Devotion of Time The Directors shall not be obligated and shall not be expected to devote all of their time or business efforts to the affairs of the Company (except, to the extent appropriate, in their capacity as employees of the Company).
Allocation of Time and Energies The Consultant hereby promises to perform and discharge faithfully the responsibilities which may be assigned to the Consultant from time to time by the officers and duly authorized representatives of the Company in connection with the conduct of its financial and public relations and communications activities, so long as such activities are in compliance with applicable securities laws and regulations. Consultant and staff shall diligently and thoroughly provide the consulting services required hereunder. Although no specific hours-per-day requirement will be required, Consultant and the Company agree that Consultant will perform the duties set forth herein above in a diligent and professional manner. The parties acknowledge and agree that a disproportionately large amount of the effort to be expended and the costs to be incurred by the Consultant and the benefits to be received by the Company are expected to occur within or shortly after the first two months of the effectiveness of this Agreement. It is explicitly understood that neither the price of the Company's common stock, nor the trading volume of the Company's common stock hereunder measure Consultant's performance of its duties. It is also understood that the Company is entering into this Agreement with Consultant, a corporation and not any individual member or employee thereof, and, as such, Consultant will not be deemed to have breached this Agreement if any member, officer or director of the Consultant leaves the firm or dies or becomes physically unable to perform any meaningful activities during the term of the Agreement, provided the Consultant otherwise performs its obligations under this Agreement.
Operation of the Business Except as set forth on Section 10.1 of the Sentech Disclosure Schedule, as contemplated by this Agreement or as expressly agreed to in writing by Sensec and Ensec, during the period from the date of this Agreement to the Effective Time, Sentech and its Subsidiaries will conduct their operations only in the ordinary course of business consistent with sound financial, operational and regulatory practice, and will take no action which would materially adversely affect their ability to consummate the Transactions. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement or except as disclosed in the Sentech Disclosure Schedule, prior to the Effective Time, neither Sentech nor any of its Subsidiaries will, without the prior written consent of Sensec and Ensec: (a) amend its Charter Documents or bylaws (or similar organizational documents); (b) authorize for issuance, issue, sell, deliver, grant any options for, or otherwise agree or commit to issue, sell or deliver any shares of its capital stock or any other securities, other than pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of any Existing Options or Sentech Warrants listed on the Sentech Disclosure Schedule; (c) recapitalize, split, combine or reclassify any shares of its capital stock; declare, set aside or pay any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, stock or property or any combination thereof) in respect of its capital stock; or purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any of its or its Subsidiaries' securities or modify any of the terms of any such securities; (d) (i) create, incur, assume or permit to exist any long-term debt or any short-term debt for borrowed money other than under existing notes payable, lines of credit or other credit facilities or in the ordinary course of business, or with respect to its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business; (ii) assume, guarantee, endorse or otherwise become liable or responsible (whether directly, contingently or otherwise) for the obligations of any other Person except its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business or as otherwise may be contractually required and disclosed in the Sentech Disclosure Schedule; or (iii) make any loans, advances or capital contributions to, or investments in, any other Person except its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries; (i) amend any Sentech Benefit Plan or (ii) except in the ordinary course of business consistent with usual practice or established policy (a) increase in any manner the rate of compensation of any of its directors, officers or other employees everywhere, except for increases in the ordinary course of business; (b) pay or agree to pay any bonus, pension, retirement allowance, severance or other employee benefit except as required under currently existing Sentech Benefit Plans disclosed in the Sentech Disclosure Schedule or in the ordinary course of business; or (c) amend, terminate or enter into any employment, consulting, severance, change in control or similar agreements or arrangements with any of its directors, officers or other employees; (f) enter into any material agreement, commitment or contract, except agreements, commitments or contracts for the purchase, sale or lease of goods or services in the ordinary course of business; (g) other than in the ordinary course of business, authorize, recommend, propose or announce an intention to authorize, recommend or propose, or enter into any Contract with respect to, any (i) plan of liquidation or dissolution, (ii) acquisition of a material amount of assets or securities, (iii) disposition or Encumbrance of a material amount of assets or securities, (iv) merger or consolidation or (v) material change in its capitalization; (h) change any material accounting or Tax procedure or practice; (i) take any action the taking of which, or knowingly omit to take any action the omission of which, would cause any of the representations and warranties herein to fail to be true and correct in all material respects as of the date of such action or omission as though made at and as of the date of such action or omission; (j) compromise, settle or otherwise modify any material claim or litigation not identified in the Sentech Disclosure Schedule; or (k) commit or agree to do any of the foregoing.
Vendor's Years in Business How many years has the business submitting this proposal been operating in its current capacity and field of work?
