Continuation of Provisions This Agreement shall be binding upon all successors of the Fund, including without limitation any transferee of all or substantially all assets of the Fund and any successor by merger, consolidation, or operation of law, and shall inure to the benefit of the Board Member’s spouse, heirs, assigns, devisees, executors, administrators and legal representatives. The provisions of this Agreement shall continue until the later of (1) ten years after the Board Member has ceased to provide any service to the Fund, and (2) the final termination of all Proceedings in respect of which the Board Member has asserted, is entitled to assert, or has been granted rights of indemnification or advancement of Expenses hereunder and of any proceeding commenced by the Board Member pursuant to Section 3 relating thereto. Unless required by applicable federal or Delaware law, no amendment of the Trust Instrument or By-Laws of the Fund shall limit or eliminate the right of the Board Member to indemnification and advancement of Expenses set forth in this Agreement with respect to acts or omissions occurring prior to such amendment or repeal. In the event the Fund or any successor shall discontinue its operations within the term of this Agreement, adequate provision shall be made to honor the Fund’s obligations under this Agreement.
Continuation of Agreement This Agreement shall become effective for each Fund as of the date first set forth above and shall continue in effect for each Fund until August 1, 2010, unless sooner terminated as hereinafter provided, and shall continue in effect from year to year thereafter for each Fund only as long as such continuance is specifically approved at least annually (i) by either the Board of Directors or by the vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of such Fund, and (ii) by the vote of a majority of the Directors, who are not parties to the Agreement or interested persons of any such party, cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of voting on such approval. The annual approvals provided for herein shall be effective to continue this Agreement from year to year if given within a period beginning not more than 90 days prior to August 1st of each applicable year, notwithstanding the fact that more than 365 days may have elapsed since the date on which such approval was last given.
Transaction with Affiliates Except pursuant to agreements existing on the Effective Date and listed on Schedule II attached hereto, the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary of the Borrower to, directly or indirectly, in any transaction involving aggregate consideration in excess of $1,000,000, pay any funds to or for the account of, make any investment (whether by acquisition of stock or indebtedness, by loan, advance, transfer of property, guarantee or other agreement to pay, purchase or service, directly or indirectly, any Debt, or otherwise) in, lease, sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any assets, tangible or intangible, to, or participate in, or effect any transaction in connection with any joint enterprise or other joint arrangement with, any Affiliate; provided, however, that the foregoing provisions of this Section shall not prohibit (a) the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower from making sales to or purchases from any Affiliate and, in connection therewith, extending credit or making payments, or from making payments for services rendered by any Affiliate, if such sales or purchases are made or such services are rendered in the ordinary course of business and on terms and conditions at least as favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary as the terms and conditions which would apply in a similar transaction with a Person not an Affiliate; (b) the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower from making payments of principal, interest and premium on any Debt of the Borrower or such Subsidiary held by an Affiliate if the terms of such Debt are substantially as favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary as the terms which could have been obtained at the time of the creation of such Debt from a lender which was not an Affiliate and (c) the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower from participating in, or effecting any transaction in connection with, any joint enterprise or other joint arrangement with any Affiliate if the Borrower or such Subsidiary participates in the ordinary course of its business and on a basis no less advantageous than the basis on which such Affiliate participates. The provisions of this Section 5.15 shall not apply to (x) transactions between the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and any officer, director or employee of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, on the other hand, that are approved by the Board of Directors of the Borrower or any committee of the Board of Directors consisting of the Borrower’s independent directors, (y) the payment of reasonable and customary regular fees to directors of the Borrower or a Subsidiary of the Borrower and (z) transactions among the Borrower and its Subsidiaries not otherwise prohibited hereunder.
Compliance with Agreement Buyer shall have performed and complied in all material respects with all of its obligations under this Agreement which are to be performed or complied with by it prior to or on the Closing Date.
Compliance with Agreements Promptly and fully comply with all Contractual Obligations to which any one or more of them is a party, except for any such Contractual Obligations (a) the nonperformance of which would not cause a Default or Event of Default, (b) then being contested by any of them in good faith by appropriate proceedings, or (c) if the failure to comply therewith could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Dealings with Affiliates No officer, Trustee or agent of the Trust and no officer, director or agent of any investment advisor shall deal for or on behalf of the Trust with himself as principal or agent, or with any partnership, association or corporation in which he has a material financial interest; provided that the foregoing provisions shall not prevent (a) officers and Trustees of the Trust from buying, holding or selling shares in the Trust, or from being partners, officers or directors of or financially interested in any investment advisor to the Trust or in any corporation, firm or association which may at any time have a distributor’s or principal underwriter’s contract with the Trust; (b) purchases or sales of securities or other property if such transaction is permitted by or is exempt or exempted from the provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”) or any Rule or Regulation thereunder and if such transaction does not involve any commission or profit to any security dealer who is, or one or more of whose partners, shareholders, officers or directors is, an officer or Trustees of the Trust or an officer or director of the investment advisor, manager or principal underwriter of the Trust; (c) employment of legal counsel, registrar, transfer agent, shareholder services, dividend disbursing agent or custodian who is, or has a partner, stockholder, officer or director who is, an officer or Trustee of the Trust; or (d) sharing statistical, research and management expenses, including office hire and services, with any other company in which an officer or Trustee of the Trust is an officer or director or financially interested.
Authorization of Agreements, Etc (a) The execution and delivery by the Company of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and thereunder, the issuance, sale and delivery of the Senior Notes and the Warrants and the issuance and delivery of the Conversion Shares have been duly authorized by all requisite corporate action and will not (i) violate any provision of any law applicable to the Company, any order of any court or other agency of government applicable to the Company, (ii) violate the Charter, or the By-laws of the Company, as amended (the “By-laws”) or (iii) violate any provision of any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Company is party or by which the Company is bound, or conflict with, result in a breach of or constitute (with due notice or lapse of time or both) a default under any such indenture, agreement or other instrument, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge, restriction, claim or encumbrance of any nature whatsoever upon any of the properties or assets of the Company.
Restriction of Amendments to Certain Documents Not amend or otherwise modify, or waive any rights under, any Subordinated Debt Documents to the extent such amendment, modification or waiver would be materially adverse to the Lenders.
