Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company), the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board out of funds legally available for the purpose, dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”), in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred. In the event that the Company at any time (i) declares a dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event. (b) The Company will declare a dividend on the Series C Preferred as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares a dividend on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable. (c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Star Equity Holdings, Inc.), Rights Agreement (Star Equity Holdings, Inc.), Rights Agreement (Star Equity Holdings, Inc.)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock of the Company (the “Preferred Stock”) (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C J Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredJ Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stockcommon stock, par value $0.0001 0.001 per share share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, ) and of any other stock of the Company ranking junior stockto the Series J Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board out of funds of the Company legally available for the purposepayment of dividends, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on the last day of each fiscal quarter of the Company in each year, or such other dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock Board shall approve (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C J Preferred Stock (the “First Dividend Payment Issue Date”), in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 10,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 10,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of the Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredJ Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time after the Issue Date (iA) declares a declare and pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (ivB) issues any shares of its capital stock in effect a reclassification subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C J Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event. In the event the Company shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on the Series J Preferred Stock payable in shares of Series J Preferred Stock, or effect a subdivision, combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Series J Preferred Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Series J Preferred Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Series J Preferred Stock, then in each such case the amount to which holders of shares of Series J Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the first sentence of this Section 2(a) shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Series J Preferred Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Series J Preferred Stock outstanding immediately after such event.
(b) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C J Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (a) of this Section 2 immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each ; and the Company shall pay such dividend or distribution on the Series C J Preferred will be payable immediately prior to Stock before the time at which the related dividend or distribution declared on the Common Stock is paid or set apart; provided, that in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series J Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable, when, as and if declared, on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative, whether or not declared, on outstanding shares of the Series C J Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C J Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C J Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C J Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 sixty (60) calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Securities Purchase Agreement, Rights Agreement (AiAdvertising, Inc.), Securities Purchase Agreement (AiAdvertising, Inc.)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any other series of Preferred Stock or other class of capital stock of the Corporation ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as as, and if declared by the Board of Directors, out of funds the assets of the Corporation legally available for the purposetherefor, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on the last day of each fiscal quarter in each year, or such other dates as are from time to time established for the payment Corporation's Board of dividends on the Common Stock Directors shall approve (each such date being referred to herein in this Designation as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or a fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or 0.01 and (ii) subject the Formula Number (as hereinafter defined) then in effect times the cash dividends then to be paid on each share of Common Stock. In addition, if the Corporation shall pay any dividend or make any distribution on the Common Stock payable in assets, securities or other forms of noncash consideration (other than dividends or distributions solely in shares of Common Stock), then, in each such case, the Corporation shall simultaneously pay or make on each outstanding whole share of Series C Preferred Stock a dividend or distribution in like kind equal to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forthFormula Number then in effect times such dividend or distribution on each share of Common Stock. As used in this Certificate of Amendment and in the Rights Agreement, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends"Formula Number" shall be 100; provided, and 1,000 times however, that if at any time after August 8, 2007 the aggregate per share amount Corporation shall (payable in kindi) of all non-cash dividends, other than a declare or pay any dividend on the Common Stock payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared make any distribution on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred. In the event that the Company at any time (i) declares a dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide (by a stock split or otherwise) the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a larger number of shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine (by a reverse stock split or otherwise) the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of event the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, Formula Number shall be adjusted to a number determined by multiplying the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled Formula Number in effect immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that are outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were are outstanding immediately prior to such eventevent (and rounding the result to the nearest whole number); and provided further, that if at any time after August 8, 2007 the Corporation shall issue any shares of its capital stock in a merger, reclassification or change of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, then in each such event the Formula Number shall be appropriately adjusted to reflect such merger, reclassification or change so that each share of Preferred Stock continues to be the economic equivalent of a Formula Number of shares of Common Stock prior to such merger, reclassification or change.
(b) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C Preferred Stock as provided in Section 2(a) immediately prior to or at the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after same time it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable or distribution solely in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided, however, that in the event no dividend or distribution (other than a dividend or distribution in shares of Common Stock) shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.01 per share on the Series C Preferred will Stock shall nevertheless be payable immediately prior on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. The Corporation's Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock entitled to receive a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date shall be the time at which same as the related record date for any corresponding dividend or distribution on the Common Stock is payableand which shall not be more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for payment thereof.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred Stock from and after the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of original issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Dateof Series C Preferred Stock; provided, in which case however, that dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date that are originally issued after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend on or prior to the next succeeding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date shall begin to accrue and before be cumulative from and after such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in either dividends on shares of which events such dividends will accrue from such Series C Preferred Stock that are originally issued prior to the record date for the determination of holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend on or prior to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment DateDate shall be calculated as if cumulative from and after the last day of the fiscal quarter (or such other Quarterly Dividend Payment Date as the Corporation's Board of Directors shall approve) next preceding the date of original issuance of such shares. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. .
(d) So long as any shares of Series C Preferred Stock are outstanding, no dividends or other distributions shall be declared, paid or distributed, or set aside for payment or distribution, on the Common Stock unless, in each case, the dividend required by this Section 2 to be declared on the Series C Preferred Stock shall have been declared.
(e) The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to receive payment any dividends or other distributions except as provided in this Certificate of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereofAmendment.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (First Montauk Financial Corp), Rights Agreement (First Montauk Financial Corp), Rights Agreement (First Montauk Financial Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the Series C B Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredB Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders shares of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 1 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the CompanyCompany (the "Common Stock"), and of any other stock of the Company junior stockto the Series B Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C B Participating Cumulative Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredB Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time after March 12, 1999 (the "Rights Declaration Date")
(i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C B Participating Cumulative Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Subject to the provisions of paragraph 17 of Section B of this Article Fourth, the Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C B Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series B Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C B Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series B Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C B Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Chubb Corp), Rights Agreement (Chubb Corp), Rights Agreement (Chubb Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any other series of Preferred Stock preferred shares or other class of shares not by its terms ranking prior to the on a parity with, or junior to, this Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the this Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board out of funds legally available for the purposeDirectors, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the this Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”), in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) subject an amount per share equal to the provision for adjustment Formula Number (as hereinafter set forth, 1,000 defined) then in effect times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), dividends declared on the Common Stock A Shares since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share of this Series. In addition, if the Company shall pay any dividend or fraction make any distribution on the A Shares payable in assets, securities or other forms of a noncash consideration (other than dividends or distributions solely in A Shares) then, in each such case, the Company shall simultaneously pay or make on each outstanding share of this Series a dividend or distribution in like kind of the Series C PreferredFormula Number then in effect times such dividend or distribution on each A Share. In As used herein, the event "Formula Number" shall be 100; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Company if at any time the Company shall (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock Voting Shares payable in shares of Common StockVoting Shares or make any distribution on the Voting Shares in Voting Shares, (ii) subdivides subdivide (by a stock split or otherwise) the outstanding shares Voting Shares into a larger number of Common Stock, Voting Shares or (iii) combines combine (by a reverse stock split or otherwise) the outstanding shares of Common Stock Voting Shares into a smaller number of sharesVoting Shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of event the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, Formula Number shall be adjusted to a number determined by multiplying the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled Formula Number in effect immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock Voting Shares that are outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock Voting Shares that were are outstanding immediately prior to such eventevent (and rounding the result to the nearest whole number); and PROVIDED FURTHER, that if at any time the Company shall issue any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification or change of the outstanding Voting Shares (including any such reclassification or change in connection with a merger in which the Company is the surviving corporation), then in each such event the Formula Number shall be appropriately adjusted to reflect such reclassification or change.
(b) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the shares of this Series C Preferred as provided in paragraph (a) above immediately prior to or at the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after same time it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock A Shares (other than a dividend or distribution in A Shares), PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, in the event no dividend or distribution (other than a dividend or distribution in A Shares) shall have been declared on the A Shares during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on this Series shall nevertheless be payable in on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of holders of shares of Common Stock). Each such this Series entitled to receive a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date shall be the same as the record date for any corresponding dividend or distribution on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payableA Shares.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of this Series from and after the Series C Preferred from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of original issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Dateof this Series; PROVIDED, in which case HOWEVER, that dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date which are originally issued after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the this Series C Preferred entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before on or prior to the next succeeding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from and after such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in either dividends on shares of this Series which events such dividends will accrue from such are originally issued prior to the record date for the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Dateshall be calculated as if cumulative from and after the March 1, June 1, September 1 or December 1, as the case may be, next preceding the date of original issuance of such shares. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of this Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. .
(d) The Board may fix a record date for the determination holders of the holders of shares of the this Series C Preferred shall not be entitled to receive payment of a dividend any dividends or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereofother distributions except as provided herein.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Orient Express Hotels LTD), Rights Agreement (Orient Express Hotels LTD), Rights Agreement (Orient Express Hotels LTD)
Dividends and Distributions. (ai) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock preferred stock (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), shares of the Company, common stock and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision provisions for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 10,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 10,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock common stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred. In the event that the Company at any time outstanding
(i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock common stock payable in shares of Common Stockcommon stock, or (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock common stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of common stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of common stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares the Dividend Multiple thereafter applicable to the determination of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to of dividends which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise Stock shall be entitled to receive shall be the Dividend Multiple applicable immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such amount multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock common stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock common stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bii) The Company will Notwithstanding anything else contained in this paragraph (A), the Corporation shall, out of funds legally available for that purpose, declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding this paragraph (A) immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock common stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stockcommon stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the common stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series C A Preferred will Stock shall nevertheless be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payablesuch subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cB) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix in accordance with applicable law a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar such number of days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereofthereof as may be allowed by applicable law.
