Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective. (b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of (1) the Stated Amount and (2) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Johnson Controls Inc), Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Johnson Controls Inc), Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Johnson Controls Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”"EARLY SETTLEMENT") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (iA) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (iiB) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”"EARLY SETTLEMENT AMOUNT") equal to to:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this the immediately preceding sentence and subject to the last paragraph of Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interests5.02, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” "EARLY SETTLEMENT DATE" with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).5:00
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Hartford Financial Services Group Inc/De), Purchase Contract Agreement (Hartford Financial Services Group Inc/De)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying represented by Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”"EARLY SETTLEMENT") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (iA) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (iiB) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. 5:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”"EARLY SETTLEMENT AMOUNT") equal to to:
(i) the sum of (A) the product of (1I) the Stated Amount and Amount, times (2II) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus (B) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts, less
(ii) the amount of any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder as a result of such Early Settlement. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract since the immediately preceding Payment Date or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. However, a Holder effecting an Early Settlement Amount of some or all of its Purchase Contracts shall be entitled to receive, on the date it receives the shares of Common Stock referred to in Section 5.07(d), the amount of any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments with respect to such Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile Contracts, calculated as of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer immediately preceding Payment Date. The amount of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments shall be credited against the applicable procedures of amount otherwise payable by the Depositary. In addition, so long Holder to effect such Early Settlement as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentset forth in clause (ii) above. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying represented by any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” "EARLY SETTLEMENT DATE" with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” "EARLY SETTLEMENT DATE" with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Chubb Corp), Purchase Contract Agreement (Chubb Corp)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.9, Purchase Contracts underlying Units having an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof, may, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (10:00 a.m., New York City time) , on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing the related Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), deliver such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of “Election to Settle Early Early” on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) funds in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to (A) the product of (1i) the Stated Amount and of such Units multiplied by (2ii) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus (B) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts; provided that no payment shall be required pursuant to clause (B) of this sentence if the Company shall have elected to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Payment Date. Except as provided in accordance with this the immediately preceding sentence and subject to Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interests5.2(d), each Beneficial Owner electing no payment or adjustment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of on any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units Unit at or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units Unit and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Northwest Natural Gas Co), Purchase Contract Agreement (Ameren Capital Trust Ii)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.06(a), at the option of the Holder thereof, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City Time, on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the first day of the Market Value Averaging Period, other than during a Blackout Period, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06(a) unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities the shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company (A) shall, promptly after the date on which the Company is notified by the Purchase Contract Agent that the Holder has attempted an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh Business Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Datefirst day of the Market Value Averaging Period, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Blackout Period, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in Cash in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of sum of:
(1i) the Stated Amount and (2) aggregate Purchase Price for the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, plus,
(ii) if the Early Settlement in accordance Date with this Section 5.08respect to any Purchase Contracts occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date to the open of business on the related Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts, unless the Company has elected to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the DepositaryDepositary by the applicable time set forth above in this Section 5.06(a). In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement Early Settlement will also be governed by the Applicable Procedures and the standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentAgent or the Company. Except as provided in Section 5.09(d), no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments (other than deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and any Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of (i) such Certificate Certificate, (ii) a duly completed Election to Settle Early form and (iii) the Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall promptly confirm in writing. The Upon written confirmation of such payment by the Company to the Purchase Contract Agent, the Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify provide to the Collateral Agent a notice in writing, substantially in the form of Exhibit O hereto, that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedPurchase Price. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the written notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, within two Business Days following the Early Settlement Date, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes shares of Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in NotesMandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged the Proceeds of the applicable Pro Rata Portions of the Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal Securities corresponding to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes shares of Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock or Pledged Proceeds of the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such HolderHolder in accordance with the terms provided for herein, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06(a) in integral multiples of 20 10 Corporate Units or 20 10 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component Upon Early Settlement of the Corporate UnitsPurchase Contracts, Corporate Units the rights of the Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (including any deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) with respect to such Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except as provided in Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date5.09(d).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Nisource Inc.), Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Nisource Inc.)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office of the Purchase Contract Agent or its agent in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New York, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes Debentures underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in NotesDebentures, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes Debentures underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes Debentures or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes Debentures as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 40,000 Corporate Units.
(c) Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Units, on the applicable Settlement Date:
(i) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Company will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, a number of shares of Common Stock (or in the case of an Early Settlement following a Reorganization Event, a number of Exchange Property Units) equal to the applicable Minimum Settlement Rate as in effect on the Early Settlement Date for each Purchase Contract as to which Early Settlement is effected, subject to adjustment under Section 5.05(a)(vii), together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09;
(ii) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Securities Intermediary will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, the Debentures, the Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, related to the Corporate Units or Treasury Units free and clear of the Company’s security interest; and
(or such other number of Corporate Units as may iii) the Holder will be determined by entitled to receive, and the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if Company shall be obligated to pay, any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) to, but excluding, the Reset Effective Contract Adjustment Payment Date is not a immediately preceding the Early Settlement Date. Upon any Early Settlement, the Holder’s right to receive future Contract Adjustment Payments and any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments for the period since the most recent Contract Adjustment Payment Date)Date (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) will terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (American Electric Power Co Inc), Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or after [·], 2005 but prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement DateDate (in the case of Corporate Units, other than during unless a Restricted Period Special Event Redemption has occurred) or following the effectiveness second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (in the case of Treasury Units or Corporate Units after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement DateDate (in the case of Corporate Units, other than during unless a Restricted Period Special Event Redemption has occurred) or following the effectiveness second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (in the case of Treasury Units or Corporate Units after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance Settlement, plus,
(ii) if such delivery is made with this Section 5.08respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In additionExcept as provided in Section 5.10(d), so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also no payment shall be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract Agenton account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Senior Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Senior Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Senior Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 [•] Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Dateprovided in Section 5.10(d).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Genworth Financial Inc), Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Genworth Financial Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Stock Purchase Contracts underlying Corporate Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time (other than during a Blackout Period) on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the any Stock Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Stock Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Stock Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Equity Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time deliver such Certificate on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the any Stock Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate Date to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of “Election to Settle Early Early” form on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “"Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of sum of:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and multiplied by (2B) the number of Stock Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Stock Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Stock Purchase Contracts, unless such Contract Adjustment Payment has been deferred pursuant to Section 5.11. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Stock Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Stock Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Stock Purchase Contracts underlying any Equity Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., by 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Equity Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Equity Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Stock Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, Settlement and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created herebyAmount. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Equity Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury 40 Equity Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component Upon Early Settlement of the Corporate UnitsStock Purchase Contracts, Corporate Units the rights of the Holders may only effect to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such Stock Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, provided that if such Early Settlement pursuant occurs after the close of business on a Record Date and on or prior to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a next succeeding Payment Date), then the Contract Adjustment Payment due and payable on such Payment Date will be paid on such Payment Date to the Person who was the record holder of the applicable Equity Units on the applicable Record Date.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (American International Group Inc), Purchase Contract Agreement (American International Group Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at on or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 [ ] Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have has replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in the Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 [ ] Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Pmi Group Inc), Purchase Contract Agreement (Pmi Group Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Stock Purchase Contracts underlying Common Equity Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior the option of the Holder thereof in accordance with, and subject to, this Section 5.7; provided, however, that Holders of Common Equity Units may effect Early Settlement pursuant to 4:00 p.m. this Section 5.7 only in integral multiples of forty (New York City time40) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Common Equity Units; provided further that upon an Early Settlement of a Common Equity Unit, such Early Settlement shall apply to each remaining Stock Purchase Contract of such Common Equity Unit whose Stock Purchase Date has not occurred before the applicable Early Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided further that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.7 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to any the securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement registration statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement registration statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect such a Registration Statement registration statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect the settlement of the Stock Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus prospectus in connection therewith. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in each case in a form that no event may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect elect an Early Settlement from the time any Remarketing has priced to, and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effectiveincluding, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Stock Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of (1) the Stated Amount and (2) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect Date relating to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Remarketing.
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Samples: Stock Purchase Agreement (Metlife Inc), Stock Purchase Agreement (American International Group Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to (i) use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or developmentdevelopment or have determined that such transaction or development does not prevent the Company from filing a Registration Statement or providing a Prospectus, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure or determination, as applicable, as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office in The City of New York, which is located at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, New York, New York 10286, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of sum of
(i) (1) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if such delivery for Early Settlement occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on the Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments on the date of such Early Settlement. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that that
(A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 800 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent Agent(s) upon a Successful Remarketing if of Notes, which number shall be provided to a Holder by the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment DateCompany at the request of such Holder).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Great Plains Energy Inc), Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Great Plains Energy Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect on a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office in New York City, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 400,000 Corporate Units.
