Liabilities Not Assumed Notwithstanding any provision hereof to the contrary, the Buyer shall not assume, satisfy or perform any of the following Liabilities (the "Excluded Liabilities"):
(a) any Liability to the extent such Liability is in respect of, in connection with, or otherwise arising from the operation or use of the Excluded Assets or any other assets of the Sellers that are not Acquired Assets;
(b) any Liability including, without limitation, any Environmental Liability, to the extent such Liability is in respect of, in connection with, or arising from the Seller Easements;
(c) any Liabilities, including, without limitation, any Environmental Liabilities, to the extent relating to the off-Site disposal, storage, transportation, discharge, Release, recycling, or the arrangement for such activities of Hazardous Substances that were generated at the Site, at any Offsite Hazardous Substance Facility or at a location other than the Site (other than as a result of subsurface migration from the Site), where the initial disposal, storage, transportation, discharge, Release or recycling of such Hazardous Substances at such Offsite Hazardous Substance Facility occurred on or prior to the Initial Closing Date;
(d) any Liability of the Sellers to the extent arising from the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement or a Related Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby;
(e) any Liability in respect of Taxes to the extent attributable to the Acquired Assets accrued prior to the relevant Closing Date, except those Taxes expressly allocated to the Buyer pursuant to Section 8;
(f) subject to the provisions of Section 5.7, any Liability, whether funded or unfunded, to the extent arising out of any Employee Benefit Plan established or maintained in whole or in part by any Seller (or its Affiliate) or to which any Seller (or its Affiliate) contributes or contributed, or is or was required to contribute, at any time prior to the Initial Closing Date and any Liability for the termination or discontinuance of, or any Seller's or its Affiliates' withdrawal from, any such Employee Benefit Plan;
(g) any Liabilities of any Seller or any of its Affiliates for any compensation or any benefits whether in relation to any of the Plant Employees, independent contractors or any other individuals who are later determined by a court or governmental agency to have been employees of a Seller or its Affiliates, including, without limitation, (i) wages, bonuses, incentive compensation, shift or work schedule adders, on-call pay, call-out pay, vacation pay, sick pay, paid time off, workers compensation, unemployment compensation, withholding obligations, unemployment taxes or similar obligations accruing or related to work performed prior to the Initial Closing Date; (ii) severance pay, other termination pay, post-retirement benefits and COBRA coverage, accruing or related to work performed prior to the Initial Closing Date; or (iii) any other form of compensation or benefits accruing or related to work performed prior to the Initial Closing Date under the terms or provisions of any Employee Benefit Plan of any Seller or such Affiliate, or any other agreement, plan, practice, policy, instrument or document relating to any of the Acquired Assets Employees, other than the Liabilities expressly assumed by the Buyer under Section 5.7;
(h) with respect to the Acquired Assets Employees or any independent contractors, or other individuals subject to Section 5.7, except for liabilities under any employment contracts with NAESCO employees relating to periods on and after the Closing Date, which Liabilities are assumed only to the extent set forth in Section 2.3(b), any Liabilities or obligations relating to the employment or termination of employment, including personal injury, tort, discrimination (including claims for whistleblowing under the Atomic Energy Act and the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 as amended, as well as claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, Executive Order 11246, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, as amended, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and/or any other federal, state or local statute, ordinance, regulation or order prohibiting discrimination or requiring affirmative action), wrongful discharge, breach of implied or express contract, unfair labor practices or any claim asserted in an individual employee grievance procedure, or constructive termination by any Seller or its Affiliate of any individual, or similar claim or cause of action attributable to any action or inaction by any Seller or any of its Affiliates that arise out of wrongful acts or omissions, occurring prior to the Initial Closing Date or such later date as the individual may have commenced employment with Buyer pursuant to Section 5.7(a) or (b); provided that the Sellers shall not have any liability for similar actions or inactions by any other Person on or after the Initial Closing Date or such later date as the individual shall have commenced employment with the Buyer;
