Conditions to the Obligation of the Company The respective obligations of the Company, NewCo and Merger Sub to complete the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are subject to the satisfaction of, or compliance with, on or before the Closing Date, each of the following conditions (any of which may be waived by the Company, in whole or in part):
(a) The representations and warranties of Parent and the Purchaser in Section 7 shall be true and correct (without giving effect to any “materiality” or “material adverse effect” qualifiers contained therein) as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing (except to the extent any such representation or warranty speaks as of the date of this Agreement or any other specific date, in which case such representation or warranty shall have been so true and correct as of such date), except where the failure to be true and correct would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the ability of Parent and the Purchaser to consummate timely the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
(b) All of the covenants and agreements Parent or the Purchaser are required to perform or comply with under this Agreement on or before the Closing Date shall have been duly performed and complied with in all material respects;
(c) Each of the Commercial Agreements (other than the New Company Distribution Agreements and the Acquired KO Brand Distribution Agreements) shall have been duly executed by Parent, the Purchaser or their Subsidiaries, as applicable, and shall be in full force and effect as of the Closing Date;
(d) All of the conditions to the Company’s obligations under Sections 8.1 and 8.3 (other than Section 8.3(f)) of the Asset Transfer Agreement shall have been satisfied or waived (other than those conditions that by their nature can only be satisfied at the Closing, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver of such conditions at the Closing), and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Asset Transfer Agreement shall occur concurrently with the Closing; provided, however, that the Company shall not have the right to assert that the foregoing condition set forth in this Section 10.3(d) has not been satisfied if the failure to satisfy such condition results primarily from the Company or NewCo’s failure to perform or comply with its obligations under the Asset Transfer Agreement; and
(e) The Company shall have received an opinion of Xxxxx Day, on the basis of certain facts, representations and assumptions set forth in such opinion, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that for U.S. federal income tax purposes the exchanges that occur pursuant to the Merger, the acquisition and issuance of the Shares and the KO Asset Transfer, taken together, shall constitute exchanges described in Section 351 of the Code. In rendering such opinion, such counsel shall be entitled to receive and rely upon representations of officers of NewCo, the Company, Parent and the Purchaser as to such matters as such counsel may reasonably request.
Conditions to the Obligations of the Buyer The obligations of the Buyer hereunder are subject to the fulfillment or satisfaction at or prior to the Closing of each of the following conditions (any one or more of which may be waived by the Buyer but only in writing):
CONDITIONS TO THE OBLIGATIONS OF EACH PARTY TO CONSUMMATE THE MERGER. The obligations of the parties hereto to consummate the Merger, or to permit the consummation of the Merger, are subject to the satisfaction or, if permitted by applicable Law, waiver of the following conditions:
(a) the Registration Statement shall have been declared effective by the SEC under the Securities Act and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued by the SEC and no proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated by the SEC and not concluded or withdrawn;
(b) this Agreement and the Merger shall have been duly approved by the requisite vote of stockholders of each of the Company and, if applicable, Parent, in accordance with the Business Corporation Act and the General Corporation Law, respectively;
(c) no court of competent jurisdiction shall have issued or entered any order, writ, injunction or decree, and no other Governmental Entity shall have issued any order, which is then in effect and has the effect of making the Merger illegal or otherwise prohibiting its consummation;
(d) any waiting period (and any extension thereof) applicable to the consummation of the Merger under the HSR Act or any other applicable competition, merger control or similar Law shall have expired or been terminated;
(e) all consents, approvals and authorizations legally required to be obtained to consummate the Merger shall have been obtained from all Governmental Entities, except where the failure to obtain any such consent, approval or authorization could not reasonably be expected to result in a change in or have an effect on the business of the Company or Parent that is materially adverse to the business, assets (including intangible assets), liabilities (contingent or otherwise), condition (financial or otherwise) or results of operations of Parent and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(f) Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP, as the independent public accountants of Parent, shall have issued an opinion, addressed to each of Parent and the Company, respectively, that the Merger will qualify for "pooling of interests" accounting treatment under applicable United States accounting rules, including, without limitation, applicable SEC accounting standards; and
(g) the shares of Parent Common Stock into which the shares of Company Capital Stock will be converted pursuant to Article III and the shares of Parent Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of Company Stock Options pursuant to Section 3.05 shall have been authorized for listing on the NYSE, subject to official notice of issuance.
Conditions to the Obligations of the Purchasers The obligation of each of the Purchasers to purchase Shares at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment, or the waiver by such Purchaser, of each of the following conditions on or before the Closing:
Conditions to the Obligations of the Manager The obligations of the Manager under this Agreement and any Terms Agreement shall be subject to (i) the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company contained herein as of the Execution Time, each Representation Date, and as of each Applicable Time, Settlement Date and Time of Delivery, (ii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and (iii) the following additional conditions:
Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriters The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Securities shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company contained herein as of the Execution Time and the Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:
(a) The Final Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, have been filed in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b); the final term sheet contemplated by Section 5(b) hereto and any other material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act, shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time periods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or threatened by the Commission.
