Related Parties With respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.
RELATIONSHIPS WITH RELATED PERSONS Neither Seller, Acquired Company or any Related Person of each Seller or of either Acquired Company has, or since the first day of the next to last completed fiscal year of any Acquired Company has had, any interest in any property (whether real, personal, or mixed and whether tangible or intangible), used in or pertaining to any Acquired Company’s business. Neither Seller, Acquired Company or any Related Person of each Seller or of any Acquired Company is, or since the first day of the next to last completed fiscal year of any Acquired Company has owned (of record or as a beneficial owner) an equity interest or any other financial or profit interest in, a Person that has (i) had business dealings or a material financial interest in any transaction with any Acquired Company other than business dealings or transactions conducted in the Ordinary Course of Business with any Acquired Company at substantially prevailing market prices and on substantially prevailing market terms, or (ii) engaged in competition with any Acquired Company with respect to any line of the products or services of any Acquired Company (a “Competing Business”) in any market presently served by any Acquired Company except for less than one percent of the outstanding capital stock of any Competing Business that is publicly traded on any recognized exchange or in the over-the-counter market. Neither Seller or any Related Person of each Seller or of any Acquired Company is a party to any Contract with, or has any claim or right against, any Acquired Company.
No Agency Relationship Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize or empower either party to act as agent for the other party to this Agreement, or to conduct business in the name, or for the account, of the other party to this Agreement.
No Advisory or Fiduciary Relationship The Company acknowledges and agrees that (a) the purchase and sale of the Offered Shares pursuant to this Agreement, including the determination of the public offering price of the Offered Shares and any related discounts and commissions, is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the several Underwriters, on the other hand, (b) in connection with the offering contemplated hereby and the process leading to such transaction, each Underwriter is and has been acting solely as a principal and is not the agent or fiduciary of the Company, or its stockholders, creditors, employees or any other party, (c) no Underwriter has assumed or will assume an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to the offering contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Underwriter has advised or is currently advising the Company on other matters) and no Underwriter has any obligation to the Company with respect to the offering contemplated hereby except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement, (d) the Underwriters and their respective affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Company, and (e) the Underwriters have not provided any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the offering contemplated hereby and the Company has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate.
Fiduciary Relationship The Advisor, as a result of its relationship with the Company and the Operating Partnership pursuant to this Agreement, has a fiduciary responsibility and duty to the Company, the Stockholders and the partners in the Operating Partnership.
No Fiduciary Relationship The Company hereby acknowledges that the Underwriters are acting solely as underwriters in connection with the offering of the Company’s Securities. The Company further acknowledge that the Underwriters are acting pursuant to a contractual relationship created solely by this Agreement entered into on an arm’s length basis and in no event do the parties intend that the Underwriters act or be responsible as a fiduciary to the Company, its management, shareholders, creditors or any other person in connection with any activity that the Underwriters may undertake or have undertaken in furtherance of the offering of the Company’s Securities, either before or after the date hereof. The Underwriters hereby expressly disclaim any fiduciary or similar obligations to the Company, either in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any matters leading up to such transactions, and the Company hereby confirms its understanding and agreement to that effect. The Company hereby further confirms its understanding that no Underwriter has assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to the Offering contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto, including any negotiation related to the pricing of the Securities; and the Company has consulted its own legal and financial advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate in connection with this Agreement and the Offering. The Company and the Underwriters agree that they are each responsible for making their own independent judgments with respect to any such transactions, and that any opinions or views expressed by the Underwriters to the Company regarding such transactions, including but not limited to any opinions or views with respect to the price or market for the Company’s securities, do not constitute advice or recommendations to the Company. The Company hereby waives and releases, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims that the Company may have against the Underwriters with respect to any breach or alleged breach of any fiduciary or similar duty to the Company in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any matters leading up to such transactions.
Related Party The Liquidity Provider is not related to the Fund within the meaning of Section 267(b) or Section 707(b) of the Code.
Interested Persons It is understood that Trustees, officers, and shareholders of the Trust are or may be or become interested in the Advisor or the Sub-Advisor as directors, officers or otherwise and that directors, officers and stockholders of the Advisor or the Sub-Advisor are or may be or become similarly interested in the Trust, and that the Advisor or the Sub-Advisor may be or become interested in the Trust as a shareholder or otherwise.
Authority Relative to this Agreement (a) Each of TCM and Merger Sub has all necessary corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and each of the Ancillary Agreements to which it is a party and (subject to the receipt of the consents described in Section 4.06(b) hereof) to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to which it is a party by TCM and Merger Sub, and the consummation by TCM and Merger Sub of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, have been duly and validly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of TCM and Merger Sub, as the case may be, and no other corporate proceedings on the part of TCM or Merger Sub are necessary to authorize this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements or to consummate the transactions so contemplated. This Agreement has been, and the Ancillary Agreements will be, duly and validly executed and delivered by TCM and Merger Sub and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements by each of the other parties hereto and thereto, constitutes, or, in the case of the Ancillary Agreements, will constitute, legal, valid and binding obligations of TCM and Merger Sub, enforceable against TCM and Merger Sub in accordance with their respective terms.
(b) The board of directors of Merger Sub (i) has declared that this Agreement, the Merger, the Ancillary Agreements to which it is party and the other transactions contemplated hereby and thereby are advisable and in the best interests of its stockholder and (ii) has authorized, approved and adopted this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements to which it is party, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.
(c) The TCM Special Committee and the TCM Board (i) have unanimously declared that this Agreement, the Merger, the Ancillary Agreements and the other transactions contemplated hereby and thereby are advisable, fair to and in the best interests of the stockholder of TCM and (ii) have unanimously authorized, approved and adopted this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.
(d) The sole stockholder of TCM and the sole stockholder of Merger Sub have authorized, approved and adopted this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.
Agency Relationship Nothing herein shall be construed as constituting the Sub-Advisor as an agent of the Trust or the Fund, except as otherwise contemplated herein.