(c) Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Units, on the applicable Settlement Date:
(i) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Company will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, a number of shares of Common Stock (or in the case of an Early Settlement following a Reorganization Event, a number of Exchange Property Units) equal to the applicable Minimum Settlement Rate as in effect on the Early Settlement Date for each Purchase Contract as to which Early Settlement is effected, subject to adjustment under Section 5.05(a)(vii), together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09;
(ii) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Securities Intermediary will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, related to the Corporate Units or Treasury Units free and clear of the Company’s security interest; and
(or such other number of Corporate Units as may iii) the Holder will be determined by entitled to receive, and the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if Company shall be obligated to pay, any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) to, but excluding, the Reset Effective Contract Adjustment Payment Date is not a immediately preceding the Early Settlement Date. Upon any Early Settlement, the Holder’s right to receive future Contract Adjustment Payments and any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments for the period since the most recent Contract Adjustment Payment Date)Date (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) will terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Dominion Resources Inc /Va/)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.06(a), at the option of the Holder thereof, at any time prior to the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the first day of the Market Value Averaging Period, other than during a Blackout Period, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06(a) unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities the shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) the close of business on the seventh Business Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Datefirst day of the Market Value Averaging Period, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Blackout Period, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in Cash in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of sum of:
(1i) the Stated Amount and (2) aggregate Purchase Price for the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, plus,
(ii) if the Early Settlement in accordance Date with this Section 5.08respect to any Purchase Contracts occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date to the open of business on the related Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts, unless the Company has elected to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the DepositaryDepositary by the applicable time set forth above in this Section 5.06(a). In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement Early Settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. Except as provided in Section 5.09(d), no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments (other than deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and any Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, the close of business on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, the close of business on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of (i) such Certificate Certificate, (ii) a duly completed Election to Settle Early form and (iii) the Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify provide to the Collateral Agent a notice in writing, substantially in the form of Exhibit O hereto, that (A) such Holder has elected to effect all the conditions necessary for an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as Settlement by a Holder have been satisfied pursuant to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedPurchase Price. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the written notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, within two Business Days following the Early Settlement Date, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes shares of Convertible Preferred Stock underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in NotesConvertible Preferred Stock, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged the Proceeds of the applicable Pro Rata Portions of the Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal Securities corresponding to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes shares of Convertible Preferred Stock underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes Convertible Preferred Stock or Pledged Proceeds of the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06(a) in integral multiples of 20 10 Corporate Units or 20 10 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component Upon Early Settlement of the Corporate UnitsPurchase Contracts, Corporate Units the rights of the Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (including any deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) with respect to such Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except as provided in Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date5.09(d).
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the first day of the Final Remarketing Period (in the case of Corporate Units, unless a Special Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing has occurred) or the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period Date (in the case of Treasury Units or following Corporate Units after the effectiveness occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the first day of the Final Remarketing Period (in the case of Corporate Units, unless a Special Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing has occurred) or the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period Date (in the case of Treasury Units or following Corporate Units after the effectiveness occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing has occurred), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to to:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance Settlement; plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with this Section 5.08respect to Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In additionExcept as provided above, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also no payment shall be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract Agenton account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes Debentures underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in NotesDebentures, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes Debentures underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes Debentures or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes Debentures as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 [•] Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except that the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing Holders will receive any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments if the Reset Effective Early Settlement Date is not falls after a Record Date next preceding any Payment Date and prior to the opening of business on such Payment Date).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Archer Daniels Midland Co)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units Securities may be settled early (“"Early Settlement”") at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Initial Remarketing Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (iA) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (iiB) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) Securities shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Initial Remarketing Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “"Early Settlement Amount”") equal to to:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this the immediately preceding sentence and subject to the last paragraph of Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interests5.02, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the any Purchase Contract AgentPayments accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units Securities at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units Securities and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units Securities shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or after [ ], 2005 but prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement DateDate (in the case of Corporate Units, other than during unless a Restricted Period Special Event Redemption has occurred) or following the effectiveness second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (in the case of Treasury Units or Corporate Units after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement DateDate (in the case of Corporate Units, other than during unless a Restricted Period Special Event Redemption has occurred) or following the effectiveness second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (in the case of Treasury Units or Corporate Units after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Subordinated Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Subordinated Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Subordinated Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Subordinated Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Subordinated Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 [ ] Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Units.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (E Trade Financial Corp)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07 and the last sentence of this Section 5.07(a), at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying HiMEDS Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following first scheduled Trading Day of the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Observation Period; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to early settle Purchase Contracts and a Registration Statement is required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s exercise of such right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosedSettlement. The Company shall have no further obligation with respect to any such Registration Statement if, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use notwithstanding using its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but efforts, no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing HiMEDS Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following first scheduled Trading Day of the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Observation Period, such Certificate Certificate, if in certificated form, to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early/Merger Early Settlement on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to to:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with this Section 5.08. In respect to any Purchase Contracts during the case period from 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts, minus
(iii) the amount of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued and unpaid to but not including the Payment Date immediately preceding the Early Settlement Amount to Date. Except as provided in the immediately preceding sentence, no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any HiMEDS Units at on or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such HiMEDS Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such HiMEDS Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that that:
(A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, ;
(B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and Amount; and
(C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, .
(1) the Pledged Senior Notes, in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, HiMEDS Units or (2) Pledged Treasury Securities, in the case of a Holder of Treasury HiMEDS Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times and (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury HiMEDS Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury HiMEDS Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component Upon Early Settlement of the Corporate UnitsPurchase Contracts, Corporate Units the rights of the Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples receive and the obligation of 16,000 Corporate Units the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Avery Dennison Corporation)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Blackout Period; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will shall not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(ba) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Blackout Period, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office Office, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the open of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures Applicable Procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 32,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Units.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Dte Energy Co)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the first day of the Final Remarketing Period (in the case of Corporate Units, unless a Special Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing has occurred) or the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period Date (in the case of Treasury Units or following Corporate Units after the effectiveness occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the first day of the Final Remarketing Period (in the case of Corporate Units, unless a Special Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing has occurred) or the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period Date (in the case of Treasury Units or following Corporate Units after the effectiveness occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing has occurred), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to to:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance Settlement; plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with this Section 5.08respect to Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In additionExcept as provided above, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also no payment shall be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract Agenton account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes Debentures underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in NotesDebentures, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes Debentures underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes Debentures or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes Debentures as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 80,000 Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except that the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing Holders will receive any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments if the Reset Effective Early Settlement Date is not falls after a Record Date next preceding any Payment Date and prior to the opening of business on such Payment Date).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Archer Daniels Midland Co)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“"Early Settlement”") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day Trading Day, in the case of Hybrid Capital Units, and the second Trading Day, in the case of Treasury Units, immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (iA) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (iiB) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day Trading Day, in the case of Hybrid Capital Units, and the second Trading Day, in the case of Treasury Units, immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “"Early Settlement Amount”") equal to the sum of:
(A) the product of (1I) the Stated Amount and times (2II) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(B) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments (including any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments) payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as contemplated in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accumulated on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent(including any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payment) since the immediately preceding Payment Date. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component Upon Early Settlement of the Corporate UnitsPurchase Contracts, Corporate Units the rights of the Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples receive and the obligation of 16,000 Corporate Units the Company to pay any accumulated and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by Purchase Contracts since the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective immediately preceding Payment Date is not a Payment Date)and any future Contract Adjustment Payments with respect to such Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Scottish Re Group LTD)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, unless a Termination Event has occurred, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 5.05(b) shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective. If the Treasury Portfolio has replaced the Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, holders of Corporate Units may effect Early Settlement at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. New York City time, on the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in integral multiples of 2,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent following a successful remarketing of Senior Notes if the Reset Effective Date is not a regular quarterly Payment Date).
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement DateDate (or, if the Treasury Portfolio has replaced the Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Unit, prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day immediately preceding the purchase contract), other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 5.05(b) shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of (1) the Stated Amount and (2) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Senior Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Senior Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Senior Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent within three Business Days following the Early Settlement Date for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 40 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 2,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).
(c) Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Units, the Company shall issue, and the Holder shall be entitled to receive, a number of shares of Common Stock (or in the case of an Early Settlement following a Reorganization Event, a number of Exchange Property Units) equal to the applicable Minimum Settlement Rate for each Purchase Contract as to which Early Settlement is effected, subject to adjustment under Section 5.05(a).
(d) No later than the third Business Day after the applicable Early Settlement Date, the Company shall cause the shares of Common Stock or Exchange Property Units issuable upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts to be issued and the Senior Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to be delivered, together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09.
(e) Upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contracts, and subject to receipt of shares of Common Stock or Exchange Property Units from the Company and the Senior Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, from the Securities Intermediary, as applicable, the Purchase Contract Agent shall, in accordance with the instructions provided by the Holder thereof on the applicable form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse of the Certificate evidencing the related Units:
(i) transfer to the Holder the Senior Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, related to such Units,
(ii) deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates for the full number of shares of Common Stock or Exchange Property Units issuable upon such Early Settlement, together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09, and
(iii) if so required under the Securities Act, deliver a Prospectus for the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such Early Settlement as contemplated by Section 5.08(a).
(f) In the event that Early Settlement is effected with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying less than all the Units evidenced by a Certificate, upon such Early Settlement the Company shall execute and the Purchase Contract Agent shall execute on behalf of the Holder, authenticate and deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a Certificate evidencing the Units as to which Early Settlement was not effected.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Autoliv Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the First Remarketing Date (in the case of Corporate Units, unless a Special Event Redemption has occurred) or the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period Date (in the case of Treasury Units or following Corporate Units after the effectiveness occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the First Remarketing Date (in the case of Corporate Units, unless a Special Event Redemption has occurred) or the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period Date (in the case of Treasury Units or following Corporate Units after the effectiveness occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to to:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance Settlement; plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with this Section 5.08respect to Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In additionExcept as provided above, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also no payment shall be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract Agenton account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Senior Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Senior Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Senior Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 6,400 Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except that the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing Holders will receive any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments if the Reset Effective Early Settlement Date is not falls after a Record Date next preceding any Payment Date and prior to the opening of business on such Payment Date).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Cit Group Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.9, Purchase Contracts underlying Units having an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof may, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (10:00 a.m., New York City time) , on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness . Holders of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that Stripped Units may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to only effect Early Settlement will not of the related Purchase Contracts in integral multiples of 40 Stripped Units, and if Treasury Consideration has been substituted for the Notes as a component in the Normal Units due to a successful remarketing of the Notes pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.4 or the occurrence of a Special Event Redemption, Purchase Contracts underlying such Normal Units may only be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed settled early in integral multiples of Normal Units such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts Treasury Consideration to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable be deposited and the Treasury Consideration to do so)be released are in integral multiples of $1,000. In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing the related Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), deliver such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) funds in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to (A) the product of (1i) the Stated Amount and Purchase Price multiplied by (2ii) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus (B) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts; provided that no payment shall be required pursuant to clause (B) of this sentence if the Company shall have elected to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Payment Date. Except as provided in accordance with this the immediately preceding sentence and subject to Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interests5.2(d), each Beneficial Owner electing no payment or adjustment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of on any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the shares of Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units Unit at or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units Unit and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect on a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office Office, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures Applicable Procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 4,000 Corporate Units.