(b) The Company shall have requested and caused Xxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Company, to have furnished to the Representatives their opinion and negative assurance letter, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibits A-1 and A-2, respectively.
(c) The Representatives shall have received from Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Securities, the Indenture, the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they shall reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(d) The Company shall have furnished to the Representatives a certificate of the Company, signed by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer of the Company, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that the signer of such certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus and any supplements or amendments thereto, as well as each electronic road show, if any, used in connection with the offering of the Securities, and this Agreement and that:
(i) the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement are true and correct on and as of the Closing Date with the same effect as if made on the Closing Date and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date;
(ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened by the Commission; and
(iii) since the date of the most recent consolidated financial statements of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there has been no Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(e) The Company shall have furnished to the Representatives a certificate of the Company related to certain litigation disclosures, signed by the General Counsel of the Company, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit B.
(f) The Company shall have requested and caused PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to have furnished to the Representatives, at the Execution Time and at the Closing Date, letters (which may refer to letters previously delivered to one or more of the Representatives), dated respectively as of the Execution Time and as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, containing statements and information of the type customarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus. References to the Final Prospectus in this paragraph (f) include any supplement thereto at the date of the letter.
(g) Subsequent to the Execution Time or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto), there shall not have been any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the business, financial position or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto) the effect of which is in the reasonable judgment of the Representatives (other than a defaulting Underwriter under Section 9 hereof), so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Securities as contemplated by the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto).
(h) Subsequent to the Execution Time, there shall not have been any decrease in the rating of any of the Company’s debt securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the possible change.
(i) Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Representatives such further information, certificates and documents as the Representatives may reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as provided in this Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, this Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be cancelled at, or at any time prior to, the Closing Date by the Representatives. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or by telephone or facsimile confirmed in writing. The documents required to be delivered by this Section 6 shall be delivered at the office of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, at 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX, 00000, on the Closing Date.
Conditions to the Obligations of the Company The obligations of the Company to consummate the Merger are subject to the satisfaction or waiver (where permissible) of the following additional conditions:
Conditions to the Obligations of the Purchaser The obligations of the Purchaser to purchase any Notes will be subject to the accuracy in all material respects of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company in Section 1 of this Agreement as of the date of the Terms Agreement and as of the Closing Date for such Notes, to the performance and observance in all material respects by the Company of all covenants and agreements herein contained on its part to be performed and observed and to satisfaction of the following additional conditions precedent in all material respects:
(a) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or threatened;
(b) To the extent agreed to between the Company and the Purchaser in a Terms Agreement and except to the extent modified by such Terms Agreement, the Purchaser shall have received, appropriately updated, (i) a certificate of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Section 5(d) (except that (i) such certificate shall also relate to the Time of Sale Prospectus and (ii) references to the Prospectus shall be to the Prospectus as supplemented at the time of execution of the Terms Agreement), (ii) the opinion of counsel for the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Section 5(b), (iii) the opinion of Xxxxx Xxxxx LLP, counsel for the Purchaser, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Section 5(c), and (iv) letter of the Company’s registered independent public accountants, dated as of the Time of Sale and Closing Date, to the effect set forth in Section 5(e); and
(c) Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Purchaser such further information, certificates and documents as the Purchaser may reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as provided in this Agreement and an applicable Terms Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement or such Terms Agreement and required to be delivered to the Purchaser pursuant to the terms hereof and thereof shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Purchaser and its counsel, such Terms Agreement and all obligations of the Purchaser thereunder and with respect to the Notes subject thereto may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the respective Closing Date by the Purchaser. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or by telephone or telegraph confirmed in writing.
Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriter The several obligations of each Underwriter named in any Terms Agreement to purchase and pay for the Certificates will be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Depositor as of the date hereof, the date of the applicable Terms Agreement and the applicable Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements made in any officers’ certificates (each an “Officer’s Certificate”) pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Depositor of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions precedent:
(a) At the time the applicable Terms Agreement is executed, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, stating in effect that using the assumptions and methodology used by the Depositor, all of which shall be described in such letter or the Prospectus Supplement, they have recalculated such numbers, percentages and weighted average lives set forth in the Prospectus Supplement as you may reasonably request, compared the results of their calculations to the corresponding items in the Prospectus Supplement, and found each such number, percentage, and weighted average life set forth in the Prospectus Supplement to be in agreement with the results of such calculations. To the extent historical financial delinquency or related information is included with respect to one or more master servicers, such letter or letters shall also relate to such information.
(b) At the Closing Date, Deloitte & Touche LLP and/or any other firm of certified independent public accountants acceptable to you shall have furnished to you a letter, addressed to you, and in form and substance satisfactory to you in all respects, relating to the extent such information is not covered in the letter or letters provided pursuant to clause (a)(i), to a portion of the information set forth on the Mortgage Loan Schedule attached to the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and the characteristics of the mortgage loans, as presented in the Prospectus Supplement or the Form 8-K relating thereto, or if a letter relating to the same information is provided to the Trustee, indicating that you are entitled to rely upon its letter to the Trustee.
