Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than: (i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock, (ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock, (iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock, (iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts, (v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or (vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Florida Power & Light Co), Purchase Contract Agreement (Florida Power & Light Co)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.10. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
than (i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants directors or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred such event requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
, (ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
, (iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s 's capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
, (viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
or (viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (FPL Group Trust II), Purchase Contract Agreement (FPL Group Capital Inc)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______7.00% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, provided that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a an Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, except that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,;
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. (a) The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferreddeferred shall, to the extent permitted by law, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue thereon at the rate of ______9% per annum year (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), compounding on compounded quarterly up to but not including each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”)") . Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate.
(b) In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until a Payment Date prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, then all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be payable to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date.
(c) In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in lieu of a cash payment a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value.
(d) No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash equal to the fraction of a share times the Applicable Market Value as provided in Section 5.11 hereof.
(e) In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not, and shall not permit its Subsidiaries to, declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its the Company's capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants officers or agents directors or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of the Company exercises its right to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,Payments;
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,;
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,;
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), ) or repurchases, acquisitions or redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with exchange for or out of the issuance or exchange net cash proceeds of the sale of the Company's capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) orstock);
(viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future; or
(vi) mandatory sinking fund payments with respect to any series of preferred stock of the Company; provided that the aggregate stated value of all such series outstanding at the time of such payment does not exceed 5% of the aggregate value of (1) the total principal amount of all then outstanding bonds or other securities representing secured indebtedness issued or assumed by the Company and (2) the Company's capital and surplus to be stated on the Company's books of account after giving effect to such payment; provided that any moneys deposited in to any sinking fund and not in violation of this clause (vi) may thereafter be applied to the purchase or redemption of such preferred stock in accordance with the terms of such sinking fund without regard to the foregoing restrictions.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (St Paul Companies Inc /Mn/)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to DB1/ 148045032.3 payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______7.299% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the DB1/ 148045032.3 Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company exercises its option right to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make other distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are is deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock stock, or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries its subsidiaries, for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness, or the indebtedness of one of its subsidiaries, for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or securities of the security Company or one of its subsidiaries being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or of securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock stock) and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) , or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Florida Power & Light Co)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______6.25% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-360 day year consisting of twelve 30-30 day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an 5.3 or unless Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Cash Merger Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Periodhas occurred. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination EventEvent or as a result of an Early Settlement or Cash Merger Early Settlement, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.10. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its the Company's capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to any of the Company's capital stock the foregoing (other than:
than (i) purchasesredemptions, redemptions purchases or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with the satisfaction by the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants directors or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred such event requiring the Company to purchaseredeem, redeem purchase or acquire its capital stock,
, (ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
, (iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s 's capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stockstock of the Company), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock of the Company (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contractsstock) or
or (viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or of the declaration Company or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferreddeferred shall, to the extent permitted by law, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue thereon at the rate of ______% [equal to rate on Notes plus rate of Contract Adjustment Payments] per annum year (computed on the basis of a 360-360 day year consisting of twelve 30-30 day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral PeriodSection. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until a Payment Date prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, then all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be payable to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in lieu of a cash payment a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.11. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, Payments then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not, and shall not permit its Subsidiaries to, declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its the Company's capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants officers or agents directors or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of the Company exercises its right to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,Payments;
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,;
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,;
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), ) or repurchases, acquisitions or redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with exchange for or out of the issuance or exchange net cash proceeds of the sale of the Company's capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) orstock);
(viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future; or
(vi) mandatory sinking fund payments with respect to any series of preferred stock of the Company; provided that the aggregate stated value of all such series outstanding at the time of such payment does not exceed 5% of the aggregate of (1) the total principal amount of all then outstanding bonds or other securities representing secured indebtedness issued or assumed by the Company and (2) the Company's capital and surplus to be stated on the Company's books of account after giving effect to such payment; provided however that any moneys deposited in to any sinking fund and not in violation of this clause (vi) may thereafter be applied to the purchase or redemption of such preferred stock or preferred stock A in accordance with the terms of such sinking fund without regard to the foregoing restrictions.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Electronic Data Systems Corp /De/)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, provided that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a an Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, except that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants directors or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to and to the extent provided in this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination EventEvent or as a result of an Early Settlement or Cash Merger Early Settlement, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.10. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its the Company's capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to any of the foregoing Company's capital stock other than:
