Company Acquisition Proposals. From the date hereof until the termination hereof and except as expressly permitted by the following provisions of this Section 6.2, the Company will not, and will not permit or cause any of its Subsidiaries or any of the executive officers and directors of it or its Subsidiaries to, and shall direct and use its best efforts to cause its and its Subsidiaries' employees, agents and representatives (including any investment banker, attorney or accountant retained by it or any of its Subsidiaries) not to, directly or indirectly, initiate, solicit, or knowingly encourage or otherwise intentionally facilitate any inquiries or the making of any proposal or offer (other than the Merger) with respect to a merger, reorganization, share exchange, consolidation or similar transaction involving, or any purchase of all or a substantial portion of the assets or any equity securities of, it or any of its Subsidiaries (any such proposal or offer being hereinafter referred to as a "Company Acquisition Proposal"). The Company will not, and will not permit or cause any of its Subsidiaries or any of the officers and directors of it or its Subsidiaries to and shall direct and use its best efforts to cause its and its Subsidiaries' employees, agents and representatives (including any investment banker, attorney or accountant retained by it or any of its Subsidiaries) not to, directly or indirectly, engage in any negotiations concerning, or provide any confidential information or data to, or have any discussions with, any Person relating to a Company Acquisition Proposal, whether made before or after the date of this Agreement, or otherwise intentionally facilitate any effort or attempt to make or implement a Company Acquisition Proposal (including, without limitation, by means of an amendment to the Rights Agreement); provided, however, that nothing contained in this Agreement shall prevent the Company or its Board of Directors from complying with Rule 14e-2 promulgated under the Exchange Act with regard to a Company Acquisition Proposal or at any time prior to the time that the Merger shall have been approved by the Company Requisite Vote (A) providing information in response to a request therefor by a Person who has made an unsolicited bona fide written Company Acquisition Proposal if the Board of Directors receives from the Person so requesting such information an executed confidentiality agreement the terms of which are (without regard to the terms of the Company Acquisitio...
Company Acquisition Proposals. (a) Subject to the other provisions of this Section 6.5, during the Interim Period, the Company shall not, and shall cause each of the Company Subsidiaries, and its and their officers and directors, managers or equivalent not to, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause any other Representatives of the Company or the Company Subsidiaries not to, directly or indirectly through another Person, (i) solicit, initiate, knowingly encourage or knowingly facilitate any inquiry, discussion, offer or request that constitutes, or could reasonably be expected to lead to, a Company Acquisition Proposal (provided that for purposes of this Section 6.5(a), the references in the definition of Company Acquisition Proposal to “twenty percent (20%)” shall be deemed to be five percent (5%)) (an “Inquiry”), (ii) engage in any 77 discussions or negotiations regarding, or furnish to any Third Party any non-public information in connection with, or otherwise cooperate in any way with, or knowingly facilitate in any way any effort by, any Third Party in connection with, any Company Acquisition Proposal or Inquiry, (iii) approve or recommend a Company Acquisition Proposal, or enter into any letter of intent, memorandum of understanding, agreement in principle, acquisition agreement, merger agreement, share purchase agreement, asset purchase agreement, share exchange agreement, option agreement or other similar definitive agreement (other than an Acceptable Confidentiality Agreement entered into in accordance with this Section 6.5) providing for or relating to a Company Acquisition Proposal (an “Alternative Acquisition Agreement”), or (iv) propose or agree to do any of the foregoing.
Company Acquisition Proposals. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement but subject to Section 7.5(f), during the period (the “Go Shop Period”) beginning on the date of this Agreement and continuing until 11:59 p.m. (New York City time) on April 16, 2014 (the “No Shop Period Start Date”), the Company and its Representatives shall have the right (acting under the direction of the Company Board or any committee thereof) to, directly or indirectly, (i) initiate, solicit, induce, cause, encourage and facilitate any Company Acquisition Proposals, including by way of providing non-public information pursuant to (but only pursuant to) one or more Acceptable Confidentiality Agreements; provided, however, that any non-public information concerning the Company or the Company Subsidiaries that is provided to such Third Party shall, to the extent not previously provided to Parent or Merger Sub, be provided to Parent or Merger Sub prior to or simultaneously with providing it to such Third Party, and (ii) engage in and maintain discussions or negotiations with respect to any inquiry, proposal or offer that constitutes or may reasonably be expected to lead to a Company Acquisition Proposal or otherwise cooperate with or assist or participate in, or facilitate any such inquiries, proposals, offers, discussions or negotiations or the making of any Company Acquisition Proposal, including providing access to or otherwise making available non-public information in accordance with the terms set forth in Section 7.5(a)(i). No later than one (1) Business Day after the No Shop Period Start Date, the Company shall notify Parent in writing of the identity of each Person that submitted a Company Acquisition Proposal prior to the No Shop Period Start Date (each, a “Go Shop Bidder”) and provide to Parent (x) a copy of any Company Acquisition Proposal made in writing and any other written terms or proposals provided (including financing commitments) to the Company or any Company Subsidiary and (y) a written summary of the material terms of any Company Acquisition Proposal not made in writing (including any terms proposed orally or supplementally).