(c) Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Units, on the applicable Settlement Date:
(i) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Company will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, a number of shares of Common Stock (or in the case of an Early Settlement following a Reorganization Event, a number of Exchange Property Units) equal to the applicable Minimum Settlement Rate as in effect on the Early Settlement Date for each Purchase Contract as to which Early Settlement is effected, subject to adjustment under Section 5.05(a)(vii), together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09;
(ii) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Securities Intermediary will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, related to the Corporate Units or Treasury Units free and clear of the Company’s security interest; and
(or such other number of Corporate Units as may iii) the Holder will be determined by entitled to receive, and the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if Company shall be obligated to pay, any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) to, but excluding, the Reset Effective Contract Adjustment Payment Date is not a immediately preceding the Early Settlement Date. Upon any Early Settlement, the Holder’s right to receive future Contract Adjustment Payments and any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments for the period since the most recent Contract Adjustment Payment Date)Date (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) will terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Laclede Group Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”"EARLY SETTLEMENT") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (iA) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (iiB) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. 5:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”"EARLY SETTLEMENT AMOUNT") equal to to:
(i) the sum of (A) the product of (1I) the Stated Amount and times (2II) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus (B) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments (including any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments) payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts, less
(ii) the amount of any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder as a result of such Early Settlement. Except as contemplated in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract since the immediately preceding Payment Date or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. However, a Holder effecting an Early Settlement Amount of some or all of its Purchase Contracts shall be entitled to receive, on the date it receives the shares of Common Stock referred to in Section 5.07(d), the amount of any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments with respect to such Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile Contracts, calculated as of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer immediately preceding Payment Date. The amount of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments shall be credited against the applicable procedures of amount otherwise payable by the Depositary. In addition, so long Holder to effect such Early Settlement as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentset forth in clause (ii) above. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” "EARLY SETTLEMENT DATE" with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” "EARLY SETTLEMENT DATE" with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Phoenix Companies Inc/De)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”"EARLY SETTLEMENT") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (iA) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (iiB) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. 5:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”"EARLY SETTLEMENT AMOUNT") equal to to:
(i) the sum of (A) product of (1I) the Stated Amount and times (2II) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus (B) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts, less
(ii) the amount of any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder as a result of such Early Settlement. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract since the immediately preceding Payment Date or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. However, a Holder effecting an Early Settlement Amount of some or all of its Purchase Contracts shall be entitled to receive, on the date it receives the shares of Common Stock referred to in Section 5.07(d), the amount of any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments with respect to such Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile Contracts, calculated as of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer immediately preceding Payment Date. The amount of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments shall be credited against the applicable procedures of amount otherwise payable by the Depositary. In addition, so long Holder to effect such Early Settlement as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentset forth in clause (ii) above. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” "EARLY SETTLEMENT DATE" with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).5:00
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Phoenix Companies Inc/De)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”"EARLY SETTLEMENT") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (iA) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (iiB) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. 5:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”"EARLY SETTLEMENT AMOUNT") equal to to:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this the immediately preceding sentence and subject to the last paragraph of Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interests5.02, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” "EARLY SETTLEMENT DATE" with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” "EARLY SETTLEMENT DATE" with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units Holders and Treasury Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have has replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in the Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate UnitsUnits as a result of a Special Event Redemption or a Successful Remarketing of the Senior Notes, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 [________] Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Hartford Financial Services Group Inc/De)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities shares of Common Stock to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office Office, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures Applicable Procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall promptly (and in any event, on the same day) confirm in writing. The Upon written confirmation of such payment by the Company to the Purchase Contract Agent, the Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such HolderHolder in accordance with the terms provided for herein, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 160,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Units.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (South Jersey Industries Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) the close of business on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development with respect to the Company that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will shall not be required to provide such a Prospectus, Prospectus and the right to effect Early Settlement will right shall not be available, available until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder of a Purchase Contract seeks to effect an exercise its Early Settlement right and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement becomes effective. Unless a Successful Remarketing of the Notes or a Special Event Redemption has previously occurred, Holders of Corporate Units shall not be effectivepermitted to effect Early Settlement (i) during a Restricted Period or (ii) following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change in which case the provisions of Section 5.04(b)(ii) shall apply.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) the close of business on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of “Election to Settle Early Early” on the reverse thereof duly completed and executed as indicated and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Interest Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments and any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, the close of business on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, the close of business on a Business Day or at any time on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, Notes or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as Portfolio the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, of a Holder of Corporate Units or (2) Pledged Treasury Securities, in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times and (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Portfolio, Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and or Treasury Units may only effect exercise the Early Settlement right pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If the Treasury Portfolio has replaced the Notes underlying Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component Notes, Holders of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect exercise the Early Settlement right pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 only in integral multiples of 16,000 10,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon following a Successful Remarketing of the Notes if the Reset Effective Date is not a an Interest Payment Date). Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Legg Mason Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect on a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office in New York City, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, the
(1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 40 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 4,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Units.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Dominion Resources Inc /Va/)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or after [•], 2005 but prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement DateDate (in the case of Corporate Units, other than during unless a Restricted Period Special Event Redemption has occurred) or following the effectiveness second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (in the case of Treasury Units or Corporate Units after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement DateDate (in the case of Corporate Units, other than during unless a Restricted Period Special Event Redemption has occurred) or following the effectiveness second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (in the case of Treasury Units or Corporate Units after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance Settlement, plus,
(ii) if such delivery is made with this Section 5.08respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In additionExcept as provided in Section 5.10(d), so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also no payment shall be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract Agenton account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Senior Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Senior Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Senior Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 [•] Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Dateprovided in Section 5.10(d).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Genworth Financial Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“"Early Settlement”") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. 5:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “"Early Settlement Amount”") equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Baxter International Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.06, at the option of the Holder thereof, other than during a Blackout Period, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities the shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Blackout Period, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of sum of:
(1i) the Stated Amount and (2) aggregate Purchase Price for the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance Settlement, plus,
(ii) if such delivery is made with this Section 5.08respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the open of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts, unless the Company has elected to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the DepositaryDepositary by the applicable time set forth above in this Section 5.06. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement Early Settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. Except as provided in Section 5.09(d), no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments (other than deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and any Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, the close of business on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, the close of business on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate Certificate, Election to Settle Early form duly completed and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent in writing that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement expressly set forth in this Agreement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the written notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged the Proceeds of the applicable Pro Rata Portions of the Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal Securities corresponding to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Proceeds of the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06 in integral multiples of 20 10 Corporate Units or 20 10 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Optional Remarketing.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office of the Purchase Contract Agent or its agent in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New York, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes Debentures underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in NotesDebentures, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes Debentures underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes Debentures or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes Debentures as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 160,000 Corporate Units.
(c) Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Units, on the applicable Settlement Date:
(i) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Company will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, a number of shares of Common Stock (or in the case of an Early Settlement following a Reorganization Event, a number of Exchange Property Units) equal to the applicable Minimum Settlement Rate as in effect on the Early Settlement Date for each Purchase Contract as to which Early Settlement is effected, subject to adjustment under Section 5.05(a)(vii), together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09;
(ii) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Securities Intermediary will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, the Debentures, the Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, related to the Corporate Units or Treasury Units free and clear of the Company’s security interest; and
(or such other number of Corporate Units as may iii) the Holder will be determined by entitled to receive, and the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if Company shall be obligated to pay, any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) to, but excluding, the Reset Effective Contract Adjustment Payment Date is not a immediately preceding the Early Settlement Date. Upon any Early Settlement, the Holder’s right to receive future Contract Adjustment Payments and any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments for the period since the most recent Contract Adjustment Payment Date)Date (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) will terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (American Electric Power Co Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.06(a), at the option of the Holder thereof, at any time prior to the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the first day of the Market Value Averaging Period, other than during a Blackout Period, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06(a) unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities the shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) the close of business on the seventh Business Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Datefirst day of the Market Value Averaging Period, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Blackout Period, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in Cash in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of sum of:
(1i) the Stated Amount and (2) aggregate Purchase Price for the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, plus,
(ii) if the Early Settlement in accordance Date with this Section 5.08respect to any Purchase Contracts occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the open of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts, unless the Company has elected to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the DepositaryDepositary by the applicable time set forth above in this Section 5.06(a). In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement Early Settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. Except as provided in Section 5.09(d), no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments (other than deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and any Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, the close of business on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, the close of business on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate Certificate, Election to Settle Early form duly completed and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent in writing that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement expressly set forth in this Agreement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the written notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, within two Business Days following the Early Settlement Date, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes shares of Convertible Preferred Stock underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in NotesConvertible Preferred Stock, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged the Proceeds of the applicable Pro Rata Portions of the Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal Securities corresponding to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes shares of Convertible Preferred Stock underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes Convertible Preferred Stock or Pledged Proceeds of the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06(a) in integral multiples of 20 10 Corporate Units or 20 10 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component Upon Early Settlement of the Corporate UnitsPurchase Contracts, Corporate Units the rights of the Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (including any deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) with respect to such Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except as provided in Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date5.09(d).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.)