Access to Properties and Records (a) CCE shall, and shall cause TPC to, afford to ETP and ETP’s accountants, counsel and representatives full reasonable access during normal business hours throughout the period prior to the Closing Date (or the earlier termination of this Agreement pursuant to Article VII hereof) to all of the properties, books, contracts, commitments and records (including all environmental studies, reports and other environmental records and all pipeline cost-of-service and rate-related studies, reports and records related to TPC and, during such period, shall furnish to ETP all information concerning the business, properties, Liabilities and personnel related to TPC as ETP may request, provided, however, that no investigation or receipt of information pursuant to this Section 5.2 shall affect any representation or warranty of CCE or the conditions to the obligations of ETP. To the extent not located at the offices or properties of TPC as of the Closing Date, as promptly as practicable thereafter, CCE shall deliver, or cause its appropriate Affiliates to deliver to ETP all of the books of accounts, minute books, record books and other records (including safety, health, environmental, maintenance and engineering records and drawings) pertaining to the business operations of TPC and all financial and accounting records related to TPC. Such delivery shall include all work papers, pleadings, testimony, exhibits, spread sheets, research, drafts, memoranda, correspondence and other documents related to the TPC Rate Case (“TPC Rate Case Work Product”). TPC Rate Case Work Product has been and will be prepared in contemplation of litigation, and the use of TPC Rate Case Work Product has been and will be under the control of TPC’s attorneys. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, CCE shall not be obligated to provide to ETP any documents or records relating to litigation and regulatory matters in which TPC is involved to the extent that CCE reasonably believes such documents or records are subject to the attorney-client or other applicable privilege in circumstances in which TPC is not the sole client unless the parties entitled to such attorney-client or other applicable privilege shall consent thereto and enter into an appropriate joint defense agreement for the purpose of preservation of such attorney-client or other applicable privilege. (b) The information contained herein, in the CCE Disclosure Letter or heretofore or hereafter delivered to ETP or its authorized representatives in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall be held in confidence by ETP and its representatives in accordance with the Confidentiality Agreement until the Closing Date with respect to information relating to TPC. Following the Closing Date, CCE shall keep confidential all information related to the business and properties of TPC to the same extent as ETP is obligated to keep such information confidential in accordance with the terms of the Confidentiality Agreement (without regard to the preceding sentence) prior to the Closing Date.
Access to Premises and Records Between the date of this Agreement ------------------------------ and the Closing Date, Seller will give Buyer and its counsel, accountants and other representatives full access during normal business hours upon reasonable notice to all the premises and books and records of the Business and to all the Assets and to the System personnel and will furnish to Buyer and such representatives all such documents, financial information, and other information regarding the Business and the Assets as Buyer from time to time reasonably may request; provided that no such investigation will affect or limit the scope of any of Seller's representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities in this Agreement or any Transaction Document or limit liability for any breach of any of the foregoing.
Condition of the Business (a) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that Seller is not making any representations or warranties whatsoever, express or implied, beyond those expressly given by Seller in Article V hereof (as modified by the Seller Schedules as supplemented or amended), and Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that, except for the representations and warranties contained therein, the Purchased Assets and the Business are being transferred on a “where is” and, as to condition, “as is” basis. Any claims Purchaser may have for breach of representation or warranty shall be based solely on the representations and warranties of Seller set forth in Article V hereof (as modified by the Seller Schedules as supplemented or amended). Purchaser further represents that neither Seller nor any of its Affiliates nor any other Person has made any representation or warranty, express or implied, regarding Seller, the Purchased Assets, the Business or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or as to the accuracy or completeness of any information not expressly set forth in this Agreement and neither Purchaser nor any of its Affiliates has relied on any such express or implied representation or warranty. Purchaser further agrees that none of Seller, any of its Affiliates or any other Person will have or be subject to any liability to Purchaser or any other Person resulting from the distribution to Purchaser or its representatives or Purchaser’s use of, any such information, including any confidential memoranda distributed on behalf of Seller relating to the Business or other publications or data room information provided to Purchaser or its representatives, or any other document or information in any form provided to Purchaser or its representatives in connection with the sale of the Business and the transactions contemplated hereby. Purchaser acknowledges that it has conducted to its satisfaction, its own independent investigation of the Business and, in making the determination to proceed with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, Purchaser has relied on the results of its own independent investigation.
The Business The parties acknowledge that the Company is engaged in the development, marketing and sale of certain proprietary technologies, processes and related products in the areas of chemical detection, technical processes, and technical/business services, and that the Company may also from time to time become or may intend to become engaged in other business endeavors (individually and collectively, the "BUSINESS"). The Company shall be deemed to intend to become engaged in a business endeavor if it has devoted or expended any significant resources, either financial or human resources, towards the proposed endeavor, either in planning or implementing the undertaking of such planned endeavor.
Access to Property Borrower shall permit agents, representatives and employees of Lender to inspect the Property or any part thereof at reasonable hours upon reasonable advance notice.
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