than (i) purchasesredemptions, redemptions purchases or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants directors or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred such event requiring the Company to purchaseredeem, redeem purchase or acquire its capital stock,
, (ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
, (iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s 's capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stockstock of the Company), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock of the Company (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contractsstock) or
or (viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan of the Company or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Great Plains Energy Inc)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior Any Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, so deferred shall, to the expiration of any Deferral Periodextent permitted by law, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue thereon at the rate of ______% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-360 day year consisting of twelve 30-30 day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral PeriodSection. No Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, on the Purchase Contracts until a Payment Date prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, then all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be payable to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in lieu of a cash payment a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.10. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants officers or agents directors or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,such event;
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,;
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,;
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), ) or repurchases, acquisitions or redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s our capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) orstock);
(viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future); or
(vi) mandatory sinking fund payments with respect to any series of preferred stock or preferred stock A of the Company; provided that the aggregate stated value of all such series outstanding at the time of such payment does not exceed 5% of the aggregate of (1) the total principal amount of all then outstanding bonds or other securities representing secured indebtedness issued or assumed by the Company and (2) the Company's capital and surplus to be stated on the Company's books of account after giving effect to such payment; provided however that any moneys deposited in to any sinking fund and not in violation of this clause (vi) may thereafter be applied to the purchase or redemption of such preferred stock or preferred stock A in accordance with the terms of such sinking fund without regard to the foregoing restrictions.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______8.0% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company exercises its option elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring on the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or otherwise issuable with respect to rights such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in the futurecash as provided in Section 5.11.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Florida Power & Light Co)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory self‑regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______5.279% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day 360‑day year consisting of twelve 30-day 30‑day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued 41 thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Florida Power & Light Co)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is 41 47 required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior Any Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, so deferred shall, to the expiration of any Deferral Periodextent permitted by law, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue thereon at the rate of ______8.75% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-360 day year consisting of twelve 30-30 day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral PeriodSection. No Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company exercises its option elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, thenif any, on the Purchase Contracts until a Payment Date prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, then all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be payable to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in lieu of a cash payment a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring on the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or otherwise issuable with respect to rights such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in the futurecash as provided in Section 5.10.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Kaufman & Broad Home Corp)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory self‑regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______6.123% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day 360‑day year consisting of twelve 30-day 30‑day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Share Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of [______]% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-360 day year consisting of twelve 30-30 day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Share Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date, as the case may be). If the Share Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Share Purchase Contracts until the Share Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Share Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Share Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.10. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing (other than:
than (i) purchasesredemptions, redemptions purchases or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with the satisfaction by the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants directors or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred such event requiring the Company to purchaseredeem, redeem purchase or acquire its capital stock,
, (ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
, (iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s 's capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contractsstock) or
or (viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Samples: Share Purchase Contract Agreement (Firstenergy Corp)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company exercises its option right to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make other distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are is deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock stock, or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries its subsidiaries, for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness, or the indebtedness of one of its subsidiaries, for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or securities of the security Company or one of its subsidiaries being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or of securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock stock) and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) , or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Florida Power & Light Co)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory self‑regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______4.872% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day 360‑day year consisting of twelve 30-day 30‑day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.accrued
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Florida Power & Light Co)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. (a) The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferreddeferred shall, to the extent permitted by law, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue thereon at the rate of ______6.95% per annum year (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-twelve-30 day months), compounding compounded quarterly on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral PeriodSection. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate.
(b) In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until a Payment Date prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, then all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be payable to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date.
(c) In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in lieu of a cash payment a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value.
(d) No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash equal to the fraction of a share times the Applicable Market Value as provided in Section 5.11 hereof.