Early Settlement. (aSubject to Section 5.02(a) Subject and further subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“"Early Settlement”") at any time on or after March 1, 2006 and prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the first day of the Final Remarketing Period (in the case of Corporate Units, unless a Special Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing has occurred) or the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement DateDate (in the case of Treasury Units, other than during a Restricted Period or following Corporate Units after the effectiveness occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the first day of the Final Remarketing Period (in the case of Corporate Units, unless a Special Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing has occurred) or the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period Date (in the case of Treasury Units or following Corporate Units after the effectiveness occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “"Early Settlement Amount”") equal to the sum of: the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance Settlement, plus, if such delivery is made with this Section 5.08respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the DepositaryDepositary by the applicable time set forth above in this Section 5.07. In additionExcept as provided in Section 5.10(d), so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also no payment shall be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract Agenton account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate Certificate, Election to Settle Early form duly completed and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement expressly set forth in this Agreement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Senior Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Senior Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Senior Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 32,000 Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Dateprovided in Section 5.10(d).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Entergy Mississippi Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units having an aggregated Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock or Preferred Stock, as applicable, issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at on or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have has replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in the Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 4,000 Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.06, at the option of the Holder thereof, other than during a Blackout Period, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities the shares of Convertible Preferred Stock to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Convertible Preferred Stock to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Blackout Period, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of sum of:
(1i) the Stated Amount and (2) aggregate Purchase Price for the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance Settlement, plus,
(ii) if such delivery is made with this Section 5.08respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts, unless the Company has elected to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the DepositaryDepositary by the applicable time set forth above in this Section 5.06. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement Early Settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. Except as provided in Section 5.09(d), no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments (other than deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and any Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Convertible Preferred Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate Certificate, Election to Settle Early form duly completed and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement expressly set forth in this Agreement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged the Proceeds of the applicable Pro Rata Portions of the Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal Unit Collateral corresponding to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Proceeds of the Treasury SecuritiesUnit Collateral, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Dateprovided in Section 5.09(d).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.06, at the option of the Holder thereof, at any time prior to the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the first day of the Market Value Averaging Period, other than during a Blackout Period, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities the shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) the close of business on the seventh Business Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Datefirst day of the Market Value Averaging Period, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Blackout Period, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in Cash in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of sum of:
(1i) the Stated Amount and (2) aggregate Purchase Price for the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, plus,
(ii) if the Early Settlement in accordance Date with this Section 5.08respect to any Purchase Contracts occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the open of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts, unless the Company has elected to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the DepositaryDepositary by the applicable time set forth above in this Section 5.06. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement Early Settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. Except as provided in Section 5.09(d), no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments (other than deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and any Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, the close of business on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, the close of business on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate Certificate, Election to Settle Early form duly completed and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent in writing that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement expressly set forth in this Agreement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the written notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, within two Business Days following the Early Settlement Date, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes shares of Convertible Preferred Stock underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in NotesConvertible Preferred Stock, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged the Proceeds of the applicable Pro Rata Portions of the Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal Securities corresponding to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes shares of Convertible Preferred Stock underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes Convertible Preferred Stock or Pledged Proceeds of the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent Agent, or, in the case of Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Convertible Preferred Stock, the Transfer Agent, for distribution by the Purchase Contract Agent or Transfer Agent, on behalf of the Purchase Contract Agent and pursuant to an instruction from the Purchase Contract Agent substantially in the form of Exhibit S attached hereto, to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06 in integral multiples of 20 10 Corporate Units or 20 10 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in ; provided that if the Treasury Portfolio have has replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component the shares of Convertible Preferred Stock that are components of the Corporate Units, Holders of the Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Optional Remarketing if of the Reset Effective Date is not Convertible Preferred Stock, which number shall be provided to a Payment DateHolder by the Company at the request of such Holder. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (including any deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) with respect to such Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except as provided in Section 5.09(d).
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Samples: Series a Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Dominion Energy Inc /Va/)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect on a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office Office, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures Applicable Procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (A)(ii) or (B)(ii) of the definition thereof, as the case may be) or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in such integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined the Company or, in the case of a Remarketing, by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)successful Remarketing.
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units having an aggregated Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof may be settled early (“Early Settlement”"EARLY SETTLEMENT") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”"EARLY SETTLEMENT AMOUNT") equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at on or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” "EARLY SETTLEMENT DATE" with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement "EARLY SETTLEMENT Date” " with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have has replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in the Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 [ ] Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”"EARLY SETTLEMENT") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (iA) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (iiB) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. 5:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”"EARLY SETTLEMENT AMOUNT") equal to to:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this the immediately preceding sentence and subject to the last paragraph of Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interests5.02, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” "EARLY SETTLEMENT DATE" with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” "EARLY SETTLEMENT DATE" with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Hartford Financial Services Group Inc/De)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change Date (except as provided in which case Section 5.05 shall applyclause (c) below); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement and Prospectus available with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is and Prospectus are required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is and Prospectus are so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement in effect and Prospectus available covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewithsettled, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction Settlement. Should the Company be unable to deliver registered shares of Common Stock or development that has not yet been publicly disclosedother securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts, the Company will Holder shall not be required able to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect elect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectivetime that registered shares of Common Stock or other securities are available, and if this occurs there is no obligation on the part of the Company to net cash settle the Purchase Contracts.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change Date (except as provided in which case Section 5.05 shall applyclause (c) below), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with this Section 5.08respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period after the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date and prior to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to all such Purchase Contracts. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long a Holder shall not have the right to elect Early Settlement during the period beginning on and including the Business Day immediately preceding the Initial Remarketing Date and ending on and including the Remarketing Settlement Date.
(d) Except as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositaryprovided in Section 5.07(b)(ii) above, procedures for early settlement will also no payment shall be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract Agenton account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock (or, in the circumstances described in Section 5.08, shares of Series A Preferred Stock) issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at on or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. .
(e) Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, .
(1f) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and or Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as ; provided that if the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio has replaced the Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 360,000 Corporate Units.
(g) Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate (unless such Early Settlement occurs after the close of business on a Record Date and on or prior to the next succeeding Payment Date, in which case the Contract Adjustment Payment due and payable on such Payment Date will be paid to the Person who was the record holder of the applicable Equity Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by on the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment applicable Record Date).
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Ambac Financial Group Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.06, at the option of the Holder thereof, at any time prior to the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the first day of the Market Value Averaging Period, other than during a Blackout Period, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities the shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) the close of business on the seventh Business Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Datefirst day of the Market Value Averaging Period, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Blackout Period, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in Cash in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of sum of:
(1i) the Stated Amount and (2) aggregate Purchase Price for the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, plus,
(ii) if the Early Settlement in accordance Date with this Section 5.08respect to any Purchase Contracts occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the open of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts, unless the Company has elected to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the DepositaryDepositary by the applicable time set forth above in this Section 5.06. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement Early Settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. Except as provided in Section 5.09(d), no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments (other than deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and any Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, the close of business on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, the close of business on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate Certificate, Election to Settle Early form duly completed and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent in writing that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement expressly set forth in this Agreement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the written notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, within three Business Days following the Early Settlement Date, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes shares of Convertible Preferred Stock underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in NotesConvertible Preferred Stock, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged the Proceeds of the applicable Pro Rata Portions of the Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal Securities corresponding to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes shares of Convertible Preferred Stock underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes Convertible Preferred Stock or Pledged Proceeds of the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06 in integral multiples of 20 10 Corporate Units or 20 10 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component Upon Early Settlement of the Corporate UnitsPurchase Contracts, Corporate Units the rights of the Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (including any deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) with respect to such Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except as provided in Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date5.09(d).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with A holder of Corporate Units may settle the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, related Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) in their entirety at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement DateDate in the manner described herein, but only in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units; provided, however, if the Treasury Portfolio has become a component of the Corporate Units, Holders of Corporate Units may settle early only in integral multiples of Corporate Units at any time on or prior to the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (or such other than during number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Restricted Period Successful Remarketing of the Debentures if the Reset Effective Date is not a regular quarterly interest payment date). A holder of Treasury Units may settle the related Purchase Contracts in their entirety at any time on or following prior to the effectiveness second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in the manner described herein (an “Early Settlement”) but only in integral multiples of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant 20 Treasury Units. The right to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, subject to there is an effective being in effect a Registration Statement with respect to any securities covering the shares of Common Stock to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlementrespect of the Purchase Contracts being settled, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counselcounsel for the Company, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (ix) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (iiy) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so)Settlement. In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an exercise its Early Settlement right and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective and the Company shall have no further obligation with respect to any such Registration Statement if, notwithstanding using its commercially reasonable efforts, no Registration Statement is then effective.