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Samples: Shareholder Rights Agreement (Fairmarket Inc), Shareholder Rights Agreement (Albany Molecular Research Inc), Shareholder Rights Agreement (Fairmarket Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. If Wabtec shall declare or make any dividend or distribution on the common stock of Wabtec, par value $0.01 per share (athe “Wabtec Common Stock”), including, without limitation, any distribution of cash, stock or other securities, property or rights, options or warrants by way of a dividend, distribution, spin-off, reclassification or other similar transaction, but excluding any dividend or distribution consisting solely of shares of Wabtec Common Stock, holders of Wabtec Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive such dividend or distribution at the same time as, and on a pro rata, as converted, basis with, holders of the Wabtec Common Stock. Except as set forth in the immediately preceding sentence, no dividends will be paid on the Wabtec Preferred Stock. Conversion Shares (or fractional interests therein) Subject of Wabtec Preferred Stock will be automatically converted into the right to receive Wabtec Common Stock upon the (i) sale or other transfer (excluding any bona fide pledge) of such shares (or fractional interests therein) to third parties who are not affiliates of GE, (ii) pro rata distribution to holders of GE common stock or (iii) exchange in an exchange offer with holders of GE common stock by GE of the Wabtec Preferred Stock. Shares (or fractional interests therein) of Wabtec Preferred Stock will not be convertible into Wabtec Common Stock at any time at which they are beneficially owned by GE or its subsidiaries. Upon the acquisition of beneficial ownership of a share (or fractional interests therein) of the Wabtec Preferred Stock by a purchaser, transferee or recipient, such Wabtec Preferred Stock will be automatically converted into the right to receive Wabtec Common Stock at a per share conversion rate equal to the rights quotient of (i) the Preferred Stock Portion, as such term is defined in the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated May 20, 2018, by and among Wabtec, GE, SpinCo and Merger Sub, as amended on January 25, 2019 (the “Merger Agreement”), divided by (ii) 10,000. The conversion rate will be proportionally adjusted in the event of any share split or combination in respect of the holders Wabtec Common Stock or any issuance of any Wabtec Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on Wabtec Common Stock. In connection with such a sale or other transfer, pro rata distribution or exchange offer by GE, (i) the Wabtec Preferred Stock may, at the request of the holder thereof, be subdivided, transferred and distributed in fractional amounts specified by such holder, which fractional amounts need not be identical and may be further aggregated or subdivided at such holder’s request, with the per share conversion rate to be subdivided and/or aggregated accordingly and (ii) Wabtec shall immediately upon registration of such transfer issue to the purchaser, transferee or recipient of the Wabtec Preferred Stock the number of shares of Wabtec Common Stock to which such purchaser, transferee or recipient shall be entitled. No fractional shares of Wabtec Common Stock will be issued upon the conversion of the Wabtec Preferred Stock, and any such fractional shares to which the purchaser, transferee or recipient would otherwise be entitled to receive shall be aggregated by the exchange agent and the whole shares obtained thereby shall be sold on the open market, with the net proceeds thereof to be made available on a pro rata basis. Registration Rights Registration of the Wabtec Preferred Stock, and the Wabtec Common Stock into which the Wabtec Preferred Stock will convert, will be effected as set forth in the Shareholders Agreement to be entered into as of the closing date of the Merger, between Wabtec and GE (the “Shareholders Agreement”). Priority The Wabtec Preferred Stock will rank senior to the Wabtec Common Stock and to all other classes or series of Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred equity securities of Wabtec with respect to dividends all rights upon a liquidation, dissolution or winding up (including, but not limited to, a “Liquidation”). Liquidation Preference In the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock event of the Company)a Liquidation of Wabtec, the holders of shares the Wabtec Preferred Stock would be entitled to receive, for each share of Wabtec Preferred Stock held, an amount of proceeds equal to (x) $100 plus (y) the amount that would be received if the holders of Wabtec Preferred Stock were to receive proceeds on a pro rata, as converted, basis with holders of the Series C Preferred, Wabtec Common Stock. The holders of the Wabtec Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive the amount described in clause (x) prior to and in preference to any distribution of proceeds to the holders of the Wabtec Common Stock. Voting Rights The Wabtec Preferred Stock will have no voting rights, par value $0.0001 per share except as set forth below or as otherwise required by applicable law. The Wabtec Preferred Stock will have class voting rights for amendments to the Wabtec certificate of incorporation or the certificate of designations for the Wabtec Preferred Stock (including those effected by way of merger of Wabtec with another entity) that adversely affect the “Common Stock”)rights, preferences, privileges or powers of the CompanyWabtec Preferred Stock; provided that any amendment that affects all Wabtec Common Stock equally and does not affect the rights, and preferences, privileges or powers of any other junior stockthe Wabtec Preferred Stock except insofar as it so affects the Wabtec Common Stock to be issued on conversion of the Wabtec Preferred Stock will not be deemed to adversely affect the rights, preferences, privileges or powers of the Wabtec Preferred Stock. Optional Redemption The Wabtec Preferred Stock will not be redeemable at the option of Wabtec. No Mandatory Redemption The holders of the Wabtec Preferred Stock will not have a right to require Wabtec to redeem the Wabtec Preferred Stock. Transfer Restrictions The Wabtec Preferred Stock will be entitled to receivetransferrable, when, as and if declared by the Board out of funds legally available for the purpose, dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”), in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter requirements and restrictions set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred. In the event that the Company at any time (i) declares a dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will declare a dividend on the Series C Preferred as provided forth in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares a dividend on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payableShareholders Agreement.
(c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp), Amendment to Agreement and Plan of Merger (Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp), Amendment to Agreement and Plan of Merger (Transportation Systems Holdings Inc.)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 1st day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction fractional share of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or and (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock of the corporation (the “Common Stock”) since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company corporation shall at any time after July 15, 1997 (the “Rights Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall being to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Icu Medical Inc/De), Rights Agreement (Icu Medical Inc/De), Rights Agreement (Icu Medical Inc/De)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)provisions for adjustment hereinafter set forth, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will G Junior Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for ratably with the payment holders of dividends on the Common Stock (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share other junior securities of the Series C Preferred Company, (the “First Dividend Payment Date”), i) cash dividends in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of one hundred (i100) $1.00 or (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividendsdividends declared or paid on the Company's Common Stock, and 1,000 times the aggregate par value $0.001 per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsthe "Common Stock"). In the event the Company shall, other than a dividend payable in shares of at any time after the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series G Junior Preferred Stock, make any distribution on the shares of Common Stock of the Company, whether by way of a dividend or a reclassification of stock, a recapitalization, reorganization or partial liquidation of the Company or otherwise, which is payable in cash or any debt security, debt instrument, real or personal property or any other property (other than cash dividends subject to the immediately preceding sentence, a distribution of shares of Common Stock or other capital stock of the Company or a distribution of rights or warrants to acquire any such share, including any debt security convertible into or exchangeable for any such share, at a price less than the Fair Market Value (as hereinafter defined) of such share), then, and in each such event, the Company shall simultaneously pay on each then outstanding share of Series G Junior Preferred Stock of the Company a distribution, in like kind, of one hundred (100) times such distribution paid on a share of Common Stock (subject to the provisions for adjustment hereinafter set forth). The dividends and distributions on the Series C Preferred. G Junior Preferred Stock to which holders thereof are entitled pursuant to clause (i) of the first sentence of this paragraph and pursuant to the second sentence of this paragraph are hereinafter referred to as "Dividends" and the multiple of such cash and non-cash dividends on the Common Stock applicable to the determination of the Dividends, which shall be one hundred (100) initially but shall be adjusted from time to time as hereinafter provided, is hereinafter referred to as the "Dividend Multiple." In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a after November 9, 2001 declare or pay any dividend or make any distribution on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares or effect a subdivision or split or a combination, consolidation or reverse split of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller greater or lesser number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares the Dividend Multiple thereafter applicable to the determination of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to of Dividends which the holders of shares of the Series C G Junior Preferred would otherwise Stock shall be entitled to receive shall be the Dividend Multiple applicable immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such amount multiplied by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will shall declare a dividend on each Dividend at the Series C Preferred as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after same time it declares a any cash or non-cash dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than in respect of which a Dividend is required to be paid. No cash or non-cash dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution on the Common Stock in respect of which a Dividend is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue required to be paid shall be paid or set aside for payment on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred from the Common Stock unless a Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue in respect of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereonon the Common Stock shall be simultaneously paid, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to or set aside for payment, on the date fixed for the payment thereofSeries G Junior Preferred Stock.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Iparty Corp), Rights Agreement (Iparty Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredB Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), shares of any class or series of stock of the CompanyCorporation ranking junior to the Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock in respect thereof, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 15th day of March, June, September and December, in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or 10.00 and (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 sum of (1) the Adjustment Number (as defined below) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 plus (2) the Adjustment Number times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Corporation (the “Common Stock Stock”), or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), in each case declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredB Junior Participating Preferred Stock. The “Adjustment Number” shall initially be 1,000. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after April 5, 2024 (i) declares a declare and pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Stock or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled Adjustment Number in effect immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount Adjustment Number by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, ; in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Tax Benefits Preservation Plan (CarParts.com, Inc.), Tax Benefits Preservation Plan (CarParts.com, Inc.)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock Shares ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Preferred Shares with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first business day of January, April, July and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Shares, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and plus 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock Shares or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Shares, par value $.01 per share, of the Corporation (the “Common Shares”) since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Shares. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after March 16, 2009 (the “Rights Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares payable in shares of Common StockShares, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common StockShares, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Shares were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Shares as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock Shares (other than a dividend payable in Common Shares); provided, however, that, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Shares during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of Common Stock). Each such any series of Preferred Shares ranking prior to and superior to the Series A Preferred Shares with respect to dividends, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series C A Preferred will Shares shall nevertheless be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payablesuch subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Shares from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesSeries A Preferred Shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Shares entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Shares in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Shares entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Section 382 Rights Agreement (Pulte Homes Inc/Mi/), Section 382 Rights Agreement (Pulte Homes Inc/Mi/)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock (or any other stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C F Junior Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredF Junior Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 .10 per share (the “"Common Stock”"), of the CompanyCorporation, and of any other class of stock ranking junior stockto the Series F Junior Preferred Stock with respect to the payment of dividends, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of January, April, July and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C F Junior Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 1 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredF Junior Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C F Junior Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C F Junior Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1 per share on the Series F Junior Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C F Junior Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C F Junior Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C F Junior Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C F Junior Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Cambrex Corp), Rights Agreement (Cambrex Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock of the Company (the "Preferred Stock") (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 .10 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the Company, Company (the "Common Stock") and of any other stock of the Company ranking junior stockto the Series A Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of January, April, July, and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 10 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)Stock, declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a after September 26, 1996 declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is during the period between any Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $10 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable, when, as and if declared, on such subsequent Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative, whether or not earned or declared, on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Bj Services Co), Rights Agreement (Bj Services Co)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 1st day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 0.10 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Class B Common Stock of the Corporation since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after [—], 2013 (the “Rights Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.10 per share on the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (New Newscorp LLC), Rights Agreement (News Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of shares of any class or series of stock of the Common Corporation ranking junior to the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 10 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 Adjustment Number (as defined below) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 the Adjustment Number times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Stock, par value $.001 per share, of the Corporation (the "Common Stock") since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. The "Adjustment Number" shall initially be 100. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after September 18, 1997 (the "Rights Declaration Date") (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Stock or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled Adjustment Number in effect immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount Adjustment Number by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will declare a dividend on the Series C Preferred as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares a dividend on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Innovative Valve Technologies Inc), Rights Agreement (Innovative Valve Technologies Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders shares of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 6 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the Company, Corporation (the "Common Stock") and of any other stock of the Corporation junior stockto the Series A Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 31 in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Participating Cumulative Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or of otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Stock, since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company at any time event
(i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Participating Cumulative Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series A Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) such shares, unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 50 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Stockholder Protection Rights Agreement (Popular Inc), Stockholder Protection Rights Agreement (Popular Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, A Participating Preferred Stock in preference to the holders of the shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001 0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, Corporation and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”), Stock in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 50.00, or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 one hundred (100) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 one hundred (100) times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-–cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Stock, since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after the close of business on May 20, 2002 (the “Rights Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Stock or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, by reclassification or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)otherwise, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $50.00 per share on the Series A Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, shares of Series A Participating Preferred Stock unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, Date in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Cardima Inc), Rights Agreement (Cardima Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any other series of Preferred Stock or any other shares of preferred stock of the Corporation ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C B Preferred Stock with respect to dividends dividends, each holder of one one-thousandth (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% 1/1000) of a share (a "Unit") of Series A Cumulative Perpetual B Preferred Stock of the Company), the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the that purpose, (i) dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for when and if declared by the payment Board of dividends on Directors of the Corporation in respect of the Common Stock (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”), ") commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction such Unit of a share of the Series C B Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share Unit (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to, subject to the greater provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, the aggregate per share amount of (i) $1.00 or all cash dividends declared on shares of the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date, or, with respect to the first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of a Unit of Series B Preferred Stock, and (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times distributions (payable in kind) on each Dividend Payment Date in an amount per Unit equal to the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount noncash dividends or other distributions (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (Stock, by reclassification or otherwise), ) declared on the shares of Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date orDate, or with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction a Unit of a share of the Series C PreferredB Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after October 30, 1996 (the "Rights Declaration Date"), (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the subdivide outstanding shares of Common Stock, Stock or (iii) combines the combine outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders holder of shares a Unit of the Series C B Preferred would otherwise be Stock was entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of pursuant to the next preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is shall be the number of shares of Common Stock that are outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is shall be the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Units of Series C B Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the shares of Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Gilbert Associates Inc/New), Rights Agreement (Gilbert Associates Inc/New)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 1st day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 0.10 or (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock of the Corporation since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after March 2, 2011 (ithe “Rights Declaration Date”) declares a (A) declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (iiB) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iiiC) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Section 2(a) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.10 per share on the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Family Dollar Stores Inc), Rights Agreement (Family Dollar Stores Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Junior Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the such purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment holders of dividends record on the Common Stock last business day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or and (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock (hereinafter defined) or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Stock, par value $0.75 per share, of the Corporation (the "Common Stock") since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series A Junior Preferred Stock. If the Series C Preferred. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time following February 5, 1996 (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Stock or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying each such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Preferred Stock as provided in paragraph (A) above at the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after time it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cC) No dividend or distribution (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock) shall be paid or payable to the holders of shares of Common Stock unless, prior thereto, all accrued but unpaid dividends to the date of such dividend or distribution shall have been paid to the holders of shares of Series A Junior Preferred Stock.
