ARTICLE II
Pledge of Securities
SECTION 2.01.Pledge.As security for the payment or performance, as the case may be, in full of the Secured Obligations, each Pledgor hereby assigns and pledges to the Collateral Agent, its successors and permitted assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, its successors and permitted assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in all of such Pledgor’s right, title and interest in, to and under:
(a) the Equity Interests directly owned by it (including those listed onSchedule II)and any other Equity Interests obtained in the future by such Pledgor and any certificates representing all such Equity Interests (collectively, the “Pledged Stock”);providedthat the Pledged Stock shall not include any Excluded Property;
(b) (i) the debt obligations listed opposite the name of such Pledgor onSchedule II,(ii) any debt obligations in the future issued to such Pledgor having, in the case of each instance of debt obligations, an aggregate principal amount in excess of $10,000,000, and (iii) the certificates, promissory notes and any other instruments, if any, evidencing such debt obligations (the property described in clauses (b)(i), (ii) and (iii) above, the “Pledged Debt”);providedthat the Pledged Debt shall not include any Excluded Property;
(c) subject to Section 2.06, all payments of principal or interest, dividends, cash, instruments and other property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of, in exchange for or upon the conversion of, and all other Proceeds received in respect of the Pledged Stock and the Pledged Debt;
(d) subject to Section 2.06, all rights and privileges of such Pledgor with respect to the Pledged Stock, Pledged Debt and other property referred to in clause (c) above; and
(e) all Proceeds of any of the foregoing (the Pledged Stock, Pledged Debt and other property referred to in this clause (e) and in clauses (c) through (d) above being collectively referred to as the “Pledged Collateral”);provided that the Pledged Collateral shall not include any Excluded Property.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the Pledged Collateral, together with all right, title, interest, powers, privileges and preferences pertaining or incidental thereto, unto the Collateral Agent, its successors and permitted assigns, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, forever; subject, however, to the terms, covenants and conditions hereinafter set forth.
Notwithstanding anything else contained in this Agreement, to the extent this paragraph is expressly made applicable with respect to any Series of Other Second Lien Obligations pursuant to the terms of any Other Second Lien Agreement, with respect to such Series of Other Second Lien Obligations, in the event that Rule3-10 (“Rule3-10”) or Rule3-16 (“Rule3-16”) of RegulationS-X under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, as amended, modified or interpreted by the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”), would then require (or is replaced with another rule or regulation, or any other law, rule or regulation is adopted, which would then require) the filing with the SEC (or any other Governmental Authority) of separate financial statements of the Issuer or any
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