Borrower to any one or more of the Guaranteed Parties, including principal, interest, premiums and fees (including all fees and expenses of counsel that are required to be paid or reimbursed by the Designated Borrowers thereunder (collectively, “Attorneys’ Costs”)); (b) each Designated Borrower’s prompt, full and faithful performance, observance and discharge of each and every agreement, undertaking, covenant and provision to be performed, observed or discharged by such Designated Borrower under the Credit Agreement, the Notes and all other Loan Documents; and (c) the prompt payment in full by the Company and each Subsidiary, when due or declared due and at all such times, of Obligations now or hereafter arising under the Guaranteed Cash Management Agreements and Guaranteed Hedge Agreements. The Company’s obligations to the Guaranteed Parties under this Company Guaranty Agreement are hereinafter referred to as the “Guarantor’s Obligations”.
The Company agrees that it is directly and primarily liable for the Guaranteed Liabilities.
2.Payment. If any Designated Borrower or any Subsidiary shall default in payment or performance of any of the Guaranteed Liabilities, whether principal, interest, premium, fees (including, but not limited to, Attorneys’ Costs), or otherwise, when and as the same shall become due, and after expiration of any applicable grace period, whether according to the terms of the Credit Agreement, by acceleration, or otherwise, or upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default under the Credit Agreement, then the Company will, upon demand thereof by the Administrative Agent, (i) fully pay to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Guaranteed Parties, subject to any restriction on the Guarantor’s Obligations set forth inSection 1 hereof, an amount equal to all the Guaranteed Liabilities then due and owing or declared or deemed to be due and owing, including for this purpose, in the event of any Event of Default underSections 8.01(f) and(g) of the Credit Agreement (and irrespective of the applicability of any restriction on acceleration or other action as against any other Loan Party or any Subsidiary under any Debtor Relief Laws), the entire outstanding or accrued amount of all Obligations or (ii) perform such Guaranteed Liabilities, as applicable. For purposes of thisSection 2, the Company acknowledges and agrees that “Guaranteed Liabilities” shall be deemed to include any amount (whether principal, interest, premium, fees) which would have been accelerated in accordance withSection 8.02 of the Credit Agreement but for the fact that such acceleration could be unenforceable or not allowable under any Debtor Relief Law.
3.Absolute Rights and Obligations. This is a guaranty of payment and not of collection. The Guarantor’s Obligations under this Company Guaranty Agreement shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of, and the Company hereby expressly waives, to the extent permitted by law, any defense to its obligations under this Company Guaranty Agreement, all Collateral Documents to which it is a party and any agreement creating or perfecting rights in Cash Collateral pursuant toSection 2.16 of the Credit Agreement by reason of:
(a) any lack of legality, validity or enforceability of the Credit Agreement, of any of the Notes, of any other Loan Document, or of any other agreement or instrument creating, providing security for, or otherwise relating to any of the Guarantor’s Obligations, any of the Guaranteed Liabilities, or any other guaranty of any of the Guaranteed Liabilities (the Loan Documents and all such other agreements and instruments being collectively referred to as the “Related Agreements”);
(b) any action taken under any of the Related Agreements, any exercise of any right or power therein conferred, any failure or omission to enforce any right conferred thereby, or any waiver of any covenant or condition therein provided;
(c) any acceleration of the maturity of any of the Guaranteed Liabilities or of any other obligations or liabilities of any Person under any of the Related Agreements;
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