(D) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Brunswick Corp), Rights Agreement (Brunswick Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (a1) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock Shares ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Shares with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, A Junior Participating Preferred Shares in preference to the holders of the Common Stockcommon shares, par value $0.0001 US$.01 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the CompanyCompany (the "Common Shares"), and of any other junior stock, will shares shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, including capital surplus, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of February, May, August and November in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Shares, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 US$20.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 200 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 200 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock Shares or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Shares, since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Shares. In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares payable in shares of Common StockShares, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common StockShares, (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues issue any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)Shares, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Shares were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iia) and clause (b) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying each such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b2) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Shares as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (1) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock Shares (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common StockShares). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableShares during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of US$20.00 per Series A Junior Participating Preferred Share shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c3) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Shares from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, shares unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Shares entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Shares in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Shares entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Stanley Works), Rights Agreement (Stanley Works LTD)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, if and as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of February, May, August and November in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 0.01 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Stock, par value $.50, of the Company (the "Common Stock") since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time after February 23, 1997 (the "Rights Declaration Date") (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.01 per share on the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Scientific Atlanta Inc), Rights Agreement (Scientific Atlanta Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock of the Company (the "Preferred Stock") (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredPreferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 .0l per share (the “"Common Stock”"), of the Company, Company and of any other stock of the Company ranking junior stockto the Series C Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)and other distributions, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) to, subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock, declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding dividend or distribution declared on the Series C Preferred Stock. In the event the Company shall at any time after *, 1998 declare or pay any dividend on the Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction otherwise than by payment of a share of the Series C Preferred. In the event that the Company at any time (i) declares a dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount per share to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cC) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Investment Agreement (Oxford Health Plans Inc), Investment Agreement (TPG Partners Ii Lp)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any other series of Preferred Stock or any other shares of preferred stock of the Corporation ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends dividends, each holder of one one-thousandth (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% 1/1000) of a share (a "Unit") of Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company), the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the that purpose, (i) dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for when and if declared by the payment Board of dividends on Directors of the Common Stock Corporation in respect of the common stock (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”), ") commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction such Unit of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share Unit (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to, subject to the greater provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, the aggregate per share amount of (i) $1.00 or all cash dividends declared on shares of the common stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date, or, with respect to the first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of a Unit of Series A Preferred Stock, and (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times distributions (payable in kind) on each Dividend Payment Date in an amount per Unit equal to the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount noncash dividends or other distributions (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock common stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (common stock, by reclassification or otherwise), ) declared on the Common Stock shares of common stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date orDate, or with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction a Unit of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after May 1, 1996 (the "Rights Declaration Date"), (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock common stock payable in shares of Common Stockcommon stock, (ii) subdivides the subdivide outstanding shares of Common Stock, common stock or (iii) combines the combine outstanding shares of Common Stock common stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders holder of shares a Unit of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock was entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of pursuant to the next preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is shall be the number of shares of Common Stock common stock that are outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is shall be the number of shares of Common Stock common stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Units of Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock shares of common stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stockcommon stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Liberty Technologies Inc), Rights Agreement (Liberty Technologies Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock (or any other stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”"QUARTERLY DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount (if any) per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) ), subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 equal to 1000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the Common Stock "COMMON STOCK"), of the Corporation or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cC) Dividends will due pursuant to paragraph (A) of this Section shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Applied Science & Technology Inc), Rights Agreement (Applied Science & Technology Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights prior and superior right of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, receive when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of March, June , September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) to, subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock of the Corporation (the "Common Stock") since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after December 15, 2006 (the "Rights Declaration Date")
(i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine or consolidate the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement, Preferred Shares Rights Agreement (Ap Pharma Inc /De/)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C H Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C H Preferred, in preference to the holders of the shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001 .001 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the Company, Corporation ("Common Stock") and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash on the 30th day of each of April, July, October and January in each year (except as otherwise provided belowor, in each case, if not a date on which the Corporation is open for business, the next succeeding business day) or such earlier date in any such month on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of which dividends on the Common Stock are payable (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)H Preferred, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 2.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 400 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 400 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Stock, since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C H Preferred. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after July 10, 1998 (the "Rights Declaration Date")
(i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C H Preferred would otherwise be were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C H Preferred as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (a) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $2.00 per share on the Series H Preferred shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C H Preferred from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series H Preferred, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C H Preferred entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, Date in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C H Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C H Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Barnes & Noble Inc), Rights Agreement (Barnes & Noble Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), shares of any class or series of stock of the CompanyCorporation ranking junior to the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in respect thereof, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 15th day of March, June, September and December, in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater sum of (i1) $1.00 or the Adjustment Number (iias defined below) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 plus (2) the Adjustment Number times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Corporation (the “Common Stock Stock”), or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), in each case declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. The “Adjustment Number” shall initially be 1,000. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after March 10, 2023 (i) declares a declare and pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Stock or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled Adjustment Number in effect immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount Adjustment Number by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will declare a dividend on the Series C Preferred as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares a dividend on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Tax Benefits Preservation Plan (Tetra Technologies Inc), Tax Benefits Preservation Plan (Tetra Technologies Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, A Participating Preferred Stock in preference to the holders of the shares of Common Stock, no par value $0.0001 per share (the “"Common Stock”"), of the Company, Corporation and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”), Stock in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 25.00, or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred. In the event that the Company at any time in
(i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, by reclassification or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)otherwise, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bA) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $25.00 per share on the Series A Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cB) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, shares of Series A Participating Preferred Stock unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, Date in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar thirty (30) days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Network Computing Devices Inc), Rights Agreement (Network Computing Devices Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last business day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to 10,000 times the greater aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends (i) $1.00 or (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends), and 1,000 10,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock (hereinafter defined) or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the common stock, no par value, of the Corporation (the "Common Stock Stock") since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time following December 1, 1999 (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Stock or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying each such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in paragraph (A) above at the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after time it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(c) No dividend or distribution (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock) shall be paid or payable to the holders of shares of Common Stock unless, prior thereto, all accrued but unpaid dividends to the date of such dividend or distribution shall have been paid to the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock.
