What makes equipment count as delivered collateral, and what do the supplier and warehouse sign?
Under the Fermi loan, equipment counts as delivered only when the borrower group has full title on the purchase contract’s terms, it sits at an approved third-party storage site, and the warehouse operator has signed a consent. The consents include consents to collateral assignment of the purchase contracts, bailee letters, warehouse lien agreements and direct agreements. Siemens Energy has also signed a subordination agreement with the lenders’ agent. Fermi’s high voltage loan lets equipment wait in the vendor’s yard, provided the vendor signs a collateral access agreement and a supplier consent.
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What the filed contracts say
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What the filed wording says
Fermi turbine warehouse loan
Delivered equipment needs full title, an approved storage site and a signed consent from the warehouse operator.
Fermi turbine warehouse loan
Storage must be at a named third-party facility or another one the agent accepts.
Fermi turbine warehouse loan
Consents cover collateral assignment, bailee letters, warehouse lien agreements and direct agreements.
Fermi turbine warehouse loan
Siemens Energy signed a subordination agreement with the lenders’ agent.
Fermi high voltage equipment loan
Each supplier acknowledges the assignment to the borrower and the collateral assignment of its progress payments and equipment to the lenders.
Fermi high voltage equipment loan
Equipment may stay in the vendor’s yard before delivery if the vendor gives a collateral access agreement and supplier consent, so the lenders can reach it after a default.
The filed wording
“Delivered Equipment” means Equipment (i) for which a Loan Party has acquired all right, title and interest in and to such Equipment on terms and conditions consistent with the applicable Equipment Purchase Agreement, (ii) that is located at an Eligible Location, and (iii) (subject to the timing set forth in Section 3.3(b)) that is subject to a Consent with the applicable Warehouse Provider.
Fermi turbine warehouse equipment supply loan (Siemens and GE gas turbines), MUFG as agent, Exhibit A, “Delivered Equipment” · Fermi 8-K, Exhibit 10.1
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