. Upon Early Settlement, (bi) the Holder’s right to receive additional Contract Adjustment Payments in respect of such Purchase Contracts will terminate and (ii) no adjustment will be made to or for the Holder on account of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, or any amount accrued in respect of Contract Adjustment Payments. In order to exercise the right to effect any Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), deliver such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early/Fundamental Change Early Settlement on the reverse thereof duly completed and executed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) funds in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date relating to any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable, if any, on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts; provided that no payment is required if the Company has elected to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on the Payment Date. Except as provided in the immediately preceding sentence and subject to Section 5.2(d), no payment or adjustment shall be made upon Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock. In the case order for any of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. If the foregoing requirements are first to be considered satisfied or effective with respect to a Purchase Contracts Contract underlying any Units Unit on or by a particular Business Day, such requirement must be met at or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a such Business Day; the first Business Day on which all of the foregoing requirements have been satisfied by 5:00 p.m., such day New York City time shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business DayUnit. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the “Early Settlement Date” rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such Units Purchase Contracts shall be immediately and automatically terminate, except that the next succeeding Business Day. Upon Holders will receive any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments if the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay Date falls after a Record Date relating to any Payment Date and prior to the Company opening of business on such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.06(a), at the option of the Holder thereof, at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the first day of the Market Value Averaging Period, other than during a Blackout Period, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06(a) unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities covering the issuance of the shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (as determined by the Company in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Companyits reasonable judgment) under the Securities Act. If the Company determines in its reasonable judgment that such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities the issuance of those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) the close of business on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Datefirst day of the Market Value Averaging Period, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Blackout Period, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in Cash in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of sum of:
(1i) the Stated Amount and (2) aggregate Purchase Price for the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, plus,
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date with respect to any Purchase Contracts occurs after a Record Date and before the related Payment Date, a cash amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable in accordance with this Section 5.08respect of such Payment Date on such Purchase Contracts (assuming the same is payable solely in cash), unless the Company has elected to defer the Contract Adjustment Payments payable in respect of such Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile an electronic copy of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the DepositaryDepositary by the applicable time set forth above in this Section 5.06(a). In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement Early Settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. Except as provided in Section 5.09(d), no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments (other than deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and any Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon through the Payment Date immediately preceding the relevant Early Settlement) accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements for an Early Settlement are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, the close of business on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, the close of business on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of (i) such Certificate Certificate, (ii) a duly completed Election to Settle Early form and (iii) the Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify provide to the Collateral Agent a notice in writing, substantially in the form of Exhibit O hereto, that (A) such Holder has elected to effect all the conditions necessary for an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as Settlement by a Holder have been satisfied pursuant to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedPurchase Price. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the written notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, within two Business Days following the Early Settlement Date, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes shares of Convertible Preferred Stock underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in NotesConvertible Preferred Stock, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged the Proceeds of the applicable Pro Rata Portions of the Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal Securities corresponding to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Convertible Preferred Stock, Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.06(a) in integral multiples of 20 10 Corporate Units or 20 10 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component Upon Early Settlement of the Corporate UnitsPurchase Contracts, Corporate Units the rights of the Holders may only effect to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (including any deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon since the Payment Date immediately preceding the relevant Early Settlement pursuant Date) with respect to this such Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except as provided in Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date5.09(d).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Ugi Corp /Pa/)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement DateDate (in the case of Corporate Units, other than during unless a Restricted Period Special Event Redemption has occurred) or following the effectiveness second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (in the case of Treasury Units or Corporate Units after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement DateDate (in the case of Corporate Units, other than during unless a Restricted Period Special Event Redemption has occurred) or following the effectiveness second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (in the case of Treasury Units or Corporate Units after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance Settlement, plus,
(ii) if such delivery is made with this Section 5.08respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the DepositaryDepositary by the applicable time set forth above in this Section 5.07. In additionExcept as provided in Section 5.10(d), so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also no payment shall be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract Agenton account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate Certificate, Election to Settle Early form duly completed and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement expressly set forth in this Agreement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Senior Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Senior Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Senior Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 5,000 Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Dateprovided in Section 5.10(d).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (PNM Resources Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“"Early Settlement”") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (iA) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (iiB) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “"Early Settlement Amount”") equal to the sum of (A) the product of (1I) the Stated Amount and times (2II) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus (B) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments (including any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments) payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as contemplated in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract since the immediately preceding Payment Date or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. However, a Holder effecting an Early Settlement Amount of some or all of its Purchase Contracts shall be entitled to receive, on the date it receives the shares of Common Stock referred to in Section 5.07(d), the amount of any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments with respect to such Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile Contracts, calculated as of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer immediately preceding Payment Date. The amount of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments shall be credited against the applicable procedures of amount otherwise payable by the Depositary. In addition, so long Holder to effect such Early Settlement as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentset forth in Section 5.07(b) above. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component Upon Early Settlement of the Corporate UnitsPurchase Contracts, Corporate Units the rights of the Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples receive and the obligation of 16,000 Corporate Units (or the Company to pay any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments since the immediately preceding Payment Date and any future Contract Adjustment Payments with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Early Settlement. (aSubject to Section 5.02(a) Subject and further subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“"Early Settlement”") at any time on or after March 1, 2006 and prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the first day of the Final Remarketing Period (in the case of Corporate Units, unless a Special Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing has occurred) or the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period Date (in the case of Treasury Units or following Corporate Units after the effectiveness occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the first day of the Final Remarketing Period (in the case of Corporate Units, unless a Special Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing has occurred) or the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period Date (in the case of Treasury Units or following Corporate Units after the effectiveness occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption or a Successful Optional Remarketing), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “"Early Settlement Amount”") equal to the sum of: the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance Settlement, plus, if such delivery is made with this Section 5.08respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the DepositaryDepositary by the applicable time set forth above in this Section 5.07. In additionExcept as provided in Section 5.10(d), so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also no payment shall be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract Agenton account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate Certificate, Election to Settle Early form duly completed and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement expressly set forth in this Agreement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Senior Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Senior Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Senior Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 ____ Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Dateprovided in Section 5.10(d).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Entergy Corp /De/)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Stock Purchase Contracts underlying Units Common SPACES having an aggregated Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Stock Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Stock Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) Common SPACES shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Stock Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Stock Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Stock Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Stock Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Stock Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Stock Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Stock Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at Common SPACES on or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units Common SPACES and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units Common SPACES shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Stock Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Stock Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.6 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Stock Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Stock Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units Stripped Common SPACES may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be40 Stripped Common SPACES. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component Upon Early Settlement of the Corporate UnitsStock Purchase Contracts, Corporate Units the rights of the Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples receive and the obligation of 16,000 Corporate Units the Company to pay any Contract Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Stock Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Samples: Stock Purchase Contract Agreement (Marshall & Ilsley Corp/Wi/)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to (i) use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect on the applicable Early Settlement Date a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective and the Company has provided a prospectus in connection therewith and the Company will have no further obligation with respect to any such Registration Statement if, notwithstanding using its commercially reasonable efforts, no Registration Statement is then effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office in New York City, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early in the form of Exhibit Q on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(i) (1) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the delivery for Early Settlement is made with respect to any Purchase Contract during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on the Contract Adjustment Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts being settled, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the DepositaryDepository. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the DepositaryDepository, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary Depository and the Purchase Contract Agent. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 160,000 Corporate Units.
(c) Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Units:
(i) the Holder will receive a number of shares of Common Stock (or in the case of an Early Settlement following a Reorganization Event, a number of Exchange Property Units) equal to the applicable Minimum Settlement Rate for each Purchase Contract as to which Early Settlement is effected, subject to adjustment under Section 5.05;
(ii) the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, related to the Corporate Units or Treasury Units will be transferred to the Holder free and clear of the Company’s security interest;
(iii) the Holder will be entitled to receive any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) to, but excluding, the quarterly Contract Adjustment Payment Date immediately preceding the Early Settlement Date;
(iv) the Holder’s right to receive future Contract Adjustment Payments and any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments for the period since the most recent quarterly Payment Date (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) will terminate; and
(v) no adjustment will be made to or for the Holder on account of any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) referred to in the immediately preceding clause (iv).
(d) No later than the third Business Day after the applicable Early Settlement Date, the Company shall cause the shares of Common Stock or Exchange Property Units issuable upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts to be issued and the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to be released from the Pledge and to be delivered, together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09.
(e) Upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contracts, and subject to receipt of shares of Common Stock or Exchange Property Units from the Company and the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, from the Securities Intermediary, as applicable, the Purchase Contract Agent shall, in accordance with the instructions provided by the Holder thereof on the applicable form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse of the Certificate evidencing the related Units:
(i) transfer to the Holder the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, related to such other Xxxxx,
(ii) deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates for the full number of Corporate shares of Common Stock or Exchange Property Units issuable upon such Early Settlement, together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09, and
(iii) if so required under the Securities Act, deliver a Prospectus for the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such Early Settlement as contemplated by Section 5.08(a).
(f) In the event that Early Settlement is effected with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying less than all the Units evidenced by a Certificate, upon such Early Settlement the Company shall execute and the Purchase Contract Agent shall execute on behalf of the Holder, authenticate and deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a Certificate evidencing the Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is to which Early Settlement was not a Payment Date)effected.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (United Technologies Corp /De/)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities shares of Common Stock to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office Office, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures Applicable Procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall promptly (and in any event, on the same day) confirm in writing. The Upon written confirmation of such payment by the Company to the Purchase Contract Agent, the Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such HolderHolder in accordance with the terms provided for herein, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 80,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Units.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (South Jersey Industries Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect on a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office in New York City, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units Units.
