Glossary When a defined term is used, it will be italicized.
Glossary of Defined Terms Defined Term Section Acquisition Proposal Section 4.2(a) Acquisition Transaction Section 4.2(a) Action Section 2.12 Advertising Related Agreements Section 2.34 Aggregate Series C Escrow Consideration Section 1.6(c) Agreement Preamble Ancillary Credit Agreements Section 5.2(l) Benefit Plan(s) Section 2.16(a) Bridge Loan Recitals Business Combination Section 8.1 Business Day Section 1.2(a) Cap Section 7.2(d) CERCLA Section 2.21(a)(i) Certificates Section 1.7(b) Certificate of Merger Section 1.2(b) Claims Section 8.1 Closing Section 1.2(a) Closing Amounts Certificate Section 1.8(b) Closing Date Section 1.2(a) Closing Filing Section 4.3(g)(ii) Closing Press Release Section 4.3(g)(ii) Closing Spreadsheet Section 1.8(b) Code Section 2.16(a) Confidential Information Section 2.15(h) Confidentiality Agreement Section 4.5 Consent Section 2.5 Consolidated EBITDA Section 5.2(p) Copyrights Section 2.15(a)(iii) COTS Software Section 2.14(a)(xii) Credit Agreement Section 1.8(a) Damages Section 7.2(b)(i) Delaware Secretary of State Section 1.2(b) DGCL Section 1.1 Dissenting Shares Section 1.6(k) Dissenting Stockholders Section 1.6(k) DOL Section 2.16(d) Effective Time Section 1.1 Encumbrances Section 2.6 Enforceability Exceptions Section 2.4 Environmental Laws Section 2.21(a)(i) Equity Financing Section 3.14 Equity Financing Commitment Section 3.14 ERISA Section 2.16(a) ERISA Affiliate Section 2.16(a) Escrow Agent Section 1.9 Escrow Agreement Section 1.9 Defined Term Section Escrow Cash Fund Section 7.8(c) Escrow Consideration Section 1.6(c) Escrow Fund Section 1.9 Exchange Act Section 2.7(a) Exchange Agent Section 1.7 Exchange Fund Section 1.7(a) Expiration Time Section 4.3(a) Fenwick Section 9.10
Glossary of Terms Affected System - An electric system other than the transmission system owned, controlled or operated by the Connecting Transmission Owner that may be affected by the proposed interconnection. Affected System Operator - Affected System Operator shall mean the operator of any Affected System. Affected Transmission Owner -The New York public utility or authority (or its designated agent) other than the Connecting Transmission Owner that: (i) owns facilities used for the transmission of Energy in interstate commerce and provides Transmission Service under the Tariff, and (ii) owns, leases or otherwise possesses an interest in a portion of the New York State Transmission System where System Deliverability Upgrades or System Upgrade Facilities are installed pursuant to Attachment Z and Attachment S to the ISO OATT. Applicable Laws and Regulations - All duly promulgated applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations, rules, ordinances, codes, decrees, judgments, directives, or judicial or administrative orders, permits and other duly authorized actions of any Governmental Authority, including but not limited to Environmental Law. Applicable Reliability Standards - The criteria, requirements and guidelines of the North American Electric Reliability Council, the Northeast Power Coordinating Council, the New York State Reliability Council and related and successor organizations, or the Transmission District to which the Interconnection Customer’s Small Generating Facility is directly interconnected, as those criteria, requirements and guidelines are amended and modified and in effect from time to time; provided that no Party shall waive its right to challenge the applicability of or validity of any criterion, requirement or guideline as applied to it in the context of Attachment Z to the ISO OATT and this Agreement. For the purposes of this Agreement, this definition of Applicable Reliability Standards shall supersede the definition of Applicable Reliability Standards set out in Attachment X to the ISO OATT.
