CONDITIONS TO CONSUMMATION OF THE MERGER 7.1 Conditions to Each Party's Obligations to Effect the Merger. The respective obligations of each party to effect the Merger are subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Effective Time of the following conditions:
Conditions to the Transaction 7.1 Conditions to Obligations of Each Party to Effect the Transaction. The respective obligations of each party to this Agreement to effect the Transaction shall be subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Closing Date of the following conditions:
CONDITIONS TO CONSUMMATION SECTION 6.1. Conditions to All Parties' Obligations. The respective obligations of Parent and the Company to effect the Merger shall be subject to the satisfaction or waiver prior to the Effective Time of the following conditions: (a) The Plan and the transactions contemplated hereby shall have been approved by the requisite vote of the shareholders of the Company and Parent in accordance with their respective articles of incorporation and applicable law. (b) Parent, the Company and each of their respective subsidiaries shall have procured, if required in the opinion of counsel for Parent, the approvals, consents or waivers with respect to the Plan and the transactions contemplated hereby by (i) the appropriate State Regulators, and (ii) the Federal Reserve Board, and all applicable statutory waiting periods shall have expired; and the parties shall have procured all other regulatory approvals, consents or waivers of governmental authorities or other persons that, in the opinion of counsel for Parent , are necessary or appropriate for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Plan; provided, however, that no approval, consent or waiver referred to in this Section 6.1(b) shall be deemed to have been received if it shall include any condition or requirement that, individually or in the aggregate, (i) would result in a Material Adverse Effect on Parent, (ii) imposes any requirement upon Parent, the Company or their respective subsidiaries to (x) dispose of any asset which is material to Parent or the Company, (y) materially restrict or curtail the current business operations or activities of Parent or the Company or (z) raise an amount of capital, the issuance and sale of which, in the absence of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Plan, would in Parent's judgment be materially burdensome in light of Parent's capital raising policies or (iii) would reduce the benefits of the transactions contemplated by the Plan to Parent in so significant a manner that Parent, in its judgment, would not have entered into this Plan had such condition or requirement been known at the date hereof. (c) The S-4 shall have become effective under the Securities Act and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the S-4 shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the SEC. (d) Parent and the Company shall each have received a letter from their respective independent accountants addressed to Parent or the Company, as the case may be, to the effect that the Merger will qualify for "pooling of interests" accounting treatment. (e) All other requirements prescribed by law which are necessary to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Plan shall have been satisfied. (f) No party hereto shall be subject to any order, decree or injunction of a court or agency of competent jurisdiction which enjoins or prohibits the consummation of the Merger or any other 44 50 transaction contemplated by this Plan, and no litigation or proceeding shall be pending against Parent or the Company or any of their subsidiaries brought by any governmental agency seeking to prevent consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby. (g) No statute, rule, regulation, order, injunction or decree shall have been enacted, entered, promulgated, interpreted, applied or enforced by any governmental authority which prohibits, restricts or makes illegal consummation of the Merger or any other transaction contemplated by this Plan. SECTION 6.2. Conditions to the Obligations of Parent. The obligations of Parent to effect the Merger shall be subject to the satisfaction or waiver prior to the Effective Time of the following additional conditions: (a) Each of the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Plan shall have been true on the date hereof and shall be true in all material respects on the Effective Date as if made on such date (or on the date when made in the case of any representation or warranty which specifically relates to an earlier date); the Company shall have performed, in all material respects, each of its covenants and agreements contained in this Plan; and Parent shall have received a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated the Effective Date, to the foregoing effect. (b) Parent shall have received a written opinion, dated the Effective Date, from McCarty, Curry, Wydexxx, Xxetxxx & Xaak, XXP, counsel to the Company, in form and substance satisfactory to Parent. (c) Parent shall have received a written opinion from Dykexx Xxxsxxx XXXC, in form and substance satisfactory to Parent, to the effect that the Merger will constitute a reorganization within the meaning of Section 368 of the Code.