(c) Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Units, on the applicable Settlement Date:
(i) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Company will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, a number of shares of Common Stock (or such other in the case of an Early Settlement following a Reorganization Event, a number of Exchange Property Units) equal to the applicable Minimum Settlement Rate as in effect on the Early Settlement Date for each Purchase Contract as to which Early Settlement is effected, subject to adjustment under Section 5.05(a)(vii), together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09;
(ii) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Securities Intermediary will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, related to the Corporate Units as may or Treasury Units free and clear of the Company’s security interest; and
(iii) the Holder will be determined by entitled to receive, and the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if Company shall be obligated to pay, any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) to, but excluding, the Reset Effective Contract Adjustment Payment Date is not a immediately preceding the Early Settlement Date. Upon any Early Settlement, the Holder’s right to receive future Contract Adjustment Payments and any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments for the period since the most recent Contract Adjustment Payment Date)Date (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) will terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Dominion Resources Inc /Va/)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or after May 28, 2005 but prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement DateDate (in the case of Corporate Units, other than during unless a Restricted Period Special Event Redemption has occurred) or following the effectiveness second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (in the case of Treasury Units or Corporate Units after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement DateDate (in the case of Corporate Units, other than during unless a Restricted Period Special Event Redemption has occurred) or following the effectiveness second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (in the case of Treasury Units or Corporate Units after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance Settlement, plus,
(ii) if such delivery is made with this Section 5.08respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In additionExcept as provided in Section 5.10(d), so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also no payment shall be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract Agenton account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Senior Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Senior Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Senior Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 25,000 Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Dateprovided in Section 5.10(d).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Genworth Financial Inc)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units Securities may be settled early (“Early Settlement”"EARLY SETTLEMENT") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following . Holders of Treasury PEPS Units may only settle the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the related Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so)integral multiples of 40 Purchase Contracts. In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) Securities shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of an Election to Settle Early form (on the reverse thereof duly completed side of the Certificate) and any other documents requested by the Purchase Contract Agent and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”"EARLY SETTLEMENT AMOUNT") equal to the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of any dividends on the Election to Settle Common Stock issued upon such Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentSettlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or Securities prior to 4:00 p.m., or at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” "EARLY SETTLEMENT DATE" with respect to such Units Securities and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” "EARLY SETTLEMENT DATE" with respect to such Units Securities shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement DateDate (in the case of Corporate Units, other than during unless a Restricted Period Special Event Redemption has occurred) or following the effectiveness second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (in the case of Treasury Units or Corporate Units after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement DateDate (in the case of Corporate Units, other than during unless a Restricted Period Special Event Redemption has occurred) or following the effectiveness second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (in the case of Treasury Units or Corporate Units after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall applySpecial Event Redemption), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Subordinated Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Subordinated Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Subordinated Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Subordinated Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Subordinated Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 128,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Units.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (E Trade Financial Corp)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Stock Purchase Contracts underlying Common Equity Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or the option of the Holder thereof in accordance with, and subject to, this Section 5.7; provided, however, that Holders of Common Equity Units may effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.7 only in integral multiples of eighty (80) Common Equity Units; provided further that upon an Early Settlement of a Common Equity Unit, such Early Settlement shall apply to each remaining Stock Purchase Contract of such Common Equity Unit whose Stock Purchase Date has not occurred before the applicable Early Settlement Date; provided further that such Holder may not exercise its right to settle early unless it shall have notified the Company and the Stock Purchase Contract Agent in writing at least sixty one (61) days prior to 4:00 p.m. the Early Settlement Date that it may exercise such right (New York City time) on it being understood that the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or exercise of such right following the effectiveness delivery of a Fundamental Change (such notice shall at all times be in which case Section 5.05 shall applythe absolute discretion of the Holder); provided further that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.7 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to any the securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement registration statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement registration statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect such a Registration Statement registration statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect the settlement of the Stock Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus prospectus in connection therewith. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in each case in a form that no event may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect elect an Early Settlement from the time any Remarketing has priced to, and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effectiveincluding, the Holder’s attempt Stock Purchase Date relating to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveRemarketing.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Stock Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing the Common Equity Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliverwhich such Stock Purchase Contracts are a part shall, at any time prior after providing the notice required pursuant to 4:00 Section 5.7(a), other than the periods beginning from 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh tenth (10th) Business Day immediately preceding each scheduled Stock Purchase Date and ending on the open of business on the Business Day immediately following such scheduled Stock Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), deliver such Certificate to the Stock Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of “Election to Settle Early Early” form on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount of each Common Equity Unit to be subject to such Early Settlement; and (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts such Common Equity Units to be subject to such Early Settlement; and
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date for such Early Settlement occurs after any Record Date and before the next Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the such Stock Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentContracts. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Stock Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior subject to 4:00 p.m., an Early Settlement by 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, then such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units Stock Purchase Contracts and the related Common Equity Units, and, if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, then the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Stock Purchase Contracts and Common Equity Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate or information, as applicable, and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Stock Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Stock Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Stock Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, Settlement and (B) the Stock Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount Amount. Except as provided in Section 5.11(e), upon Early Settlement of the Stock Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Payments (Cincluding any accrued and unpaid Contract Payments) all conditions with respect to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Stock Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, shall immediately and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)automatically terminate.
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office corporate trust office of the Purchase Contract Agent or its agent in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New York, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 80,000 Corporate Units.
(c) Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Units, on the applicable Settlement Date:
(i) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Company will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, a number of shares of Common Stock (or in the case of an Early Settlement following a Reorganization Event, a number of Exchange Property Units) equal to the applicable Minimum Settlement Rate as in effect on the Early Settlement Date for each Purchase Contract as to which Early Settlement is effected, subject to adjustment under Section 5.05(a)(vii), together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09;
(ii) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Securities Intermediary will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, related to the Corporate Units or Treasury Units free and clear of the Company’s security interest; and
(or such other number of Corporate Units as may iii) the Holder will be determined by entitled to receive, and the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if Company shall be obligated to pay, any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) to, but excluding, the Reset Effective Contract Adjustment Payment Date is not a immediately preceding the Early Settlement Date. Upon any Early Settlement, the Holder’s right to receive future Contract Adjustment Payments and any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments for the period since the most recent Contract Adjustment Payment Date)Date (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) will terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Exelon Corp)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07 and the last sentence of this Section 5.07(a), at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying HiMEDS Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following first scheduled Trading Day of the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Observation Period; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its rights to early settle Purchase Contracts and a Registration Statement is required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s exercise of such right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosedSettlement. The Company shall have no further obligation with respect to any such Registration Statement if, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use notwithstanding using its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but efforts, no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing HiMEDS Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following first scheduled Trading Day of the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Observation Period, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts, minus
(iii) the amount of any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any HiMEDS Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such HiMEDS Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such HiMEDS Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, .
(1) the Pledged Senior Notes, in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, HiMEDS Units or (2) Pledged Treasury Securities, in the case of a Holder of Treasury HiMEDS Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).of
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Bankunited Financial Corp)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.7 and unless otherwise provided in the applicable Issuer Order, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:30 p.m. (New York City Amsterdam time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.7 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the CompanyIssuer) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants Issuer covenant and agrees agree to use its commercially reasonable their best efforts to (iA) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (iiB) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company Issuer or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company Issuer in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of (A) the product of (1i) the Stated Amount and times (2II) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus (B) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments (including any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments) payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as contemplated in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract since the immediately preceding Payment Date or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. However, a Holder effecting an Early Settlement Amount of some or all of its Purchase Contracts shall be entitled to receive, on the date it receives the shares of Common Stock referred to in Section 5.7(d), the amount of any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments with respect to such Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile Contracts, calculated as of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer immediately preceding Payment Date. The amount of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments shall be credited against the applicable procedures of amount otherwise payable by the Depositary. In addition, so long Holder to effect such Early Settlement as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentset forth in Section 5.7(b) above. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company Issuer such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company Issuer shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.6 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company Issuer as confirmed in writing by the CompanyIssuer, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.7 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 [?] Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component Upon Early Settlement of the Corporate UnitsPurchase Contracts, Corporate Units the rights of the Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples receive and the obligation of 16,000 Corporate Units (or the Issuer to pay any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments since the immediately preceding Payment Date and any future Contract Adjustment Payments with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (TPG Nv)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following first scheduled Trading Day of the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Observation Period; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following first scheduled Trading Day of the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Observation Period, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance Settlement, plus,
(ii) if such delivery is made with this Section 5.08respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the DepositaryDepositary by the applicable time set forth above in this Section 5.07. In additionExcept as provided in Section 5.10(d), so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also no payment shall be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract Agenton account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate Certificate, Election to Settle Early form duly completed and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement expressly set forth in this Agreement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Pledged Convertible Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value (as determined by the Purchase Contract Agent) equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Convertible Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Upon Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate UnitsPurchase Contracts, Corporate Units the rights of the Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate, except as provided in Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date5.10(d).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Stanley Works)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect on a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office in New York City, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 800,000 Corporate Units.
