Bring-down Comfort Letter At each of the Closing Date and the Option Closing Date, if any, the Representative shall have received from the Auditor a letter, dated as of the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as applicable, to the effect that the Auditor reaffirms the statements made in the letter furnished pursuant to Section 4.3.1, except that the specified date referred to shall be a date not more than three (3) business days prior to the Closing Date or the Option Closing Date, as applicable.
Bring-down Comfort Letters At the Closing Time, the Representatives shall have received from Deloitte Statsautoriseret Revisionspartnerselskab letters, dated as of the Closing Time, to the effect that they reaffirm the statements made in the letters furnished pursuant to subsection (j) of this Section, except that the specified date referred to shall be a date not more than three business days prior to the Closing Time.
Accountant’s Comfort Letter At the time of the execution of this Agreement, the Representatives shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter, dated such date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, together with signed or reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other Underwriters containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
Comfort Letter The Agent shall have received the Comfort Letter required to be delivered pursuant to Section 7(n) on or before the date on which such delivery of such Comfort Letter is required pursuant to Section 7(n).
Cold Comfort Letter At the time this Agreement is executed you shall have received a cold comfort letter containing statements and information of the type customarily included in accountants’ comfort letters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, addressed to the Representative and in form and substance satisfactory in all respects to you and to the Auditor, dated as of the date of this Agreement.
Accountants’ Comfort Letters At the time of the execution of this Agreement, the Representatives shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP a letter dated such date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, together with signed or reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other Underwriters containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
Basic Financial Information The Company shall furnish the following reports to each Purchaser (or any transferee of any Securities), so long as the Purchaser is a holder of any Securities:
(a) within 30 days after the end of each of the 12 monthly accounting periods in each fiscal year (or when furnished to the Company's Board of Directors, if earlier), unaudited consolidated statements of income and retained earnings and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries for each monthly period and for the period from the beginning of such fiscal year to the end of such monthly period, together with consolidated balance sheets of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of each monthly period, setting forth in each case comparisons to budget and to corresponding periods in the preceding fiscal year, which statements will be prepared in accordance with US GAAP consistently applied, and will fairly present the consolidated financial position of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the dates thereof and their consolidated results of operations for such periods;
(b) within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year (or within five days after being filed with the Commission, if sooner), consolidated statements of income and retained earnings and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the period from the beginning of each fiscal year to the end of such fiscal year, and consolidated balance sheets as at the end of such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form corresponding figures for the preceding fiscal year, which statements will be prepared in accordance with US GAAP, consistently applied, and will fairly present the consolidated financial position of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the dates thereof and their consolidated results of operations for such periods, and will be accompanied by:
(i) a report of the Company's independent certified public accounting firm;
(ii) a report from such accounting firm addressed to the Purchasers, stating that in making the audit necessary to express their opinion on the financial statements, nothing has come to their attention which would lead them to believe that an Event of Default has occurred with respect to this Agreement or the Debentures or, if such accountants have reason to believe that any such Event of Default has occurred, a letter specifying the nature thereof; and
(iii) the management letter of such accounting firm;
(c) within 45 days after the end of each quarterly accounting period in each fiscal year (or within five days after being filed with the Commission, if sooner) consolidated statements of income and retained earnings and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such quarterly accounting period and for the period from the beginning of each fiscal year to the end of such quarterly accounting period and consolidated balance sheets as at the end of such quarterly accounting period, setting forth in each case in comparative form corresponding figures for the preceding quarterly accounting period, which statements will be prepared in accordance with US GAAP, consistently applied, and will fairly represent the consolidated financial position of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the dates thereof and their consolidated results of operations for such periods;
(d) within 45 days after the end of each quarterly accounting period in each fiscal year, a certificate of the Chief Financial Officer of the Company stating that the Company is in compliance with the terms of this Agreement and any other material contract or commitment to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which any of them is bound, or if the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is not in compliance, specifying the nature and period of noncompliance, and what actions the Company or such Subsidiary has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the certificate delivered at the end of each fiscal year of the Company shall be signed by both the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company and shall be delivered within 90 days after the end of the fiscal year;
