BACKGROUND INFORMATION (A) The Adviser has entered into an Investment Adviser's Agreement with the Fund ("Investment Adviser's Agreement"). Pursuant to the Investment Adviser's Agreement, the Adviser has agreed to render investment advisory and certain other management services to all of the funds of the Fund, and the Fund has agreed to employ the Adviser to render such services and to pay to the Adviser certain fees therefore. The Investment Adviser's Agreement recognizes that the Adviser may enter into agreements with other investment advisers who will serve as fund managers to the funds.
Fund Information a. Dealer agrees that neither it nor any of its partners, directors, officers, employees, and agents is authorized to give any information or make any representations concerning Shares of any Fund except those contained in the Fund's then current Prospectus or in materials provided by Distributor.
Documentation and Information Such Stockholder shall not make any public announcement regarding this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby without the prior written consent of Parent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), except as may be required by applicable Law (provided that reasonable notice of any such disclosure will be provided to Parent, and such Stockholder will consider in good faith the reasonable comments of Parent with respect to such disclosure and otherwise cooperate with Parent in obtaining confidential treatment with respect to such disclosure). Such Stockholder consents to and hereby authorizes Parent to publish and disclose in all documents and schedules filed with the SEC or any other Governmental Entity or applicable securities exchange, and any press release or other disclosure document that Parent reasonably determines to be necessary or advisable in connection with the Offer, the Merger or any other transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement or this Agreement, such Stockholder’s identity, the aggregate number of Subject Shares owned by Stockholders subject to this Agreement, the existence of this Agreement and the nature of such Stockholder’s commitments and obligations under this Agreement, and such Stockholder acknowledges that Parent may, in Parent’s sole discretion, file this Agreement or a form hereof with the SEC or any other Governmental Entity or securities exchange. Such Stockholder agrees to promptly give Parent any information necessary for the preparation of any such disclosure documents, and such Stockholder agrees to promptly notify Parent of any changes with respect to information supplied by such Stockholder specifically for use in any such disclosure document, if and to the extent that any such information shall have become false or misleading in any material respect.
Data Processing System, Program and Information (a) The Investment Company shall not, solely by virtue of this Agreement, obtain any rights, title and interest in and to the computer systems and programs, including all related documentation, employed by FTIS in connection with rendering services hereunder; provided however, that the records prepared, maintained and preserved by FTIS pursuant to this Agreement shall be the property of the Investment Company.
Field Audits and Examination Reports; Confidentiality; Disclaimers by Lenders; Other Reports and Information By becoming a party to this Agreement, each Lender:
Access and Information (a) From the date hereof until the Closing (and, with respect to any Disputed MCE System, until the expiration of the MCE Period), subject to applicable Laws, Seller shall (i) afford Buyer and its authorized representatives reasonable access, during regular business hours, upon reasonable advance notice, to the Employees, each Specified Business, the Friendco Business, Assets that will be Transferred Assets as of the Closing and the Friendco Transferred Assets, (ii) furnish, or cause to be furnished, to Buyer any financial and operating data and other information with respect to each Specified Business or in furtherance of the Transaction or the Exchange as Buyer from time to time reasonably requests, including, subject to Section 5.11, by providing to Buyer or its accountants sufficient information (A) for the preparation of the pro-forma balance sheet and statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the Parent Business (in each case, if requested, assuming the Friendco Transaction and/or the Exchange have occurred) and (B) regarding compliance by Seller and its Affiliates with the requirements of the SOA with respect to the Business, and (iii) instruct the Employees, and its counsel and financial advisors to cooperate with Buyer in its investigation of each Specified Business and the Friendco Business, including instructing its accountants to give Buyer access to their work papers; provided, however, that in no event shall Buyer have access to any information that, based on advice of Seller’s counsel, would (A) reasonably be expected to create Liability under applicable Laws, including U.S. Antitrust Laws, or waive any material legal privilege (provided, that in such latter event Buyer and Seller shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate to permit disclosure of such information in a manner consistent with the preservation of such legal privilege), (B) result in the disclosure of any trade secrets of third parties or (C) violate any obligation of Seller with respect to confidentiality so long as, with respect to confidentiality, to the extent specifically requested by Buyer, Seller has made commercially reasonable efforts to obtain a waiver regarding the possible disclosure from the third party to whom it owes an obligation of confidentiality; it being understood that Buyer shall not conduct any environmental sampling without the prior written consent of Seller, which consent may be withheld in Seller’s reasonable discretion. All requests made pursuant to this Section 5.1(a) shall be directed to an executive officer of Seller or such Person or Persons as may be designated by Seller. All information received pursuant to this Section 5.1(a) shall, prior to the Closing, be governed by the terms of the Seller Confidentiality Agreement. No information or knowledge obtained in any investigation by Buyer pursuant to this Section 5.1(a) shall affect or be deemed to modify any representation or warranty made by Seller hereunder.
Third-Party Agreements and Information Executive represents and warrants that Executive’s employment by the Company does not conflict with any prior employment or consulting agreement or other agreement with any third party, and that Executive will perform Executive’s duties to the Company without violating any such agreement. Executive represents and warrants that Executive does not possess confidential information arising out of prior employment, consulting, or other third party relationships, that would be used in connection with Executive’s employment by the Company, except as expressly authorized by that third party. During Executive’s employment by the Company, Executive will use in the performance of Executive’s duties only information which is generally known and used by persons with training and experience comparable to Executive’s own, common knowledge in the industry, otherwise legally in the public domain, or obtained or developed by the Company or by Executive in the course of Executive’s work for the Company.
Field Examination Reports; Confidentiality; Disclaimers by Lenders; Other Reports and Information By becoming a party to this Agreement, each Lender:
Information and Access From the date of this Agreement and continuing until the Effective Time, Parent, as to itself and Sub, on the one hand, and the Company, as to itself and its subsidiaries, on the other hand, each agrees that it shall afford and, with respect to clause (b) below, shall cause its independent auditors to afford, (a) to the officers, independent auditors, counsel and other representatives of the other reasonable access, upon reasonable advance notice, to its (and in the case of Parent, Sub's, and in the case of the Company, its subsidiaries') properties, books, records (including tax returns filed and those in preparation) and executives and personnel in order that the other may have a full opportunity to make such investigation as it reasonably desires to make of the other consistent with their rights under this Agreement, and (b) to the independent auditors of the other, reasonable access to the audit work papers and other records of its independent auditors. No investigation pursuant to this Section 5.1 shall affect or otherwise obviate or diminish any representations and warranties of any party or conditions to the obligations of any party. No party shall be required to provide access to or to disclose information where such access or disclosure would violate or prejudice the rights of its customers, jeopardize the attorney-client privilege or the institution in possession or control of such information or contravene any law, rule, regulations, order, judgment, decree, fiduciary duty or binding agreement entered into prior to the date of this Agreement. The parties hereto will make appropriate substitute disclosure arrangements under circumstances in which the restrictions of the preceding sentence apply.
Compensation for Providing Information The Party requesting information agrees to reimburse the other Party for the reasonable costs, if any, of creating, gathering, copying, transporting and otherwise complying with the request with respect to such information (including any reasonable costs and expenses incurred in any review of information for purposes of protecting the Privileged Information of the providing Party or in connection with the restoration of backup media for purposes of providing the requested information). Except as may be otherwise specifically provided elsewhere in this Agreement, any Ancillary Agreement or any other agreement between the Parties, such costs shall be computed in accordance with the providing Party’s standard methodology and procedures.
