本 债权人优先协议 (经修订、重订、修订和重订、补充或不时修改,本 “协议”是Maxim Group LLC(即“Maxim”、“配售代理”)与Edible Garden AG Incorporated., 一家特拉华州公司之间的协议。”)日期为2024年11月4日,由以下各方 ATW SPECIAL SITUATIONS MANAGEMENt LLC,作为超高级债务持有人的抵押代理(如下定义)(在此赋权和不时及其后继者,称为“超高级抵押代理以及 ATW SPECIAL SITUATIONS I LLC,作为次级债务留置义务人(如下所定义)的代理人(在任何时候,包括但不限于其继任者,合称为「次级债务留置物代理人”), 及被认可并同意的 NAUTICUS ROBOTICS, INC.公司」)的股份。权益代理),以及其他不时为本协议之担保人(如下所定义) 第一节
(i)receive a transfer of Collateral in satisfaction of Indebtedness under the Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents or the Subordinated Lien Loan Documents or any other Obligation secured thereby; or
(j)otherwise enforce a security interest or exercise another right or remedy, as a secured creditor or otherwise, pertaining to the Collateral at law, in equity, or pursuant to the Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents or Subordinated Lien Loan Documents (including the commencement of applicable legal proceedings or other actions with respect to all or any portion of the Collateral to facilitate the actions described in the preceding clauses, and exercising voting rights in respect of Equity Interests comprising Collateral);
提供, 但是, 该, in all events, notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the exercise by the Super Senior Collateral Agent, any Super Senior Claimholder, the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent, any Subordinated Lien Claimholder or any affiliate of any of the foregoing of any rights with respect to any
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equity, equity component or conversion feature under the Super Senior Securities Agreement, the Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents, the Subordinated Lien Credit Agreement and Subordinated Lien Loan Documents, including, without limitation, any conversion, redemption or exchange (in whole or in part) of the Super Senior Debt or the Subordinated Lien Debt into Equity Interests, any amendment, waiver or modification to any of the terms and/or conditions of any equity, equity component, exchange or conversion feature under the Super Senior Securities Agreement, the Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents, the Subordinated Lien Credit Agreement and/or Subordinated Lien Loan Documents, as applicable and/or any subscription agreement, registration rights agreement and/or any other related document, agreement and/or Equity Interest, the exercise of any term or condition of any Equity Interest (including, without limitation, any warrants, options or ratchets), the exercise of any rights under any subscription agreement, registration rights agreement, and/or any other related document, agreement and/or Equity Interest, and/or organizational documents (including any shareholder agreements) of any Grantors, in each case, with respect to any Equity Interest of any Grantor (whether or not outstanding as of the date hereof), or any sale or resale of any Equity Interests of the Grantors (collectively referred to as “股权不构成超级优先抵押代理人、任何超级优先债权人、次顺位留置抵押代理人或任何次顺位留置债权人的强制执行行动,也不使得该等股权及关于该等的任何股权产生的收益受到本协议中提供的下级排位或其他限制性条款的约束。尽管前述,为避免疑虑,次顺位留置抵押代理人和任何次顺位留置债权人根据次顺位留置贷款文件享有现金支付次顺位债务的权利,仅在现金清算(而非换股、兑换或以股权或股权相关证券清算)的情况下,受本协议条款约束。
(7)在超级优先担保人或任何超级优先权要求人发起的任何公开、私人或司法拍卖中或在破产或清算程序期间购买或投标担保品; 提供 that such bid may not include a “credit bid” in respect of any Subordinated Lien Obligations unless the cash proceeds of such bid are otherwise sufficient to cause the Discharge of Super Senior Obligations;
(8)take any action to the extent necessary to prevent the running of any applicable statute of limitation or similar restriction on claims;
(9)seek specific performance or other injunctive relief to compel the Company to comply with a non-payment obligation (including, without limitation, any Equity Rights) under any Subordinated
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Lien Loan Document or other agreement or Equity Interest with respect to any Equity Rights;
(10)exercise any Equity Rights; and
(11)inspect or appraise the Collateral (and engage or retain investment bankers or appraisers for the sole purpose of appraising or valuing the Collateral) or receive information or reports concerning the Collateral.
The Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Subordinated Lien Claimholder, agrees that it will not take or receive any Collateral or any proceeds of Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including set-off and recoupment) with respect to any Collateral in its capacity as a creditor, unless and until the Discharge of Super Senior Obligations has occurred, except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1(a)(1) (to the extent the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent and Subordinated Lien Claimholders are permitted to retain the proceeds thereof in accordance with 第4.2节 of this Agreement).