(d) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Abbott Laboratories), Rights Agreement (Abbott Laboratories)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock Shares ranking prior and superior to the Series C Junior Participating Preferred Shares with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Companyif any), the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will Junior Participating Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 15th day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share Junior Participating Preferred Share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)thereof, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (iX) $1.00 5 or (iiY) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 plus 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsnoncash dividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in common shares of beneficial interest, par value $.01 per share, of the Trust (the "Common Stock Shares") or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Shares, since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share Junior Participating Preferred Share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferredthereof. In the event that the Company Trust shall at any time after May 20, 1997 (the "Rights Declaration Date") (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares payable in shares of Common StockShares, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Shares or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Shares were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iiY) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will Board shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C Junior Participating Preferred Shares as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (a) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock Shares (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common StockShares). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableShares during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $5 per share on the Junior Participating Preferred Shares shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C Junior Participating Preferred Shares from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, Junior Participating Preferred Shares unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Junior Participating Preferred Shares entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Junior Participating Preferred Shares in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Junior Participating Preferred Shares entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not less than 10 and not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Hospitality Properties Trust), Rights Agreement (Hospitality Properties Trust)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company), the The holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors of PharmAthene, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of March, June, September and November in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”) since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time after December 9, 2015 (the “Rights Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the outstanding shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the outstanding shares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar thirty (30) days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Section 382 Rights Agreement (Pharmathene, Inc), Section 382 Rights Agreement (Pharmathene, Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company), the The holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the that purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the "Common Stock") since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredParticipating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time after June 29, 1999 (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) . The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series C Participating Preferred will Stock shall nevertheless be payable immediately prior on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Dividends shall accrue and be deemed to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue from day to day whether or not earned or declared and shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series C Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 45 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Shareholder Rights Agreement (Wyndham International Inc), Shareholder Rights Agreement (Wyndham International Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C F Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredF Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, $.01 par value $0.0001 per share (the “"Common Stock”"), of the Company------------ Corporation, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors, out of funds of the Corporation legally available for the purposepayment of dividends, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), ------------------------------- commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C F Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredF Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common StockStock or effect a subdivision, (ii) subdivides combination or consolidation of the outstanding Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C F Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C F Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each ) and the Corporation shall pay such dividend or distribution on the Series C F Junior Participating Preferred will be payable immediately prior to Stock before the time at which the related dividend or distribution declared on the Common Stock is payablepaid or set apart; provided, however, that, in the event no dividend or -------- ------- distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series F Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C F Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series F Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C F Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C F Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-share- by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C F Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Marcam Corp), Rights Agreement (Marcam Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any other series of Preferred Stock or any other shares of preferred stock of the Corporation ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends dividends, each holder of one one-thousandth (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% 1/1000) of a share (a "Unit") of Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company), the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the that purpose, (i) dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for when and if declared by the payment Board of dividends on Directors of the Corporation in respect of the Common Stock (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”), ") commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction such Unit of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share Unit (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to, subject to the greater provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, the aggregate per share amount of (i) $1.00 or all cash dividends declared on shares of the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date, or, with respect to the first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of a Unit of Series A Preferred Stock, and (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times distributions (payable in kind) on each Dividend Payment Date in an amount per Unit equal to the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount noncash dividends or other distributions (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (Stock, by reclassification or otherwise), ) declared on the Common Stock shares of common stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date orDate, or with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction a Unit of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after October 30, 1996 (the "Rights Declaration Date"), (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stockcommon stock, (ii) subdivides the subdivide outstanding shares of Common Stock, Stock or (iii) combines the combine outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders holder of shares a Unit of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock was entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of pursuant to the next preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is shall be the number of shares of Common Stock that are outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is shall be the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Units of Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the shares of Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Gilbert Associates Inc/New), Rights Agreement (Gilbert Associates Inc/New)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in preference to the holders of the shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001 1.00 per share (the “"Common Stock”"), of the Company, Corporation and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on the last day of each fiscal quarter of the Corporation in each year or such other dates as are from time to time established for the payment Board of dividends on Directors of the Common Stock Corporation shall approve (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”), Stock in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 18.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after November 24, 1995 (the "Rights Declaration Date") (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide (by a stock split or otherwise) the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine (by a reverse stock split or otherwise) the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in paragraph (A) above at the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after time it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $18.00 per share on the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) So long as any shares of the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock are outstanding, no dividends or other distributions shall be declared, paid or distributed, or set aside for payment or distribution, on the Common Stock unless, in each case, the dividend required by this Section 2 to be declared on the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall have been declared.
(D) The holders of the shares of the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to receive any dividends or other distributions except as provided herein.
(E) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, shares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, Date in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Annual Report, Annual Report
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock of the Company (the "Preferred Stock") (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 .01 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the Company, Company (the "Common Stock") and of any other stock of the Company ranking junior stockto the Series A Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of January, April, July, and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 10 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)Stock, declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a after October 17, 1996 declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is during the period between any Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $10 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable, when, as and if declared, on such subsequent Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative, whether or not earned or declared, on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Acnielsen Corp), Rights Agreement (Acnielsen Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock, par value $.001 per share (the "Preferred Stock"), of the Company or Preferred Stock (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C E Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredE Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 .001 per share (the “"Common Stock”"), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of January, April, July and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C E Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 1 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredE Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C E Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will declare a dividend on the Series C Preferred as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares a dividend on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cB) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C E Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C E Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C E Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C E Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Lasersight Inc /De), Rights Agreement (Lasersight Inc /De)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, Preferred Stock in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other stock of the Corporation ranking junior stock, will to the Series C Preferred Stock with respect to dividends shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board out of funds legally available for the that purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 1st day of March, June, September and December (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 0.001 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Stock, since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredPreferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after May 12, 2009 (the “Rights Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.001 per share on the Series C Preferred will Stock shall nevertheless be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payablesuch subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series C Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar sixty (60) days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Polymedix Inc), Rights Agreement (Polymedix Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock of the Company (the "Preferred Stock") (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 .01 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the Company, Company (the "Common Stock") and of any other stock of the Company ranking junior stockto the Series A Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the such purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of February, May, August, and November in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 1 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)Stock, declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a after April 20, 1998, declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided, that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is during the period between any Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable, when, as and if declared, on such subsequent Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative, whether or not earned or declared, on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Associates First Capital Corp), Rights Agreement (Associates First Capital Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment August 31, November 30, February 28, and May 31 of dividends on the Common Stock each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 .01 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Stock, par value $.001 per share, of the Corporation (the “Common Stock”) since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after May 12, 2003 (the “Rights Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar thirty (30) days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Liberate Technologies), Rights Agreement (Liberate Technologies)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series R Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredR Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), shares of any class or series of stock of the CompanyCorporation ranking junior to the Series R Preferred Stock in respect thereof, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, regular quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates each year as are from time to time established for designated by the payment Board of dividends on the Common Stock Directors (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a any share or fraction of a share of the Series C R Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or and (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 Multiplier Number times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, dividends or other distributions and 1,000 the Multiplier Number times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions (other than (A) a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Corporation (the “Common Stock Stock”) or (B) a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series R Preferred Stock. As used herein, the Series C Preferred. In the event “Multiplier Number” shall be 1,000,000; provided that the Company if, at any time (i) declares a dividend on after June 9, 2009, there shall be any change in the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides whether by reason of stock dividends, stock splits, reverse stock splits, recapitalization, mergers, consolidations, combinations or exchanges of securities, split-ups, split-offs, spin-offs, liquidations or other similar changes in capitalization, or any distribution or issuance of shares of its capital stock in a merger, share exchange, reclassification, or change of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless event the Board of whether any shares Directors shall adjust the Multiplier Number to the extent appropriate such that following such adjustment each share of Series R Preferred Stock shall be in the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately same economic position as prior to such event.
(b) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C R Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Section 2(a) immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a as described in Sections 2(a)(ii)(A) and 2(a)(ii)(B)); provided that if no dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date (or, with respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, the period between the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series R Preferred Stock and such first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date), a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series R Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C R Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next immediately preceding the date of issue issuance of such sharesshares of Series R Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue issuance of such shares is prior to on or before the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C R Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and on or before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such case dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C R Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C R Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall not be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Exchange Agreement (Citigroup Inc), Exchange Agreement (Citigroup Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, $.01 par value $0.0001 per share (and Class A Stock, $.01 par value per share collectively the “"Common Stock”"), of the CompanyCorporation, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors, out of funds of the Corporation legally available for the purposepayment of dividends, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock January 31, April 30, July 31 and October 31 in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common StockStock or effect a subdivision, (ii) subdivides combination or consolidation of the outstanding Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each ) and the Corporation shall pay such dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred will be payable immediately prior to Stock before the time at which the related dividend or distribution declared on the Common Stock is payablepaid or set apart; provided, however, that, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have -------- ------- been declared on the Common Stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-share- by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Cytyc Corp), Rights Agreement (Cytyc Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock of the Company (the "Preferred Stock") (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 .01 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the Company, Company (the "Common Stock") and of any other stock of the Company ranking junior stockto the Series A Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of January, April, July, and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 10 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)Stock, declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a after June 3, 1998 declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is during the period between any Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $10 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable, when, as and if declared, on such subsequent Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative, whether or not earned or declared, on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (New Dun & Bradstreet Corp), Rights Agreement (New Dun & Bradstreet Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any class or series of Preferred Stock preferred shares of the Corporation ranking prior and superior to the Series C B Preferred Shares with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will B Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the such purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment holders of dividends record on the Common Stock last Business Day of January, April, July and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), ) (commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share Series B Preferred Share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”), thereof) in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 0.01 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock Shares (hereinafter defined) or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares (by a reclassification or otherwise), declared authorized on the shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, and the shares of non-voting common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Corporation (collectively, the “Common Stock Shares”) since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share Series B Preferred Share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferredthereof. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time following September 23, 2019 (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares payable in shares of Common StockShares, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Shares or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C B Preferred would otherwise be Shares were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying each such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C B Preferred Shares as provided in paragraph (A) above at the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after time it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock Shares (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common StockShares). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cC) No dividend or distribution (other than a dividend or distribution payable in Common Shares) shall be paid or payable to the holders of Common Shares unless, prior thereto, all accrued but unpaid dividends to the date of that dividend or distribution shall have been paid to the holders of Series B Preferred Shares.
(D) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C B Preferred Shares from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue issuance of such sharesSeries B Preferred Shares, unless (i) the date of issue issuance of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue issuance is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Preferred Shares entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C B Preferred Shares in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Preferred Shares entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Agreement and Plan of Merger (Broadway Financial Corp \De\), Rights Agreement (Broadway Financial Corp \De\)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the rights of the The holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company), the holders record of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share D Preferred Stock (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, "Holders") will be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board out of funds legally available for the purpose, dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of cumulative dividends on their shares at an annual rate of 4.5% (the Common Stock (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share Rate") of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Accrued Liquidation Preference, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferredcompounding monthly. In the event that the Company at any time (i) declares a dividend Dividends on the outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year, shall accrue daily commencing on the respective dates of original issue of such shares (which dates shall be reflected on the certificates evidencing the same), and shall be deemed to accrue from such date whether or not earned or declared and whether or not there are profits, surplus or other funds of the Corporation legally available for the payment of dividends. Accrued dividends shall not be payable by the Corporation periodically (in cash or otherwise) while Series D Preferred Stock is outstanding. In lieu of such periodic payment, the amount of accrued dividends per share of Series D Preferred Stock shall be added to the Accrued Liquidation Preference of that share on the last day of each month (such amount will accrue further dividends each month in accordance with this Section 3(a)).