(e) promptly upon receipt thereof, but in no event later than three business days, any additional reports or other detailed information concerning significant aspects of the operations and condition, financial or otherwise, of the Company and its Subsidiaries, given to the Company by its independent accountants;
(f) at least 30 days prior to the end of each fiscal year, a detailed annual operating budget and business plan for the Company and its Subsidiaries for the succeeding twelve-month period. Such budgets shall be prepared on a monthly basis, displaying consolidated statements of anticipated income and retained earnings, consolidated statements of anticipated cash flow and projected consolidated balance sheets, setting forth in each case the assumptions (which assumptions and projections shall represent and be based upon the good faith judgment in respect thereof of the Chief Executive Officer of the Company) behind the projections contained in such financial statements, and which budgets shall have been approved by the Board of Directors of the Company prior to the beginning of each twelve-month period for which such budget shall have been prepared and, promptly upon preparation thereof, any other budgets that the Company may prepare and any revisions of such annual or other budgets;
(g) within ten days after transmission or receipt thereof, copies of all financial statements, proxy statements and reports which the Company sends to its stockholders or directors, and copies of all registration statements and all regular, special or periodic reports which it or any of its officers or directors files with the Commission, the American Stock Exchange (the "AMEX"), the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System ("NASDAQ") or with any other securities exchange or over-the-counter market on which any of the securities of the Company are then listed or approved for trading, copies of all press releases and other statements made generally available by the Company to the public concerning material developments in the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries and copies of material communications sent to or received from stockholders, directors or committees of the Board of Directors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and copies of all material communications sent to and received from any lender to the Company; and
(h) with reasonable promptness such other information and financial data concerning the Company as any Person entitled to receive materials under this Section 9.2 may reasonably request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all confidential information furnished at any time by or on behalf of the Company or its Subsidiaries to any Purchaser (or any transferee of any Securities) shall be subject to the provisions of Section 19.13.
Opinion and Comfort Letter Furnish, at the request of any Holder requesting registration of Registrable Securities, on the date that such Registrable Securities are delivered to the underwriter(s) for sale, if such securities are being sold through underwriters, or, if such securities are not being sold through underwriters, on the date that the registration statement with respect to such securities becomes effective, (i) an opinion, dated as of such date, of the counsel representing the Company for the purposes of such registration, in form and substance as is customarily given to underwriters in an underwritten public offering and reasonably satisfactory to a majority in interest of the Holders requesting registration, addressed to the underwriters, if any, and to the Holders requesting registration of Registrable Securities and (ii) letters dated as of (x) the effective date of the registration statement covering such Registrable Securities and (y) the closing date of the offering, from the independent certified public accountants of the Company, in form and substance as is customarily given by independent certified public accountants to underwriters in an underwritten public offering and reasonably satisfactory to a majority in interest of the Holders requesting registration, addressed to the underwriters, if any, and to the Holders requesting registration of Registrable Securities.
Other Financial Information Budgets, sales projections, operating plans and other financial information reasonably requested by Bank.
Subsequent Delivery of Comfort Letters The Company covenants and agrees with the Agents that, subject to the provisions of Section 4(m) hereof, each time that (1) the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented to include additional financial information, (2) there is filed with the Commission any document incorporated by reference into the Prospectus which contains additional financial information or (3) if required pursuant to the terms of a Terms Agreement, upon the Company’s sale of Notes to one or more Agents pursuant to such Terms Agreement, the Company shall cause PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, or other independent certified public accountants reasonably satisfactory to the Agents, forthwith to furnish the Agents with a letter, dated the date of filing with the Commission of such supplement or document, the date of effectiveness of such amendment, or the date of such sale, as the case may be, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Agents, of substantially the same tenor as the letter referred to in Section 5(c) hereof but modified to relate to the Registration Statement and Prospectus, as amended and supplemented to the date of such letter, and with such changes as may be necessary to reflect changes in the financial statements and other information derived from the accounting records of the Company; provided, however, with respect to a letter furnished in connection with the incorporation by reference into the Prospectus of a Quarterly Report on 10-Q or an Annual Report on Form 10-K, the letter shall be dated the business day immediately following the date of the filing with the Commission of such report; further provided, however, that if the Registration Statement or the Prospectus is amended or supplemented solely to include financial information as of and for a fiscal quarter, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, or other independent certified public accountants reasonably satisfactory to the Agents, may limit the scope of such letter to the unaudited financial statements included in such amendment or supplement unless any other information included therein of an accounting, financial or statistical nature is of such a nature that, in the reasonable judgment of the Agents, such letter should cover such other information.