CONDITIONS TO CONSUMMATION OF MERGER 35 5.1 Conditions to Each Party's Obligations........................................................ 35 5.2 Conditions to Obligations of the Parent and the Acquisition Subsidiary........................ 36 5.3 Conditions to Obligations of the Company...................................................... 37
CONDITIONS TO THE MERGER 42 6.1 Conditions to Obligations of Each Party to Effect the Merger................................ 42 6.2 Additional Conditions to Obligations of Company............................................. 43 6.3 Additional Conditions to the Obligations of Parent and Merger Sub........................... 44
Consummation of the Merger (a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each of the Parent Entities, on the one hand, and the Partnership Entities, on the other hand, will cooperate with the other and use (and will cause their respective Subsidiaries to use) its reasonable best efforts to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all actions, and do, or cause to be done, all things, necessary, proper or advisable to cause the conditions to the Closing to be satisfied as promptly as practicable (and in any event no later than the Outside Date) and to consummate and make effective, in the most expeditious manner practicable, the Merger and the ATLS Merger, including preparing and filing promptly and fully all documentation to effect all necessary filings, notifications, notices, petitions, statements, registrations, submissions of information, applications and other documents (including any required or recommended filings under applicable Antitrust Laws), (ii) obtain promptly (and in any event no later than the Outside Date) all approvals, consents, clearances, expirations or terminations of waiting periods, registrations, permits, authorizations and other confirmations from any Governmental Authority or third party necessary, proper or advisable to consummate the Merger and the ATLS Merger, and (iii) obtain all necessary consents, approvals or waivers from third parties. For purposes of this Agreement, “Antitrust Laws” means the Xxxxxxx Antitrust Act, as amended, the Xxxxxxx Antitrust Act, as amended, the HSR Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, as amended, and all other applicable Laws issued by a Governmental Authority that are designed or intended to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions having the purpose or effect of monopolization or restraint of trade or lessening of competition. (b) In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, each Party hereto agrees (i) to make an appropriate filing of a Notification and Report Form pursuant to the HSR Act with respect to the Merger as promptly as practicable and in any event within ten (10) Business Days after the date of this Agreement, (ii) to supply as promptly as practicable any additional information and documentary material that may be requested by any Governmental Authority pursuant to the HSR Act or any other Antitrust Law, including substantial compliance with any “second request” for additional information or documentary material under the HSR Act as promptly as reasonably practicable, and (iii) take, or cause to be taken (including by their respective Subsidiaries), all other actions consistent with this Section 7.1 necessary to cause the expiration or termination of the applicable waiting periods under the HSR Act as soon as practicable (and in any event no later than the Outside Date). (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, each of the Parent Entities, TRGP and the Partnership agrees to take, and to cause its respective Subsidiaries to take, any and all steps and to make, and cause to be made, any and all undertakings necessary to resolve such objections, if any, that a Governmental Authority may assert under any Antitrust Law with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including the Transactions), and to avoid or eliminate each and every impediment under the Antitrust Laws that may be asserted by any Governmental Authority with respect to such transactions so as to enable the Closing to occur as promptly as practicable, and in any event no later than the Outside Date, including (x) proposing, negotiating, committing to and effecting, by consent decree, hold separate order, or otherwise, the sale, divestiture or disposition of any businesses, assets, equity interests, product lines or properties of any Party or any of its Subsidiaries, (y) creating, terminating, or divesting relationships, ventures, contractual rights or obligations of any Party or its Subsidiaries and (z) otherwise taking or committing to take any action that after the Closing would limit Parent or its Subsidiaries’ TRGP or its Subsidiaries’ or the Partnership or its Subsidiaries’, as applicable, freedom of action with respect to, or their ability to retain or hold, one or more of their or their Subsidiaries’ (including ATLS’, the Partnership’s or their Subsidiaries’) businesses, assets, equity