(e) In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not, and shall not permit its Subsidiaries to, declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its the Company's capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants officers or agents directors or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of the Company exercises its right to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,Payments;
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,;
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,;
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), ) or repurchases, acquisitions or redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with exchange for or out of the issuance or exchange net cash proceeds of the sale of the Company's capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) orstock);
(viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future; or
(vi) mandatory sinking fund payments with respect to any series of preferred stock of the Company; provided that the aggregate stated value of all such series outstanding at the time of such payment does not exceed 5% of the aggregate value of (1) the total principal amount of all then outstanding bonds or other securities representing secured indebtedness issued or assumed by the Company and (2) the Company's capital and surplus to be stated on the Company's books of account after giving effect to such payment; provided however that any moneys deposited in to any sinking fund and not in violation of this clause (vi) may thereafter be applied to the purchase or redemption of such preferred stock in accordance with the terms of such sinking fund without regard to the foregoing restrictions.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Gabelli Asset Management Inc)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory self‑regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______5.599% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day 360‑day year consisting of twelve 30-day 30‑day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, provided that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, except that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s 's subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s 's indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s 's capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______8.50% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.11. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
than (i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants directors or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred such event requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
, (ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
, (iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s 's capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contractsstock) or
or (viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Florida Power & Light Co)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Second Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment a date no later than the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (a “Deferral Period”)next succeeding the date such deferral commences, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least 39 ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______8.75% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-360 day year consisting of twelve 30-30 day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, Payments together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, Payments shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, next succeeding the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be)date such deferral commences. If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the next succeeding Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on such Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the applicable Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on a Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.10. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing (other than:
than (i) purchases, redemptions purchases or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations under any employment contract, employee or agent benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, plans or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred such event requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire purchase its capital stock,
, (ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
, (iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s 's capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), ) or repurchases, repurchases or redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with solely from the issuance or exchange of capital stock or (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contractsv) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges redemptions or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the futureplan).
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferreddeferred shall, to the extent permitted by law, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue thereon at the rate of ______7.625% per annum year (computed on the basis of a 360-360 day year consisting of twelve 30-30 day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral PeriodSection. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until a Payment Date prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, then all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be payable to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in lieu of a cash payment a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.11. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, Payments then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not, and shall not permit its Subsidiaries to, declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its the Company's capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants officers or agents directors or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of the Company exercises its right to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,Payments;
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,;
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,;
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), ) or repurchases, acquisitions or redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with exchange for or out of the issuance or exchange net cash proceeds of the sale of the Company's capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) orstock);
(viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future; or
(vi) mandatory sinking fund payments with respect to any series of preferred stock of the Company; provided that the aggregate stated value of all such series outstanding at the time of such payment does not exceed 5% of the aggregate of (1) the total principal amount of all then outstanding bonds or other securities representing secured indebtedness issued or assumed by the Company and (2) the Company's capital and surplus to be stated on the Company's books of account after giving effect to such payment; provided however that any moneys deposited in to any sinking fund and not in violation of this clause (vi) may thereafter be applied to the purchase or redemption of such preferred stock in accordance with the terms of such sinking fund without regard to the foregoing restrictions.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Electronic Data Systems Corp /De/)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______8.125% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-360 day year consisting of twelve 30-30 day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.10. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing (other than:
than (i) purchasesredemptions, redemptions purchases or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with the satisfaction by the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants directors or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred such event requiring the Company to purchaseredeem, redeem purchase or acquire its capital stock,
, (ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
, (iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s 's capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contractsstock) or
or (viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE New York Stock Exchange or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, deferred shall bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue thereon at the rate of ______% per annum (computed on the basis (i) for any full quarterly period on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day monthsmonths and (ii) for any period shorter than a full quarterly period, on the basis of a 30-day month and for periods less than a month, the actual number of days elapsed per 30-day period), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, Payments together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future."