General Provisions Applicable to Loans 30 5.1 Interest Rates and Payment Dates...............................................................30 5.2 Conversion and Continuation Options............................................................31 5.3 Minimum Amounts and Maximum Number of Tranches.................................................32 5.4
Special Provisions Applicable to LIBOR Rate (i) The LIBOR Rate may be adjusted by Agent with respect to any Lender on a prospective basis to take into account any additional or increased costs to such Lender of maintaining or obtaining any eurodollar deposits or increased costs due to changes in applicable law occurring subsequent to the commencement of the then applicable Interest Period, including changes in tax laws (except changes of general applicability in corporate income tax laws) and changes in the reserve requirements imposed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor), excluding the Reserve Percentage, which additional or increased costs would increase the cost of funding loans bearing interest at the LIBOR Rate. In any such event, the affected Lender shall give Administrative Borrower and Agent notice of such a determination and adjustment and Agent promptly shall transmit the notice to each other Lender and, upon its receipt of the notice from the affected Lender, Administrative Borrower may, by notice to such affected Lender (y) require such Lender to furnish to Administrative Borrower a statement setting forth the basis for adjusting such LIBOR Rate and the method for determining the amount of such adjustment, or (z) repay the LIBOR Rate Loans with respect to which such adjustment is made (together with any amounts due under clause (b)(ii) above).
Exhibits Incorporated All Exhibits attached are hereby incorporated into this Agreement.
Filing and Effectiveness of Registration Statement; Certain Defined Terms The Company has filed with the Commission a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-216864) covering the registration of the Offered Securities under the Act, including a related preliminary prospectus or prospectuses. At any particular time, this initial registration statement, as amended, in the form then on file with the Commission, including all material then incorporated by reference therein, all information contained in the registration statement (if any) filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) and then deemed to be a part of the initial registration statement, and all 430A Information, all 430B Information and all 430C Information, if any, that in any case has not then been superseded or modified, shall be referred to as the “Initial Registration Statement”. The Company may also have filed, or may file with the Commission, a Rule 462(b) registration statement covering the registration of Offered Securities. At any particular time, this Rule 462(b) registration statement, in the form then on file with the Commission, including the contents of the Initial Registration Statement incorporated by reference therein and including all 430A Information, all 430B Information and all 430C Information, if any, that in any case has not then been superseded or modified, shall be referred to as the “Additional Registration Statement”. As of the time of execution and delivery of this agreement (this “Agreement”), the Initial Registration Statement has been declared effective under the Act and is not proposed to be amended, and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Initial Registration Statement has been issued by the Commission and to the knowledge of the Company no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or threatened by the Commission. Any Additional Registration Statement has or will become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b) and is not proposed to be amended. The Offered Securities all have been or will be duly registered under the Act pursuant to the Initial Registration Statement and, if applicable, the Additional Registration Statement. For purposes of this Agreement:
