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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 Buyer The obligations of Buyer to consummate the Closing are subject to the satisfaction of the following further conditions:
(i) Sellers shall have performed in all material respects all of their obligations hereunder required to be performed by them at or prior to the Closing, (ii) the representations and warranties of Sellers contained in this Agreement and in any certificate or other writing delivered by Sellers pursuant hereto that are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect shall be true, and all other such representations and warranties of Seller shall be true in all material respects, in each case at and as of the Closing Date as if made at and as of the Closing Date (except to the extent that a representation or warranty expressly speaks as of a specified date or period of time), and (iii) Buyer shall have received a certificate signed by a duly authorized officer of Metaldyne to the foregoing effect; and
(b) all actions shall have been taken, or consents obtained, with respect to permits, licenses, authorizations and contracts relating to the Purchased Assets such that the Closing of the Transactions will not constitute a default under or cause or permit the termination, cancellation, acceleration or other change of any right or obligation or the loss of any benefit to which the Buyer would be entitled under any provision of any agreement or other instrument to be transferred to Buyer hereby or relating to the Acquired Business except for such failures to obtain any such consent or other action, defaults, terminations, cancellations, accelerations, changes or losses that would not be reasonably expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect;
(c) Buyer shall have obtained debt or equity financing on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to it sufficient to pay the Purchase Price and related fees and expenses; and
(d) Buyer shall have received the Buyer Fairness Opinion in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Buyer and such opinion shall be in full force and effect as of the Closing Date.
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 Seller The obligations of Seller to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby to occur at the Closing are subject to the satisfaction of each of the following conditions, unless waived in whole or in part in writing by Seller:
(a) The representations and warranties of Purchaser set forth in this agreement must be true and correct in all material respects (provided that any representation or warranty contained herein that is qualified by a materiality or material adverse effect qualification shall not be so qualified for purposes of determining the existence of any breach thereof by Purchaser) as of the date of this agreement and as of the Closing Date as though made on and as of the Closing Date (except for any representation or warranty that is limited to an earlier date, in which case such representation or warranty shall have been true and correct only as of such earlier date);
(b) Purchaser must have performed in all material respects all obligations under its covenants and agreements required by this agreement to be performed by Purchaser on or before the Closing Date;
(c) Purchaser must have delivered to Seller a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by an authorized representative of Purchaser, as to the satisfaction of the conditions in the foregoing subsections;
(d) Purchaser must have delivered to Seller or other specified persons the documents, instruments, certificates and other items required to be delivered by Purchaser pursuant to section 5.2;
(e) There must not be in effect any temporary restraining order, preliminary or permanent injunction, stay or other order issued by any Governmental Authority preventing the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby to occur at the Closing must be in effect; and
(f) No law must have been enacted, issued, enforced, entered, or promulgated that prohibits or makes illegal the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.
