Gratuities Each Party represents and warrants that it has not offered or given and will not offer or give any employee, agent, or representative of the other Party any gratuity with a view toward securing any business from the other Party or influencing such person with respect to the business between the Parties.
Gifts Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed or interpreted so as to authorize or permit Participant to transfer the Restricted Shares by gift to any person or entity.
Rebate If a Borrower pays any additional amount under Clause 17.3, and a Finance Party subsequently receives a refund or allowance from any tax authority which that Finance Party identifies as being referable to that increased amount so paid by that Borrower, that Finance Party shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, pay to that Borrower an amount equal to the amount of the refund or allowance received, if and to the extent that it may do so without prejudicing its right to retain that refund or allowance and without putting itself in any worse financial position than that in which it would have been had the relevant deduction or withholding not been required to have been made. Nothing in this Clause 17.5 shall be interpreted as imposing any obligation on any Finance Party to apply for any refund or allowance nor as restricting in any way the manner in which any Finance Party organises its tax affairs, nor as imposing on any Finance Party any obligation to disclose to the Borrowers any information regarding its tax affairs or tax computations.
No Influence The Company has not offered, or caused the Underwriters to offer, the Firm Units to any person or entity with the intention of unlawfully influencing: (a) a customer or supplier of the Company or any affiliate of the Company to alter the customer’s or supplier’s level or type of business with the Company or such affiliate or (b) a journalist or publication to write or publish favorable information about the Company or any such affiliate.
No Contribution Each Designated Shareholder waives, and acknowledges and agrees that he shall not have and shall not exercise or assert (or attempt to exercise or assert), any right of contribution, right of indemnity or other right or remedy against the Surviving Corporation in connection with any indemnification obligation or any other liability to which he may become subject under or in connection with this Agreement or the Designated Shareholders' Closing Certificate.
No Unlawful Influence The Company has not offered, or caused the Underwriters to offer, the Units to any person or entity with the intention of unlawfully influencing: (a) a customer or supplier of the Company or any affiliate of the Company to alter the customer’s or supplier’s level or type of business with the Company or such affiliate or (b) a journalist or publication to write or publish favorable information about the Company or any such affiliate.
Political Contributions The Company has not directly or indirectly, (a) made any unlawful contribution to any candidate for public office, or failed to disclose fully any contribution in violation of law, or (b) made any payment to any federal, state, local, or foreign governmental officer or official, or other person charged with similar public or quasi-public duties, other than payments required or permitted by the laws of the United States or any other such jurisdiction.
Illegal or Unauthorized Payments; Political Contributions Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to the best of the Company’s knowledge (after reasonable inquiry of its officers and directors), any of the officers, directors, employees, agents or other representatives of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any other business entity or enterprise with which the Company or any Subsidiary is or has been affiliated or associated, has, directly or indirectly, made or authorized any payment, contribution or gift of money, property, or services, whether or not in contravention of applicable law, (i) as a kickback or bribe to any Person or (ii) to any political organization, or the holder of or any aspirant to any elective or appointive public office except for personal political contributions not involving the direct or indirect use of funds of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
No Contravention The execution, delivery and performance by the Guarantor of this Guaranty do not and will not (a) violate any provision of any law, order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, determination, or award presently in effect applicable to the Guarantor, (b) result in a breach of or constitute a default under any indenture or loan or credit agreement or any other agreement, lease, or instrument to which the Guarantor is a party or by which the Guarantor or its properties may be bound or affected, or (c) result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any lien upon or with respect to any of the properties now owned or hereafter acquired by the Guarantor.
Improper Payments Except for such matters that, individually or in the aggregate, have not had or caused and would not reasonably be expected to have or cause a Company Material Adverse Effect: (a) no funds, assets or properties of the Company or its Affiliates have been used or offered for illegal purposes; (b) no accumulation or use of any funds, assets or properties of the Company or its Affiliates has been made without being properly accounted for in the financial books and records of the Company or its Affiliates; (c) all payments by or on behalf of the Company or its Affiliates have been duly and properly recorded and accounted for in their financial books and records and such books and records accurately and fairly reflect all transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company and its Affiliates; (d) the Company has devised and maintained systems that provide reasonable assurances that transactions are and have been executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (e) neither the Company nor any of its Affiliates, nor any director, officer, agent, employee or other Person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or its Affiliates, has (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or payment of anything of value relating to political activity, (ii) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any employee, agent, officer, director, representative or stockholder of a Governmental Authority or political party, or official or candidate thereof, or any immediate family member of the foregoing or (iii) made any bribe, unlawful rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment in connection with the conduct of the Company’s or its Affiliates’ businesses; (f) none of the Company, any of its Affiliates or any agent of any of them has received any bribes, kickbacks or other improper payments from vendors, suppliers or other Persons; and (g) the Company has no Knowledge that any payment made to a Person would be or has thereafter been offered, given or provided to any foreign official, political party or official thereof, or to any candidate for public office.