(c) Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Units, on the applicable Settlement Date:
(i) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Company will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, a number of shares of Common Stock (or in the case of an Early Settlement following a Reorganization Event, a number of Exchange Property Units) equal to the applicable Minimum Settlement Rate as in effect on the Early Settlement Date for each Purchase Contract as to which Early Settlement is effected, subject to adjustment under Section 5.05(a)(vii), together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09;
(ii) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Securities Intermediary will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, related to the Corporate Units or Treasury Units free and clear of the Company’s security interest; and
(or such other number of Corporate Units as may iii) the Holder will be determined by entitled to receive, and the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if Company shall be obligated to pay, any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) to, but excluding, the Reset Effective Contract Adjustment Payment Date is not a immediately preceding the Early Settlement Date. Upon any Early Settlement, the Holder’s right to receive future Contract Adjustment Payments and any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments for the period since the most recent Contract Adjustment Payment Date)Date (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) will terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Dominion Resources Inc /Va/)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“"Early Settlement”") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (iA) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (iiB) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. 5:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “"Early Settlement Amount”") equal to to:
(i) the sum of (A) the product of (1I) the Stated Amount and times (2II) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus (B) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments (including any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments) payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts, less
(ii) the amount of any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to such Holder as a result of such Early Settlement. Except as contemplated in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract since the immediately preceding Payment Date or on account of any dividends on the Ordinary Shares issued upon such Early Settlement. However, a Holder effecting an Early Settlement Amount of some or all of its Purchase Contracts shall be entitled to receive, on the date it receives the shares of Ordinary Shares referred to in Section 5.07(d), the amount of any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments with respect to such Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile Contracts, calculated as of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer immediately preceding Payment Date. The amount of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments shall be credited against the applicable procedures of amount otherwise payable by the Depositary. In addition, so long Holder to effect such Early Settlement as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentset forth in clause (ii) above. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “58 "Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 ______ Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have has replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in the Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 ______ Corporate Units (or Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments since the immediately preceding Payment Date and any future Contract Adjustment Payments with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Scottish Annuity & Life Holdings LTD)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities shares of Common Stock to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office Office, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures Applicable Procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Units.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Black Hills Corp /Sd/)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“"Early Settlement”") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. 5:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “"Early Settlement Amount”") equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 4.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 __ Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have has replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in the Subordinated Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 ______ Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units having an aggregated Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof may be settled early (“"Early Settlement”") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “"Early Settlement Amount”") equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock or Preferred Stock, as applicable, issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at on or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have has replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in the Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 4,000 Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract Agreement (Public Service Co of New Mexico)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“"Early Settlement”") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. 5:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “"Early Settlement Amount”") equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 4.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“"Early Settlement”") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. 5:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “"Early Settlement Amount”") equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day 55 or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 4.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have has replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in the Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 40,000 Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.7, Purchase Contracts underlying Units having an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof may, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“"Early Settlement”") at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Remarketing Date or any Subsequent Remarketing Date; provided however, that if a Tax Event Redemption has occurred and the Treasury Consideration has become a component of the Normal Units, Purchase Contract Settlement Contracts underlying Normal Units may be settled early, on or prior to the fourth Business Day immediately preceding the Stock Purchase Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness in integral multiples of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided Normal Units such that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities Treasury Consideration to be issued and delivered released is in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view integral multiples of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act$1,000. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing the related Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), deliver such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) funds in an amount (the “"Early Settlement Amount”") equal to the product of (1i) the Stated Amount and of such Units multiplied by (2ii) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentSettlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units Unit at or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units Unit and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units having an aggregated Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock or Preferred Stock, as applicable, issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at on or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have has replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in the Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 4,000 Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office Office, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures Applicable Procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Units.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Laclede Gas Co)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office of the Purchase Contract Agent or its agent in Hartford, Connecticut, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Upon written confirmation of such payment by the Company to the Purchase Contract Agent, the Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, Notes or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as defined in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 40 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 20,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Units.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Southern Co)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Warrants represented by Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”"EARLY SETTLEMENT") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Warrant Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (iA) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts Warrants being settled and (iiB) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase ContractsWarrants, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. 5:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Warrant Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Warrant Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”"EARLY SETTLEMENT AMOUNT") equal to to:
(i) the sum of (A) the product of (1I) the Stated Amount and Settlement Price, times (2II) the number of Purchase Contracts Warrants with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus (B) if such delivery is made with respect to any Warrants during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Warrant Fees payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Warrants, less
(ii) the amount of any Deferred Warrant Fees payable to such Holder as a result of such Early Settlement. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver of any Warrant on account of any Warrant Fees accrued on such Warrant since the immediately preceding Payment Date or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. However, a Holder effecting an Early Settlement Amount of some or all of its Warrants shall be entitled to receive, on the Purchase Contract Agent along date it receives the shares of Common Stock referred to in Section 5.07(d), the amount of any Deferred Warrant Fees with a facsimile respect to such Warrants, calculated as of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer immediately preceding Payment Date. The amount of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with Deferred Warrant Fees shall be credited against the applicable procedures of amount otherwise payable by the Depositary. In addition, so long Holder to effect such Early Settlement as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentset forth in clause (ii) above. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying Warrants represented by any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” "EARLY SETTLEMENT DATE" with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” "EARLY SETTLEMENT DATE" with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Warrant Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Warrant Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts Warrants as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Warrant Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).
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Samples: Warrant Agreement (Chubb Corp)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, (i) there is an effective U.S. Registration Statement and an available U.S. Prospectus covering the Common Shares and other securities, if any, with respect to any securities Common Shares to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a U.S. Registration Statement and U.S. Prospectus is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the CompanyCorporation) under the Securities ActAct and (ii) an appropriate Canadian Prospectus has been filed for the same purpose, if required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Corporation) under applicable Canadian Securities Laws. If such a U.S. Registration Statement and U.S. Prospectus or Canadian Prospectus is so required, (A) the Company covenants Corporation shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Corporation agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to to, as applicable, (i) have in effect a U.S. Registration Statement covering any securities those Common Shares to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a U.S. Prospectus in connection therewiththerewith and/or (2) prepare, file, receive a receipt for and deliver a Canadian Prospectus, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company Corporation will not be required to file such U.S. Registration Statement or provide such a U.S. Prospectus or prepare, file or deliver such a Canadian Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company Corporation has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will Corporation shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a U.S. Registration Statement is so required to be effective, or a Canadian Prospectus is required to be delivered, in connection with the exercise of such right but no such U.S. Registration Statement is then effectiveeffective or no such Canadian Prospectus has been delivered, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a U.S. Registration Statement shall be effectiveeffective or such a Canadian Prospectus is delivered. For the avoidance of doubt, if exercise is so voided, the Holder shall continue to be entitled to contract adjustment payments in respect of the relevant Purchase Contracts.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office Office, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company Corporation or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company Corporation in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Corporation elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures Applicable Procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company Corporation such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company Corporation shall promptly (and in any event, on the same day) confirm in writing. The Upon written confirmation of such payment by the Corporation to the Purchase Contract Agent, the Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company Corporation as confirmed in writing by the CompanyCorporation, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such HolderHolder in accordance with the terms provided for herein, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 400,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Units.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp.)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units having an aggregated Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at on or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have has replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in the Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 [ ] Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.7 and unless otherwise provided in the applicable Issuer Order, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.7 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the CompanyIssuers) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants Issuers covenant and agrees agree to use its commercially reasonable their best efforts to (iA) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (iiB) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company Issuers or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment 45 (payable to the Company Issuers in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of (A) the product of (1i) the Stated Amount and times (2II) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus (B) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments (including any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments) payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as contemplated in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver of any Purchase Contract on account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract since the immediately preceding Payment Date or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. However, a Holder effecting an Early Settlement Amount of some or all of its Purchase Contracts shall be entitled to receive, on the date it receives the shares of Common Stock referred to in Section 5.7(d), the amount of any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments with respect to such Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile Contracts, calculated as of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer immediately preceding Payment Date. The amount of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments shall be credited against the applicable procedures of amount otherwise payable by the Depositary. In addition, so long Holder to effect such Early Settlement as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentset forth in Section 5.7(b) above. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” Date with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company Issuers such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company Issuers shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.6 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company Issuers as confirmed in writing by the CompanyIssuers, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.7 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component Upon Early Settlement of the Corporate UnitsPurchase Contracts, Corporate Units the rights of the Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples receive and the obligation of 16,000 Corporate Units (or the Issuers to pay any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments since the immediately preceding Payment Date and any future Contract Adjustment Payments with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Blackout Period; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Blackout Period, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office Office, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on in the reverse thereof form attached thereto duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(1i) (A) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the Early Settlement Date occurs during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments which would otherwise be payable on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures Applicable Procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract AgentDepository. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfiedAmount. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal relating to the product of (x) Units containing the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio (and the related Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio as specified in clause (ii) of the definition thereof) or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If ; provided that if Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 80,000 Corporate Units.
(c) Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Units, on the applicable Settlement Date:
(i) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Company will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, a number of shares of Common Stock (or in the case of an Early Settlement following a Reorganization Event, a number of Exchange Property Units) equal to the applicable Minimum Settlement Rate as in effect on the Early Settlement Date for each Purchase Contract as to which Early Settlement is effected, subject to adjustment under Section 5.05(a)(vii), together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09;
(ii) such Holder shall be entitled to receive, and the Securities Intermediary will deliver to the Purchase Contract Agent for delivery to such Holder, the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, related to the Corporate Units or Treasury Units free and clear of the Company’s security interest; and
(or such other number of Corporate Units as may iii) the Holder will be determined by entitled to receive, and the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if Company shall be obligated to pay, any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) to, but excluding, the Reset Effective Contract Adjustment Payment Date is not a immediately preceding the Early Settlement Date. Upon any Early Settlement, the Holder’s right to receive future Contract Adjustment Payments and any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments for the period since the most recent Contract Adjustment Payment Date)Date (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) will terminate.
