Certificates Representing Units; Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Certificates; Registration and Transfer of Units (a) Units shall not be certificated unless otherwise determined by the Manager. If the Manager determines that one or more Units shall be certificated, each such certificate shall be signed by or in the name of the Company, by the Chief Executive Officer and any other officer designated by the Manager, representing the number of Units held by such holder. Such certificate shall be in such form (and shall contain such legends) as the Manager may determine. Any or all of such signatures on any certificate representing one or more Units may be a facsimile, engraved or printed, to the extent permitted by applicable Law. The Manager agrees that it shall not elect to treat any Unit as a “security” within the meaning of Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code unless thereafter all Units then outstanding are represented by one or more certificates.
Surrender of Certificates; Stock Transfer Books (a) Prior to the Offer Acceptance Time, Parent shall designate a bank or trust company reasonably acceptable to the Company to act as agent (the “Depository Agent”) for the holders of Shares to receive the aggregate Offer Price to which holders of such Shares shall become entitled pursuant to Section 1.1(b) and to act as agent (the “Paying Agent”) for the holders of Shares to receive the aggregate Merger Consideration to which holders of such Shares shall become entitled pursuant to Section 2.5. Promptly after (and in any event no later than the third business day after) the Offer Acceptance Time, Parent shall deposit, or shall cause to be deposited, with the Depository Agent cash sufficient to make the payment of the aggregate Offer Price payable pursuant to Section 1.1(h). On or prior to the Closing Date, Parent shall deposit, or shall cause to be deposited, with the Paying Agent cash sufficient to pay the aggregate Merger Consideration payable pursuant to Section 2.5 (together with the amount deposited pursuant the immediately preceding sentence, the “Payment Fund”). The Payment Fund shall not be used for any purpose other than to pay the aggregate Offer Price in the Offer and the aggregate Merger Consideration in the Merger. The Payment Fund shall be invested by the Paying Agent as directed by the Surviving Corporation; provided that such investments shall be (w) in obligations of or guaranteed by the United States of America, (x) in commercial paper obligations rated A-1 or P-1 or better by Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. or Standard & Poor’s Corporation, respectively, (y) in certificates of deposit, bank repurchase agreements or banker’s acceptances of commercial banks with capital exceeding one billion dollars, or (z) in money market funds having a rating in the highest investment category granted by a recognized credit rating agency at the time of acquisition or a combination of the foregoing and, in any such case, no such instrument shall have a maturity exceeding three months. To the extent Parent becomes aware that (i) there are any losses with respect to any such investments or (ii) the Payment Fund has diminished for any reason below the level required for the Paying Agent to make prompt cash payment pursuant to Section 1.1(h) and Section 2.5, Parent shall, or shall cause the Surviving Corporation to, promptly replace or restore the cash in the Payment Fund so as to ensure that the Payment Fund is, at all times during the duration of the Payment Fund, maintained at a level sufficient for the Paying Agent to make such payments pursuant to Section 1.1(h) and Section 2.5.
Registration of Certificates; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates (a) The Certificate Registrar, as an agent of the Trust, shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as provided herein. BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of a Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor or, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of Certificate Registrar. The entries in the Certificate Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Trust and Owner Trustee shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Certificate Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Certificateholder hereunder for all purposes of this Trust Agreement. This Section 3.4 shall be construed so that the Certificates under this Trust Agreement are at all times maintained in “registered form” within the meaning of Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The Certificate Registrar shall record (a) the Percentage Interest in all of the assets of and the right to distributions from the Trust evidenced by each Certificate and (b) all distributions made to each Certificateholder with respect to the Trust’s assets.
Payment for Securities Surrender of Certificates (a) Paying Agent Prior to the Effective Time, Parent or Purchaser shall designate a bank or trust company reasonably acceptable to the Company to act as the paying agent for purposes of effecting the payment of the Merger Consideration in connection with the Merger (the Paying Agent). At or promptly after the Effective Time, Parent or the Purchaser shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, with the Paying Agent funds sufficient to pay the aggregate Merger Consideration to which holders of Shares shall be entitled at the Effective Time pursuant to this Agreement upon surrender of Certificates or Book-Entry Shares as the case may be; provided, however, in the event that such funds on deposit with the Paying Agent are insufficient to pay the aggregate Merger Consideration, Parent or Purchaser shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, with the Paying Agent such additional funds as are necessary to ensure that the Paying Agent has funds sufficient to pay the aggregate Merger Consideration. Such funds shall be invested or otherwise held by the Paying Agent as directed by Parent or Purchaser, in their sole discretion, pending payment thereof by the Paying Agent to the holders of the Shares. Earnings from such investments, if any, shall be the sole and exclusive property of Parent or Purchaser, and no part of any such earnings shall accrue to the benefit of holders of Shares.
Registration and Transfer of Certificates (a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept a register (the “Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and the registration of transfer of Certificates. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed Registrar for the purpose of registering Certificates and transfers of Certificates as herein provided. The Depositor, the Owners and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Register upon reasonable notice during the Trustee’s normal hours and to obtain copies thereof, and the Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate executed on behalf of the Registrar by an Authorized Officer thereof as to the names and addresses of the Owners of the Certificates and the principal amounts and numbers of such Certificates. If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed as Registrar by the Owners of a majority of the aggregate Voting Rights represented by the Certificates then Outstanding, such Owners shall give the Trustee and the Owners prompt written notice of the appointment of such Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Register. In connection with any such appointment the reasonable fees of the Registrar shall be paid, as expenses of the Trust, pursuant to Section 7.06 hereof.
Certificate Register; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates (a) The Trustee shall maintain, or cause to be maintained in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.06 hereof, a Certificate Register for the Trust Fund in which, subject to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) below and to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate, the Trustee shall execute and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates of the same Class and aggregate Percentage Interest. At the option of a Certificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of the same Class in authorized denominations and evidencing the same aggregate Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency of the Trustee. Whenever any Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate, and deliver the Certificates which the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee duly executed by the holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. No service charge to the Certificateholders shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates may be required. All Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently destroyed by the Trustee in accordance with the Trustee's customary procedures.
Transfer Restrictions on Residual Certificates (a) Residual Certificates, or interests therein, may not be transferred without the prior express written consent of the Tax Matters Person and the Seller. As a prerequisite to such consent, the proposed transferee must provide the Tax Matters Person, the Seller and the Trustee with an affidavit that the proposed transferee is a Permitted Transferee (and, unless the Tax Matters Person and the Seller consent to the transfer to a person who is not a U.S. Person, an affidavit that it is a U.S. Person) as provided in Subsection 5.05(b).