(b) If the Corporation, during any fiscal quarter of the Corporation while Series D Preferred Stock is outstanding, distributes or pays as a dividend to holders of Common Stock payable (i) evidences of its indebtedness, (ii) any security (including a distribution of Common Stock), (iii) rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any security, except for any rights issued in a Rights Offering (as defined below), or (iv) any other asset (including, without limitation, cash) (the "Distributed Property"), in an aggregate amount (as determined below) greater than the amount of dividends that otherwise would have accrued on shares of Series D Preferred Stock during such quarter under Section 3(a), then in each case the Corporation shall simultaneously deliver to each Holder, in lieu of the addition of dividends accrued during such quarter to the Accrued Liquidation Preference pursuant to Section 3(a), the Distributed Property that each such Holder would have been entitled to receive in respect of the number of shares of Common Stock then issuable to such Holder pursuant to Section 7 hereof had the Holder been the record holder of such shares of Common Stock immediately prior to the applicable record or payment date. The amount of the Distributed Property shall equal: (i) in case of cash, the amount of cash so distributed per share of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares in case of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into securities traded on a smaller number of shares, securities exchange or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstandingover-the-counter market, the amount to which Volume Weighted Average Price of a share of such securities on the holders date of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted distribution multiplied by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will declare a dividend on the Series C Preferred as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares a dividend on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares securities distributed per share of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
, and (ciii) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares in case of the Series C Preferred from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, any property other than cash or securities referred in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or clause (ii) above, the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after fair market value thereof as determined in good faith by the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereofBoard.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Goldman Sachs Group Inc/), Credit Agreement (Shaw David E)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series B Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredB Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), shares of any class or series of stock of the CompanyCorporation ranking junior to the Series B Preferred Stock in respect thereof, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, regular quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates each year as are from time to time established for designated by the payment Board of dividends on the Common Stock Directors (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a any share or fraction of a share of the Series C B Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or and (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 Multiplier Number (as defined below) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, dividends or other distributions and 1,000 the Multiplier Number times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions (other than (A) a dividend payable in shares of common stock, no par value, of the Corporation (the “Common Stock Stock”) or (B) a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series B Preferred Stock. As used herein, the Series C Preferred. In the event “Multiplier Number” shall be 1,000,000; provided that the Company if, at any time (i) declares a dividend on after November 18, 2010, there shall be any change in the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides whether by reason of stock dividends, stock splits, reverse stock splits, recapitalization, mergers, consolidations, combinations or exchanges of securities, split-ups, split-offs, spin-offs, liquidations or other similar changes in capitalization, or any distribution or issuance of shares of its capital stock in a merger, share exchange, reclassification, or change of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless event the Board of whether any shares Directors shall adjust the Multiplier Number to the extent appropriate such that following such adjustment each share of Series B Preferred Stock shall be in the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately same economic position as prior to such event.
(b) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C B Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Section 2(a) immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a as described in Sections 2(a)(ii)(A) and 2(a)(ii)(B)); provided that if no dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date (or, with respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, the period between the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series B Preferred Stock and such first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date), a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series B Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C B Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next immediately preceding the date of issue issuance of such sharesshares of Series B Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue issuance of such shares is prior to on or before the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and on or before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such case dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C B Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall not be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Tax Benefits Preservation Plan (Fidelity Southern Corp), Tax Benefits Preservation Plan (Fidelity Southern Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will B Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the that purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of March, June, September and December (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) cent equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 one hundred (100) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 one hundred (100) times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision common stock of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)Corporation, declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred. In the event that the Company at any time $.50 par value
(i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar thirty (30) days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Comstock Resources Inc), Rights Agreement (Comstock Resources Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series B Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredB Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), shares of any class or series of stock of the CompanyCorporation ranking junior to the Series B Preferred Stock in respect thereof, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, regular quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates each year as are from time to time established for designated by the payment Board of dividends on the Common Stock Directors (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a any share or fraction of a share of the Series C B Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or and (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 Multiplier Number (as defined below) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, dividends or other distributions and 1,000 the Multiplier Number times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions (other than (A) a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock, par value $1 per share, of the Corporation (the “Common Stock Stock”) or (B) a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series B Preferred Stock. As used herein, the Series C Preferred. In the event “Multiplier Number” shall be 1,000,000; provided that the Company if, at any time (i) declares a dividend on after April 26, 2010, there shall be any change in the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides whether by reason of stock dividends, stock splits, reverse stock splits, recapitalization, mergers, consolidations, combinations or exchanges of securities, split-ups, split-offs, spin-offs, liquidations or other similar changes in capitalization, or any distribution or issuance of shares of its capital stock in a merger, share exchange, reclassification, or change of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless event the Board of whether any shares Directors shall adjust the Multiplier Number to the extent appropriate such that following such adjustment each share of Series B Preferred Stock shall be in the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately same economic position as prior to such event.
(b) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C B Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Section 2(a) immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a as described in Sections 2(a)(ii)(A) and 2(a)(ii)(B)); provided that if no dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date (or, with respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, the period between the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series B Preferred Stock and such first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date), a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series B Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C B Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next immediately preceding the date of issue issuance of such sharesshares of Series B Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue issuance of such shares is prior to on or before the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and on or before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such case dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C B Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall not be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Shareholder Rights Plan (Synovus Financial Corp), Shareholder Rights Plan (Synovus Financial Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, $.01 par value $0.0001 per share (and Class A Stock, $.01 par value per share ( collectively the “"Common Stock”"), of the CompanyCorporation, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors, out of funds of the Corporation legally available for the purposepayment of dividends, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock January 31, April 30, July 31 and October 31 in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common StockStock or effect a subdivision, (ii) subdivides combination or consolidation of the outstanding Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each ) and the Corporation shall pay such dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred will be payable immediately prior to Stock before the time at which the related dividend or distribution declared on the Common Stock is payablepaid or set apart; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Investors Financial Services Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, A Preferred Stock in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 0.000001 per share (the “Common Stock”"COMMON STOCK"), of the Company, and of any other stock of the Corporation ranking junior stock, will to the Series A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board out of funds legally available for the that purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 1st day of March, June, September and December (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”"QUARTERLY DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 0.001 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Stock, since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after January 21, 2004 (the "RIGHTS DECLARATION DATE") (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.001 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar sixty (60) days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Kitty Hawk Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will B Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock fifteenth day of January, April, July and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 0.01 per share or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 dividends plus 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredB Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after November 19, 2001 (the "Rights Declaration Date"), (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Stock or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Stock immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.01 per share on the Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events events, such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such 2 shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Weight Watchers International Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any class or series of Preferred Stock preferred shares of the Corporation ranking prior and superior to the Series C Participating Preferred Shares with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will Participating Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if authorized and declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment holders of dividends record on the Common Stock last Business Day of January, April, July and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), ") (commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share Participating Preferred Share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”thereof), in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock Class A Shares (as hereinafter defined) or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock Class A Shares (by a reclassification or otherwise), authorized and declared on the shares of Class A Common Stock Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Corporation (the "Class A Shares") or if no Class A Shares are outstanding, two times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 2 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in Class B Shares (as hereinafter defined) or a subdivision of the outstanding Class B Shares (by a reclassification or otherwise), authorized and declared on the shares of Class B Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Corporation ("Class B Shares") since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share Participating Preferred Share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferredthereof. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time following ___________ ___, 1997 (i) declares a declare any dividend on Class A Shares or Class B Shares, as the outstanding shares of Common Stock case may be, payable in shares of Common StockClass A Shares or Class B Shares, as the case may be, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common StockClass A Shares or Class B Shares, as the case may be, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock Class A Shares or Class B Shares, as the case may be, into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Participating Preferred would otherwise be Shares were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying each such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Class A Shares or Class B Shares, as the case may be, outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Class A Shares or Class B Shares, as the case may be, that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will declare At the time that a dividend or distribution is authorized and declared on the Series C Preferred Class A Shares or Class B Shares, as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares a dividend on the Common Stock case may be (other than a dividend payable in shares Class A Shares or Class B Shares, as the case may be), the Board of Common Stock). Each such Directors also shall authorize and declare out of funds legally available for the purpose, and the holders of Participating Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive, when, if and as authorized and declared by the Board of Directors, a dividend or distribution on the Series C Participating Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payableShares as provided in paragraph (A) above.
(cC) No dividend or distribution (other than a dividend or distribution payable in Class A Shares or Class B Shares, as the case may be) shall be paid or payable to the holders of Class A Shares or Class B Shares, as the case may be unless, prior thereto, all accrued but unpaid dividends to the date of that dividend or distribution shall have been paid to the holders of Participating Preferred Shares.
(D) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C Participating Preferred Shares from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue issuance of such sharesParticipating Preferred Shares, unless (i) the date of issue issuance of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue issuance is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Participating Preferred Shares entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Participating Preferred Shares in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Participating Preferred Shares entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), Stock of the Company, Corporation and of any other capital stock ranking junior stockto the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of March, June, September, and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 ($4.00 per annum) or (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after February 5, 2013 (ithe “Rights Dividend Declaration Date”) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares or effect a subdivision, combination or consolidation of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller greater or lesser number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Section 2(a) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided, that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Qualstar Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share (the “Preferred Stock”), of the Company or Preferred Stock (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 .01 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as is a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 1 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forthforth in this Certificate, 1,000 100 times (as adjusted, the “Dividend Multiple”) the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company will at any time (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification in connection with or otherwise) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence Dividend Multiple will be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided, that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution has been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock will nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar sixty (60) days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock of the Corporation (the "Preferred Stock") (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C B Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredB Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 .01 per share of the Corporation (the “"Common Stock”), of the Company, ") and of any other stock of the Corporation ranking junior stockto the Series B Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of January, April, July, and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C B Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 1 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)Stock, declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredB Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time (i) declares a after January 30, 1997, declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C B Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C B Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is during the period between any Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1 per share on the Series B Preferred Stock shall nevertheless A-2 79 be payable, when, as and if declared, on such subsequent Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative, whether or not earned or declared, on outstanding shares of the Series C B Preferred Stock from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C B Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Bowne & Co Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C X Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited towithout limitation, the 10.0% Corporation's Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the Company"SERIES A PREFERRED STOCK"), and Series B Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the "SERIES B PREFERRED STOCK"), as designated prior to the date hereof), the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, X Participating Preferred Stock in preference to the holders of the shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”"COMMON STOCK"), of the Company, Corporation and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”"QUARTERLY DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C X Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”), Stock in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or 25.00 or, (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Stock, since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredX Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after the close of business on July 23, 2003 (the "RIGHTS DECLARATION DATE") (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Stock or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, by reclassification or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)otherwise, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C X Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C X Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; PROVIDED that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $25.00 per share on the Series X Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C X Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, shares of Series X Participating Preferred Stock unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C X Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C X Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C X Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Us Dataworks Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the rights of the holders of Declare, pay or make any dividend or distribution on any shares of the common stock, preferred stock or other equity interests of any series Loan Party (other than dividends or distributions payable in its stock or other equity interests or split-ups or reclassifications of Preferred Stock ranking prior its stock or other equity interests) or apply any of its funds, property or assets to the Series C Preferred purchase, redemption or other retirement of any such common or preferred stock or any other equity interests, except that Loan Parties shall be permitted to pay dividends (i) to Holdings, to pay regularly scheduled interest and regularly scheduled principal on the Senior Notes and regularly scheduled interest on the Subordinated Debt, each to the extent permitted by the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement and the Subordination Agreement, respectively and to repurchase the Capital Stock issued by Holdings, owned by Loan Parties’ employees, directors, former employees or former directors whose employment has terminated or otherwise in connection with respect any compensation or benefit plan, (ii) to dividends Sub-Holdings, to reimburse Sub-Holdings for all out-of-pocket expenses, professional fees, franchise taxes and other ordinary course of business operating expenses incurred by Sub-Holdings solely in its capacity as a parent corporation of Borrowers (including, but not limited towithout limitation the reimbursement by Borrowers of expenses to Sub-Holdings for administrative services rendered by Sub-Holdings to Borrowers, consistent with past practices and payments under employment agreements entered into by Sub-Holdings incurred in the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock ordinary course of business for the Companybenefit of Borrowers), (iii) to fund any management fee payments under the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference Management Agreement to the holders of the Common Stockextent permitted under Section 7.9, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Companyiv) to a Borrower, and of any other junior stock, will be entitled (v) to receive, when, as and its member (if declared by such upper-tier Loan Party is a limited liability company) or shareholder (if such upper-tier Loan Party is a corporation) for a taxable year in an aggregate amount not exceeding the Board out of funds legally available for the purpose, dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time amount sufficient to time established for cover the payment of dividends on the Common Stock portion of the federal, state and local income and franchise tax liability of, or attributable to, such member or shareholder, if any, by reason of its inclusion of the taxable income of its lower-tier Loan Party or Loan Parties for such taxable year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment DateIncreased Tax Burden”). Payments to a member or shareholder shall be made so as to be available when the tax is due, commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance including in respect of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”), in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferredestimated tax payments. In the event the actual distributions or dividends to a member or shareholder exceed such upper-tier Loan Party’s Increased Tax Burden, then such upper-tier member or shareholder or the common parent (“Common Parent”) of the consolidated tax group of which such upper-tier member or shareholder is a member (the “Loan Party Consolidated Group”) shall repay such lower-tier Loan Party the amount of such excess no later than the later of (A) the date the annual Federal income tax return must be filed by the Common Parent of such lower-tier Loan Party (without giving effect to any filing extensions) and (B) in a situation where such Loan Party Consolidated Group is entitled to a tax refund solely attributable to a tax loss realized by the lower-tier Loan Party for such tax year, and only if the tax return on which such refund is claimed is prepared by the Loan Party Consolidated Group in good faith (and correctly in the reasonable judgment of the Agent), two (2) Business Days after such Loan Party Consolidated Group (or any member thereof) receives such refund. All of the foregoing repayments shall be applied to the repayment of principal and/or interest on Revolving Advances and cash collateral as may be required under Section 3.2(b). In the event such amounts are not repaid in a timely manner by the applicable member of the Loan Party Consolidated Group, then Loan Parties shall not pay or make any dividend or distribution with respect to, or purchase, redeem or retire, any limited liability company interests or Capital Stock of any Loan Party held or controlled by, directly or indirectly, such member or shareholder until such payment has been made, provided, however, that both before and after giving effect to the Company at any time (i) declares a dividend on the outstanding shares payment of Common Stock payable such purchases, redemptions and/or dividends in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, clause (iii) combines the outstanding shares above there shall not exist any Event of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, Default or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such eventDefault.
