covenants, agreements, obligations and liabilities of the Borrowers under or pursuant to the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents and under any Interest Rate Hedging Agreement now or hereafter in effect. References to a “guarantor” shall include each Guarantor hereunder, the Company, and any other Person that is a guarantor of any or all of the Obligations, and references to a “guarantee” shall include this Agreement, the Company Guarantee Agreement and any other guarantee of any or all of the Obligations by any other Person. Section 2.01. Guarantee. (a) The Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally, absolutely, and irrevocably guarantee (and hereby reaffirm and continue their guarantees under the Original Subsidiary Guarantee), each as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, the due and punctual payment and performance in full of the Obligations, in each case strictly in accordance with the terms thereof. In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right that any Secured Party may have at law or in equity against any Guarantor by virtue hereof, the Guarantors jointly and severally agree that upon failure of the Borrowers to pay any Obligations when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, on one or more dates on which prepayment or repayment is required, or otherwise, the Guarantors will, without any demand or notice whatsoever, forthwith pay or cause to be paid to the Administrative Agent or such other Secured Party as is designated thereby, in cash in immediately available funds, an amount equal to the unpaid amount of such Obligations. Each Guarantor further agrees that the Obligations guaranteed by it hereunder may be increased in amount, extended or renewed, or otherwise amended or modified in any respect, including, without limitation, as to principal, scheduled repayment, prepayment, interest, fees, indemnification, compensation, and in any other respect whatsoever, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound upon this guarantee in respect of such Obligations as so increased, extended, renewed, amended or modified. Payments by each Guarantor hereunder may be required on any number of occasions. (b) Each Guarantor waives presentation to, demand for payment from and protest to the Borrowers or any other guarantor, and also waives notice of acceptance of its guarantee and notice of protest for nonpayment. The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected by (i) the failure of any Secured Party to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against any Credit Party or any other Person under the provisions of any Loan Document or any other agreement or otherwise; (ii) any rescission, waiver, forbearance, compromise, acceleration, amendment or modification of, or any release of any party from any of the terms or provisions of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, any Obligation or any other guarantee or any security interest in respect of the Obligations (including, without limitation, in respect of any other guarantor, or any Pledgor or Debtor as either such term may be defined in any Security Document); (iii) any change in respect of any Credit Party, including, without limitation, as a result of any merger, consolidation, dissolution, liquidation, recapitalization, or other change of legal form or status, whether or not permitted under the Loan Documents; (iv) the release, exchange, waiver or foreclosure of any security held by any Secured Party for any Obligations or the invalidity or nonperfection of any security interest securing the |