(i) any Liabilities of Sellers to the extent accrued or related to or attributable to the period prior to the Initial Closing Date under any contract, license, Permit or other instrument relating to the Acquired Assets (including, without limitation, the Leases, Emergency Preparedness Agreements and Other Assigned Contracts, the Material Contracts and the NRC Licenses);
(j) all Liabilities for assessments for decommissioning and decontamination fund fees accrued and payable under 42 U.S.C. Section 2297g-1 prior to the Initial Closing Date;
(k) any Liabilities, including, without limitation, any Environmental Liabilities, resulting from any illegal acts or willful misconduct of the Sellers or NAESCO or their employees, agents or contractors, occurring prior to the Initial Closing Date;
(l) all Liabilities for fees payable to DOE under the DOE Standard Contracts accrued or related to electricity generated and sold prior to the Initial Closing Date, and interest accrued thereon as set forth in Article VIII of the DOE Standard Contracts;
(m) any Liabilities to the extent relating to the Business Finance Authority of the State of New Hampshire Pollution Control Revenue Bonds (as set forth in Schedule 2.4(m), the "Pollution Control Bonds") and any agreements relating thereto, other than those arising out of the breach by the Buyer of the covenants contained in Section 5.8(d);
(n) any Liens on the Acquired Assets, except for Permitted Encumbrances;
(o) except as otherwise expressly set forth in this Agreement, any other Liability, obligation, claim, action, complaint, debt, suit, cause of action, investigation, or proceeding of any kind whatsoever asserted by any Third Party, against or relating to any of the Buyer, the Sellers or the Acquired Assets, for damages suffered by such Third Party arising from or relating to the use, ownership or lease of the Acquired Assets or operation of the Facility prior to the Initial Closing Date;
(p) all Liabilities of NEP and PSNH under the Transmission Support Agreement, except for NEP's transmission support payment obligations; and
(q) the escrow account contribution obligation of each Seller under the Unit 2 Memorandum of Understanding with the Town of Seabrook; and
(r) any Liability which is required to be accrued in accordance with GAAP by any Seller on the balance sheet of such Seller as of the Initial Closing Date or a Subsequent Closing Date, as the case may be, , other than those Liabilities which are specifically identified as Assumed Liabilities in Section 2.3.
LIABILITIES TO BE ASSUMED Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, on the Closing Date, Buyer shall assume and agree to perform and discharge the following, and only the following Liabilities of the Seller (collectively the "Assumed Liabilities"):
Liability for Specific Obligations The Administrator will be liable only for its specific obligations under this Agreement. All other liability is expressly waived and released as a condition of, and consideration for, the execution of this Agreement by the Administrator. The Administrator will be liable for its willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence in performing its obligations under this Agreement.
Assumption of Assumed Liabilities (a) Except as expressly provided in Section 2.4(b), the Purchaser shall not assume, in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, any liability or obligation of either Seller whatsoever, whether known, unknown, absolute, contingent or otherwise, and whether accrued or unaccrued.
(b) Subject to the foregoing Section 2.4(a), effective as of the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall assume the following liabilities and obligations of the Sellers arising out of the use, ownership or operation of the Business, the Facilities or the other Assets (collectively, the “Assumed Liabilities”):
(i) the obligations of the Sellers under (x) each Assumed Contract, related to the rights under each Assumed Contract assigned to the Purchaser under the Assignment and Assumption Agreement, (y) each JWWTP Agreement to the extent assigned to the Purchaser under the Assignment (JWWTP Agreements) and (z) each License included in the Assets required to be performed on or after the Closing Date;
(ii) all accounts payable, accrued expenses and other current liabilities of the Sellers related to the Business and accrued or existing as of the Closing Date, but only to the extent included in the determination of Final Net Working Capital;
(iii) all liabilities and obligations, known or unknown, relating to, resulting from, arising out of or in connection with, directly or indirectly, (A) events that occur, (B) services performed or products manufactured or sold, or (C) the ownership, operation or use of the Business and the Assets, in each case, from and after the Closing;
(iv) liabilities and obligations relating to or arising from physical or bodily injuries to, or damage to the property of, third parties that occur from and after the Closing to the extent caused by the physical condition of the Assets (which are being transferred as-is, where-is);
(v) liabilities arising in connection with any severance plan established by the Purchaser on or after the Closing Date; and
(vi) liabilities under any of the CBAs or any other collective bargaining agreement or other labor arrangement, including any grievances, to the extent arising from any act or omission after the Closing.