interests, product lines or properties, in each case as may be required in order to obtain all approvals, consents, clearances, expirations or terminations of waiting periods, registrations, permits, authorizations and other confirmations or to avoid the commencement of any action to prohibit the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or, in the alternative, to avoid the entry of, or to effect the dissolution of, any injunction, temporary restraining order or other order in any action or proceeding seeking to prohibit the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or delay the Closing beyond the Outside Date (each, a “Divestiture Action”); provided that none of Parent and its Subsidiaries, TRGP and its Subsidiaries or the Partnership and its Subsidiaries shall be required to take any action, or commit to take any action, or agree to any condition or limitation, in connection with the foregoing that would reasonably be expected to (i) in the case of assets, properties or business of Parent or its Subsidiaries, materially and adversely impact the business or operations of Parent and its Subsidiaries (as measured prior to the Effective Time) within any specific oil and natural gas producing basin or in any distinctive market area if outside of an oil and natural gas producing basin or (ii) in the case of assets, properties or business of the Partnership or its Subsidiaries, materially and adversely impact the business or operations of the Partnership and its Subsidiaries (as measured prior to the Effective Time) within any specific oil and natural gas producing basin or in any distinctive market area if outside of an oil and natural gas producing basin; and provided, further, that the consummation of the transactions provided for in any such agreement for a Divestiture Action shall be conditioned upon the Closing or satisfaction or waiver of all of the conditions to Closing in a case where the Closing will occur immediately following such Divestiture Action. (d) Each of the Parties hereto will use its reasonable best efforts to (i) cooperate in all respects with each other in connection with any filing or submission with a Governmental Authority in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and in connection with any investigation or other inquiry by or before a Governmental Authority relating to the Merger, including any proceeding initiated by a private Person, (ii) promptly inform the Other Parties of (and supply to the Other Parties) any communication received by such Party from, or given by such Party to, the Federal Trade Commission, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, or any other Governmental Authority and any material communication received or given in connection with any proceeding by a private Person, in each case regarding the Merger, (iii) permit the Other Parties to review in advance and incorporate the Other Parties’ reasonable comments in any communication to be given by it to any Governmental Authority with respect to obtaining any clearances required under any Antitrust Law in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and (iv) consult with the Other Parties in advance of any meeting or teleconference with any Governmental Authority or, in connection with any proceeding by a private Person, with any other Person, and, to the extent not prohibited by the Governmental Authority or other Person, give the Other Parties the opportunity to attend and participate in such meetings and teleconferences. Subject to Section 7.4(b), the Parties will take reasonable efforts to share information protected from disclosure under the attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine, joint defense privilege or any other privilege pursuant to this Section 7.1 in a manner so as to preserve the applicable privilege. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, TRGP shall, on behalf of the Parties, control and lead all communications and strategy relating to the Antitrust Laws, subject to the good faith consultations with ATLS and the Partnership and the inclusion of ATLS and the Partnership at meetings with any Governmental Authority with respect to any discussion related to the Merger under the Antitrust Laws.
Consummation of Acquisition Concurrently with the making of the initial Loans, (i) the Buyer shall have purchased pursuant to the Acquisition Documents (no provision of which shall have been amended or otherwise modified or waived in a manner that is materially adverse to the Lenders’ interests) without the prior written consent of the Agents), and shall have become the owner, free and clear of all Liens, of all of the Acquisition Assets, (ii) the proceeds of the initial Loans shall have been applied in full to pay a portion of the Purchase Price payable pursuant to the Acquisition Documents for the Acquisition Assets and the closing and other costs relating thereto, and (iii) the Buyer shall have fully performed all of the obligations to be performed by it under the Acquisition Documents.
