700,
5430 LBJ Freeway,
Dallas, Texas 75240
Attn: General Counsel
If to the Company:
Snake River Sugar Company
2427 Lincoln Avenue
PO Box 1520
Ogden, Utah 84402
Attn: General Counsel
or to such other address as either party may have furnished to the other in
writing in accordance herewith, except that notices of change of address shall
only be effective upon receipt.
9. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but each of which
together shall constitute one and the same document.
10. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving
effect to the principles of conflicts of laws thereof.
11. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall be binding upon, inure to
the benefit of, and be enforceable by the heirs, personal representatives,
successors and assigns of the parties hereto. Nothing expressed or referred to
in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person other
than the parties to this Agreement, or their respective heirs, personal
representatives, successors or assigns, any legal or equitable right, remedy or
claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision contained herein.
12. Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire
agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof.
13. Termination. This Agreement shall terminate upon the repayment
in full of the Option Notes.
14. Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of
this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void
or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and
restrictions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall
in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated.
15. Further Assurances. The parties will execute and deliver such
documents and take such action reasonably deemed necessary or desirable to more
effectively complete and evidence the sale and transfer of the Option Notes
pursuant to this Agreement.
16. Miscellaneous. The headings contained in this Agreement are for
reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or
interpretation of this Agreement. References to Sections, subsections and
clauses refer to Sections, subsections and clauses of this Agreement unless
otherwise stated.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to be duly
executed on the day and year first above written.
Valhi, Inc.
By: _____________________________
Steven L. Watson, Vice President
The Prudential Insurance Company of America
By: _____________________________
Jeffrey L. Dickson, Senior Vice President
Snake River Sugar Company
By: _____________________________
Its:______________________________
24265
Schedule I - Address of Noteholder
The Prudential Insurance Company of America
c/o Prudential Capital Group
Four Embarcadero Center
Suite 2700
San Francisco, California 94111
Attn: James F. Evert, Assistant General Counsel
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to be duly
executed on the day and year first above written.
Valhi, Inc.
By: _____________________________
Steven L. Watson, Vice President
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company
By CIGNA Investments, Inc.
By:_____________________________
Name:__________________________
Title: ___________________________
Snake River Sugar Company
By: _____________________________
Allan M. Lipman, Jr., President
24265
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to be duly
executed on the day and year first above written.
Valhi, Inc.
By: _____________________________
Steven L. Watson, Vice President
Life Insurance Company of North America
By CIGNA Investments, Inc.
By:_____________________________
Name:__________________________
Title: ___________________________
Snake River Sugar Company
By: _____________________________
Allan M. Lipman, Jr., President
24265
Schedule I - Address of Noteholder
CIGNA Investments, Inc.
900 Cottage Grove Road
Hartford, CT 06152-2307
Attn: Private Securities Division - S-307
Ms. Mary S. Law
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to be duly
executed on the day and year first above written.
Valhi, Inc.
By: _____________________________
Steven L. Watson, Vice President
The Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company
By: MIMLIC Asset Management Company
By:_____________________________
Name:__________________________
Title: ___________________________
Snake River Sugar Company
By: _____________________________
Allan M. Lipman, Jr., President
24265
Schedule I - Address of Noteholder
MIMLIC Asset Management Company
400 Robert Street North, #1000
St. Paul, Minnesota 55101
Attn: Ron Sandquist
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THE SCHEDULE CONTAINS SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM VALHI, INC.'S
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 1997, AND IS
QUALIFIED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO SUCH CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
STATEMENTS.
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