No Assumption of Liabilities Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or elsewhere to the contrary, no SNH Entity is assuming, and no SNH Entity shall be responsible for, any liability of any kind or nature whether known or unknown, absolute, mature or not yet due, liquidated or non-liquidated, contingent, non-contingent, direct or indirect or otherwise, of any Mariner Entity or any other person for:
(a) Any costs or expenses, including, but not limited to, legal fees, accounting fees, consulting and financing costs incurred by any Mariner Entity in negotiating this Agreement or in consummating the transactions contemplated hereby;
(b) Any claim as a result of any injury to any person arising out of the rendering of or failure to render services by any Mariner Entity or its or his employees, agents or representatives or any other person performing services for or on behalf of any Mariner Entity (i) with respect to the Retained Facilities, prior to the Effective Time and, subject to, and upon the terms and conditions contained in the Interim Management Agreement, after the Effective Time, and (ii) with respect to the Transferred Facilities or any other operations of the Mariner Entities (except as otherwise expressly set forth herein), both prior to, and after, the Effective Time;
(c) Any liability to set off or recoupment (including set off or recoupment against Post-Effective Time accounts receivable) by any Third Party Payor by reason of any contractual claim, settlement, order or judgment retroactively adjusting the amounts payable for reimbursement purposes or recovering overpayments made or requiring the payment of fines, penalties or damages, or reduction of prospective payments to any Facility or interest, with respect to, or based upon, the services rendered by any Mariner Entity (i) with respect to the Retained Facilities, prior to the Effective Time and, subject to, and upon the terms and conditions contained in the Interim Management Agreement, after the Effective Time, and (ii) with respect to the Transferred Facilities or other operations of the Mariner Entities (except as otherwise expressly set forth herein), both prior to, and after, the Effective Time, including liabilities that are subject to a stay ordered by the Court and liabilities that may be collected against the New Operator under state or Federal law;
(d) Any taxes owed by any Mariner Entity, including, but not limited to, any investment tax recapture, depreciation recapture, employer taxes such as F.I.C.A. and F.U.T.A., any sales or use taxes, any personal property taxes, any withholding taxes and any workers' compensation or unemployment insurance premiums or adjustments and, in the case of any Mariner Entity's employees or any of its affiliates' employees, relating to, or arising out of, such employee's employment at any Retained Facility prior to the Effective Time; and with respect to the Transferred Facilities or other operations of the Mariner Entities, both prior to, and after, the Effective Time;
(e) Any claim by any employee of any Mariner Entity for wages, salary, vacation, holiday, sick pay, welfare, or fringe benefits, relating to, or arising out of, such employee's employment prior to the Effective Time, except for those Employee Accruals assumed by the New Manager pursuant to Section 10.1 hereof and with respect to the Transferred Facilities or other operations of the Mariner Entities (except as otherwise expressly set forth herein), both prior to, and after, the Effective Time;
(f) Any claim arising under any instrument, agreement, indenture, contract or understanding to which any Mariner Entity is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound, unless such instrument, agreement, indenture, contract or understanding is explicitly described and affirmed and assumed by the SNH Entities in this Agreement or is otherwise expressly affirmed and assumed by separate instrument in writing executed by SPTMNR; or
(g) Any claim, order or judgment otherwise arising out of the operation of any Facility or other operations of the Mariner Entities (except as otherwise expressly set forth herein but specifically including any claim, order or judgment arising under any applicable Federal, state or local statutes, laws, ordinances, rules and regulations, licensing requirements or conditions (including Medicare or Medicaid requirements or conditions, and environmental laws), or involving the imposition of any lien under any applicable law), in each case to the extent arising or attributable to conditions or events occurring prior to the Effective Time, and, subject to, and upon the terms and conditions contained in the Interim Management Agreement, after the Effective Time, and (ii) with respect to the Transferred Facilities or other operations of the Mariner Entities (except as otherwise expressly set forth herein), both prior to, and after, the Effective Time.