(b) The Company will declare a dividend on the Series C Preferred as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares a dividend on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock of the Company (the "Preferred Stock") (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 .01 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the Company, Company (the "Common Stock") and of any other stock of the Company ranking junior stockto the Series A Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of January, April, July, and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred Stock (the “First Dividend Payment "Issue Date”"), in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 1 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)Stock, declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a after the Issue Date declare and pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is during the period between any Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable, when, as and if declared, on such subsequent Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative, whether or not earned or declared, on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any other series of Preferred Stock or any other shares of stock of the Corporation ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends dividends, each holder of one one-thousandth (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% 1/1000) of a share (a “Unit”) of Series A Cumulative Perpetual B Junior Participating Preferred Stock of the Company), the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the that purpose, and on a pari passu basis with the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Corporation (the “Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock”), (i) quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock second Monday of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction Unit of a share of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share Unit (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 0.001 or (b) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends declared on shares of the Class B Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, or, with respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of a Unit of Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock, and (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times quarterly distributions (payable in kind) on each Quarterly Dividend Payment Date in an amount per Unit equal to the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions (other than a dividend payable in shares of the Class B Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock (Stock, by reclassification or otherwise), ) declared on the shares of Class B Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction a Unit of a share of the Series C PreferredB Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after January 29, 2010 (the “Rights Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock payable in shares of Class B Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the subdivide outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock, Stock or (iii) combines the combine outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders holder of shares a Unit of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock was entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (i) (b) or clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction (y) the numerator of which is shall be the number of shares of Class B Common Stock that are outstanding immediately after such event, event and (z) the denominator of which is shall be the number of shares of Class B Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Units of Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the shares of Class B Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Class B Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock, by reclassification or otherwise). Each such dividend .
(C) Stock dividends on the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred will Stock shall not be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related paid or issued unless (1) such stock dividend is paid or issued only in shares or Units of Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock or shares of Class B Common Stock and (2) a stock dividend is paid or issued contemporaneously on the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, on the same pro rata basis and in the form of shares or Units of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock or shares of Class A Common Stock is payableStock.
(cD) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and shall be cumulative on each outstanding shares Unit of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue issuance of such sharesa Unit of Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue issuance of such shares Unit is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will Unit shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred such Unit, or (ii) unless the date of issue issuance is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares Units of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares Units of Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total aggregate amount of all such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will Units shall be allocated pro rata on a shareUnit-by-share Unit basis among all such shares Units of Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares Units of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Tax Benefits Preservation Plan (ICO Global Communications (Holdings) LTD)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock preferred stock ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders shares of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 0.01 per share share, of the Corporation (the “Common Stock”), and any other stock of the CompanyCorporation junior to the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of January, April, July and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 0.10 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock. If the Series C Preferred. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after March 22, 2009 (the “Rights Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares Common Stock into a larger number of Common Stockshares, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Section 2(A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, if no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.10 per share on the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C [ ] Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred[ ] Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of common stock of the Common Stock, Company with $[ ] par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of [March, June, September and December] in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C [ ] Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 [1.00] or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 [one thousand (1,000)] times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 [one thousand (1,000)] times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-non- cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred[ ] Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time after [ ] (the “Rights Dividend Declaration Date”), (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C [ ] Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C [ ] Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $[ ] per share on the Series [ ] Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C [ ] Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series [ ] Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C [ ] Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C [ ] Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C [ ] Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar thirty (30) days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Shareholder Rights Agreement
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock Shares ranking prior and superior to the Series C Junior Participating Preferred Shares with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Companyif any), the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will Junior Participating Preferred Shares shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 15th day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share Junior Participating Preferred Share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)thereof, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (iX) $1.00 5 or (iiY) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and plus 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in common shares of beneficial interest, par value $.01 per share, of the Trust (the “Common Stock Shares”) or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Shares, since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share Junior Participating Preferred Share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferredthereof. In the event that the Company Trust shall at any time after March 10, 2004 (the “Rights Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares payable in shares of Common StockShares, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Shares or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Shares were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iiY) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will Board shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C Junior Participating Preferred Shares as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (a) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock Shares (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common StockShares). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableShares during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $5 per share on the Junior Participating Preferred Shares shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C Junior Participating Preferred Shares from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, Junior Participating Preferred Shares unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Junior Participating Preferred Shares entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Junior Participating Preferred Shares in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Junior Participating Preferred Shares entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not less than 10 and not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, A Preferred Stock in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 0.01 per share (the “Common StockCOMMON STOCK”), of the Company, and of any other stock of the Corporation ranking junior stockto the Series A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board out of funds legally available for the that purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 1st day of March, June, September and December (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment DateQUARTERLY DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 0.001 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Stock, since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after December 19, 2003 (the “RIGHTS DECLARATION DATE”) (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.001 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar sixty (60) days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (ai) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock preferred stock ranking prior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, Stock and of any other stock ranking junior stockto the Series A Preferred Stock (collectively, the “Junior Stock”), will be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred Stock (the “First Dividend Payment Date”), in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) to, subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 the greater of (i) $1 and (ii) 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, other than a dividend payable in shares of Class A Securities or Class B Securities, as the Common Stock case may be, or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, as the case may be (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Class A Common Stock and/or Class B Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation at any time (i) declares a dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, shares or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company Corporation is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstandingcase, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock would otherwise be entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be correspondingly adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bii) The Company Corporation will declare a dividend on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph clause (i) above immediately after it declares a dividend on the Class A Common Stock and/or Class B Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common StockClass A Securities or Class B Securities). Each such dividend on the Series C A Preferred Stock will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Class A Common Stock and/or Class B Common Stock is payable.
(ciii) Dividends will accrue accrue, and be cumulative, on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Dividend Payment Date next immediately preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C A Preferred Stock, or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue accrue, and be cumulative, from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof..
