Absence of Changes or Events (a) Since the date of the Balance Sheet, there has been no event, change, development, effect or circumstance that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Absence of Material Changes Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, and except as may be otherwise stated or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, there has not been (i) any Material Adverse Effect, (ii) any transaction which is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, (iii) any obligation, direct or contingent (including any off-balance sheet obligations), incurred by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, which is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, (iv) any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made on the capital stock of the Company, or (v) any change in the capital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants or the conversion of convertible indebtedness) or material change in the short-term debt or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (other than upon conversion of convertible indebtedness) or any issuance of options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights to purchase the capital stock (other than grants of stock options under the Company’s stock option plans existing on the date hereof) of the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
Absence of Certain Changes or Events Except for liabilities incurred in connection with this Agreement, the Option Agreements or the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and except as permitted by Section 4.1(a), since April 27, 1996, RSI and its subsidiaries have conducted their business only in the ordinary course consistent with past practice or as disclosed in any RSI SEC Document filed since such date and prior to the date hereof, and there has not been (i) any material adverse change (as defined in Section 8.3) in RSI, (ii) any declaration, setting aside or payment of any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, stock or property) with respect to any of RSI's capital stock, (iii) any split, combination or reclassification of any of RSI's capital stock or any issuance or the authorization of any issuance of any other securities in respect of, in lieu of or in substitution for shares of RSI's capital stock, except for issuances of RSI Common Stock upon exercise or conversion of RSI Employee Stock Options, in each case awarded prior to the date hereof in accordance with their present terms or issued pursuant to Section 4.1(a), (iv)(A) any granting by RSI or any of its subsidiaries to any current or former director, executive officer or other key employee of RSI or its subsidiaries of any increase in compensation, bonus or other benefits, except for normal increases as a result of promotions, normal increases of base pay in the ordinary course of business or as was required under any employment agreements in effect as of April 27, 1996 or disclosed in Section 3.1(i) of the RSI Disclosure Schedule, (B) any granting by RSI or any of its subsidiaries to any such current or former director, executive officer or key employee of any increase in severance or termination pay, or (C) any entry by RSI or any of its subsidiaries into, or any amendment of, any employment, deferred compensation, consulting, severance, termination or indemnification agreement with any such current or former director, executive officer or key employee, (v) except insofar as may have been disclosed in RSI SEC Documents filed and publicly available prior to the date of this Agreement (as amended to the date hereof, the "RSI Filed SEC Documents") or required by a change in GAAP, any change in accounting methods, principles or practices by RSI materially affecting its assets, liabilities or business, (vi) except insofar as may have been disclosed in the RSI Filed SEC Documents, any tax election that individually or in the aggregate would have a material adverse effect on RSI or any of its tax attributes or any settlement or compromise of any material income tax liability, or (vii) any action taken by RSI or any of the RSI subsidiaries during the period from April 28, 1996 through the date of this Agreement that, if taken during the period from the date of this Agreement through the Effective Time, would constitute a breach of Section 4.1(a).
Material Changes or Material Transactions Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, except as may otherwise be stated therein or contemplated thereby, there has been no material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business.
Absence of Material Change From the date of this Agreement to the Closing, there has not occurred any event, change, effect, act, discovery, or occurrence (or any combination of the forgoing) (whether or not referred to or described herein or in any Exhibit or Schedule hereto) that individually or in the aggregate would have, or would reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect.
No Material Changes, Etc Since the Balance Sheet Date, there has occurred no material adverse change in the financial condition or assets or business of the Borrower as shown on or reflected in the balance sheet of the Borrower as of the Balance Sheet Date, or the statement of income for the fiscal year then ended, other than changes in the ordinary course of business that have not had any Material Adverse Effect either individually or in the aggregate.
Absence of Certain Changes and Events Except as set forth in Part 3.16 of the Disclosure Letter, since the date of the Balance Sheet, the Company has conducted its business only in the Ordinary Course of Business and there has not been any:
Absence of Certain Changes, Events and Conditions Since the Balance Sheet Date, and other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, there has not been, with respect to the Company, any:
Notification of Material Changes The Advisor also agrees to give the Company prior written notice of any proposed material change in its Trading Approach and agrees not to make any material change in such Trading Approach (as applied to the Company) over the objection of the Company, it being understood that the Advisor shall be free to institute non-material changes in its Trading Approach (as applied to the Company) without prior written notification. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, refinements to the Advisor’s Trading Approach and the deletion (but not the addition) of Commodities (other than the addition of Commodities then being traded (i) on organized domestic commodities exchanges, (ii) on foreign commodities exchanges recognized by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) as providing customer protections comparable to those provided on domestic exchanges or (iii) in the interbank foreign currency market) to or from the Advisor’s Trading Approach, shall not be deemed a material change in the Advisor’s Trading Approach, and prior approval of the Company shall not be required therefor. The utilization of forward markets in addition to those enumerated in the Advisor’s Disclosure Document attached hereto as Exhibit C would be deemed a material change to the Advisor’s Trading Approach and prior approval shall be required therefor. Subject to adequate assurances of confidentiality, the Advisor agrees that it will discuss with the Company upon request any trading methods, programs, systems or strategies used by it for trading customer accounts which differ from the Trading Approach used for the Company, provided that nothing contained in this Agreement shall require the Advisor to disclose what it deems to be proprietary or confidential information.
Absence of Changes Since the Balance Sheet Date, except as set forth on Schedule 5.25, there has not been:
