Reports; Regulatory Matters (a) Rand and its Subsidiary have timely filed all reports, registration statements and certifications, together with any amendments required to be made with respect thereto, that they were required to file since December 31, 2016 with (i) the SEC, (ii) NASDAQ, (iii) the SBA, and (iv) any other applicable SRO or Governmental Entity, and all other reports and statements required to be filed by them since December 31, 2016, including any report or statement required to be filed pursuant to the laws, rules or regulations of the United States, any state, any foreign entity, or any SRO or Governmental Entity, and have paid all fees and assessments due and payable in connection therewith. Except for normal examinations of Rand and its Subsidiary conducted by a SRO or Governmental Entity in the ordinary course of the business, no SRO or Governmental Entity has, since December 31, 2016, initiated any proceeding, enforcement action or, to the knowledge of Rand, investigation into the business, disclosures or operations of Rand or its Subsidiary. Since December 31, 2016, no SRO or Governmental Entity has resolved any proceeding, enforcement action or, to the knowledge of Rand, investigation into the business, disclosures or operations of Rand or its Subsidiary. There is no unresolved, or, to Rand’s knowledge, threatened comment or stop order by any SRO or Governmental Entity with respect to any report or statement relating to any examinations or inspections of Rand or its Subsidiary.
(b) Neither Rand nor its Subsidiary is subject to any cease-and-desist or other order or enforcement action issued by, or is a party to any written agreement, consent agreement or memorandum of understanding with, or is a party to any commitment letter or similar undertaking to, or is subject to any order or directive by, any SRO or Governmental Entity that currently restricts in any material respect the conduct of its business, or that in any material manner relates to its credit, risk management or compliance policies, its internal controls, its management or its business (each item in this sentence, a “Rand Regulatory Agreement”), nor has Rand or its Subsidiary been advised since December 31, 2016 by any SRO or Governmental Entity that it is considering issuing, initiating, ordering, or requesting any such Rand Regulatory Agreement.
(c) Rand has filed on the SEC’s XXXXX system each (i) final registration statement, prospectus, report, schedule and definitive proxy statement filed with or furnished to the SEC by Rand or its Subsidiary pursuant to the Securities Act or the Exchange Act since December 31, 2016 (the “Rand SEC Reports”) and prior to the date of this Agreement and (ii) communication mailed by Rand to Rand Stockholders since December 31, 2016 and prior to the date of this Agreement. No such Rand SEC Report or communication, at the time filed, furnished or communicated (and, in the case of registration statements and proxy statements, on the dates of effectiveness and the dates of the relevant meetings, respectively), contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except that information as of a later date (but before the date of this Agreement) shall be deemed to modify information as of an earlier date. As of their respective dates, all Rand SEC Reports complied as to form in all material respects with the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto. No executive officer of Rand has failed in any respect to make the certifications required of him or her under Section 302 or 906 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act. As of the date of this Agreement, there are not outstanding or unresolved comments from the SEC with respect to any Rand SEC Report and, as of the date of this Agreement, no Rand SEC Report is subject to any ongoing review by the SEC.