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock of the Company (the "Preferred Stock") (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the Company, Company (the "Common Stock") and of any other stock of the Company ranking junior stockto the Series A Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purposetherefor, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of January, April, July, and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date"), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or and (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)Stock, declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a after March 3, 1997 declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is during the 66 period between any Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable, when, as and if declared, on such subsequent Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative, whether or not earned or declared, on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock (or any other stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”"QUARTERLY DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount (if any) per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) ), subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 equal to 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share ("COMMON STOCK"), of the Common Stock Company or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying (x) such amount by (y) a fraction, (1) the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and (2) the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cC) Dividends will due pursuant to paragraph (A) of this Section shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Diamond Foods Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C Junior Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredJunior Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, no par value $0.0001 per share (the “"Common Stock”"), of the CompanyCorporation, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first business day of February, May, August and November in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance ") as provided in paragraphs (B) and (C) of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”), this Section 2 in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 in cash or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in cash) of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, or with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Junior Preferred Stock. If the Series C Preferred. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification in connection with or otherwise) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Junior Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were was outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C Junior Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section 2 immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, if no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share payable in cash on the Junior Preferred Stock shall nevertheless accrue and be cumulative on the outstanding shares of Junior Preferred Stock as provided in paragraph (C) of this Section 2.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C Junior Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Junior Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.shall begin to
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Ico Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the rights of the The holders of any shares of any series of Series E Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company), the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredShares, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, Shares and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 15th day of April, July, October and January in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share Series E Preferred Share, or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)thereof, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 one hundred (100) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 one hundred (100) times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock Shares or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Shares since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share Series E Preferred Share, 1 or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferredthereof. In the event that the Company shall at any time after the consummation of the transactions contemplated by that certain Transaction Agreement, dated as of January 30, 2002, as amended (i) declares the "Transaction Agreement"), by and among the Company, Dakota Growers Pasta Company, a North Dakota cooperative association, Dakota Growers Pasta Restructuring Cooperative, a Colorado cooperative association, and Dakota Growers Corporation, a Colorado corporation, declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of sharesShares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in effect a reclassification subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares Common Shares (by reclassification or otherwise) into a greater or lesser number of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)Shares, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C E Preferred would otherwise be Shares were entitled immediately prior to such event under such clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares outstanding immediately after such event, and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) . The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C E Preferred Shares as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares 2 of this section 3 simultaneously with its declaration of a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock Shares (other than a dividend payable in shares Common Shares or a subdivision of the outstanding Common StockShares). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of Shares during the Series C Preferred from the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on a Series E Preferred Shares shall nevertheless be payable, out of funds legally available for such purpose, on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding Series E Preferred Shares from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date immediately preceding the date of issue of such sharesSeries E Preferred Shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C E Preferred Shares entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C E Preferred Shares in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares outstanding at the time outstandingthat time. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C E Preferred Shares entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar sixty (60) days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Dakota Growers Restructuring Co Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C D Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (includingdividends, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)if any, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will D Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of March, June, September and December of each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”"QUARTERLY DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a any share or fraction of a share of the Series C D Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or and (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all cash dividends or other distributions and 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions (other than (i) a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Common Stock Company (the "COMMON STOCK") or (ii) a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredD Preferred Stock. In the event that If the Company shall at any time after NOVEMBER 18, 2002 (ithe "RIGHTS DECLARATION DATE") declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification in connection with or otherwise) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C D Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C D Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph SECTION 2(A) immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a as described in clauses (i) and (ii) of the first sentence of SECTION 2(A)); provided, however, that if no dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date (or, with respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, the period between the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series D Preferred Stock and such first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date), a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series D Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C D Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series D Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to on or before the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C D Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and on or before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such case dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C D Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C D Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall not be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Practiceworks Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock of the Company (the "Preferred Stock") (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the Company, Company (the "Common Stock") and of any other stock of the Company ranking junior stockto the Series A Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of January, April, July, and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred Stock (the “First Dividend Payment "Issue Date”"), in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions (other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a after the Issue Date declare and pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Section 2(A) hereof immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is during the period between any Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable, when, as and if declared, on such subsequent Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative, whether or not earned or declared, on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc.)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 15th day of February, May, August and November in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 .25 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Stock, without par value, of the Corporation (the "Common Stock") since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time following May 14, 1990 (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide or split the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Stock or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying each such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $.25 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, Date in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock of the Company (the "Preferred Stock") (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 .01 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the Company, Company (the "Common Stock") and of any other stock of the Company ranking junior stockto the Series A Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of January, April, July, and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 10 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)Stock, declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a after August 29, 2000 declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is during the period between any Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $10 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable, when, as and if declared, on such subsequent Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative, whether or not earned or declared, on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Synavant Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (ai) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C D Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)or other distributions, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredD Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stockcommon stock, $.001 par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the Company, Corporation ("Common Stock") and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purposetherefor, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock fifteenth day of January, April, July and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C D Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ix) $1.00 or (iiy) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredD Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall on or at any time after November 10, 1999 (ithe "Rights Declaration Date")
(A) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (iiB) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iiiC) combines combine or consolidate the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C D Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iiy) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bii) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C D Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph subparagraph (i) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior ; provided that, subject to the time at which requirements of applicable law and the related Articles of Incorporation, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series D Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(ciii) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C D Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series D Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C D Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C D Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C D Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Agribiotech Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights prior and superior right of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, receive when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of September, December, March and June in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) to, subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock of the Corporation (the “Common Stock”) since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after October 17, 2002 (the “Rights Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstandingcase, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar thirty (30) days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredB Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stockcommon stock, par value $0.0001 0.001 per share share, of the Corporation (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock fifteenth (15th) day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 0.001 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredB Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after [●], 2019 (the “Rights Dividend Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of during the Series C Preferred from the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends a dividend of $0.001 per share on the Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(C) Dividends, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.extent payable as provided in paragraphs (A) and
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Samples: Tax Benefits Preservation Plan
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredB Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stockcommon stock, par value $0.0001 0.001 per share share, of the Corporation (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock fifteenth (15th) day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 0.001 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredB Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after [●], 2022 (the “Rights Dividend Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of during the Series C Preferred from the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends a dividend of $0.001 per share on the Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(C) Dividends, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.extent payable as provided in paragraphs (A) and
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Samples: Tax Benefits Preservation Plan
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 1st day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 0.10 or (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock of the Corporation since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after April 9, 2009 (ithe “Rights Amendment Date”) declares a (A) declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (iiB) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iiiC) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Section 2(a) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided, that in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.10 per share on the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 1st day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 0.10 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock of the Corporation since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredJunior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after December 5, 2001 (the "Rights Declaration Date")
(i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.10 per share on the Series C Junior Participating Preferred will Stock shall nevertheless be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payablesuch subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series C Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (RCN Corp /De/)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)provisions for adjustment hereinafter set forth, the holders of outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will H Junior Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for ratably with the payment holders of dividends on the Common Stock (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share other junior securities of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Company, cash dividends in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of one hundred (i100) $1.00 or (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividendsdividends declared or paid on the Company's Common Stock, and 1,000 times the aggregate par value $0.001 per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsthe "Common Stock"). In the event the Company shall, other than a dividend payable in shares of at any time after the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series H Junior Preferred Stock, make any distribution on the shares of Common Stock of the Company, whether by way of a dividend or a reclassification of stock, a recapitalization, reorganization or partial liquidation of the Company or otherwise, which is payable in cash or any debt security, debt instrument, real or personal property or any other property (other than cash dividends subject to the immediately preceding sentence, a distribution of shares of Common Stock or other capital stock of the Company or a distribution of rights or warrants to acquire any such share, including any debt security convertible into or exchangeable for any such share, at a price less than the Fair Market Value (as hereinafter defined) of such share) then, and in each such event, the Company shall simultaneously pay on each then outstanding share of Series H Junior Preferred Stock of the Company a distribution, in like kind, of one hundred (100) times such distribution paid on a share of Common Stock (subject to the provisions for adjustment hereinafter set forth). The dividends and distributions on the Series C Preferred. H Junior Preferred Stock to which holders thereof are entitled pursuant to the first sentence of this paragraph and pursuant to the second sentence of this paragraph are hereinafter referred to as "Dividends" and the multiple of such cash and non-cash dividends on the Common Stock applicable to the determination of the Dividends, which shall be one hundred (100) initially but shall be adjusted from time to time as hereinafter provided, is hereinafter referred to as the “Dividend Multiple.” In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend or make any distribution on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares or effect a subdivision or split or a combination, consolidation or reverse split of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller greater or lesser number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares the Dividend Multiple thereafter applicable to the determination of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to of Dividends which the holders of shares of the Series C H Junior Preferred would otherwise Stock shall be entitled to receive shall be the Dividend Multiple applicable immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such amount multiplied by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will shall declare a dividend on each Dividend at the Series C Preferred as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after same time it declares a any cash or non-cash dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than in respect of which a Dividend is required to be paid. No cash or non-cash dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution on the Common Stock in respect of which a Dividend is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue required to be paid shall be paid or set aside for payment on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred from the Common Stock unless a Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue in respect of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereonon the Common Stock shall be simultaneously paid, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to or set aside for payment, on the date fixed for the payment thereofSeries H Junior Preferred Stock.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Iparty Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) (A) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C RA Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredRA Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the shares of Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share share, of the Corporation (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of March, June, September, and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C RA Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredRA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after May 4, 2011 (the “Rights Dividend Declaration Date”) (i) declares a pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, shares or (iv) issues issue any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company Corporation is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C RA Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will declare a dividend on the Series C Preferred as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares a dividend on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock of the Company (the "Preferred Stock") (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 2.50 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the Company, Company (the "Common Stock") and of any other stock of the Company ranking junior stockto the Series A Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of January, April, July, and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 10 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)Stock, declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a after November 3, 2000 declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is during the period between any Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $10 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable, when, as and if declared, on such subsequent Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative, whether or not earned or declared, on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Rohm & Haas Co)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock preferred stock of the Company (the "PREFERRED STOCK") (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 .05 per share of the Company (the “Common Stock”"COMMON STOCK"), of the Company, and of any other stock of the Company ranking junior stockto the Series A Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, semi-annual dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of June and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”"DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE"), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 1 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)Stock, declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification by the classification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a semi-annual dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock of the Company (the "Preferred Stock") (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the Company, Company (the "Common Stock") and of any other stock of the Company ranking junior stockto the Series A Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purposetherefor, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of January, April, July, and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or and (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)Stock, declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a after February 9, 1998 declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is during the period between any Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable, when, as and if declared, on such subsequent Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative, whether or not earned or declared, on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-by- share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (ai) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any class or series of Preferred Stock Shares (or any similar shares), whether now or hereafter outstanding, ranking prior and superior to the Series C Class B Preferred Shares with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredClass B Preferred Shares, in preference to the holders of the Common StockShares, par value $0.0001 0.01 per share (the “"Common Stock”Shares"), of the CompanyCorporation, and of any other shares ranking junior stockas to dividends to the Class B Preferred Shares, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share whole or fraction of a share of the Series C Class B Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Share, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 1 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock Shares or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Shares since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share whole or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredClass B Preferred Share. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of sharesShares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in effect a reclassification subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares Common Shares (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in Common Shares) into a greater or lesser number of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)Shares, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Class B Preferred would otherwise be Shares were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bii) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C Class B Preferred Shares as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock Shares (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common StockShares). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableShares during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1 per share on the Class B Preferred Shares shall nevertheless by payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(ciii) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C Class B Preferred Shares from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Class B Preferred Shares entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred Class B Pre- Exhibit A ferred Shares in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Class B Preferred Shares entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of January, April, July and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) to, subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Corporation (the “Common Stock”) since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after August 19, 2005 (the “Rights Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock (or any other stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”"QUARTERLY DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount (if any) per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) ), subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 equal to 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the Common Stock "COMMON STOCK"), of the Company or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying (x) such amount by (y) a fraction, (1) the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and (2) the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cC) Dividends will due pursuant to paragraph (A) of this Section shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Macromedia Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any class or series of stock of the Corporation ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), shares of any class or series of stock of the CompanyCorporation ranking junior to the Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in respect thereof, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 15th day of March, June, September and December, in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater sum of (i1) $1.00 or the Adjustment Number (iias defined below) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 plus (2) the Adjustment Number times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Corporation (the “Common Stock Stock”), or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), in each case declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. The “Adjustment Number” shall initially be 1,000. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after August 16, 2024 (i) declares a declare and pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Stock or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled Adjustment Number in effect immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount Adjustment Number by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will declare a dividend on the Series C Preferred as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares a dividend on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock (or any other stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock first day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”"QUARTERLY DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount (if any) per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) ), subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 equal to 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividendsdividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock, par value $0.00001 per share (the Common Stock "COMMON STOCK"), of the Company or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying (x) such amount by (y) a fraction, (1) the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and (2) the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cC) Dividends will due pursuant to paragraph (A) of this Section shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Transmeta Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C J Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredJ Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stockcommon stock, par value $0.0001 1.00 per share share, of the Corporation (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock fifteenth (15th) day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C J Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredJ Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after January 3, 2018 (the “Rights Dividend Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare or pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C J Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C J Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series J Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will Dividends, to the extent payable as provided in paragraphs (A) and (B) of this Section, shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C J Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series J Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C J Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C J Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C J Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar thirty (30) days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock of the Company (the "PREFERRED STOCK") (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 .01 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the Company, Company (the "COMMON STOCK") and of any other stock of the Company ranking junior stockto the Series A Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”"DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE"), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred Stock (the “First Dividend Payment Date”"ISSUE DATE"), in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 1 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)Stock, declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a after the Issue Date declare and pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; PROVIDED that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is during the period between any Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable, when, as and if declared, on such subsequent Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative, whether or not earned or declared, on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock shares of preferred stock ranking prior and superior to the Series C H Junior Participating Preferred Shares with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredH Junior Participating Preferred Shares, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), shares of any class or series of shares of the CompanyCorporation ranking prior to the Series H Junior Participating Preferred Shares, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 15th day of January, April, July and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C H Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Shares, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 the Adjustment Number (as defined below) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 the Adjustment Number times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock common stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock common stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the shares of common stock of the Corporation (the "Common Stock Shares") since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredH Junior Participating Preferred Shares. The "Adjustment Number" shall initially be 100. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after June 18, 1998 (the "Rights Declaration Date") (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares payable in shares of Common StockShares, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Shares or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock Shares into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled Adjustment Number in effect immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount Adjustment Number by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock Shares that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will declare a dividend on the Series C Preferred as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares a dividend on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock (as defined in the Charter) ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredPreferred Stock, in preference to the holders of Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (“Class A Common Stock”), and Class B common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (together with the Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will ) shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last business day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and plus 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredPreferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation, at any time after June 27, 2024 (ithe “Rights Declaration Date”), (x) declares a any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (iiy) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Stock or (iiiz) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Section 2(a) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided, however, that, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior to and superior to the shares of Series C Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series C Preferred will Stock shall nevertheless be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payablesuch subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series C Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar sixty (60) days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Stockholder Rights Agreement (Purple Innovation, Inc.)
Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, B Junior Participating Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the this Board out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock 15th day of January, April, July and October of each year (each such date being referred to herein as each, a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 0.25 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the common stock, par value $0.02 per share, of the Corporation (the "Common Stock Stock") since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredB Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation at any time after January 29, 1999 (the "Rights Declaration Date")
(i) declares a any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, Stock or (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company Corporation will declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares (a) above as a condition to declaration of a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event that no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution has been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.25 per share on the Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock will nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(c) Dividends will begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series B Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The This Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C B Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Atlantic Coast Airlines Holdings Inc)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights prior and superior right of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Junior Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, receive when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), ") commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) to, subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock of the Corporation (the "Common Stock") since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Preferred. In the event that the Company at any time (i) declares a dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(b) The Company will declare a dividend on the Series C Preferred as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares a dividend on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(c) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares of the Series C Preferred from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Micrion Corp /Ma/)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock of the Company (the "Preferred Stock") (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series C A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 .01 per share (the “Common Stock”)share, of the Company, Company (the "Common Stock") and of any other stock of the Company ranking junior stockto the Series A Preferred Stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of January, April, July, and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 10 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 1000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise)Stock, declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First first Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time (i) declares a after __________ __, 2000 declare and pay any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into or effect a smaller number of shares, subdivision or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in connection with shares of Common Stock) into a consolidation greater or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation)lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is during the period between any Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $10 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable, when, as and if declared, on such subsequent Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative, whether or not earned or declared, on outstanding shares of the Series C A Preferred Stock from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive a dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.shall
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Samples: Rights Agreement (New D&b Corp)
Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights prior and superior right of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, receive when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of September, December, March and June in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) to, subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock of the Corporation (the “Common Stock”) since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after February 5, 2002 (the “Rights Declaration Date”) (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstandingcase, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar thirty (30) days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the rights prior and superior right of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will A Junior Participating Preferred Stock 41 shall be entitled to receive, receive when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of September, December, March and June in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “"Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (i) $1.00 or (ii) to, subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock of the Corporation (the "Common Stock") since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredA Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company Corporation shall at any time after November 21, 1996 (the "Rights Dividend Declaration Date")
(i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue on outstanding shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C A Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Dividends and Distributions. (a) Subject From and after the Effective Date, Holders shall be entitled to the rights receive, out of the holders funds legally available therefor, (i) non-cumulative cash dividends in the amount determined as set forth in Section 4(b) and (ii) cumulative dividends as set forth in Section 4(c), and no more.
(b) If the Board of Directors declares and the Corporation pays a dividend in the form of cash or other assets (other than shares of Common Stock or rights or warrants to subscribe for Common Stock) in respect of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior to the Series C Preferred with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock common stock of the Company), the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred, in preference to the holders of the Common StockCorporation, par value $0.0001 0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by then the Board out of funds legally available for Directors shall declare and the purpose, dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time Corporation shall pay to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock (each such date being referred to herein as a “Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share Holders of the Series C B Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”), Stock a dividend in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) of Series B Preferred Stock equal to the greater product of (i) $1.00 or the per share dividend declared and paid in respect of each share of Common Stock and (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the First Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C Preferred. In the event that the Company at any time (i) declares a dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combines the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred would otherwise be entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence will be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately into which such share of Series B Preferred Stock would then be convertible if a Mandatory Conversion Date had occurred.
(c) In addition to the dividends provided for in Section 4(b), dividends shall commence accruing from the day after such eventthe third annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation following the Effective Date and continue to accrue, whether or not declared, and be payable quarterly in arrears on March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 of each year or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the denominator next Business Day (each such day, a “Section 4(c) Dividend Payment Date”). Dividends payable pursuant to this Section 4(c) will accrue, whether or not declared, and will, for each outstanding share of which Series B Preferred Stock, accrete at an annual rate on the Share Value equal to eight percent (8%) (such dividend, the “Special Dividend”). Dividends payable pursuant to this Section 4(c) will accrue, whether or not declared, and will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and, for any Section 4(c) Dividend Period greater or less than a full Section 4(c) Dividend Period, will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in the period divided by 360. Special Dividends accrued and payable during any Section 4(c) Dividend Period will not be paid in cash and will only be paid by being added to the Share Value on the earliest of (i) such Section 4(c) Dividend Payment Date, (ii) for any partial period prior to a Section 4(c) Dividend Payment Date, the date of a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, or (iii) for any partial period prior to a Section 4(c) Dividend Payment Date, the Mandatory Conversion Date. Each period from and including a Section 4(c) Dividend Payment Date to but excluding the following Section 4(c) Dividend Payment Date is herein referred to as a “Section 4(c) Dividend Period.”
(d) Dividends payable pursuant to Section 4(b) shall be payable on the number same date that dividends are payable to holders of shares of Common Stock, and no dividends shall be payable to holders of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such eventunless the full dividends contemplated by Section 4(b) are paid at the same time in respect of the Series B Preferred Stock.
(be) The Company Each dividend will declare a dividend be payable to Holders of record as they appear in the records of the Corporation at the close of business on the Series C Preferred record date (each, a “Record Date”), which, (i) with respect to dividends payable pursuant to Section 4(b), shall be the same day as provided the record date for the payment of the corresponding dividends to the holders of shares of Common Stock and (ii) with respect to dividends payable pursuant to Section 4(c), shall be on the first day of the month in which the immediately preceding paragraph immediately after it declares relevant Section 4(c) Dividend Payment Date occurs or, if such date is not a Business Day, the first Business Day of such month.
(f) Dividends payable pursuant to Section 4(b) are non-cumulative. If the Board of Directors does not declare a dividend on the Common Stock (other than in respect of any dividend period, the Holders will have no right to receive any dividend for such dividend period, and the Corporation will have no obligation to pay a dividend payable in shares for such dividend period, whether or not dividends are declared and paid for any future dividend period with respect to the Series B Preferred Stock or any other class or series of the Corporation’s preferred stock or Common Stock). Each such dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend on the Common Stock is payable.
(cg) Dividends will accrue on outstanding shares If the Mandatory Conversion Date with respect to any share of the Series C B Preferred from the Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares Stock is prior to the record date for the First Dividend Payment Datepayment of any dividend on the Common Stock, in which case dividends on the Holder of such shares will accrue from the date of the first issuance of a share of Series B Preferred Stock will have the Series C Preferred or (ii) the date of issue is a Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled right to receive a pro rata portion of any corresponding dividends on the Series B Preferred Stock for the period up to and including the Mandatory Conversion Date. If the Mandatory Conversion Date with respect to any share of Series B Preferred Stock is after the Record Date for any declared dividend and before such Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will accrue from such Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C Preferred entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will be not more than 60 calendar days prior to the payment date fixed for that dividend, the Holder thereof shall receive that dividend on the relevant payment thereofdate if such Holder was the Holder of record on the Record Date for that dividend.
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Dividends and Distributions. (aA) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C E Junior Participating Preferred Stock with respect to dividends (including, but not limited to, the 10.0% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company)dividends, the holders of shares of the Series C PreferredE Junior Participating Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of common stock of the Common Stock, Company with $0.0001 par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company, and of any other junior stock, will shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash (except as otherwise provided below) on such dates as are from time to time established for the payment of dividends on the Common Stock last day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of the Series C E Junior Participating Preferred (the “First Dividend Payment Date”)Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (ia) $1.00 or (iib) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 1,000 one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends, dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of the Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date Date, or, with respect to the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of the Series C PreferredE Junior Participating Preferred Stock. In the event that the Company shall at any time after June 29, 2016 (the “Rights Dividend Declaration Date”), (i) declares a declare any dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combines combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, then in each such case and regardless of whether any shares of the Series C Preferred are then issued or outstanding, the amount to which the holders of shares of the Series C E Junior Participating Preferred would otherwise be Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (iib) of the preceding sentence will shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(bB) The Company will shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C E Junior Participating Preferred Stock as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph Paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock). Each such ; provided that, in the event no dividend on the Series C Preferred will be payable immediately prior to the time at which the related dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock is payableduring the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series E Junior Participating Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(cC) Dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of the Series C E Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such sharesshares of Series E Junior Participating Preferred Stock, unless (i) the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the First first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares will shall begin to accrue from the date of the first issuance issue of a share of the Series C Preferred such shares, or (ii) unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C E Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends will shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends will cumulate from the applicable Dividend Payment Date but will shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C E Junior Participating Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares will shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of the holders of shares of the Series C E Junior Participating Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date will shall be not no more than 60 calendar thirty (30) days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
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Samples: Rights Agreement (Universal Technical Institute Inc)