Conflict of Interest and FCPA. Consultant covenants and agrees that Consultant and his personnel and their immediate family will not receive and has not received any payments, gifts or promises and Consultant will not engage in any employment or business enterprises that in any way conflict with its ability to provide services for, or conflict with the interests of, the Company or its affiliates under this Agreement. Consultant shall make all reasonable efforts consistent with the terms of this Agreement to prevent occurrences of and eliminate conditions which could result in a conflict with the best interest of the Company and its affiliates. Consultant shall make all reasonable efforts to prevent conflicts of interest from arising out of relationships between Consultant, his agents or his employees, on the one hand, and agents or employees of the Company or its affiliates, on the other hand. Consultant shall not make any payments, loans, gifts or of anything of value or promises or offers of payments, loans, gifts or of anything of value, directly or indirectly, to or for the use or benefit of any official or employee of any government, political party or candidate for political office or to any other person for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business, or if Consultant knows, or has reason to believe, that any part of such payments, loans or gifts, or promise or offer, would violate the laws or regulations of any country, including, without limitation, Venezuela and the United States, having jurisdiction over Consultant or the Company or its affiliates. By signing this Agreement, Consultant acknowledges that he has not made any payments, loans, gifts or of anything of value, or promises of payments, loans, gifts or of anything of value to or for the use or benefit of any official or employee of any government, political party or candidate for political office or to any other person for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business, or which would violate the laws or regulations of any country, including, without limitation, Venezuela and the United States, having jurisdiction over Consultant or the Company or its affiliates.
Conflict of Interest and FCPA. Consultant covenants and agrees that Consultant will not receive during the Service Term and represents that Consultant has not received prior to the Service Term any payments, gifts or promises with respect to the current or former business of the Company and its affiliates. Consultant shall not make any payments, loans, gifts or promises or offers of payments, loans or gifts, directly or indirectly, to or for the use or benefit of any official or employee of any government, political party or candidate for political office or to any other person if Consultant knows, or has reason to believe, that any part of such payments, loans or gifts, or promise or offer, would violate the laws or regulations of any country, including, without limitation, the United States of America, having jurisdiction over Consultant, the Company or any of the Company’s affiliates. By signing this Agreement, Consultant acknowledges that he has not made and will not make any payments, loans, gifts, promises of payments, loans or gifts to or for the use or benefit of any official or employee of any government, political party or candidate for political office or to any other person which would violate the laws or regulations of any country, including, without limitation, the United States of America, having jurisdiction over Consultant, the Company or any of the Company’s affiliates.