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (K N Capital Trust Iii)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-360 day year consisting of twelve 30-30 day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.10. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing (other than:
than (i) purchasesredemptions, redemptions purchases or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with the satisfaction by the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants directors or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred such event requiring the Company to purchaseredeem, redeem purchase or acquire its capital stock,
, (ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
, (iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s 's capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contractsstock) or
or (viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior Any Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, so deferred shall, to the expiration of any Deferral Periodextent permitted by law, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue thereon at the rate of ______8.00% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-360 day year consisting of twelve 30-30 day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral PeriodSection. No Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, on the Purchase Contracts until a Payment Date prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, then all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be payable to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants officers or agents directors or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,such event;
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,;
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,;
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), ) or repurchases, acquisitions or redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s our capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) orstock);
(viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future); or
(vi) mandatory sinking fund payments with respect to any series of preferred stock or preferred stock A of the Company; provided that the aggregate stated value of all such series outstanding at the time of such payment does not exceed 5% of the aggregate of (1) the total principal amount of all then outstanding bonds or other securities representing secured indebtedness issued or assumed by the Company and (2) the Company's capital and surplus to be stated on the Company's books of account after giving effect to such payment; provided however that any moneys deposited into any sinking fund and not in violation of this clause (vi) may thereafter be applied to the purchase or redemption of such preferred stock or preferred stock A in accordance with the terms of such sinking fund without regard to the foregoing restrictions.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory self‑regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to DB1/ 116094647.1 such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______6.219% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day 360‑day year consisting of twelve 30-day 30‑day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are DB1/ 116094647.1 terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Florida Power & Light Co)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______8.375% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, provided that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a an Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, except that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants directors or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, provided that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, except that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Florida Power & Light Co)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______8% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to and to the extent provided in this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination EventEvent or as a result of an Early Settlement or Cash Merger Early Settlement, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.10. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its the Company's capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to any of the foregoing Company's capital stock other than:
than (i) purchasesredemptions, redemptions purchases or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants directors or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred such event requiring the Company to purchaseredeem, redeem purchase or acquire its capital stock,
, (ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
, (iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s 's capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stockstock of the Company), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock of the Company (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contractsstock) or
or (viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan of the Company or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Great Plains Energy Inc)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior Any Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, so deferred shall, to the expiration of any Deferral Periodextent permitted by law, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue thereon at the rate of ______% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-360 day year consisting of twelve 30-30 day months), compounding on each succeeding succeed ing Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral PeriodSection. No Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.the
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Forward Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferreddeferred shall, to the extent permitted by law, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue thereon at the rate of ______7.75% per annum year (computed on the basis of a 360-360 day year consisting of twelve 30-30 day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral PeriodSection. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Forward Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date, as the case may be). If the Forward Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Forward Purchase Contracts until a Payment Date prior to the Forward Purchase Contract Settlement Date, then all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be payable to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Forward Purchase Contracts until the Forward Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Forward Purchase Contract Settlement Date in lieu of a cash payment a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Forward Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.11. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, Payments then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not, and shall not permit its Subsidiaries to, declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its the Company's capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants officers or agents directors or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of the Company exercises its right to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,Payments;
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,;
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,;
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), ) or repurchases, acquisitions or redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with exchange for or out of the issuance or exchange net cash proceeds of the sale of the Company's capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) orstock);
(viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future; or
(vi) mandatory sinking fund payments with respect to any series of preferred stock of the Company; provided that the aggregate stated value of all such series outstanding at the time of such payment does not exceed 5% of the aggregate of (1) the total principal amount of all then outstanding bonds or other securities representing secured indebtedness issued or assumed by the Company and (2) the Company's capital and surplus to be stated on the Company's books of account after giving effect to such payment; provided however that any moneys deposited in to any sinking fund and not in violation of this clause (vi) may thereafter be applied to the purchase or redemption of such preferred stock in accordance with the terms of such sinking fund without regard to the foregoing restrictions.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. (a) The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferreddeferred shall, to the extent permitted by law, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue thereon at the rate of ______[ ]% per annum year (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-twelve-30 day months), compounding on compounded quarterly up to but not including each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral PeriodSection. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate.
(b) In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until a Payment Date prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, then all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be payable to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date.
(c) In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in lieu of a cash payment a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value.
(d) No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash equal to the fraction of a share times the Applicable Market Value as provided in Section 5.11 hereof.