(c) Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, there shall not have been any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business or properties of the Depositor or any of its affiliates the effect of which, in any case, is, in your judgment, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the Offering or the delivery of the Certificates as contemplated by the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. All actions required to be taken and all filings required to be made by the Depositor under the Act and the Exchange Act prior to the sale of the Certificates shall have been duly taken or made; and prior to the applicable Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted, or to the knowledge of the Depositor or you, shall be contemplated by the Commission or by any authority administering any state securities or Blue Sky law.
(d) Unless otherwise specified in any applicable Terms Agreement for a Series, the Certificates shall be rated in one of the four highest grades by one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in said Terms Agreement.
(e) You shall have received the opinion of counsel for the Depositor, dated the applicable Closing Date, substantially to the effect set forth in Exhibit B attached hereto.
(f) Each opinion also shall relate to such other matters as may be specified in the related Terms Agreement or as to which you reasonably may request. In rendering any such opinion, counsel for the Depositor may rely on certificates of responsible officers of the Depositor, the Trustee, and public officials or, as to matters of law other than New York or Federal law, on opinions of other counsel (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you), provided that, in cases of opinions of other counsel, counsel for the Depositor shall include in its opinion a statement of its belief that both it and you are justified in relying on such opinions.
(g) You shall have received from counsel for the Depositor a letter, dated as of the Closing Date, stating that you may rely on the opinions delivered by such firm under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement and to the rating agency or agencies rating the Certificates as if such opinions were addressed directly to you (copies of which opinions shall be delivered to you).
(h) You shall have received from counsel for the Underwriters, if such counsel is different from counsel to the Depositor, such opinion or opinions, dated as of the Closing Date, with respect to the validity of the Certificates, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and other related matters as the Underwriters may require, and the Depositor shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they may have requested from it for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(i) You shall have received Officer’s Certificates signed by such of the principal executive, financial and accounting officers of the Depositor as you may request, dated as of the Closing Date, in which such officers, to the best of their knowledge after reasonable investigation, shall state that the representations and warranties of the Depositor in this Agreement are true and correct; that the Depositor has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date; that no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are contemplated; that, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Prospectus, and except as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus, there has not been any material adverse change in the general affairs, business, key personnel, capitalization, financial condition or results of operations of the Depositor; that except as otherwise stated in the Prospectus, there are no material actions, suits or proceedings pending before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or, to their knowledge, threatened, affecting the Depositor or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and that attached thereto are true and correct copies of a letter or letters from the one or more nationally recognized statistical rating agencies specified in the applicable Terms Agreement confirming that, unless otherwise specified in said Terms Agreement, the Certificates have been rated in one of the four highest grades by each of such agencies and that such rating has not been lowered since the date of such letter. The Depositor will furnish you with such conformed copies of such opinions, certificates, letters and documents as you reasonably request. If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects with respect to a particular Offering when and as provided in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement and the related Terms Agreement shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to you, this Agreement (with respect to the related Offering) and the related Terms Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder (with respect to the related Offering) and thereunder may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the related Closing Date by the Underwriters. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Depositor in writing, or by telephone or telegraph confirmed in writing.
Conditions to the Obligations of the Parties The obligations of each Party to consummate the Transactions shall be subject to the satisfaction or written waiver (where permissible) by the Company and CCTS of the following conditions:
(a) the applicable waiting period (and any extension(s) thereof) relating to the Transactions shall have expired or been terminated and any other applicable Consent shall have been obtained (or deemed, by applicable Law, to have been obtained), as applicable, so that the Transactions are deemed to be cleared, approved or consented to under any applicable Antitrust Law;
(b) no Order or Law issued by any court of competent jurisdiction or other Governmental Entity or other legal restraint or prohibition, in each case preventing the consummation of the Transactions, shall be in effect, including, for the avoidance of doubt, a failure to obtain the requisite auditor’s statements required under Dutch law in order to consummate the Holdco Reorganization and issuance of the Holdco Shares in connection with the Merger;
(c) the Registration Statement/Proxy Statement shall have become effective in accordance with the provisions of the Securities Act, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement/Proxy Statement shall have been issued under the Securities Act and shall remain in effect with respect to the Registration Statement/Proxy Statement, and no Proceeding seeking such a stop order shall have been threatened or initiated by the SEC and remain pending;
(d) the Required CCTS Shareholder Approval shall have been obtained;
(i) Holdco’s initial listing application with Nasdaq in connection with the Transactions shall have been approved such that, immediately following the Closing, Holdco shall satisfy any applicable initial and continuing listing requirements of Nasdaq, (ii) Holdco shall not have received any notice of non-compliance therewith, and (iii) the Holdco Shares and Holdco Warrants to be issued in connection with the Transactions shall have been approved for listing on Nasdaq, subject to official notice of issuance;
(f) after giving effect to the Transactions (including the CCTS Shareholder Redemption), Holdco shall have at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets (as determined in accordance with Rule 3a51-1(g)(1) of the Exchange Act) immediately after the Closing; provided, that the condition set forth in this Section 7.1(f) shall not be applicable to the extent that such requirement has been validly removed from the Governing Documents of CCTS prior to or in connection with the CCTS Shareholders Meeting.