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Anthem, Inc.)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at on or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 5.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 40 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have has replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in the Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Blackout Period; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, (A) the Company covenants shall, promptly after the date on which the Holder attempts to effect an Early Settlement, so notify such Holder, and (B) the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities those shares of Common Stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case case, in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will shall not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, ; provided that the Company will shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to exercise its right to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect exercise of such Early Settlement right shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of (1) the Stated Amount and (2) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 Corporate Units (or such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date).
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Samples: Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement (Dte Energy Co)
Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to (i) use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office in New York City, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(i) (1) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the delivery for Early Settlement is made with respect to any Purchase Contract during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on the Contract Adjustment Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts being settled, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments on the date of such Early Settlement. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 50,000 Corporate Units.
(c) Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Units:
(i) the Holder will receive a number of shares of Common Stock (or in the case of an Early Settlement following a Reorganization Event, a number of Exchange Property Units) equal to the applicable Minimum Settlement Rate for each Purchase Contract as to which Early Settlement is effected, subject to adjustment under Section 5.05;
(ii) the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, related to the Corporate Units or Treasury Units will be transferred to the Holder free and clear of the Company’s security interest;
(iii) the Holder will be entitled to receive any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) to, but excluding, the quarterly Contract Adjustment Payment Date immediately preceding the Early Settlement Date;
(iv) the Holder’s right to receive future Contract Adjustment Payments and any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments for the period since the most recent quarterly Payment Date (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) will terminate; and
(v) no adjustment will be made to or for the Holder on account of any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) referred to in the immediately preceding clause (iv).
(d) No later than the third Business Day after the applicable Early Settlement Date, the Company shall cause the shares of Common Stock or Exchange Property Units issuable upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts to be issued and the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to be delivered, together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09.
(e) Upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contracts, and subject to receipt of shares of Common Stock or Exchange Property Units from the Company and the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, from the Securities Intermediary, as applicable, the Purchase Contract Agent shall, in accordance with the instructions provided by the Holder thereof on the applicable form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse of the Certificate evidencing the related Units:
(i) transfer to the Holder the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, related to such other Units,
(ii) deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates for the full number of Corporate shares of Common Stock or Exchange Property Units issuable upon such Early Settlement, together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09, and
(iii) if so required under the Securities Act, deliver a Prospectus for the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such Early Settlement as contemplated by Section 5.08(a).
(f) In the event that Early Settlement is effected with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying less than all the Units evidenced by a Certificate, upon such Early Settlement the Company shall execute and the Purchase Contract Agent shall execute on behalf of the Holder, authenticate and deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a Certificate evidencing the Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is to which Early Settlement was not a Payment Date)effected.
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.085.07, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“"Early Settlement”") at any time on or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply); provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effectiveSettlement.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. 5:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the seventh fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Period or following the effectiveness of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply), such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “"Early Settlement Amount”") equal to the sum of:
(i) the product of (1A) the Stated Amount and times (2B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Except as provided in accordance with this Section 5.08. In the case of Book-Entry Interestsimmediately preceding sentence, each Beneficial Owner electing no payment shall be made upon Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the of any Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile on account of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agentor on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day, such day shall be the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied after 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m. (New York City time, ) on a Business Day 55 or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “"Early Settlement Date” " with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then then, in accordance with Section 4.06 of the Pledge Agreement, notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 __ Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have has replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in the Senior Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 5.07 in integral multiples of 16,000 ______ Corporate Units Units. Upon Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments (or including any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments) with respect to such other number of Corporate Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is not a Payment Date)Purchase Contracts shall immediately and automatically terminate.
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Early Settlement. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.08, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Units may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) at any time on or prior to 4:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units; provided that no Early Settlement will be permitted pursuant to this Section 5.08 unless, at the time such Early Settlement is effected, there is an effective Registration Statement with respect to any securities to be issued and delivered in connection with such Early Settlement, if such a Registration Statement is required (in the view of counsel, which need not be in the form of a written opinion, for the Company) under the Securities Act. If such a Registration Statement is so required, the Company covenants and agrees to (i) use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) have in effect a Registration Statement covering any securities to be delivered in respect of the Purchase Contracts being settled and (ii) provide a Prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with such Early Settlement (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, the Company will not be required to file such Registration Statement or provide such a Prospectus, and the right to effect Early Settlement will not be available, until the Company has publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). In the event that a Holder seeks to effect an Early Settlement and a Registration Statement is so required but no such Registration Statement is then effective, the Holder’s attempt to effect such Early Settlement shall be void unless and until such a Registration Statement shall be effective.
(b) In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Units (in the case of Certificates in definitive certificated form) shall deliver, at any time prior to 4:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m., New York City time) , on the seventh second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, other than during a Restricted Blackout Period or following in the effectiveness case of a Fundamental Change (in which case Section 5.05 shall apply)Corporate Units, such Certificate to the Purchase Contract Agent at the Corporate Trust Office in New York City, duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds) in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to the product of to:
(i) (1) the Stated Amount and Amount, multiplied by (2) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement in accordance with this Section 5.08, plus
(ii) if the delivery for Early Settlement is made with respect to any Purchase Contract during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Contract Adjustment Payment Date to the opening of business on such Contract Adjustment Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on the Contract Adjustment Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts being settled, unless the Company elected to defer Contract Adjustment Payments on the date of such Early Settlement. In the case of Book-Entry Interests, each Beneficial Owner electing Early Settlement must deliver the Early Settlement Amount to the Purchase Contract Agent along with a facsimile of the Election to Settle Early form duly completed, make book-entry transfer of such Book-Entry Interests and comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. In addition, so long as the Units are evidenced by one or more Global Certificates deposited with the Depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the Depositary and the Purchase Contract Agent. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any Units at or prior to 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units and if such requirements are first satisfied at or after 4:00 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Units shall be the next succeeding Business Day. Upon the receipt of such Certificate and Early Settlement Amount from the Holder, the Purchase Contract Agent shall pay to the Company such Early Settlement Amount, the receipt of which payment the Company shall confirm in writing. The Purchase Contract Agent shall then notify the Collateral Agent that (A) such Holder has elected to effect an Early Settlement, which notice shall set forth the number of such Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, (B) the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holder, and paid to the Company as confirmed in writing by the Company, the related Early Settlement Amount and (C) all conditions to such Early Settlement have been satisfied. Upon receipt by the Collateral Agent of the notice from the Purchase Contract Agent set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Collateral Agent shall release from the Pledge, (1) in the case of a Holder of Corporate Units, the Notes underlying the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interest Interests in Notes, or the Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, relating to the Purchase Contracts to which Early Settlement is effected, or (2) in the case of a Holder of Treasury Units, Pledged Treasury Securities, in each case with a Value equal to the product of (x) the Stated Amount times (y) the number of Purchase Contracts as to which such Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, and shall instruct the Securities Intermediary to Transfer all such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Notes underlying such Pledged Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to the Purchase Contract Agent for distribution to such Holder, in each case free and clear of the Pledge created hereby. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 20 Corporate Units or 20 Treasury Units, as the case may be. If Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio have replaced Applicable Ownership Interests in Notes as a component of the Corporate Units, Corporate Units Holders may only effect Early Settlement pursuant to this Section 5.08 in integral multiples of 16,000 64,000 Corporate Units.
(c) Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Units:
(i) the Holder will receive a number of shares of Common Stock (or in the case of an Early Settlement following a Reorganization Event, a number of Exchange Property Units) equal to the applicable Minimum Settlement Rate for each Purchase Contract as to which Early Settlement is effected, subject to adjustment under Section 5.05;
(ii) the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, related to the Corporate Units or Treasury Units will be transferred to the Holder free and clear of the Company’s security interest;
(iii) the Holder will be entitled to receive any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) to, but excluding, the quarterly Contract Adjustment Payment Date immediately preceding the Early Settlement Date;
(iv) the Holder’s right to receive future Contract Adjustment Payments and any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments for the period since the most recent quarterly Payment Date (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) will terminate; and
(v) no adjustment will be made to or for the Holder on account of any accrued and unpaid Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred Contract Adjustment Payments and Compounded Contract Adjustment Payments thereon) referred to in the immediately preceding clause (iv).
(d) No later than the third Business Day after the applicable Early Settlement Date, the Company shall cause the shares of Common Stock or Exchange Property Units issuable upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts to be issued and the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, to be delivered, together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09.
(e) Upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contracts, and subject to receipt of shares of Common Stock or Exchange Property Units from the Company and the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, from the Securities Intermediary, as applicable, the Purchase Contract Agent shall, in accordance with the instructions provided by the Holder thereof on the applicable form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse of the Certificate evidencing the related Units:
(i) transfer to the Holder the Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interests in the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, related to such other Units,
(ii) deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates for the full number of Corporate shares of Common Stock or Exchange Property Units issuable upon such Early Settlement, together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.09, and
(iii) if so required under the Securities Act, deliver a Prospectus for the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such Early Settlement as contemplated by Section 5.08(a).
(f) In the event that Early Settlement is effected with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying less than all the Units evidenced by a Certificate, upon such Early Settlement the Company shall execute and the Purchase Contract Agent shall execute on behalf of the Holder, authenticate and deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a Certificate evidencing the Units as may be determined by the Remarketing Agent upon a Successful Remarketing if the Reset Effective Date is to which Early Settlement was not a Payment Date)effected.
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