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Exhibit 10.18

INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
(Project Lenders)

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,
as Bank Agent

and

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Indenture Trustee

October 30, 2002


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 
   
   
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1.   Definitions and General Provisions.   2

 

 

1.1

 

Definitions

 

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        1.1.1            Other Terms   2
    1.2   Interpretation   5

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Collateral, Priority of Liens, Subordination and Release.

 

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2.1

 

Liens and Security Interests

 

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        2.1.1            Collateral for Bank Secured Obligations   6
        2.1.2            Collateral for Second Mortgage Notes Secured Obligations   6
    2.2   FF&E Component Collateral   6
    2.3   Separate Proceeds Accounts Collateral   6
    2.4   Confirmation of Liens   6

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Rights and Limitation of Actions With Respect to Collateral.

 

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3.1

 

Rights and Limitations Applicable to Note Holders.

 

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    3.2   Rights and Limitations Applicable to the Banks.   8
    3.3   Notification of Events of Default   10
    3.4   Certain Waivers by Note Holders   11

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Rights and Limitations with Respect to Amendments, Waivers and Other Actions Under Facility Agreements.

 

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4.1

 

Rights and Limitations Applicable to Note Holders

 

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    4.2   Rights and Limitations Applicable to the Banks.   11
    4.3   Waivers and Deferrals of Payments   12
    4.4   Waivers and Amendments Binding on Note Holders.   12
    4.5   Limitation of Liability   13

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Insolvency or Liquidation Proceedings

 

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5.1

 

Right to file Involuntary Bankruptcy

 

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    5.2   Certain Agreements and Consents by Note Holders.   14
    5.3   Avoidance of Bank Secured Obligations in Bankruptcy.   17
    5.4   No Other Restrictions on Note Holders.   17

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Default Purchase Option.

 

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7.

 

Representations and Warranties.

 

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    7.1   Organization.   18
    7.2   Authorization.   18
    7.3   Binding Agreement.   19
    7.4   No Consent Required.   19
    7.5   No Conflict.   19

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Miscellaneous Provisions.

 

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8.1

 

Notices; Addresses.

 

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    8.2   Further Assurances.   20
    8.3   Waiver.   20
    8.4   Entire Agreement.   20
    8.5   Governing Law.   21
    8.6   Severability.   21

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    8.7   Headings.   21
    8.8   Limitations on Liability.   21
    8.9   Consent of Jurisdiction.   21
    8.10   Successors and Assigns.   21
    8.11   Counterparts.   22
    8.12   No Third Party Beneficiaries.   22
    8.13   Amendment for New Project Credit Parties.   22
    8.14   Trust Indenture Act.   22
    8.15   Reinstatement.   22

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INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT
(Project Lenders)

        THIS INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT is made as of October 30, 2002, by and among DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as the Administrative Agent acting on behalf of itself and the Bank Lenders pursuant to the Bank Credit Agreement (in such capacity, the "Bank Agent"), and WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association in its capacity as Trustee under the Second Mortgage Note Indenture (in such capacity, the "Indenture Trustee").

RECITALS:

        A. The Project. Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (the "Company"), proposes to develop, construct and operate the Le Reve Hotel Casino, a large-scale, hotel, casino, golf course and entertainment complex with related ancillary facilities, all as part of the redevelopment on the site of the former Desert Inn Resort & Casino.

        B. The Bank Credit Facility. Concurrently herewith, the Company, the Bank Agent, the Bank Lenders and the other parties named therein have entered into the Bank Credit Agreement pursuant to which the Bank Lenders have agreed, subject to the terms thereof, to provide the Bank Credit Facility to the Company.

        C. The Second Mortgage Note Indenture. Concurrently herewith, the Company, Wynn Las Vegas Capital Corp., certain guarantors named therein and the Indenture Trustee have entered into the Second Mortgage Note Indenture pursuant to which the Company and Wynn Las Vegas Capital Corp. will issue the Second Mortgage Note.

        D. FF&E Facility. Concurrently herewith, the Company, the FF&E Agent and the FF&E Lenders have entered into the FF&E Facility Agreement pursuant to which the FF&E Lenders have agreed, subject to the terms thereof, to provide the FF&E Facility to the Company. The proceeds of the FF&E Facility will be used to acquire the FF&E Component and the Aircraft (as defined in the FF&E Facility Agreement).