Non-Assumption of Liabilities Buyer does not assume and shall not be responsible for any liabilities, indebtedness or obligations of the Selling Parties or the Business other than the Assumed Obligations (as defined herein). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the Parties hereby agree that except as expressly set forth in Section 7.2 hereof, Buyer shall not, by the execution and performance of this Agreement or otherwise, assume, become responsible for or incur any liability or obligation of any nature of either Seller or Shareholder whether legal or equitable, matured or contingent, known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, ordinary or extraordinary, patent or latent, whether arising out of occurrences prior to, at or after the date of this Agreement, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any liability or obligation of Seller or Shareholder arising out of or relating to: (a) any occurrence or circumstance (whether known or unknown) which occurs or exists on or prior to the Closing Date and which constitutes, or which by the lapse of time or giving notice (or both) would constitute, a breach or default under any lease, contract, or other instrument or agreement (whether written or oral); (b) any injury to or death of any person or damage to or destruction of any property, whether based on negligence, breach of warranty, or any other theory; (c) a violation of any Applicable Laws or the requirements imposed by any governmental authority or of the rights of any third person, including, without limitation, any requirements relating to the reporting and payment of federal, state, local or other income, sales, use, franchise, excise or property tax liabilities of Seller other than ad valorem property taxes and similar taxes prorated on closing statement; (d) the generation, collection, transportation, storage or disposal by Seller of any materials, including, without limitation, Hazardous Materials, prior to the Closing Date; (e) an agreement or arrangement between Seller and its employees or any labor or collective bargaining unit representing any such employees; (f) the severance pay obligation of Seller or any employee benefit plan (within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended) or any other fringe benefit program maintained or sponsored by Seller or to which Seller contributes, or any contributions, benefits or liabilities therefor, or any liability for the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from or by reason of the termination of any such plan or program by Seller; (g) indebtedness and all other obligations and liabilities of Seller to any bank or other lender, except to the extent any such obligations or liability is an Assumed Liability; (h) Seller and unrelated to Buyer initiated at any time, whether or not listed on Schedule 4.1(h) (and to the extent any liability or obligation arises out of or relates to both Seller and Buyer, each party's liability shall be proportionately allocated between the parties); (i) any liability, obligation, cost or expense related to the Excluded Assets; (j) any liability, obligation cost or expense related to the Operations Property, including, without limitation, the environmental condition thereof; (k) the liabilities or obligations of Seller for brokerage or other commissions relative to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereunder; (l) any liability or obligation of Seller for taxes of any kind, related to periods before the Closing Date, or whether incurred by Seller in connection with this Agreement, the Business or the transactions contemplated hereby, except any taxes incurred in connection with the operation of the Business by Buyer or otherwise attributable to a period of time after the Closing; (m) any liability or obligation to pay for any products, goods, raw materials or services delivered or provided to Seller in respect of the Business or otherwise, except to the extent such liability or obligation is an Assumed Liability; (n) any liability or obligation of Seller under any guarantee or any agreement to provide indemnification to any other person or entity unless as a part of an assumed contract; (o) any liability or obligation arising from the acts or omissions of Seller except to the extent that any such liability or obligation is an Assumed Obligation; (p) all trade payables and accruals of the Seller in respect of the Business or otherwise; (q) that certain Disposal Agreement by and between Waste Reduction of South Carolina, Inc. and Laurens County Landfill, LLC dated October 5, 2001; and (r) that certain Disposal Agreement by and between Waste Reduction of South Carolina, Inc. and R&B Landfill, Inc. dated August 1, 1998, as amended by that certain First Amendment to Disposal Agreement dated June 29, 2000 ((a) through (r) being referred to collectively as the "Retained Liabilities"). The Seller shall retain all of the Retained Liabilities. The assumption of the Assumed Liabilities by Buyer hereunder shall not in any respect enlarge any rights of third parties under contracts or arrangements with Buyer or Seller and nothing herein shall prevent any party from contesting in good faith any of the Assumed Liabilities with any third party. Seller agrees to indemnify Buyer and its successors and assigns from and against any liabilities or obligations related to any Retained Liabilities in accordance with Section 8.1 hereof.