(e) In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not, and shall not permit its Subsidiaries to, declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its the Company's capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants officers or agents directors or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of the Company exercises its right to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,Payments;
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,;
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,;
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), ) or repurchases, acquisitions or redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with exchange for or out of the issuance or exchange net cash proceeds of the sale of the Company's capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) orstock);
(viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future; or
(vi) mandatory sinking fund payments with respect to any series of preferred stock of the Company; provided that the aggregate stated value of -------- all such series outstanding at the time of such payment does not exceed 5% of the aggregate value of (1) the total principal amount of all then outstanding bonds or other securities representing secured indebtedness issued or assumed by the Company and (2) the Company's capital and surplus to be stated on the Company's books of account after giving effect to such payment; provided however that any moneys deposited in to any sinking fund and not in violation of this clause (vi) may thereafter be applied to the purchase or redemption of such preferred stock in accordance with the terms of such sinking fund without regard to the foregoing restrictions.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______6.25% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-360 day year consisting of twelve 30-30 day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to and to the extent provided in this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination EventEvent or as a result of an Early Settlement or Cash Merger Early Settlement, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.10. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its the Company's capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to any of the foregoing Company's capital stock other than:
than (i) purchasesredemptions, redemptions purchases or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with the satisfaction by the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants directors or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred such event requiring the Company to purchaseredeem, redeem purchase or acquire its capital stock,
, (ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
, (iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s 's capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stockstock of the Company), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock of the Company (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contractsstock) or
or (viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or of the declaration Company or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior Any Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, so deferred shall, to the expiration of any Deferral Periodextent permitted by law, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue thereon at the rate of ______% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-360 day year consisting of twelve 30-30 day months), compounding on each succeeding succeed ing Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral PeriodSection. No Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, on the Purchase Contracts until a Payment Date prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, then all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be payable to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date. 41 In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in lieu of a cash payment a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.10. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing (other than:
than (i) purchases, redemptions purchases or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations under any employment contract, employee benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, plans or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred such event requiring the Company to purchasepurchase capital stock of the Company, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
, (iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), ) or repurchases, repurchases or redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with solely from the issuance or exchange of capital stock or (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contractsv) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges redemptions or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future).
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. (a) The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferreddeferred shall, to the extent permitted by law, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue thereon at the rate of ______7.75% per annum year (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-twelve-30 day months), compounding on compounded quarterly up to but not including each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral PeriodSection. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate.
(b) In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until a Payment Date prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, then all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be payable to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date.
(c) In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in lieu of a cash payment a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value.
(d) No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash equal to the fraction of a share times the Applicable Market Value as provided in Section 5.11 hereof.
(e) In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not, and shall not permit its Subsidiaries to, declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its the Company's capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants officers or agents directors or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of the Company exercises its right to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,Payments;
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,;
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,;
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), ) or repurchases, acquisitions or redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with exchange for or out of the issuance or exchange net cash proceeds of the sale of the Company's capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) orstock);
(viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future; or
(vi) mandatory sinking fund payments with respect to any series of preferred stock of the Company; provided that the -------- aggregate stated value of all such series outstanding at the time of such payment does not exceed 5% of the aggregate value of (1) the total principal amount of all then outstanding bonds or other securities representing secured indebtedness issued or assumed by the Company and (2) the Company's capital and surplus to be stated on the Company's books of account after giving effect to such payment; provided however that any moneys deposited in to any sinking fund and not in violation of this clause (vi) may thereafter be applied to the purchase or redemption of such preferred stock in accordance with the terms of such sinking fund without regard to the foregoing restrictions.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______6.926% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early DB1/ 132079547.5 Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company exercises its option right to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make other distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are is deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock stock, or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries its subsidiaries, for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness, or the indebtedness of one of its subsidiaries, for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,, 42 DB1/ 132079547.5