        E. Financing for the Project. The Company is financing the development of the Project, in part, with the proceeds of the Bank Credit Facility, the FF&E Facility and the Second Mortgage Note. In addition to certain other collateral and security interests:

        F. Disbursement Agreement. The Company, the Bank Agent, the Indenture Trustee, the FF&E Agent and the Disbursement Agent, have entered into that Master Disbursement Agreement as of even date herewith (the "Disbursement Agreement"), in order to set forth, among other things, (a) the mechanics for and allocation of the Company's request for advances under the various Facilities and from the Company's Funds Account, (b) the conditions precedent to the initial advance and conditions precedent to subsequent advances, (c) certain common representations, warranties and covenants of the

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Company in favor of the Funding Agents and (d) common Events of Default and remedies during construction of the Project.

        G. Intercreditor Agreement. The Project Credit Parties desire to enter into this Agreement in order to set forth certain provisions relating to their respective rights in the Collateral, the exercise of remedies upon the occurrence of an event of default, the application of proceeds of enforcement and certain other matters.

        NOW, THEREFORE, with reference to the foregoing recitals and in reliance thereon, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Project Credit Parties agree as follows:

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Definitions and General Provisions.

        "Account Collateral" or "Accounts Collateral" means, collectively, all of the Company Accounts (other than the FF&E Proceeds Account) and all amounts on deposit therein, any interest earned thereon, and any investments of such amounts made pursuant to the Collateral Account Agreements and any proceeds of the foregoing. When the term "Collateral" is used in conjunction with any of the foregoing accounts (e.g., the "Second Mortgage Notes Proceeds Account Collateral"), said Account Collateral means the specified account and all amounts on deposit therein, any interest earned thereon, and any investments of such amounts made pursuant to the applicable Collateral Account Agreement, and any proceeds of the foregoing except to the extent such proceeds are deposited into another account pursuant to the terms of the Disbursement Agreement or the Collateral Account Agreements.

        "Agreement" has the meaning given in the preamble hereto.

        "Bank Agent" means Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas or its successor or assignee in its capacity as Administrative Agent under the Bank Credit Agreement.

        "Bank Credit Facility" means, collectively, the delay draw term loan credit facility and the revolving credit facility (including the letter of credit facility thereunder) described and made available to Wynn Las Vegas by the Bank Lenders pursuant to the Bank Credit Agreement.

        "Bank Financing Agreements" means the Bank Credit Agreement, the Bank Fee Letter, the FF&E Intercreditor Agreement, this Agreement, the Bank Security Documents and any other agreement, document or instrument entered into or delivered by a member of the Company Group on, prior to or after the Closing Date with or to the Bank Agent or the Bank Lenders in connection with the financing of the Project.

        "Bank Financing Period" means the period commencing on the date of the initial Advance under the Bank Credit Facility and ending upon Discharge of the Bank Secured Obligations.

        "Bank Lenders" means, collectively, (a) the Bank lenders pursuant to the Bank Credit Agreement and (b) the counterparties to Interest Rate Agreements (as defined in the Bank Credit Agreement) that are permitted to be secured by the Bank Security Documents, in each case, or their successors or assignees in such capacity as lenders or counterparties, as the case may be, under the Bank Credit Agreement.

        "Bank Secured Obligations" means all Obligations of the Company Group to the Bank Agent and the Bank Lenders under the Bank Credit Facility, the Bank Security Documents and the other Bank

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Financing Agreements, including, without limitation, amounts paid by the Bank Lenders pursuant to the Default Pay Off Option under the FF&E Intercreditor Agreement and Obligations in respect of Interest Rate Agreements (as defined in the Bank Credit Agreement), but only to the extent that the Bank Credit Agreement permits such Interest Rate Agreement Obligations to be secured by the Bank Security Documents.

        "Bankruptcy Law" means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled "Bankruptcy," as now and hereafter in effect, or any successor statute and any other state or federal insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar law for the relief of debtors now or hereafter in effect.

        "Blocking Event" means (a) the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 8(a) of the Bank Facility Agreement (Payment Default) or (b) that the Bank Secured Obligations have become due and payable in full (whether at maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise).

        "Collateral" means the following unique and separate categories of property encumbered to secure the Obligations to any of the Secured Lenders: (a) the Hotel/Casino Collateral, (b) the FF&E Collateral and (c) the Separate Proceeds Accounts Collateral.

        "Company Group" means, collectively, the Company and any Affiliate of the Company that has incurred any Obligations or pledged any Collateral under any Financing Agreement.