4.1处理所得款项。. So long as the Discharge of Super Senior Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Company or any other Grantor, any Collateral or any proceeds thereof received in connection with any Enforcement Action or other exercise of remedies by the Super Senior Collateral Agent or Super Senior Claimholders shall be applied by the Super Senior Collateral Agent to the Super Senior Obligations in such order as specified in the relevant Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents. Upon the Discharge of Super Senior Obligations, the Super Senior Collateral Agent shall deliver any remaining Collateral and proceeds thereof held by it in the same form as received, with any necessary endorsements (which endorsements shall be without recourse and without any representation or warranty) 首先, unless a Discharge of Subordinated Lien Obligations has already occurred, to the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent to be applied by the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent to the Subordinated Lien Obligations in such order as specified in the Subordinated Lien Loan Documents until a Discharge of Subordinated Lien Obligations, 第二, if there are any Excess Super Senior Obligations, to Super Senior Collateral Agent for application to the Excess Super Senior Obligations in such order as specified in the Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents until payment in full in cash of all such Excess Super Senior Obligations, and 第三方, following any Discharge of Super Senior Obligations, Discharge of Subordinated Lien Obligations and payment in full in cash of any Excess Super Senior Obligations, to the Company or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct. For the avoidance
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of doubt, the parties hereto hereby acknowledge and agree that Equity Interest Proceeds with respect to Equity Rights are not proceeds from Collateral.
(c)由于高级首席抵押品文件、次级留置权抵押品文件、本协议或任何其他文件,高级首席抵押品代理和高级首席债权人对于次级留置权抵押品代理或任何次级留置权债权人均不应有受托人关系,并次级留置权抵押品代理和次级留置权债权人特此放弃并解除高级首席抵押品代理和高级首席债权人根据本合同所扮演的角色所引起的所有索赔和责任。 第5.5条 as gratuitous bailee and gratuitous agent with respect to the Pledged Collateral. It is understood and agreed that the interests of the Super Senior Collateral Agent and the Super Senior Claimholders, on the one hand, and
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the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent and the Subordinated Lien Claimholders on the other hand, may differ and the Super Senior Collateral Agent and the Super Senior Claimholders shall be fully entitled to act in their own interest without taking into account the interests of the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent or the Subordinated Lien Claimholders.
(d)Upon the Discharge of Super Senior Obligations under the Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents to which the Super Senior Collateral Agent is a party, the Super Senior Collateral Agent shall deliver the remaining Pledged Collateral in its possession (if any) as provided in 第4.1节. The Super Senior Collateral Agent further agrees to take all other action reasonably requested by the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent at the expense of the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent or the Company in connection with the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent obtaining a first-priority interest in the Collateral.
5.6When Discharge of Super Senior Obligations Deemed to Not Have Occurred. If, substantially contemporaneously with the Discharge of Super Senior Obligations, the Company or any other Grantor enters into any refinancing of the Super Senior Securities Agreement, which refinancing is permitted by the Subordinated Lien Loan Documents, then such Discharge of Super Senior Obligations shall automatically be deemed not to have occurred for all purposes of this Agreement (other than with respect to any actions taken as a result of the occurrence of such first Discharge of Super Senior Obligations), and, from and after the date on which the New Super Senior Lien Debt Notice is delivered to the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent in accordance with the next sentence, the obligations under such refinancing of the Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents shall automatically be treated as Super Senior Obligations for all purposes of this Agreement, including for purposes of the Lien priorities and rights in respect of Collateral set forth herein, and the Super Senior Collateral Agent under such Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents shall be the Super Senior Collateral Agent for all purposes of this Agreement. Upon the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent’s receipt of a written notice (the “New Super Senior Lien Debt Notice”) stating that the Company or any other Grantor has entered into a new Super Senior Securities Agreement (which notice shall include such new Super Senior Securities Agreement and all Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents (other than any fee letters or other documents containing confidential business information) executed or delivered in connection therewith, and the identity of the new first lien collateral agent, such agent, the “New Agent”), the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent shall promptly enter into amendments or supplements to this Agreement to the extent necessary to provide to the New Agent the rights contemplated hereby, in each case consistent in all material respects with the terms of this Agreement. The New Agent shall agree in a writing reasonably satisfactory to the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent and addressed to the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent and the Subordinated Lien Claimholders to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. If the new Super Senior Obligations under the new Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents are secured by assets of the Grantors constituting Collateral that do
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not also secure the Subordinated Lien Obligations, then the Subordinated Lien Obligations shall be secured at such time by a junior subordinated Lien, subject in priority to the Super Senior Obligations, on such assets to the same extent provided in the Subordinated Lien Collateral Documents and this Agreement except to the extent such Lien on such assets constitutes a Subordinated Lien Declined Lien.