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or securities of the security Company or one of its subsidiaries being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or of securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock stock) and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) , or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Florida Power & Light Co)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory self‑regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______6.371% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day 360‑day year consisting of twelve 30-day 30‑day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, provided that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, except that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory self‑regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______5.889% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day 360‑day year consisting of twelve 30-day 30‑day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, provided that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, except that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s 's subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s 's indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s 's capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”), but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Period) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory self‑regulatory organization or to Holders of the Units, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______5.799% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day 360‑day year consisting of twelve 30-day 30‑day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, provided that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, except that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(v) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) or
(vi) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior to the expiration of any Deferral Period, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue at the rate of ______% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral Period. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section 5.10. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
than (i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants directors or agents or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred such event requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,
, (ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,
, (iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s 's capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), or repurchases, redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s 's capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contractsstock) or
or (viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (FPL Group Capital Inc)
Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments. The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, otherwise payable on any Payment Date to any subsequent Payment Date (a “Deferral Period”)Date, but only if the Company shall give the Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent written notice of its election to defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred and the expected Deferral Perioddeferred) at least ten Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, to the NYSE or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders of the UnitsSecurities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to such Record Date. Prior Any Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, so deferred shall, to the expiration of any Deferral Periodextent permitted by law, the Company may further extend such Deferral Period to any subsequent Payment Date, but not beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). In connection with any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred, bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments on the amounts so deferred will accrue thereon at the rate of ______[ ] % per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-360 day year consisting of twelve 30-30 day months), compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the accrued additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the “"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments”"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section 5.3. At the end of each Deferral Period, including as the same may be extended pursuant to this Section 5.3, or, in the event of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, on the Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments then due in the manner set forth in Section 5.2(a) (in the case of the end of a Deferral Period), in the manner set forth in Section 5.9 (in the case of an Early Settlement) or in the manner set forth in Section 5.6(b) (in the case of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement) to the extent such amounts are not deducted from the amount otherwise payable by the Holder in the case of a Cash Settlement, any Early Settlement or any Fundamental Change Early Settlement. In the event of an Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled early through the Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. In the event of a Fundamental Change Early Settlement, the Company shall pay all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments due on the Purchase Contracts being settled on the Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date to but excluding such Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date, to the extent such amounts are not deducted as described above. At the end of the Deferral Period and the payment of all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and all accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments then due, the Company may commence a new Deferral Period, provided, that such Deferral Period, together with all extensions thereof, may not extend beyond the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or any applicable Early Settlement Date or Fundamental Change Early Settlement Date). Except in the case of an Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement, no Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due and payable during a Deferral Period except at the end thereof, provided, that prior to the end of such Deferral Period, the Company, at its option, may prepay on any Payment Date all or any portion of the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued during the then elapsed portion of such Deferral PeriodSection. No Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or, with respect to Purchase Contracts for which Early Settlement or Fundamental Change Early Settlement has occurred, the Early Settlement Date or the Fundamental Change Early Settlement and no such deferral period may end other than on a Payment Date, as the case may be). If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder’s 's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments Payments, if any, and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate. In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, on the Purchase Contracts until a Payment Date prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, then all Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be payable to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding such Payment Date. In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing other than:
(i) purchases, redemptions or acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants officers or agents directors or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that payment of Contract Adjustment Payments are deferred requiring the Company to purchase, redeem or acquire its capital stock,such event;
(ii) as a result of a reclassification of the Company’s 's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of all or a portion of one class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock or the capital stock of one of the Company’s subsidiaries for another class or series of the Company’s 's capital stock,;
(iii) any exchange, redemption or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock,
(iv) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s 's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of the Company’s such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, or in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts,;
(viv) dividends or other distributions paid or made in capital stock of the Company (or rights to acquire capital stock), ) or repurchases, acquisitions or redemptions or acquisitions of capital stock in connection with the issuance or exchange of capital stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Company’s our capital stock and distributions in connection with the settlement of stock purchase contracts) orstock);
(viv) redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or other distribution of or with respect to rights in the future); or
(vi) mandatory sinking fund payments with respect to any series of preferred stock or preferred stock A of the Company; provided that the aggregate stated value of all such series outstanding at the time of such payment does not exceed 5% of the aggregate of (1) the total principal amount of all then outstanding bonds or other securities representing secured indebtedness issued or assumed by the Company and (2) the Company's capital and surplus to be stated on the Company's books of account after giving effect to such payment; provided however that any moneys deposited into any sinking fund and not in violation of this clause (vi) may thereafter be applied to the purchase or redemption of such preferred stock or preferred stock A in accordance with the terms of such sinking fund without regard to the foregoing restrictions.
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