        "Credit Bid Rights" means, in respect of any order relating to a sale of assets in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, that:

        "Default Purchase Option" means the option granted to the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Second Mortgage Note Holders pursuant to Section 6 hereof to purchase the Bank Secured Obligations.

        "Disbursement Agent" means Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas or its successor or assignee in its capacity as Disbursement Agent under the Disbursement Agreement.

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        "Disbursement Agreement Default" means the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default under, and as defined in, the Disbursement Agreement.

        "Disbursement Agreement Default Date" the date upon which a Disbursement Agreement Default occurs.

        "Discharge" means (a) in respect of the Bank Facility, the termination of all commitments to extend credit under the Bank Credit Facility, indefeasible payment in full in cash of the principal of and interest and premium (if any) on all Bank Secured Obligations, termination, cancellation or expiration of all letters of credit issued under the Bank Credit Facility and indefeasible payment in full in cash of all other Bank Secured Obligations that are unpaid at the time the principal and interest are indefeasibly paid in full in cash and (b) in respect of the Second Mortgage Note, indefeasible payment in full in cash of the principal of and interest and premium (if any) on all Second Mortgage Note Secured Obligations and indefeasible payment in full in cash of all other Second Mortgage Note Secured Obligations that are unpaid at the time the principal and interest are indefeasibly paid in full in cash.

        "Eligible Purchaser" means any Person or Persons at any time or from time to time designated by the holders of at least 25% in outstanding principal amount of the Second Mortgage Note, voting as a single class, as entitled to exercise the Default Purchase Option.

        "Event of Default" means, as the context requires, (i) a Disbursement Agreement Default, or (ii) the occurrence and continuance of an "Event of Default" by or with respect to the Company under the applicable Financing Agreement that has not been waived by the applicable Project Credit Party (it being understood that the provisions of Section 1.2 of this Agreement shall not apply to any such waiver).

        "Facility or Facilities" means, as the context requires, any or all of the Bank Credit Facility and the Second Mortgage Note Proceeds.

        "Facility Agreements" means, collectively, the Bank Credit Agreement and the Second Mortgage Note Indenture.

        "FF&E Component Collateral" has the meaning given in the FF&E Intercreditor Agreement.

        "FF&E Financing Agreements" means the FF&E Facility Agreement, the FF&E Security Documents and any other agreement, document or instrument entered into or delivered by a member of the Company Group on, prior to or after the Closing Date with or to the FF&E Agent or the FF&E Lenders in connection with the financing of the Project.

        "FF&E Secured Obligations" means all Obligations of the Company Group to the FF&E Agent and the FF&E Lenders under the FF&E Facility Agreement, the FF&E Security Documents and the other FF&E Financing Agreements.

        "Guarantor" shall have the meaning given in the Bank Credit Agreement.

        "Hotel/Casino Collateral" means all real and personal property encumbered to secure the Bank Secured Obligations under the Bank Security Documents and the Second Mortgage Notes Secured Obligations under the Second Mortgage Notes Security Documents other than (i) the Separate Proceeds Accounts Collateral and (ii) the FF&E Collateral, provided, however, that after the release of any portion of the Hotel/Casino Collateral in accordance with the Bank Credit Agreement and the Second Mortgage Notes Indenture, the Hotel/Casino Collateral shall exclude such released Collateral.

        "Indenture Trustee" means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association or its successor or assignee in its capacity as Trustee under the Second Mortgage Notes Indenture.

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        "Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding" means (1) any case commenced by or against the Company Group or any Person within the Company Group under any Bankruptcy Law, any other proceeding for the reorganization, recapitalization or adjustment or marshalling of the assets or liabilities of the Company Group or any Person within the Company Group, any receivership or assignment for the benefit of creditors relating to the Company Group or any Person within the Company Group or any similar case or proceeding relative to the Company Group or any Person within the Company Group or their creditors, as such, in each case whether or not voluntary; (2) any liquidation, dissolution, marshalling of assets or liabilities or other winding up of or relating to the Company Group or any Person within the Company Group, in each case whether or not voluntary and whether or not involving bankruptcy or insolvency; or (3) any other proceeding of any type or nature in which substantially all claims of creditors of the Company Group or any Person within the Company Group are determined and any payment or distribution is or may be made on account of such claims.

        "Notice of Default" means a notice of default which must be recorded in the official real property records of Clark County, Nevada, in order to commence non-judicial foreclosure of a Deed of Trust in accordance with applicable Nevada law.

        "Project Credit Parties" means the Bank Agent and the Indenture Trustee.

        "Second Mortgage Notes Financing Agreements" means the Second Mortgage Notes Indenture, the Second Mortgage Notes, the Disbursement Agreement, the FF&E Intercreditor Agreement, this Agreement, the Second Mortgage Notes Security Documents and any other agreement, document or instrument entered into or delivered by a member of the Company Group on, prior to or after the Closing Date with or to the Indenture Trustee or the Second Mortgage Note Holders in connection with the financing of the Project.

        "Second Mortgage Notes Secured Obligations" means all Obligations of the Company Group under the Second Mortgage Notes Indenture, the Second Mortgage Notes, the Second Mortgage Notes Security Documents and the other Second Mortgage Notes Financing Agreements, including, without limitation, amounts paid by any Second Mortgage Note Holder pursuant to the Default Payoff Option under the FF&E Intercreditor Agreement.

        "Secured Lenders" means the Bank Agent, the Bank Lenders, the Indenture Trustee and the Second Mortgage Note Holders.

        "Secured Obligations" means the Bank Secured Obligations or the Second Mortgage Notes Secured Obligations, as the context requires.

        "Securities Intermediary" means any entity acting in its capacity as Securities Intermediary under any Collateral Account Agreement.

        "Separate Proceeds Accounts Collateral" means, collectively, the Second Mortgage Notes Proceeds Account Collateral and the Bank Proceeds Account Collateral.

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2.
Collateral, Priority of Liens, Subordination and Release.

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3.
Rights and Limitation of Actions With Respect to Collateral.

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        In connection therewith, each of the Indenture Trustee and the Second Mortgage Note Holders waives any and all rights to affect the method or challenge the appropriateness of any action by the Bank Agent and the Bank Lenders and subject to Sections 3.2.2. and 3.2.3 below, hereby consents to each of the Bank Agent and the Bank Lenders exercising or not exercising such rights and remedies as if no lien securing the Second Mortgage Notes Secured Obligations existed, except only that the Indenture Trustee and the Second Mortgage Note Holders reserve all rights granted by law (i) to request or receive notice of any sale of Collateral in foreclosure of any Lien securing the Bank Secured Obligations and (ii) to redeem any Collateral or enforce any right to claim, take or receive proceeds of Collateral remaining after the Discharge of the Bank Secured Obligations as provided in Section 3.1.2(b).

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4.
Rights and Limitations with Respect to Amendments, Waivers and Other Actions Under Facility Agreements.

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5.
Insolvency or Liquidation Proceedings

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6.    Default Purchase Option. The Bank Agent hereby grants the Indenture Trustee the right (without any obligation) to purchase, at any time during the period that begins when all commitments to extend credit constituting all Bank Secured Obligations have terminated and all Bank Secured Obligations have matured (whether at the stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, including by virtue of the commencement of an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding) and ends on the 45th day after receipt by the Indenture Trustee of written notice of such maturity from the Bank Agent, all, but not less than all, of the principal of and interest on and all prepayment or acceleration penalties and premiums in respect of all Bank Secured Obligations outstanding at the time of purchase and all other Bank Secured Obligations then outstanding, together with all liens securing such Bank Secured Obligations and all guarantees and other supporting obligations relating to such Bank Secured Obligations:

7.    Representations and Warranties. Each Project Credit Party represents and warrants to each other Project Credit Party as follows:

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Miscellaneous Provisions.
If to the Bank Agent:   Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas
31 West 52nd Street
New York, New York 10019
    Attn: George Reynolds
    Phone: (646) 324-2112
    Fax: (646) 324-7450

If to the Indenture Trustee:

 

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association,
as Indenture Trustee,
MAC: N303-121
Corporate Trust Operations
6th & Marquette Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55479
    Attn: Michael Slade
    Phone: (612) 667-0266
    Fax: (612) 667-2160

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        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Project Credit Parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their respective officers or agents thereunto duly authorized as of the day and year first above written.

    Bank Agent:  

 

 

 

 

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/  
GEORGE REYNOLDS      
          Name: George Reynolds
          Title: Vice President

 

 

Indenture Trustee:

 

 

 

 

 

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/  
MICHAEL G. SLADE      
          Name: Michael G. Slade
          Title: Corporate Trust Officer

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