Excluded Assets and Liabilities The list of Assets described in this Agreement as being purchased is exclusive and the Parties agree that all remaining assets of ESSI and/or Seller are not to be purchased pursuant to this Agreement and shall be Excluded Assets. It is further agreed that in acquiring the Assets, Buyer is not assuming or undertaking to assume and shall have no responsibility for any liabilities whether fixed or contingent, past, present or future, or direct or indirect, arising out of or in connection with the Assets, or any other acts or omissions of ESSI and/or Seller in connection therewith prior to the Closing (collectively referred to as the "Excluded Liabilities"), including without limitation, (i) any claim arising out of or in connection with the failure by ESSI or Seller to comply with any applicable government regulation; (ii) federal, state or local tax liabilities (including any depreciation, investment tax credit recapture and rollback taxes); (iii) any claim arising out of or in connection with any Employee Plans of ESSI or Seller or with the employment by ESSI or Seller of any of its employees or any past employees or with the termination of any current employees; (iv) any claim resulting from defective products or workmanship (including any recalls or returns with respect thereto) related to goods or services invoiced prior to Closing; (v) any claim arising from environmental liabilities, and (vi) any claim under any provision of the New York Uniform Commercial Code or bulk sales law. LIMITATIONS ON WARRANTIES. EXCEPT FOR THOSE WARRANTIES EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, SELLER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS AND NEGATES AND BUYER HEREBY WAIVES, ALL OTHER REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE. AS EXAMPLES AND FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION OF THE FOREGOING, THE ASSETS SHALL BE CONVEYED PURSUANT HERETO WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, WITH RESPECT TO THE QUANTITY, PROFITABILITY, COLLECTIBILITY, QUALITY, CONDITION, SIZE, WEIGHT, SERVICEABILITY, CONFORMITY TO SAMPLES OR ANY OTHER ASPECT OF THE FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT OR OTHER PERSONAL PROPERTY INCLUDED AMONG THE ASSETS, ALL OF WHICH SHALL BE CONVEYED TO THE BUYER AS IS, WHERE IS, AND WITH ALL FAULTS AND DEFECTS AND IN THEIR PRESENT CONDITION AND STATE OF REPAIR AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER OF MERCHANTABILITY OR OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE BUYER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAIVER IS CONSPICUOUS.
Required Bonding Capacity Letter No response If proposing on Part 2, Vendor is required to upload a Bonding Capacity Letter from its surety, as described herein, at this location. Please see the attachment entitled "Instructions and Sample - Part 2 Required Bonding Capacity Letter" for complete instructions. . On Part 2, Vendor will be scored on the aggregate bonding capacity displayed in the accepted letter. Vendor must provide a current letter (issued on or after the first day of the month preceding the date on which the solicitation was posted) from its surety verifying Vendor’s bonding capacity as described herein. (Ex. if the solicitation/bid posted on February 4, 2022, the letter must be dated on or after January 1 2022. The letter must be issued from Vendor’s Surety companies, on surety company letterhead, must specify the maximum bonding capacity of the Vendor, and must be signed by an authorized representative of the surety company. The issuing surety must be authorized to do business in the State of Texas and must be listed on the Department of the Treasury's Listing of Approved Sureties (Department Circular 570).
Liability of the Evaluator The Trustee, the Depositor and the Unit holders may rely on any Evaluation furnished by First Trust Advisors L.P., acting in its capacity as Evaluator, and shall have no responsibility for the accuracy thereof. The determinations made by the Evaluator hereunder shall be made in good faith upon the basis of the best information available to it. The Evaluator shall be under no liability to the Trustee, the Depositor or the Unit holders for errors in judgment; provided, however, that this provision shall not protect the Evaluator against any liability to which it would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of its duties or by reason of its reckless disregard of its obligations and duties hereunder.
Assets and Liabilities At the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation shall possess all the rights, privileges, powers and franchises of a public as well as of a private nature, and be subject to all the restrictions, disabilities and duties of each of Acquisition Corp. and the Company (collectively, the “Constituent Corporations”); and all the rights, privileges, powers and franchises of each of the Constituent Corporations, and all property, real, personal and mixed, and all debts due to any of the Constituent Corporations on whatever account, as well as all other things in action or belonging to each of the Constituent Corporations, shall be vested in the Surviving Corporation; and all property, rights, privileges, powers and franchises, and all and every other interest shall be thereafter as effectively the property of the Surviving Corporation as they were of the several and respective Constituent Corporations, and the title to any real estate vested by deed or otherwise in either of such Constituent Corporations shall not revert or be in any way impaired by the Merger; but all rights of creditors and all liens upon any property of any of the Constituent Corporations shall be preserved unimpaired, and all debts, liabilities and duties of the Constituent Corporations shall thenceforth attach to the Surviving Corporation, and may be enforced against it to the same extent as if said debts, liabilities and duties had been incurred or contracted by it.