5.7Purchase Right.
(a) Without prejudice to the enforcement of any of the Super Senior Claimholders’ remedies under the Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents, this Agreement, at law or in equity or otherwise, the Super Senior Claimholders agree at any time following the first to occur of (1) the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, (2) the acceleration of the Super Senior Obligations or taking of any Enforcement Action, (3) a payment default with respect to any Super Senior Obligations that has not been cured or waived within 60 days after the occurrence thereof or (4) delivery of an Enforcement Notice, the Subordinated Lien Claimholders will have the option to purchase, and the Super Senior Claimholders shall be obligated to sell on the date provided in the notice to Super Senior Claimholders of the exercise of such purchase option by the Subordinated Lien Claimholders (the “建议 “购股日期” 意指每个购股期间的最后交易日(或者,在管理员在适用的报价文件中未指定购股期间的情况下,每个报价期间的最后一天)或由管理员确定并在报价文件中注明的其他日期。”), the entire aggregate amount (but not less than the entirety) of outstanding Super Senior Obligations (but specifically excluding any Excess Super Senior Obligations on or prior to the Proposed Purchase Date) at the Purchase Price without warranty or representation or recourse except as provided in Section 5.7(d), on a pro rata basis among the Super Senior Claimholders, which option may be exercised by less than all of the Subordinated Lien Claimholders so long as all the accepting Subordinated Lien Claimholders shall when taken together purchase such entire aggregate amount as set forth above; 提供 that (A) the Proposed Purchase Date must be no later than ten (10) Business Days after the date upon which any Subordinated Lien Claimholder provides notice to the Super Senior Claimholders of its intent to exercise the purchase right contemplated hereby, (B) if any Subordinated Lien Claimholder fails to purchase the Super Senior Obligations on the Proposed Purchase Date in accordance with the provisions of this 第5.7节,此等次顺位留置权持有人及其联属公司将不再拥有依照本 第5.7节 ,及(C)在拟议购买日期前,超优先索偿人可根据超优先证券购买文件行使任何股权权利。
提供, 然而, that in each case, such termination shall not relieve any such party of its obligations incurred hereunder prior to the date of such termination.
8.3修正;放弃权利. No amendment, modification or waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement by the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent or the Super Senior Collateral Agent shall be deemed to be made unless the same shall be in writing signed on behalf of each party hereto or its authorized agent and each waiver, if any, shall be a waiver only with respect to the specific instance involved and shall in no way impair the rights of the parties making such waiver or the obligations of the other parties to such party in any other respect or at any other time; provided, however, that this Agreement may be amended from time to time, without the consent of either the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent or the Super Senior Collateral Agent, to add additional Grantors, whereupon such Person will be bound by the terms hereof to the same extent as if it had executed and delivered this Agreement as of the date hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company and the other Grantors shall not have any right to consent to or approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement except to the extent (i) its rights are directly and adversely affected by any such amendment, modification or waiver, (ii) any such amendment, modification or waiver reduces the amount of debt available to be incurred by the Borrower under the Super Senior Securities Purchase Documents or Subordinated Lien Loan Documents, or (iii) any such amendment, modification or waiver increases the obligations of Borrower under this Agreement.
8.4Information Concerning Financial Condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries. The Super Senior Collateral Agent and the Super Senior Claimholders,
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on the one hand, and the Subordinated Lien Claimholders and the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent, on the other hand, shall each be responsible for keeping themselves informed of (a) the financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries and all endorsers and/or guarantors of the Super Senior Obligations or the Subordinated Lien Obligations and (b) all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Super Senior Obligations or the Subordinated Lien Obligations. The Super Senior Collateral Agent and the Super Senior Claimholders, on the one hand, and the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent and the Subordinated Lien Claimholders, on the other hand, shall have no duty to advise the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent or any Subordinated Lien Claimholder, on the one hand, or the Super Senior Collateral Agent or any Super Senior Claimholder, on the other hand, of information known to it or them regarding such condition or any such circumstances or otherwise. In the event the Super Senior Collateral Agent, any of the other Super Senior Claimholders, the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent or any of the other Subordinated Lien Claimholders in its or their sole discretion, undertakes at any time or from time to time to provide any such information to the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent, any Subordinated Lien Claimholder, the Super Senior Collateral Agent or any Super Senior Claimholder, it or they shall be under no obligation:
8.5代位求偿. With respect to the value of any payments or distributions in cash, property or other assets that any of the Subordinated Lien
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Claimholders or the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent pays over to the Super Senior Collateral Agent or the Super Senior Claimholders under the terms of this Agreement, the Subordinated Lien Claimholders and the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent shall be subrogated to the rights of the Super Senior Collateral Agent and the Super Senior Claimholders; provided that the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Subordinated Lien Claimholder, hereby agrees not to assert or enforce all such rights of subrogation it may acquire as a result of any payment hereunder until the Discharge of Super Senior Obligations has occurred. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the value of any payments or distributions in cash, property or other assets received by the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent or the Subordinated Lien Claimholders that are paid over to the Super Senior Collateral Agent or the Super Senior Claimholders pursuant to this Agreement shall not reduce any of the Subordinated Lien Obligations. Following the Discharge of Super Senior Obligations, the Super Senior Collateral Agent agrees to execute such documents, agreements, and instruments as the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent may reasonably request to evidence the transfer by subrogation to any such Person of an interest in the Super Senior Obligations resulting from payments to the Super Senior Collateral Agent by such Person.