LIST OF DEFINED TERMS A— Acquisition Proposal 36 Affiliates 6 Agreement 1, 52 Agreement Date 1 Alternative Acquisition Agreement 36 Alternative Financing 41 Antitrust Laws 39 Assignee 48 —B— Balance Sheet Date 18 Bank 40 Benefit Plans 19 Book Entry Shares 11 Business Day 2 —C— CERCLA 25 Certificate of Merger 9 Certificates 11 Change of Recommendation 35 Chestnut Merger Agreement 9 Closing 9 Closing Date 9 Company 1 Company Board 1 Company Board Recommendation 1 Company Bylaws 15 Company Charter 15 Company Common Stock 1 Company Disclosure Documents 16 Company Disclosure Schedule 15 Company Equity Plans 14 Company Material Adverse Effect 15 Company Restricted Stock 14 Company RSUs 14 Company SEC Reports 17 Company Stock Option 14 Company Stockholder Approval 27 Company Stockholders 1 Company’s Knowledge 19 Confidentiality Agreement 34 Consideration Fund 11 Continuing Director 6 Continuing Employees 37 Contract 17 —D— Debt Financing Letter 30 Delisting Period 42 DGCL 8 Dissenting Shares 13 —E— Effective Time 9 End Date 43 Environmental Laws 25 ERISA 19 ESPP 14 Exchange Act 2 Expiration Date 3 —F— FDCA 26 Financing 30 Financing Sources 47 Fully Diluted Basis 2 —G— GAAP 17 Good Manufacturing Practices 26 XXX Xxx 00 —I— Indemnified Parties 38 Initial Expiration Date 3 Insured Parties 38 Intellectual Property 22 IRS 20 —K— Knowledge of the Company 19 Knowledge of the Parent 31 —L— Law 2 License-In Contracts 22 License-Out Contracts 22 Loan Agreement 40 —M— Material Contract 18 Maximum Premium 38 MDD 26 Medical Device 26 Merger 1 Merger Consideration 11 Minimum Condition 2 —N— Notice Period 36 —O— Offer 1 Offer Documents 4 Offer Price 1 Offer to Purchase 2 Offering 14 Option Amount 13 Order 22 —P— Parent 1 Parent Disclosure Schedule 28 Parent Material Adverse Effect 28 Parent’s Knowledge 31 Paying Agent 11 Permits 21 Person 12 Post-Closing SEC Reports 42 Prohibited Payment 21 Proxy Statement 10 Purchaser 1 —Q— Qualifying Transaction 45 —R— Real Property 24 Representatives 33 —S— Schedule 14D-9 5 Schedule TO 4 SEC 3 Section 409A 20 Securities Act 8 Securities Exchange Rule 3 Share Acceptance Time 2 Shares 1 Short Form Threshold 10 Special Meeting 10 Subsequent Offering Period 3 Subsidiary 16 Superior Proposal 36 Surviving Corpo 8 —T— Tax 24 Taxes 23, 24 Taxing Authorities 23 Tender and Voting Agreements 1 Termination Fee 45 Top-Up Option 7 Top-Up Option Shares 7 Transactions 1 AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER This AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER (this “Agreement”), dated as of June 1, 2010 (the “Agreement Date”), is by and among ev3 Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), Covidien Group S.a.r.l., a Luxembourg company (the “Parent”), and COV Delaware Corporation, a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Parent (the “Purchaser”).
Filing of Copies, References, Headings, Rules of Construction The original or a copy of this Declaration of Trust shall be kept at the office of the Trust where it may be inspected by any Shareholder. Anyone dealing with the Trust may rely on a certificate by an officer of the Trust as to any matters in connection with the Trust hereunder; and, with the same effect as if it were the original, may rely on a copy certified by an officer of the Trust to be a copy of this Declaration of Trust. In this Declaration of Trust, references to this Declaration of Trust, and all expressions such as “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, shall be deemed to refer to this Declaration of Trust as a whole and not to any particular article or section unless the context requires otherwise. Headings are placed herein for convenience of reference only and shall not be taken as a part hereof or control or affect the meaning, construction or effect of this Declaration of Trust. Whenever the singular number is used herein, the same shall include the plural; and the neuter, masculine and feminine genders shall include each other, as applicable. This Declaration of Trust and any document, consent or instrument referenced in or contemplated by this Declaration of Trust or the By-Laws may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which together will constitute one and the same instrument. To the extent permitted by the 1940 Act, (i) any document, consent, instrument or notice referenced in or contemplated by this Declaration of Trust or the By-Laws that is to be executed by one or more Trustees may be executed by means of original, facsimile or electronic signature and (ii) any document, consent, instrument or notice referenced in or contemplated by this Declaration of Trust or the By-Laws that is to be delivered by one or more Trustees may be delivered by facsimile or electronic means (including e-mail), unless, in the case of either clause (i) or (ii), otherwise determined by the Trustees. The terms “include,” “includes” and “including” and any comparable terms shall be deemed to mean “including, without limitation.” Any reference to any statute, law, code, rule or regulation shall be deemed to refer to such statute, law, code, rule or regulation as amended or restated from time to time and any successor thereto.
Recitals Incorporated; Certain Defined Terms The Recitals set forth above are incorporated into this Amendment and shall be deemed terms and provisions hereof, the same as if fully set forth in this Paragraph 1. Capitalized terms that are used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in the Lease.
