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been issued by the SEC and no proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated by the SEC and not concluded or withdrawn;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 Distribution (a) The consummation of the Distribution will be subject to the satisfaction, or waiver by Parent in its sole and absolute discretion, of the following conditions:
(i) The SEC shall have declared effective the Form 10; no order suspending the effectiveness of the Form 10 shall be in effect; and no proceedings for such purposes shall have been instituted or threatened by the SEC.
(ii) The Information Statement shall have been mailed to Parent’s unitholders or, in connection with the delivery of a notice of Internet availability of the Information Statement to such holders, posted on the Internet.
(iii) The transfer of the Transferred Assets (other than any Delayed Transferred Asset) and Assumed Liabilities (other than any Delayed Assumed Liability) contemplated to be transferred from Parent to SpinCo on or prior to the Distribution shall have occurred as contemplated by Section 2.1, and the transfer of the Retained Assets (other than any Delayed Retained Asset) and Retained Liabilities (other than any Delayed Retained Liability) contemplated to be transferred from SpinCo to Parent on or prior to the Distribution Date shall have occurred as contemplated by Section 2.1.
(iv) The actions and filings necessary or appropriate under applicable U.S. federal, U.S. state or other securities Laws or blue sky Laws and the rules and regulations thereunder and the NYSE rules shall have been taken or made, and, where applicable, have become effective or been accepted.
(v) Each of the Ancillary Agreements shall have been duly executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto.
(vi) No order, injunction or decree issued by any Governmental Authority of competent jurisdiction or other legal restraint or prohibition preventing the consummation of the Separation, the Distribution or any of the transactions related thereto shall be in effect.
(vii) The SpinCo Common Units to be distributed to the Parent unitholders in the Distribution shall have been accepted for listing on the NYSE, subject to official notice of distribution.
(viii) The Retained Cash of five million dollars ($5,000,000) shall be held by Parent as of the Effective Time, and Parent’s net working capital (including the Retained Cash) as of the Effective Time shall be no less than five million dollars ($5,000,000).
(ix) Parent shall have received (or shall receive simultaneously with the Distribution) the Specified Payment, the Indebtedness Payment and the proceeds from the SpinCo Cash Transfer in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Merger Agreement.
(x) Each of the conditions to the party’s obligations to effect the Merger set forth in Section 8.1 (other than Section 8.1(a)(viii) and Section 8.1(a)(ix)), Section 8.2, and Section 8.3 of the Merger Agreement shall have been satisfied or waived.
(b) The foregoing conditions are for the sole benefit of Parent, Parent GP and the GP Board and shall not give rise to or create any duty on the part of Parent, Parent GP or the GP Board to waive or not waive any such condition or in any way limit Parent’s right to terminate this Agreement as set forth in Article IX or alter the consequences of any such termination from those specified in Article IX. Any determination made by the GP Board prior to the Distribution concerning the satisfaction or waiver of any or all of the conditions set forth in Section 3.3(a) shall be conclusive and binding on the Parties. If Parent waives any material condition, it shall promptly issue a press release disclosing such fact and file a Current Report on Form 8-K with the SEC describing such waiver.
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 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
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 Closing On or before the Closing Date, the Seller shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trust Depositor each of the documents, certificates and other items as follows:
(a) The List of Contracts, certified by the Chairman of the Board, President or any Vice President of the Seller together with an Assignment substantially in the form attached as Exhibit A hereto.
(b) A certificate of an officer of the Seller substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto.
(c) An opinion of counsel for the Seller substantially in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters (and including as an addressee thereof each Rating Agency).
(d) A letter or letters from Ernst & Young LLP, or another nationally recognized accounting firm, addressed to the Seller, the Trust Depositor and the Underwriters and stating that such firm has reviewed a sample of the Contracts and performed specific procedures for such sample with respect to certain contract terms and identifying those Contracts which do not so conform.
(e) Copies of resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Seller or of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Seller approving the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereunder, certified in each case by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Seller.
(f) Officially certified recent evidence of due incorporation and good standing of the Seller under the laws of Nevada.
(g) A UCC financing statement naming the Seller as debtor, naming the Trust Depositor and the Trust as assignor secured parties, naming the Indenture Trustee as secured party and identifying the Contract Assets as collateral, in proper form for filing with the appropriate office in Nevada; a UCC financing statement naming the Trust Depositor as debtor, naming the Trust as assignor secured party, naming the Indenture Trustee as secured party and identifying the Trust Corpus as collateral, in proper form for filing with the appropriate office in Nevada; and a UCC financing statement naming the Trust as debtor, naming the Indenture Trustee, as secured party and identifying the Collateral as collateral, in proper form for filing with the appropriate office in Delaware.
(h) An Officer’s Certificate from the Seller certifying that the Seller, on or prior to the Closing Date, has indicated in its computer files, in accordance with its customary standards, policies and procedures, that the Contracts have been conveyed to the Trust Depositor pursuant to this Agreement.
(i) The documents, certificates and other items described in Section 2.02 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, to the extent not already described above.
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Modifications to the Agreement This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding of the parties on the subjects covered. The Employee expressly warrants that he or she is not executing this Agreement in reliance on any promises, representations, or inducements other than those contained herein. Modifications to this Agreement or the Plan can be made only in an express written contract executed by a duly authorized officer of the Company.
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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.
