Acquisitions. Acquire or agree to acquire by merging with, or by purchasing a substantial portion of the stock or assets of, or by any other manner, any business or any corporation, partnership, association or other business organization or division thereof or otherwise acquire or agree to acquire any assets that are material individually or in the aggregate, to its business, taken as a whole;
Acquisitions. Acquire (other than by way of foreclosures or acquisitions of control in a bona fide fiduciary capacity or in satisfaction of debts previously contracted in good faith, in each case in the ordinary and usual course of business consistent with past practice) all or any portion of the assets, business, deposits or properties of any other entity.
Acquisitions. Acquired the capital stock or other securities or any ownership interest in, or substantially all of the assets of, any other Person;
Acquisitions. (a) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, but subject to Section 3.6(b), neither Parent nor any International Parent Distributor shall be (i) deemed to be in violation of this Agreement or any International Selling Agreement or (ii) obligated hereunder or under any International Selling Agreement to take any action (including to make any adjustment to commissions, economic inducements or other benefits for the Sales Force), if such violation would arise, or such action would be required to be taken, solely as a result of Parent or one of its Affiliates acquiring assets or a business of any Person engaged in the distribution of financial services products following the date of this Agreement; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 3.6(a) shall limit or restrict any obligations that Parent or any International Parent Distributor has to distribute on an exclusive basis a Product or a New Product offered by a Purchaser Insurer if such Purchaser Insurer has the right under this Agreement or any International Selling Agreement to be the exclusive provider of such Product or New Product to such International Parent Distributor.
(b) If, at any time prior to the seventh anniversary of the date of this Agreement, (i) Parent acquires a Target Business (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement), of which the net revenues and net earnings (in each case, calculated in a manner consistent with Section 6.17(a)(x) of the Acquisition Agreement, and, for the avoidance of doubt, excluding realized gains) derived from a Competitive Business (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement) are more than a de minimis amount, and (ii) Parent or its Affiliates are permitted to acquire such Target Business pursuant to Sections 6.17(a)(x) or 6.17(a)(xi) of the Acquisition Agreement, then Purchaser through the Purchaser Insurers shall have the right during the remainder of such seven-year period to be a provider to each Target Affiliated Distributor, if any, on a non-exclusive Level Playing Field basis, of any life insurance or annuity product that is distributed by such Target Affiliated Distributor on a non-exclusive basis either immediately before or following such acquisition; provided, that such right shall be subject to any applicable contractual or other restrictions by which such Target Affiliated Distributor is bound.
Acquisitions. Enter into any agreement, contract, binding commitment or other arrangement providing for any Acquisition, or take any action to solicit the tender of securities or proxies in respect thereof in order to effect any Acquisition, unless (i) the Person to be (or whose assets are to be) acquired does not oppose such Acquisition and the line or lines of business of the Person to be acquired constitute Core Businesses, (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing either immediately prior to or immediately after giving effect to such Acquisition and, if the Cost of Acquisition is in excess of $25,000,000, the Borrower shall have furnished to the Administrative Agent (A) pro forma historical financial statements as of the end of the most recently completed fiscal year of the Borrower and most recent interim fiscal quarter, if applicable, giving effect to such Acquisition, and (B) a Compliance Certificate prepared on a historical pro forma basis as of June 30, 2005, or, if later, as of the most recent date for which financial statements have been furnished pursuant to Section 7.01(a) or (b), giving effect to such Acquisition, which Compliance Certificate shall demonstrate that no Default or Event of Default would exist immediately after giving effect thereto, (iii) the Person acquired shall be a wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiary, or be merged with or into a Restricted Subsidiary, immediately upon consummation of the Acquisition (or if assets are being acquired, the acquiror shall be a Restricted Subsidiary), (iv) upon consummation of the Acquisition each Subsidiary shall have complied with the provisions of Section 7.12, including with respect to any new assets (including real property) acquired, (v) if the Cost of Acquisition in any single transaction or series of related transactions shall exceed $120,000,000 (or the Cost of Acquisition payable in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents shall exceed $60,000,000), the Required Lenders shall consent to such Acquisition in their discretion, and (vi) after giving effect to such Acquisition, the aggregate Costs of Acquisition incurred since the Closing Date shall not exceed $240,000,000 (of which no more than $120,000,000 of the Costs of Acquisition payable by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of all such transactions after the Closing Date shall be in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents).
Acquisitions acquire any further assets other than the Ships and rights arising under contracts entered into by or on behalf of the Borrowers in the ordinary course of their businesses of owning, operating and chartering the Ships;
Acquisitions. The Borrower will not, nor will it permit any Subsidiary, to make any Acquisition other than a Permitted Acquisition.
Acquisitions. (a) Except as permitted under paragraph (b) below, no Obligor shall (and the Company shall ensure that no other member of the Restricted Group will) undertake:
(i) the acquisition of a company or any shares or securities or a business or undertaking (or, in each case, any interest in any of them); or
(ii) the incorporation of a company.
(b) Paragraph (a) above does not apply to an acquisition of a company, of shares, securities or a business or undertaking (or, in each case, any interest in any of them) or the incorporation of a company which is:
(i) a Permitted Acquisition; or
(ii) a Permitted Transaction.
Acquisitions. Other than Permitted Acquisitions, purchase or otherwise acquire or become obligated for the purchase of all or substantially all or any material portion of the assets or business interests of any Person, firm or corporation, or any shares of stock (or other ownership interests) of any corporation, trusteeship or association, or any business or going concern, or in any other manner effectuate or attempt to effectuate an expansion of present business by acquisition.
Acquisitions. The Borrower shall not, and shall not suffer or permit any other Company to make any Acquisitions other than Permitted Acquisitions.
