SECTION 3.2 Non-Impairment, etc. After giving effect to this Amendment, neither the modification of the Existing Loan Agreement nor the execution, delivery, performance or effectiveness of this Amendment or any other Loan Document delivered in connection with this Amendment impairs the validity, effectiveness or priority of the Liens granted pursuant to the Loan Documents, and such Liens continue unimpaired with the same priority to secure repayment of all Obligations, whether heretofore or hereafter incurred.
ARTICLE IV
RELEASE
SECTION 4.1 Borrower for itself and on behalf of its heirs, legal representatives, and successors and assigns, as applicable, hereby releases Agent and Lenders and all of their Affiliates, shareholders, partners, predecessors, employees, officers, directors, attorneys, parent corporations, subsidiaries, agents, participants, assignees, servicers and receivers (collectively, the “Released Parties”), except for claims, disputes, differences, liabilities and obligations arising under this Amendment, the Loan Agreement and/or the other Loan Documents after the date hereof, from any and all known and unknown claims, disputes, differences, liabilities and obligations of any and every nature whatsoever that they or any of them may have or claim, as of the date hereof or as of any prior date, against any one or more of the Released Parties arising from, based upon or related to the Loan Documents, or any other agreement, understanding, action or inaction whatsoever with regard to the Loan Documents or any transaction or matter related thereto, including, without limitation, the origination and servicing of the loan made under the Loan Documents and the enforcement or attempted enforcement of any rights or remedies for default or asserted default under the Loan Documents, except for any matter related to a breach of a confidentiality undertaking or a matter related to applicable securities laws (collectively, the “Released Claims”).
SECTION 4.2 Borrower further acknowledges and agrees that the Released Claims include, among other things to the extent so released under Section 4.1, all claims arising out of or with respect to any and all transactions relating to the Loan Documents based on any fact, act, inaction, or other occurrence or nonoccurrence on or prior to the date hereof, including, without limitation, any breach of fiduciary duty or duty of fair dealing, breach of confidence, breach of loan commitment, undue influence, duress, economic coercion, conflict of interest, negligence, bad faith, malpractice, violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, violation of any other statute, ordinance or regulation, intentional or negligent infliction of mental or emotional distress, tortious interference with contractual relations or prospective business advantage, tortious interference with corporate governance, breach of contract, bad practices, unfair competition, libel, slander, conspiracy or any claim for wrongfully accelerating the loan made under the Loan Documents or attempting to foreclose on, or obtain a receiver for, any collateral for the loan made under the Loan Documents and all statutory claims and causes of action of every nature.
SECTION 4.3 In connection with the release contained in this Article IV (the “Release”), Borrower acknowledges that it is aware that it may hereafter discover facts in addition to or different from those that it now knows or believes to be true with respect to the Released Claims, but that it is each of their intention hereby fully, finally and forever to settle and release all such claims, disputes, differences, liabilities and obligations, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, that now exist, may exist or heretofore have existed by any of them against any one or more of the Released Parties. In furtherance of that intention, the Release contained in this Amendment shall be and remain in effect as a full and complete release with respect to the Released Claims notwithstanding the discovery of the existence of any such additional or different facts.
Third Amendment to
Loan and Security Agreement
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