8.6[预留].
8.7Submission to Jurisdiction; Certain Waivers. Each of the Company, each Grantor and each party hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally:
(a)submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement and the Collateral Documents (whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise) to which it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the exclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York sitting in the Borough of Manhattan, the courts of the United States for the Southern District of New York sitting in the Borough of Manhattan, and appellate courts from any thereof;
8.16无第三方受益人/ 条款仅用于定义相对权利. This Agreement and the rights and benefits hereof shall inure to the benefit of each of the Collateral Agents, the Super Senior Claimholders and the Subordinated Lien Claimholders and their respective successors and assigns from time to time. The provisions of this Agreement are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the Super Senior Collateral Agent and the Super Senior Claimholders on the one hand and the Subordinated Lien Collateral Agent and the Subordinated Lien Claimholders on the other hand. Nothing herein shall be construed to limit the relative rights and obligations as among the Super Senior Claimholders or as among the Subordinated Lien Claimholders. Other than as set forth in 所有板块, none of the Company, any other Grantor or any other creditor thereof shall have any rights hereunder and neither the Company, nor any Grantor may rely on the terms hereof. Nothing in this Agreement is intended to or shall impair the obligations of the Company or any other Grantor, which are absolute and unconditional, to pay the Super Senior Obligations and the Subordinated Lien Obligations as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms.
8.17No Indirect Actions. Unless otherwise expressly stated, if a party may not take an action under this Agreement, then it may not take that action indirectly, or support any other Person in taking that action directly or indirectly. “Taking an action
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indirectly” means taking an action that is not expressly prohibited for the party but is intended to have substantially the same effects as the prohibited action.
8.18Additional Grantors. Each Grantor agrees that it shall ensure that each of its Subsidiaries that is or is to become a party to any Super Senior Securities Purchase Document or Subordinated Lien Loan Document shall either execute this Agreement on the date hereof or shall confirm that it is a Grantor hereunder pursuant to a Joinder Agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as 附件A 在该附属公司在执行并交付该超级优先证券购买文件或优先当记抵押借款文件之前或同时执行并交付的情况下进行的。
8.20 其他协议的确认超级优先抵押品代理人和超级优先索偿人,以及次级当记抵押品代理人和次级当记索偿人在此的所有权利、利益、协议和义务均受制于(a)某项日期为2023年9月18日的特定债权人协议,由ATW Special Situations II LLC签署,如即将由Acquiom Agency Services LLC接替,担任首先留置抵押品代理人(如其所定义)的能力及ATW Special Situations I LLC担任次级留置抵押品代理人(如其所定义),由出质人确认和同意,(b)某项日期为2024年1月30日的特定债权人协议,由ATW Special Situations II LLC签署,如即将由ATW Special Situations Management LLC接替,担任首先留置抵押品代理人(如其所定义)及ATW Special Situations I LLC担任次级留置抵押品代理人(如其所定义),由出质人确认和同意,(c)某项日期为2024年1月30日的同等债权人协议,由ATW Special Situations Management LLC签署,作为信贷协议担任首席管理代理公司(如其所定义)及由Acquiom Agency Services LLC担任2023年
[ ]日期为20[ ]年的质押人加入协议书表格质押人加入协议书日期为2024年11月4日的资产债权人协议债权人协议书由ATW特殊形势管理有限责任公司担任超优先抵押品代理人、ATW特殊形势I有限责任公司担任次级留置品抵押品代理人,并得到德拉瓦州公司NAUTICUS ROBOTICS, INC.承认并同意权益代理”), and certain subsidiaries of the Company (each a “授予人”).
Capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Intercreditor Agreement.
The undersigned, [______________], a [________________], (the “New Grantor”) wishes to acknowledge and agree to the Intercreditor Agreement and become a party thereto to the limited extent contemplated by 第8.16条 并为取得及承担授与人在其中的权利和义务。