Conditions to the Mergers 36 Termination of the Mergers and the Merger Agreement..................... 37
Conditions to the Purchaser’s Obligations The obligation of each Purchaser to purchase the Shares and Warrants at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment to the Purchasers’ reasonable satisfaction, on or prior to the Closing Date, of the following conditions, any of which may be waived in writing by the Purchasers: (i) The representations and warranties made by the Company in Section 3.1 hereof shall be true and correct except where the failure to be so true and correct does not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company shall have performed in all material respects all obligations and conditions herein required to be performed or observed by it on or prior to the Closing Date. (ii) The Company shall have obtained in a timely fashion any and all material consents, permits, approvals, registrations and waivers necessary or appropriate for consummation of the purchase and sale of the Shares and Warrants, all of which shall be and remain so long as necessary in full force and effect. (iii) No judgment, writ, order, injunction, award or decree of or by any court, or judge, justice or magistrate, including any bankruptcy court or judge, or any order of or by any governmental authority, shall have been issued, and no action or proceeding shall have been instituted by any governmental authority, or self-regulatory organization enjoining or preventing the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or in the other Transaction Documents. (iv) The Company shall have delivered a Certificate, executed on behalf of the Company by its Chief Executive Officer or its Chief Financial Officer, dated as of the Closing Date, certifying to the fulfillment of the conditions specified in subsections (i), (ii), (iii) and(vii) of this Section 2.2(a). (v) The Company shall have delivered a Certificate, executed on behalf of the Company by its Secretary, dated as of the Closing Date, certifying the resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company approving the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and the issuance of the Shares and Warrants, certifying the current versions of the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Company and certifying as to the signatures and authority of persons signing the Transaction Documents and related documents on behalf of the Company. (vi) The Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof shall have been issued and no proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission; no stop order or suspension of trading shall have been imposed by any Person with respect to public trading in the Common Stock; and the Purchaser shall have received the Prospectus in accordance with the federal securities laws. (vii) The Company’s Common Stock (including the Shares and the Warrant Shares) shall be eligible for inclusion on the Nasdaq Capital Market and listed and admitted and authorized for trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market.
Conditions to the Closing Date The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and of the Issuing Bank to make LC Credit Extensions hereunder shall become effective on the first date when each of the following conditions is satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02): (a) The Administrative Agent shall have received the following, each of which shall be originals, telecopies or electronic copies (followed promptly by originals) unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, each dated a date on or prior to the Closing Date and each in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers: (i) executed counterparts of this Agreement from the Borrower; (ii) a promissory note executed by the Borrower in favor of each Lender requesting three Business Days in advance a promissory note evidencing the Loan provided by such Lender; (iii) such certificates of resolutions or other action, incumbency certificates and/or other certificates of Responsible Officers of the Borrower as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require evidencing the identity, authority and capacity of each Responsible Officer thereof authorized to act as a Responsible Officer in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which the Borrower is a party or is to be a party; (iv) a certificate of good standing for the Borrower from its jurisdiction of organization; (v) a certificate signed by the Chief Financial Officer of the Borrower certifying (A) as to the solvency of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (on a consolidated basis) after giving effect to the Transaction and the incurrence of all Indebtedness related thereto, (B) as to the Debt Rating then in effect and (C) that the conditions specified in Section 4.02(a) and (b) have been satisfied; (vi) a favorable opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Xxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP, counsel to the Borrower, and the general counsel of the Borrower, addressed to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, in form set forth on Exhibit C and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; and (vii) evidence that the Existing Credit Agreement has been, or concurrently with the Closing Date is being, terminated and all Liens securing obligations under the Existing Credit Agreement have been, or concurrently with the Closing Date are being released (the “Refinancing”). (b) The Borrower shall have received not less than $1,000.0 million in gross cash proceeds from the sale of the Senior Notes. (c) All accrued fees and expenses of the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers (including the fees and expenses of counsels for the Administrative Agent, the U.S. Lead Arrangers and the Nordic Lead Arrangers and local and special counsel for the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers) shall have been paid. The Borrower shall have paid all items then due and payable under the Fee Letter. (d) The Administrative Agent shall have received a Borrowing Request in accordance with the requirements of Section 2.03 hereof.