Company Acquisition Proposals. (a) The Company agrees that (i) it and its executive officers and directors shall not and (ii) it shall use reasonable best efforts to ensure that its investment bankers, attorneys, consultants or other agents or representatives shall not, (A) directly or indirectly, initiate, solicit or knowingly encourage or facilitate any inquiries or the making of any proposal or offer with respect to a tender offer or exchange offer, proposal for a merger, consolidation or other business combination involving the Company and its subsidiaries or any proposal or offer to acquire in any manner an equity interest representing a 25% or greater economic interest in the Company, or assets, securities or ownership interests of or in, the Company or any of its subsidiaries representing 25% or more of the consolidated assets of the Company and its subsidiaries, other than the Merger (any such proposal or offer being hereinafter referred to as a "Company Acquisition Proposal"); provided, however, that for purposes of the references to a Company Acquisition Proposal in clause (y) of Section 8.2(b)(ii) and (iii) and the definition of Company Superior Proposal, the percentage 50% shall be substituted for the percentage 25%, (B) approve, agree to or recommend any Company Acquisition Proposal or enter into any agreement with respect to a Company Acquisition Proposal, (C) directly or indirectly, engage in any negotiations or discussions concerning, or provide access to its properties, books and records or any confidential information or data to any person relating to, a Company Acquisition Proposal, or (D) otherwise knowingly encourage or facilitate any effort or attempt to make or implement a Company Acquisition Proposal. Notwithstanding the foregoing, subject to the rights of Parent under Section 8.1(d)(ii), nothing contained in this Agreement shall prevent the Company or the Company Board from (i) taking and disclosing to its stockholders a position contemplated by Rule 14d-9 and Rule 14e-2(a) or Item 1012(a) of Regulation M-A promulgated under the Exchange Act (or any similar communication to stockholders in connection with the making or amendment of a tender offer or exchange offer) or from making any legally required disclosure to stockholders with regard to a Company Acquisition Proposal, (ii) prior to the approval of the Merger by the Company's stockholders in accordance with this Agreement, providing access to its properties, books and records and providing information or dat...
Company Acquisition Proposals. As of the date of this Agreement, Stockholder is not engaged in any discussions or negotiations with any party other than Parent with respect any Company Acquisition Proposal.
Company Acquisition Proposals. (a) Following the execution of this Agreement, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall, and the Company shall cause the directors and officers of the Company to and shall direct their respective other Representatives to, (i) immediately cease and cause to be terminated all existing discussions or negotiations with any Person conducted heretofore with respect to any Company Acquisition Proposal and (ii) request the prompt return or destruction of all confidential information previously made available by it or on its behalf in connection with any actual or potential Company Acquisition Proposal. The Company shall not terminate, waive, amend, release or modify in any respect any material provision of any confidentiality or standstill agreement to which any Acquired Company or any of its Affiliates or Representatives is a party with respect to any Company Acquisition Proposal, and shall enforce, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, the provisions of any such agreement; provided, however, that the Company shall be entitled to waive any standstill provision included in any such confidentiality agreement or any standstill provision contained in any standstill agreement to which any Acquired Company or any of its Affiliates or Representatives is a party solely to permit any Company Acquisition Proposal if the Company Board determines in good faith (after consultation with the Company’s outside legal counsel) that failure to waive such standstill would constitute a breach of its fiduciary duties to the shareholders of the Company under applicable Law.
Company Acquisition Proposals. Shareholder is not currently engaged in any discussions or negotiations with any Person (other than Infiniti and the other parties to the Merger Agreement) regarding any Company Acquisition Proposal.
Company Acquisition Proposals. Stockholder is not currently engaged in any discussions or negotiations with any Person (other than the Investors and Porsche) regarding any Company Acquisition Proposal.
Company Acquisition Proposals. (i) If this Agreement is terminated by Parent or the Company pursuant to Section 9.01(c), and: (i) at or prior to the time of such termination a Company Acquisition Proposal shall have been disclosed, announced, commenced, submitted or made; and (ii) within 12 months after the date of any such termination, the Company shall have entered into a definitive agreement with respect to any Company Acquisition Proposal or any Company Acquisition Proposal is consummated (regardless of whether it is the same Company Acquisition Proposal), then the Company shall pay, or cause to be paid, to Parent, in cash at the time such transaction is consummated, a non-refundable fee in the amount of the Company Termination Fee; provided, however, for purposes of clause (ii) above, all references to “15% or more” in the definition of Company Acquisition Proposal shall be deemed to be references to “more than 50%.”
Company Acquisition Proposals. (a) The Company shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries and its and their respective Representatives to, immediately cease and cause to be terminated any discussions or negotiations with any Person that may be ongoing with respect to any Company Acquisition Proposal, or any inquiry, proposal or offer that could reasonably be expected to lead to a Company Acquisition Proposal, including by terminating such Persons’ access to any physical or electronic data rooms. With respect to any Person with whom such discussions or negotiations have been terminated, the Company shall promptly (and in any event, within three Business Days after the date of this Agreement) require such Person to promptly return or destroy, in accordance with the terms of the applicable confidentiality agreement, any information furnished by or on behalf of the Company, and at Parent’s request, the Company shall take all actions so requested and reasonably necessary to enforce its rights and ensure the performance of any such Person’s obligations under any applicable confidentiality agreement. The Company shall ensure that its Subsidiaries and its and their respective Representatives are aware of the provisions of this Section 7.2, and any violation of the restrictions contained in this Section 7.2 by the Company Board (including any committee thereof), the Company’s Subsidiaries or its or their respective Representatives (acting on the Company’s behalf) shall be deemed to be a breach of this Section 7.2 by the Company.
